Reply #9: IMHO, you are a writer--and a very good one.

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Nice job articulating what many of us feel about today's materialistic society. Lots and lots of people are doing quite well, as you observed, and thus don't worry about the present or the future. Perhaps they should...that debt load will have to be retired one of these days. Maybe they'll just leave it up to their kids to take care of, the kids who will be so grateful that they were raised in such comfort they won't resent paying off Mom and Dad's debts. Then again, perhaps when the chickens finally come home to roost, so to speak, it's the kids who will be squawking the loudest.

Someone told me not long ago, "We are more than consumers." Good that you and so many others realize that and live accordingly. You are a credit to our nation and a small ray of hope for the future.

I like your bumper stickers, BTW. Glad they survived your trip to the 'burbs. Says something good about those who reside there!

Tired Old Cynic