This thread discusses the Content article: Poll: Debt hurts your body, too

No wonder people are feeling stressed. So, why do they let debt spiral out of control?

I think the advertising today is more sophisticated than ever before. It is pernicious. The "professional" advertising bought by the big money of cooperations today very nearly is hypnotic! We must have it! Buy buy buy!

Why, even our own government wants us to buy buy buy. I'm thinking stimulus checks here...

Credit card offerings bombard us...young adults need to be aware of these smiling but nocuous offers and treat them as the hell-creatures that they are... capable of inflicting physical bodily damage just as this article reports.

Check Loans businesses, Check Cities, Title Loan Companies ... their owners need hanged in the gallows and their businesses razed to the ground.

Widespread usury is a sure symptom, known since Biblical times, of impending national doom.

WW, give us documented examples of "Widespread usury is a sure symptom, known since Biblical times, of impending national doom."

You are right on the money with the rest. We live comfortably on a single, professional income. The second income has allowed us to be debt free and prepared for retirment.

Young marrieds who believe they should live in the same houses in which they grew up as their starter homes are not very bright. That will lead to a life of stress and debt, and will impede their children's opportunities.

One of the greatest inventions ever was the remote control for the television. I can't remember the last time I left a commercial on television while laying comfortably in my easy chair with the little black box in my right hand.

It is actually quite simple...people either have a plan and a budget that they stick to or they blame everyone but themselves for their out of control buying and spending.

Bad times happen and it is on each of us to be prepared for anything. Budgets help.