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Holiday $pirit

Rothman's on Union Square installed this heart-warming window display for the holidays.

I like the way the flag reflection sits like a star atop the Xmas money tree, but the only thing that could redeem the "greed is good" theme here is gasoline and a match.

The list in the middle suggests Rothman's doesn't see much potential in the female demographic.  The meat of its message: You poor guy... you had to spend thousands to get your wife a face lift before you could take her on vacation, and thousands on your mistress before she'd spend a weekend with you... so why not spend something here?

I get that the store wants some of that Wall Street money before it all disappears into offshore bank accounts.  What I don't get is the "He trims the tree..." at the bottom.

Does Debt (with the bag on his head) trim the tree with enough borrowed joy to make it through the holidays, so you can wait until the new year to go bankrupt and into rehab?

Or is "he" the evil twin mannequin on the left with the pruning shears, out to wreak vengeance and trim the tree of humanity for giving him a life of luxury in window displays, but no genitalia?

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