20. The Party Ended When We Went On The Credit Card...
Call it the "entitlement" generations...we've grown up with the concept that one is "entitled" to luxuary...be it a nice house or car and the latest toy. The ethos of working hard and being rewarded was replaced with buy now and worry about it later. It led to a populace hooked on "the finer things" that somehow equated to a superior form of life while letting the debt build up. Greed became a virtue and if you couldn't earn it, you could always charge it. The greed has led to a willful igornance and intolerance as the entitlement has turned into a compulsion...an addiction.
Today we're a bankrupt nation...financially and politcally as well as in denial. People don't want to wise up, they want what they want and they want it now.
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