What we want is what we need

Above you see palettes of money which respresent 1 trillion dollars. In the left corner, very small, you see the average sized man. Imagine that image 8x (which is the number reported for our massive government bailout plan). Daunting and sickening all at the same time.

Some interesting statistics about our consumer credit card nature reveals our inability to control ourselves or to reasonably decide things which are needs and wants — and finding enough patience to attain our wants with our actual means. (Obviously there is quite a lot wiggle room to the stats, I've purposely been very conservative with the numbers based on research statistics, from CreditCards.com among a few others). Here's a simple breakdown:

• Current Average Credit Card Interest Rate: 12%
• Current Average Credit Card Balance: $2200
• Current Monthly Payments (based on above): $264
• Number of Issued Credit Cards (2006) : 1,500,000,000

What if every one of those 1.5 billion paid off their credit cards; cut them up and threw them away? What if half of those 1.5 billion did that? What if half of those 1.5 billion used their $264 in savings and donated to organization or a church to help poverty, hungry, health care and build up their own savings?

$198,000,000,000 a month

$2,376,000,000,000 a year

Imagine the kind of impact a small level of responsiblity and restraint would offer in helping reduce our massive deficts and dependence upon the government for creating jobs and "saving" our economy? We need only look to ourselves for our failures, and ourselves for our solutions.