MikeK
Gold Member
I notice you also think Ronald Reagan, the dimwit corporatist puppet, was a good president.Because I was born in 1936 to parents who survived the Great Depression the orientation I acquired was to get a civil service job, to invest in nothing but government bonds and to never buy anything on credit. So I'm one of those who live within my means and have no debts. But I do acknowledge that more recent generations of middle class Americans have had a completely different orientation and to ignore that fact is unreasonably intolerant considering the circumstances outlined in Madeline's commentary.Wow, so in your opinion personal responsibility has nothing to do with it?
And that is exactly why we are where we are today. Too many people are unwilling/unable to take personal responsibility for what got them where they are.
Rick
Human nature is such that the behavior of a significant percentage of working class Americans will be guided by marketing influences, which outstandingly includes psychological pressure imposed by television advertising and the seductive conduct of the credit industry. I dare say if I were younger and were not influenced by my parents' ominous warnings it is likely that I would be in the same boat as a lot of other middle class debtors who are guilty of nothing more than following a deceptively exploitive lead.
What you call a deceptively exploitive lead, I call willful ignorance.