How to get out of this financial mess.

[mattkime]

Dakota wrote: I am always amazed at how some people are so predisposed to the idea of going small and doing with less. Looks across America and see for yourself if thinking small could have made the country what it is today. Thank God our forefathers weren't thinking like this. We'd be living in huts, riding mules and burning wood. All signs of small and frugal living.

I was going to say the same thing, but for irony.

Not all spending is the same. Investments are a productive use of capital, simple consumption is not.