Totally agree with your rant, John. <br><br>But... some people use plastic regularly and derive benefits, such as flier miles, and pay off their bill in full each month, which is great since the benefits are (I imagine) funded by finance charges that they're not paying when they pay in full. Then again, there are others who ARE funding the benefits as well as other benefits of the corporate execs and shareholders... and those who are funding the collection agency pocketbooks... and bankruptcy judges...
<br><br>Plastic-free (all-natural) Paul<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 12/1/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">John Formsma</b> <<a href="mailto:formsma@gmail.com">formsma@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<span class="q"><div class="gmail_quote">On Nov 30, 2007 11:44 PM, Ron Nossaman <<a href="mailto:rnossaman@cox.net" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">rnossaman@cox.net</a>> wrote:
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<br><br>I continue to resist payment in plastic, on principal
<br>(remember that?) rather than cost. Someone else can be all<br>things to all people as they're able. I don't have it in me.<br>Check, please!<br>Ron N<br></blockquote></div><br></span>Same here. We as a society are ridden with debt, from the national level all the way down to the personal level. I will not contribute to that. It will be our ruin unless we change.
<div><br></div><div>Begin rant:</div><div><br></div><div>(And if all debt were repaid, there would be no money in circulation -- it would all be in the banks! It's our glorious debt-based money system..hard at work to screw you. I mean,
<span style="font-style: italic;">serve</span> you. Ick!)<div><br></div><div>I don't even have a credit card - just a couple of debit cards.</div><div><br></div>
<div>Living within one's means is the best way to go. Once we realize that the latest toy is just the latest toy, and won't truly satisfy us, we'll start looking for the things that really do satisfy.</div><div>
<br></div><div>The borrower is slave to the lender. And, when the banks cause the next depression, the master will come to collect from the slave. Then the slave has to give up his borrowed "property" that he has been merely renting from the master.
</div><div><br></div><div>End of rant.<br clear="all"><br>-- <br>JF<br><br><a href="http://www.formsma.blogspot.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">www.formsma.blogspot.com
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