WHAT ELSE CAN WE DO? HERE ARE SOME SOLUTIONS

Will You Survive The Coming Financial Crash 30
© 2005 Kent Daniel Bentkowski
implored him to forget about the idea, something he was determined to see
through to the end of the month. I had seen this documentary, and it confirmed
that I had made the right decision when I quit eating all forms of fast-food two
years earlier.
One couple I know of has a three year-old daughter who eats nothing but fast food.
Her mother had become injured, and could no longer cook for her family. Her
solution was to employ nothing but a fast-food diet for the entire family. This three
year old weighs 85 lbs.
(38.55 kg.)
! According to the USDA statistics, the average 3
year-old should weigh 31 lbs.
(14 kg.)
--- which means that this little girl is 54 lbs.
(24.5 kg.)
overweight! Not only is this little girl being nutritionally abused, but, she is
now predisposed to a lifetime of morbid obesity. And, this is saying nothing of the
outrageous expense of eating nothing but fast food!
The key here is to buy only what you need, and remove all impulse and compulsive
spending and purchases.
· Limit shopping trips to those where you need something. No more
browsing!
Has anyone noticed that the only types of socializing that teenagers can do in this
consumption society, revolves around the shopping mall? Gone are the all the
youth centers, skating rinks, and community-level volunteer centers of yesteryear.
The management of the shopping mall is content to empty the pockets of these
youngsters, but once the money is gone, suddenly they are loitering and subject to
fine and or removal from the premises. This trains the youth to become mindless
consumers, and as the late, great American comedian and political philosopher Bill
Hicks once said, while marching around the stage in a robotic manner:
"But. Bill. Malls. Are. Good. Malls allow us to shop three-hundred and sixty-five
days of the year at seventy-two degrees. That must be good. We are happy
consumers!"
If the reader will instill a modicum of restraint in their spending, there is no reason
why they cannot follow the next line of advice, which is . . .
· Pay off all credit card bills each month! No more outstanding balances
carried forward, and
NEVER
make only the minimum payment!
With the typical credit card interest rate between 18-24%, the issuing agent is all
but guaranteed that the customer will not be able to pay off the balance quickly.
This is especially true if that customer decides that they must make the minimum
payment only, which is the result of living beyond ones' means.
This increases the issuing agents' profit to a huge degree.
The longer you take to pay off the outstanding balance, the more interest you have
to pay, and the greater the profit to the issuing agent, which is of course, the entity