Is a Credit based lifestyle robbing you of a secure
financial future?
January 7, 2004
The American consumer is being warned of debt. One recent
headline read: �Consumer Debt is soaring! It is out of
control!� while another financial advisor wrote �We have
become a country of consumers in debt.� Consumer debt is so
bad that banks are encouraging home equity loans and
mortgages to pay for this years holiday credit spending. Why
is there so much debt, where does it all end, and who really
profits? One would think that spending tomorrows future
today is an obvious omen of financial ruin but consumers
have been tantalized, misled, even coerced into the false
assumption that spending now is not only right, it is the
American way.
Groton, VT (PRWEB) January 7, 2004 � What weighs 27,156
tons with a total height of 305 feet, beckons �Give me your
tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe
free��, and heralds the promise of freedom from tyranny? On
October 28th 1886, the Statue of Liberty was dedicated as a
commemoration of the American Declaration of Independence
and symbolized the freedom America had come to enjoy. Today
however there is a new tyranny threatening our homeland. In
place of financial prosperity, in place of the American
Dream, is a tyranny of debt, precipitated not by the
merchants of war but by the merchants of greed.
The American consumer is being warned of debt. One recent
headline read: �Consumer Debt is soaring! It is out of
control!� while another financial advisor wrote �We have
become a country of consumers in debt.� Consumer debt is so
bad that banks are encouraging home equity loans and
mortgages to pay for this years holiday credit spending. Why
is there so much debt, where does it all end, and who really
profits? One would think that spending tomorrows future
today is an obvious omen of financial ruin but consumers
have been tantalized, misled, even coerced into the false
assumption that spending now is not only right, it is the
American way.
Gene Jolley, President of Kingdom Financial Principles (KFP)
and creator of the Rapid Debt Reducer software, knows about
consumer debt: �American households carry an average of
8,400.00 on credit cards with a 14.9% interest rate. If just
the minimum payment is made on that debt alone, the consumer
will have paid 8823.67 in interest! That is 105% profit for
the creditors. And it would take 24 years to payoff.�
The reasons for escalating consumer debt are manifold,
ranging from an often jaded relationship between Government
and Corporate America to, as one report stated, �Corporate
greed and corruption is robbing the backbone of America.�
Yet one startling fact remains: consumers continue as
willing contributors to the debt dilemma. The end of
consumer debt is no where in sight. It�s not even a matter
of getting the credit cards paid in 24 years because that
frame of time assumes the cards are not being used to
continue in an already bad habit. Forgive me for my sarcasm
but it doesn�t take a brain scientist to figure that out.
And who is really profiting from all this debt? With an
estimated 17 billion in debt over this one holiday season
the answer is simple�Corporate America.
Tyranny wears many masks yet the power over your future is
but a decision. The sum weight of the Statue of Liberty is
not that measured in tons but in the force of her cry to
freedom and her height is not the measure of feet but of the
pinnacle to which that freedom can attain�why not be debt
free?
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Contact InformationGene Jolley
KINGDOM FINANCIAL PRINCIPLES, LLC
http://www.solongbills.com
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