WEB Notes: I was always taught growing up if you do not have the cash you do not need it. In the age of iDevices people are spending money they do not have like never before. Today, cell phones cost $800 bucks, but don’t worry. We will finance that guy for you right on your phone bill. Hey it’s only another 30 bucks a month. This is how we go into debt and this is why many will literally never stop working until they drop dead. We live in sad times and while the odds are stacked against us, we need to take accountability and make the right choices in life. Just because everyone else is doing it or has it does not mean you need to.
Americans are more stressed than ever — and for most of them, their bank accounts are to blame.
The majority of Americans (65%) are losing sleep over money issues, according to a new study from CreditCards.com — up from 56% in 2007. The most common stressor is health care or insurance bills at 38%, followed by saving for retirement at 37%. “What people worry about most changed quite a bit in the past year,” Matt Schulz, senior industry analyst at CreditCards.com said. “Health care has been such a hot button issue for so long, and whether it’s around the election or just about the cost of maintaining your own health care, we’ve seen a big jump in worrying about that.” (Health care was a factor for just 29% of respondents in 2016.)
In addition to health care and retirement, 34% worry the most over educational expenses, 26% about mortgage bills, and 22% due to credit-card debt. Shulz said the share of people who cited credit card debt as the most preoccupying has fallen in recent years, showing despite the fact that credit card debt is hitting record highs, it is the least of consumers’ worries. They may have cause for the lack of sleep: Credit-debt surged passed the $1 trillion mark, according to Federal Reserve data released earlier this month.
Source: America’s insomnia problem is even worse than before the Great Recession – MarketWatch
WHY???
BECAUSE YOU AND YOUR WIFE HAVE TO WORK 24 HOURS A DAY FOR THE SAME THINGS YOU PAID FOR WITH 8 HOURS A DAY 15 YEARS AGO?
HELL…… YOU AINT GOT TIME TO SLEEP SLAVE!!!!!
GET YOUR ASS TO WORK!!!!!!!!!
Thomas Jefferson once said:
“I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies . . . If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around [the banks] . . . will deprive the people of all property until their children wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered . . . The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people, to whom it properly belongs.” — Thomas Jefferson — The Debate Over The Recharter Of The Bank Bill, (1809)
“Americans are more stressed than ever — and for most of them, their bank accounts are to blame.”
While the MSM does it’s best to MAINTAIN that stress level with their fearmongering, lies & propaganda campaign.