Does your town put up Christmas Decorations?

Yes, but mostly it is from commercial interests. There is only a little from the actual town, such as lightning between buildings (you know, lines that hang...) and a giant christmas tree.

Yes in Paris, but seems to be less and less over the years near the place i am living in ...  euro crisis.

Yep, and starting in October! Sheesh!

Yup.

I much rather the town spend its money fixing the pot holes rather than putting up frivolous Christmas decorations, but they don't listen to me.

GoaFan77 - be enterprising... grow Douglas Firs in the potholes.

Yeah and they are beautiful! I love em'! It's Fantastic!

One day in the not-to-distant future here in the US, lobbyists will make a religion of stopping religion and it will be their un-holiday.

Until then...yep.  We have lights.  Winking away their subliminal, mind-controlling "Convert!" messages in  a sinister plot to take everyone's child into a religious cult.

Please.  "Tradition" and "History".  Valid reasons to let people celebrate.

Cynicism aside, I am seeing more people this year being considerate and almost everyone says, "Merry Christmas" here now as opposed to the past three years of, "Happy holiday".  I think people are a little more appreciative of what they do have this time around.

I know I am...and I like Christmas too.

Goafan is a grinch. 

Haaaappy everybody! And a merry everything!

yes.  city and county has done so for years.  They also have continued the tax exemption for buildings owned by religious groups - most of these buildings are owned by christian groups.  Of course, I have absolutely no problem with the government using the laws and tax codes to redristribute wealth (benefits) within our society.  Some might consider that socialism.  In this partictular case, of course, its not.

Happy christmas, merry hanukah, inspiring kwanza to all.

Yes. But they aren't very good.

Mine are better.

Nope.

If my town had a stoplight, which it doesn't, they would probably just unscrew the yellow bulb and call it good.

Yup, and they are great just the snow that's missing!!

I live in "Bethlehem," Pa...hell yeah they do! But Xmas has become to commercial.

Yeah, and we made a big deal of the Christmas tree lighting downtown.   However, our city council is being stupid about the drive-through trail of lights.   They slashed it from the public budget, but they won't let private parties put on the show for them in town unless they give the city all the profits.

How greedy is that!

greedy, and grinch-like