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From: todd@SCINEWS.UUCP (Todd Jones)
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Subject: Re: Sunday Shopping
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Date: Thu, 6-Jun-85 15:36:22 EDT
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> I have been ignoring the articles that have come by re this subject, but
> I read one today and felt the urge to make a comment or statement.
> 
> To those who are opposed to Sunday closing laws, I say fine - as long as all
> those wonderful and exciting stores are in YOUR town and not mine. I live in
> Paramus, NJ, where we are crowded with those "wonderful" shopping centers, and we
> have plenty of reason to oppose Sunday shopping: packed highways and back
> roads, excess pollution from vehicles, more of the shoplifters that jam our
> Wednesday night court (after all, shoplifters may not be able to practice
> their trade during the weekdays), more traffic accidents, enlarged police
> and fire depts, enlarged road maintenance crews, increased sewage requirements,
> busy volunteer ambulance corps, etc. My suggestion
> is create a massive shopping area in some remote, wide open area (far from me)
> where all the "consumers" can shop to their heart's content and great
> excitement, gulping junk food and buying all those "necessary" articles,
> before they go out of style next week.
> 
> Using caricatures of Sunday-shopping apponents as blue-nosed proponents
> of old-fashioned Blue laws who want to impose their (Christian) beliefs on
> everyone else is a lot of fertilizer. There are other reasons. Six days a
> week and 12 to 14 hours a day is  ample time to shop - or gulp junk food, buy
> the style of the week article, "play", etc, at the shopping center in
> in ANOTHER TOWN, such as in Nanuet, NY, where they have what amounts to a
> parking lot on a portion of Route 59 on Sunday.

A. That's what you get for living in New Jersey.
B. Why Sunday? Because its the designated *Christian* day of rest. What
   about Jewish people who have their day of rest on Saturday?



-Todd Jones

P.S. Move to North Carolina. It's not bad here, yet.