Originally Posted by code58

We have lived the same way and if the majority of people in this country did that, we wouldn't be in the mess we are. For whatever anyone says about easy credit stimulating the economy, I say it sure does and it also stimulates inflation, foreclosures, bankrupcy, irresponsibility, wanton excesses in materialism, divorces, and certainly stimulates the sales of alcohol and aspirin. Plenty will disagree with me, but I grew up in a time when credit was EARNED, not handed out like free candy and sleep came a lot easier without the aid of a drug to attain it.