Pillow Pets™ at Blockbuster. Not Too Big To Fail.

There's just something strange about going in to rent a movie at Blockbuster and finding Pillow Pet™ upon Pillow Pet™ stacked on each other ready to find a new home.  I've been fascinated over the last few years watching  this American corporate icon die a slow and painful death.  Netflix and Redbox have transformed the industry and left Blockbuster in bankruptcy.  Now Blockbuster is a candy and pillow store trying to rent Blue Ray and DVD discs to anyone who's willing to stop by.

This is the beauty of America. This is the beauty of innovation.  The winners thrive and the losers declare bankruptcy and sell Pillow Pets™ and candy bars.  Unless, of course, you're a bank too big to fail.  You'll never have to try and survive selling Pillow Pets™.   You can just steal money from the American people by buying off your elected officials.  

Fast forward to the crushing hospital consolidation that will be coming our  way.  Maybe this is how hospitals will survive in the new Medicare reality.  Perhaps we'll have government defined  hospitals that are too big to fail.

Think that kind of talk doesn't exist?  Look only to the banks to find your answer.  It's going to happen.  Some hospitals will get bailed out.  Others will be allowed to fail.  Which ones will be decided by how close those hospitals are  and how important they are to the relatives of your elected officials.  How are all the other hospitals going to survive as the Medicare National Bank goes down in flames?  Hospital pillows, that's how.   Pillow Pets™ to the rescue.  For only $20 plus tax.

Now, if I start seeing the Brest Friend pillow, I'm never going back.