boo hoo hoo taxpayers dont pay a penny of the bailout
Dude you are missing the point! I did not say in my thread that the credit card usage was the only or main REASON we are in our current state of affairs??? I was merely thanking B of A for one very factual negative aspect of the american families current economic reality!!!Quote from lemeeeplay:
To blame the current state of affairs on credit card usage is not only naive but outright deceptive. Personal credit has been around since ancient times -- the Greeks and Romans used them.
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In 1958 Bank of America issued one of the very first credit cards called the "BankAmericard". Since 1958 and the movement of American families away from savings and into debt (unbiblical and against many americans religions at the time!) we have had some DRAMATIC negative affects in this country.
Americans moving into a life of over consumption and ever growing ratios of debt to income has created some undeniable negative byproducts. The citizenry with ever increasing debt based spending created the situation to have a financial need (now building debt with their new credit instruments) for the woman of the house to move into the work force.......sorry kids!!! Yes, the family shifted their priorities away from a more directed daily involvement with their own children to a broken priority of getting the mom into the work force to enable debt payments and unneeded consumption......sorry kids!
One car families would no longer work, so the need for a second vehicle came into play mixed with additional debt and yearly expenses. More clothes were needed for the second income in the family, and new spending such as daycare and fast food moved into families budgets now that mom was going to work each day and coming home tired.
While parents decided to proxy off their required interactions with their children to the television, they were also conned into expanding debt based consumption through this same media. The televisions daily psychological barrage of improper financial activities, and glamorized consumption competition, increased the separation between the citizens current actions and their once upheld biblical teachings. The use of debt was made "hip" and competition against each other for the best of the block consumer items became our norms. Brainwashed americans both men and women were easily directed into overspending and excess with almost no fight.
We should all take a moment to look back 50 years to the credit card of 1958, and realize how destructive just a small piece of plastic was to the foundation of behavior which once sustained a great country........Thank You again Bank of America, your masters plans were successful, you should be proud!!!![]()
No....I stated the FACT that americans moved away from mentalities and actions they lived by before, which had limited their involvement with debt at the personal level. The moving away from the religious based beliefs in regards to personal debt has PROVEN to be a massive economic FAILURE for families.......belief in GOD or no GOD has nothing to do with this FACT! Following biblical beliefs about debt worked before and moving away from those beliefs over time has caused FAILURE.....very simple!Quote from vhehn:
lol. so if we all believed in a talking snake none of this would have happened?

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Blah blah blah.....globalist blah blah...
No one is forcing your retarded ass to go in debt.
Do the kids need soccer, piano, swimming, tennis, etc etc etc lessons?
no.
Wife wants a gas guzzling SUV?
no
wife wants a large house she won't maintain and then wants to hire a housekeeper?
no
wife wants to spend all day shopping and you have to hire a baby sitter?
no
Tell your wife to stop buying chinese made junk.
wife is too lazy to cook and wants to eat out every meal?
no
instead of planting stupid non productive trees and plants in the garden, grow food. grow tomatoes herbs, carrots etc.
get her into the kitchen. cook fresh and healthy and cut back on family illness.
wife needs cable to watch her daily soaps.
no
kids need expensive video games
no
give them a book.
You want to go play with the hookers and dancers every Friday night with your buddies?
no
kids want you to take them and their friends every weekend to the movies.
no
give them a book.
Getting out of debt is about the easiest thing anyone can accomplish.
just say no to all the stupid and inane things called american culture.
If your wife did all the above, your family would save so much money you could live a full and healthy life with only one family wage earner working part time.