Did you really? I guess that means you don't have kids.
> Has anyone stopped to consider that maybe we should stop wasting so much money during the holiday season?
Actually lots of people, since before Dickens, and often with ironic reference to the basic moral tenets of Christianity. And yet here we are. Like the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II, it is what it is.
> more money to Chinese factories ... killing more Arabs or corporate welfare
You seem to be saying that on the one hand, workers don't know how to spend their pay while on the other hand, neither does the government. So perhaps 'ideally' it's not such a bad thing to have the money end up in a part of the world where millions of people a year are actively raising themselves out of poverty on the back of export demand.