In America, the credit trade has infiltrated 'every corner of life'

[metalman]

In America, the credit trade has infiltrated 'every corner of life'

substitute 'credit' for 'drugs' and 'usa' for 'mexico' and you got the same story.

In Sinaloa, the drug trade has infiltrated 'every corner of life'

Reporting from Culiacan, Mexico -- Yudit del Rincon, a 44-year-old lawmaker, went before the state legislature this year with a proposition: Let's require lawmakers to take drug tests to prove they are clean.

Her colleagues greeted the idea with applause. Then she sprang a surprise on them: Two lab technicians waited in the audience to administer drug tests to every state lawmaker. We should set the example, she said.

They nearly trampled one another in the stampede to the door, Del Rincon recalled.

Del Rincon wasn't all that shocked. She was born and bred here in the Pacific Coast state of Sinaloa, home of the drug racket's top leaders, its most talented impresarios and some of its dirtiest government and police officials.

credit is our drug of choice... our politicians are credit trade supporters and users.

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Holidays a double whammy for ‘spending addicts’

By MONI BASU
Sunday, December 28, 2008

He sat quietly in the circle, until the end, when the hourlong meeting was drawing to a close. Then he made the first public confession of his financial troubles.

“My name is John,” he said. “This is my first experience at Debtors Anonymous. The pressure of debt and what to do next has been overwhelming.”

“To be honest with you,” he said, pausing, “thoughts of suicide have been there.”

DEBTORS ANONYMOUS

Like Alcoholics Anonymous, Debtors Anonymous is a fellowship that follows a 12-step path to recovery. The two Atlantans in this story who attend D.A. meetings, John and Sonja, spoke to the AJC on condition they be identified solely by their first names to preserve the anonymity mandated by D.A.

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The New York Times Co. is still blaming the Chinese:

China, some economists say, lulled American consumers, and their leaders, into complacency about their spendthrift ways.

in other news....

Eric Dash: The last temptation of plastic

Confessions of a Shopaholic, a morality tale for the Sex and the City set, is coming to theaters in February. Its protagonist is head over her high heels in credit card debt until she becomes Successful Savings magazine's advice columnist, finds true love with her handsome editor, and ultimately pays off her loans and learns to live within her means.

[metalman]

Re: In America, the credit trade has infiltrated 'every corner of life'

Holidays a double whammy for ‘spending addicts’


The New York Times Co. is still blaming the Chinese:

in other news....

Eric Dash: The last temptation of plastic

Confessions of a Shopaholic, a morality tale for the Sex and the City set, is coming to theaters in February. Its protagonist is head over her high heels in credit card debt until she becomes Successful Savings magazine's advice columnist, finds true love with her handsome editor, and ultimately pays off her loans and learns to live within her means.

christmas in russia. so beautiful! makes me weepy!

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Re: In America, the credit trade has infiltrated 'every corner of life'

The New York Times Co. is still blaming the Chinese:

Ah yes, Bernanke's Global Savings Glut raises its ugly head again...:eek:

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Re: In America, the credit trade has infiltrated 'every corner of life'

christmas in russia. so beautiful! makes me weepy!

Metalman,

In your attempt to be shocking, again you devolve into populist crap.

The video you post is supposed to show what? That any similar scene in a Walmart Black Friday opening is different? This despite having a nation literally 10x richer?

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