In the 20's when virtually every little family with a paycheck invested in stock of some kind, the numbers on the big board ment a lot more to the average American. Today there have been many people who already knew there was a "crises" long before it was felt on Wallstreet. We have lived on credit so long, people are going to find it hard to do without it. But if we don't start saving even if this crunch blows over, we are just fooling ourselves.
How in the heck can anyone reason away frivolous spending? At the gas pump, or online or at the Walmart? But they continue to do that. "I just had to have that DVD, CD, birthday gift for so-and-so". I still hear it all the time and I can't believe these folks are in the same demension I'm in.
I need: shelter, food, heat. I want many things. But I'll just have to wait till I have the money in hand. I know that's a new concept for Americans today, but-oh well.
