Responce to Juliet Schor

I think public consumption has gotten out of control. What happened to the days when you did with what you had or what you could afford. The credit debt of America today is outrages. I do not feel that it is just the cnsumers fault either. The commercial that is on T.B. today, I think it is for a visa card or some kind of card that you just scan under a scanner and it automatically withdraws from an account or adds on to a credit card. In the commercial people are going through line getting things for lunch and every thing is flowing perfectly, everyone is in tune with the other, they know exactly what the otheer person is doing and where they are going to go. Then there is a person that is in line and pays with cash and the whole line falls apart. People fall down and food hits the floor, every thing is in shambles because some one used cash instead of the high zoot card. The person paying with cash just interrupted the flow of life. As soon as that person gets change and is out the door every thing goes back to normal. This just shows ho lfe is lived in the fast lane today. No one is satisfied with what they have. They have to "one up" the person next to them or they do not fell adequate. Every one is in the fast lane to afraid to pull over into the slow lane, because they might get passed by the person behind them. There are very few peoplt who care about credit anymore, whether it is having bad credit or the fact thay you owe someone money. That is all having credit is, owing someone money, in this case it is a bank or a card company. It is funny how a person knows how much money is owed to them, but how quickly they forget when they owe the money to some one else.