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- From: tip@lead.aichem.arizona.edu (Tom Perigrin)
- Newsgroups: alt.fan.dan-quayle
- Subject: Re: Actual Dan Quayle Interview
- Message-ID: <1992Nov23.235902.23716@organpipe.uug.arizona.edu>
- Date: 23 Nov 92 23:59:02 GMT
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- Kurt Ludwick <KEL111@psuvm.psu.edu> writes:
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- > By the way, the national debt is only about half the GNP (or GDP, whatever),
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- ONLY? ONLY? My goodness, what blatent abject stuidity!
-
- If you earn $24,000 and you "only" have $12,000 worth of credit card
- debt, then you think this is OKAY?
-
- A few years ago my wife got sick and lost her job. We ran up bills and
- debt totalling to about 30% of my annual salary. It's taken me over 2 years
- to pay this off. I got scared because I realized that if it had ever gone
- up to 50% of my income, I would never have been able to pay it off.
- The interest would have eaten up all of my income, and I would have never
- made inroads on the principle.
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- If you think 50% debt is okay, then you go in and fill out a credit
- application and tell them you have outstanding debts of 50% of your
- annual income. They will laugh at you.
-