Before I read the OP, I thought to myself "...no." However, upon reading it, richard you're a genius! What a great way to usher in the new Golden Age!

I bought a DS with George Bush's stimulus check a few years back.......

You stole his stimulus check?

It is a BLOCKING strategy to prevent them from having a monopoly in another area.  After all, isn't this why Microsoft is evil, and besides the RROD, the main reason why you should HATE Microsoft and NEVER buy one of their consoles?  If you buy their consoles, they get competitive in the videogame area.  They competitive, they stay.  Then they end up crushing Japanese companies, denying America of its needed videogame consoles.  The videogame world revolves around Japan, and only good things in the videogame area come out of Japan.  Didn't you get the memo?  This is what I got from the memo.  Also, for the sake of Shio, we MUST prevent Microsoft from being competitive in consoles, so they go back to making ONLY PC games.  We don't want Shio upset, do we?  We want a happy Shio.  A happy Shio is one of the essential things in life.

No America.  Considering how little of a manufacturing base America has now, and how it is nearly completely driven by retail, we need to have economic activity happen in the area of retail.

NO WAY.  Americans need to buy a good American console, like the Playstation 3.  Microsoft is EVIL!  You support them, you are supporting an evil empire that wants to destroy America.  Bill Gates wants everyone to worship him.  STOP MICROSOFT!  Buy Playstation 3!