When my wife and I set up our first checking account, I was stunned when I was offered a come-on for a vacation loan. Borrow money to GO ON VACATION! Beyond stupid. A nation of people borrowing money they don't have to do something that lasts until the morning dew evaporates by midday's sunshine -- and then being trained by a pecca…
When my wife and I set up our first checking account, I was stunned when I was offered a come-on for a vacation loan. Borrow money to GO ON VACATION! Beyond stupid. A nation of people borrowing money they don't have to do something that lasts until the morning dew evaporates by midday's sunshine -- and then being trained by a peccant culture deliberately contrived to make people want to do it again, and again, and again. That was decades ago. And it's only gone downhill from there. Now we have the internet and Facebook and social media -- the perfect delivery system for addicting people to stupidity.
When my wife and I set up our first checking account, I was stunned when I was offered a come-on for a vacation loan. Borrow money to GO ON VACATION! Beyond stupid. A nation of people borrowing money they don't have to do something that lasts until the morning dew evaporates by midday's sunshine -- and then being trained by a peccant culture deliberately contrived to make people want to do it again, and again, and again. That was decades ago. And it's only gone downhill from there. Now we have the internet and Facebook and social media -- the perfect delivery system for addicting people to stupidity.