One Woman Stimulus Plan

I saw a sign in a shop today that read "Shop...Save Jobs". Being the July 4th birthday All American patriot that I am, I broke my recessionary rule and succumbed to some retail therapy. I gave in to the old adage, "I shop, therefore I am". But then...I said to myself, "self...you shouldn't be doing this" and isn't it amazing how we can rationalize anything? So where is the lesson here, I guess I'm still trying to figure that out and in the meantime, it's buy, buy, baby!