Reply #48: The more I read this, the more it boggles my mind. [View All]

[End Of The Road]

As long as credit card companies continue their usurious rates, I'm not charging anything. That something might cost a few dollars more if I wait to buy it just doesn't figure in. If I don't absolutely have to have it, it can wait.

But the tone of the piece bugs me even more. Do these guys think that we in the hinterlands are sitting on piles of money, but we're just too mean-spirited to part with it?

The problems are too out-of-hand to be solved by increased consumer spending. Let them come up with a plan to increase jobs and consumer income first.