Up until about ten years ago our little community would have a monthly dance with volunteer live music. Folks would come from a hundred or more miles away to come get together and catch up. People just can’t afford the time to do this anymore. They are all too busy trying to get by.
Is that because they are trying to put food on the table while maintaining a house that is forty years old and keeping two ten year old cars on the road?
Or, are they paying for a McMansion while keeping up the payments on two leased BMWs and making health club membership and country club dues, while trying to pay off last winter’s trip to Bermuda that was put on a maxed out Visa card.
Many Americans are trying to get by because they have no concept of financial planning, an idea of what saving is, the inability to distinguish between wants and needs.
People ought to be paying off debt and providing for childrens education needs before digging their holes deeper, especially in a full employment economy.
Shalom Aleichem