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Credit Cards Friend or Foe? |
OK as has been said before, the Festive
Season approaches, the time of year when we all
end up being slightly silly at the Office Xmas
Party and then wake up the following morning
wishing the night before had never happened.
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It is also the time of year when the majority of
the “Open Wallet” Surgery in our lives takes
place and we end up funding next years Skiing
trip for the majority of Credit Card Company
executives the world over.
So the question still remains, how do you get
the best out of your little pieces of plastic
without resorting to cutting them in two?
Friend of Foe? We are not too sure about Credit
Cards and their exact benefit / damage to our
Society. Sure we all like the convenience of not
having to haul large bundles of cash around the
place and yes it does make buying “that last
little special item” at Christmas a damn site
easier. However, unless you want to try and hide
your head totally in the sand and pretend that
everything is rosy it would be slightly naïve
not to try and think that the rising levels of
bankruptcies and out of control credit / debt
management situation around nowadays would also
have something to do with the abundance of these
little pieces of plastic and the ease of getting
credit nowadays.
There is a story doing the rounds that is widely
credited to Dr Gregg Dimkoff of the Seldman
Scholl of Business Studies at Grand Valley
University and it is about a TV Interview held
by the TV Host Larry King where he “allegedly”
interviews Satan on his TV/Radio Show. I stress
the point here that this is a joke and that no
one should be under any illusions of the great
Beelzebub himself ever making a live appearance
of prime time TV or Radio!
Anyway, King asks Satan to describe the foulest
deed that he had either ever committed himself
or had arranged to have carried out by one of
his minions? Satan thinks about this and then
points out that with so much chaos, death and
destruction carried out in his name over the
eons, it would be hard to try and single out one
single item since there had been so much. King
is however persistent stating that yes with so
much evil around it must be hard but there must
be one dastardly thing that he was proud of.
Satan thinks for a moment and then said “well if
you must push me there is one evil thing I am
proud of……..the day I invented Credit Cards!”
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