Thanksgiving to be spent with family

I remember not so long ago when Thanksgiving and Christmas were the two days of the year where everything closed and families everywhere could gather and enjoy the day together.

Sadly, this year more retailers than ever are going to be open on Thanksgiving, denying their workers their rights to be home with their families. While CEOs can eat lavishly with their families, they order their workers to go without.

I ask you, what product does anyone have to buy that day that could not have been bought the day before or after? The answer is simple: Nothing.

Yet, there will be people who, after watching the parade and eating their turkey with family, will load up the car and go to Walmart and buy something, just because they can. What these selfish, ignorant people fail to realize is that they are ruining Thanksgiving for the people and their families forced to work that day.

Can we not allow all workers everywhere this one day, to be with family and give thanks for all that we have? Are we so selfish and ignorant as a nation that we really cannot stop shopping for this one day?

Send a message to retailers that yes for this one day we value our family time together over the right to shop and together we can preserve this family holiday for all.

Laurie Selpien

Lake in the Hills