Some high-ups say they want to switch to the 'Amero'. That might sound nice, but Mexico would destroy that quickly. I'd be different if they were more like Canada. (i.e. Stable)
I don't know.. I have always said greed is the downfall of all things, but wow, this is ridiculous.
My friends upgrade their PC's every YEAR it seems, and dump it on a credit card. I try to explain to them that software/games never catch up to the latest and greatest quickly, so upgrading every 3 years is more realistic. (I upgrade every 2-3 years.. mostly 3 years) as I don't play many games, it's mostly for graphics and website/forum creation.
I look and see prices on things... like I wanted to get a Beckett's baseball price guide--to see how my older baseball cards are doing, but they want $9.99 for a black and white (phonebook quality crap) pages. It USED TO be $3.99 a few years ago, so I said no thanks. I'll do without. That $10 can be a meal, or go to something more important right now...
We just gotta cut back. These credit card companies even try to get people right out of Bankruptcy to get a credit card--you would think they wouldn't want that, with a bad credit rating and all, but guess what? You can't file for bankruptcy for another 7 years (I believe its 7--something like that) and these credit card companies KNOW this, so they try to rope you in and basically have you under their foot at that time. So evil.... But it's also the person that is crazy enough to get that card, right?