See also here:
Over One-third of Americans are drowning in debt
Not me. I don’t have much but what I have is mine (aside from the property the government forces me to pay for)
I have found this website to be a very useful source of information on the economy, gold, and silver.
http://goldismoney.info/forums/
As someone who has had the great misfortune to have had a very sick son and a pair of twins in NICU for a month each, a personal hospital stay of 10 days, eight months of drug therapy, a wife who has had four children and breast cancer, combined with a stint of Obama economy unemployment ALL within the last five years. I can honestly say that I will never pay the medical bills I have racked up, even with insurance.
I simply tell medical professionals up front that they will only receive reimbursement from the insurance company and to bill accordingly.
That being said, I have a credit score of 798 and owe no credit except for a house payment. This is the only reason we haven't been bankrupted.
Perhaps why Texas ranks high is because debt collectors cannot garnish wages for collection of consumer debt.
student loans
I get calls all the time from these scumbags. Before you go tell me to pay my debt, IT ISN’T MY DEBT!!! I get dozens of calls a week for people I have no idea who they are. Sometimes it is fun to tease them. Even better is to get them to violate the law.