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Drowning in Debt News Article Revisited

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While browsing to my stack of Sunday newspapers, a prominent newspaper had an article about drowing in debt and giving advice on how to save. Though I sincerely believe in frugality and their intentions of giving sound financial advice, we should be reminded on how to be very careful when we at media create information to consumers. The working class especially is very ideologically incline in the power of information. What I mean is that when we focus on educating people to use let's say debit cards, let us not forget what is true frugality. Maybe, Cash spending and plastics also impact our initiatives to save the environment. Another area, I have seen which was number one was eating at home than eating out when government is trying it's best to fixed the so-called recessionary syndromes by asking people to use consumer spending. For me, it is not about spending but let us not forget marginalized sectors like the disabled and very chronically ill/senior humans. What about if i...

Affordability for Limited Income Earners, the in thing these days!

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Yes, thank God America is finally realizing what AFFORDABILITY is all about. Not cheap, dirt cheap, not antiques neither expensive as a piece of art deco. Gone are days that people don't understand value investing . Why does it always take a recession for us to know that it is not how much we pay for advertising to entice the consumer. It is about reputation , creating value, positive thinking and even nowadays going Green . All the discussions can be said about our mission of affordability but does it help me or you put food in our table? Or perhaps, too cheap to cost $0.01 and get what you deserve. It's not about what's in your wallet, it is the value of what you get! Long live to my fellow bloggers on creating things like the GNU org. and fighting for freedom of expression. Yours truly, Alex http://www.alexesguerra.com/