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Credit: Crawling back into the hole where you came from...


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2012 Feb 26, 10:51pm   1,690 views  7 comments

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http://www.myfoxdc.com/dpps/news/credit-card-debt-nears-toxic-levels-dpgonc-km-20120226_18232559

Credit Card Debt Nears Toxic Levels

Updated: Sunday, 26 Feb 2012, 4:19 PM EST
Published : Sunday, 26 Feb 2012, 4:19 PM EST

(New York Post) - More American households are falling back into the debt hole, this time without the safety net of home values to help bail them out, the New York Post reported Sunday.

Last year, total US consumer debt reached its highest point in a decade, according to a credit card industry observer.

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1   Norbecker   2012 Feb 26, 11:18pm  

Got to maintain the lifestyle. You know the iPad III will be out soon and the SUV is almost 2 years old. What would the neighbor's and coworkers think if we don't upgrade everything? Our kids may not feel special if they do not get the late$t greate$t everything! We paid off a little on the CC so we can charge more. That is the American way.............right????

2   TPB   2012 Feb 27, 12:03am  

Capitol one sent me a card offer last week with 0% until November 1, then 22.9% after that. I used it to light the grill. Where do they keep finding these Idiots to take them up on it?

3   bmwman91   2012 Feb 27, 12:12am  

TPB says

Where do they keep finding these Idiots to take them up on it?

'Murica, FUCK YEAH!

4   bubblesitter   2012 Feb 27, 12:22am  

Get crunched by the shrinking paycheck,where else would they go?

5   RentingForHalfTheCost   2012 Feb 27, 12:24am  

We are all so screwed!

6   bubblesitter   2012 Feb 27, 12:25am  

RentingForHalfTheCost says

We are all so screwed!

No. Get another card to pay off another one. Smart American way.

7   freak80   2012 Feb 27, 1:33am  

ptiemann says

Some people have made it a business (more difficult nowadays).

Smart, if you can pull it off. Not without it's risks. Then again, no business is w/o risk.

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