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...first, my children were shocked to see how much money I made--wow, we were rich! But then I showed how much the government took off the top, how much we spent and how little was left at the end of the month. When they saw our credit-card balances, they actually got angry: Why hadn't I done something about this earlier...
...sorry show and head back to the beach. But the dwindling surplus will have a real impact on ordinary Americans. To avoid cutting into the Social Security trust fund, Congress may have to slash farm subsidies, tax credits for the working poor and other social programs. A lack of surplus dollars to pay down the national debt helps keep mortgage and credit-card rates higher than they should be. And all those great-sounding programs Bush and Al Gore argued about last year--giving a drug benefit to seniors, letting people invest Social Security money in the stock market--just...
...start with simple abuses, like letting the credit-card bills pile up while pumping as much as possible into CMGI, or tapping the home-equity line to stuff cash into the Munder Net Net fund. In essence, you charged those investments, laying out up to 18% annual interest on the bet that stocks would go up faster. That's blind lust for wealth...
...Credit-card debt. Paying down high-interest debt, of course, is personal finance?s Rule One - it?s like getting 18 percent return on an investment in the middle of a bear market. And everybody knows credit-card balances never stay down for long, so really I?d just be delaying the stimulus until next time my paycheck doesn?t cover my expenses. But without getting into the dirty financial details, putting up $300 against my current credit-card- and other debt balances only depresses me with the sheer spit-in-the-ocean futility of it. With this volume...
...doctor's office called to tell me that my insurance company wouldn't cover the biopsy I needed. I called the company, and a representative said I had been dropped because I had failed to send in a renewal form--odd, since my premiums were automatically billed to my credit-card account. I have always been conscientious about health insurance. I'm a single mom, and when my father died of leukemia 23 years ago, his coverage was the only thing that stood between my family and bankruptcy...