For: José R. Uzal
The consumerism is in intensive care and the prognosis is not encouraging. The public and private sectors are doing all the possible from saving it, but it is not reacting to the treatment. If the consumerism dies, our society, like her we know today, it would disappear. But we have to prepare to face the inevitable thing.
Imagine a new society without consumerism, where we might only buy what we can pay in this moment. Without consumerism we are looking at a future without credit, without the aptitude to consume today what we want and without worrying how we are going to pay in the future. It would be terrible to have to eat only what was at station, cook what we are going to eat and visit a restaurant sometimes very special. To have to go down the car to buy fast food would be a hell.
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Now then, if the consumerism dies positive things will happen. There would not come in the mail offers of credit cards, loans, facility of payment to buy cars, insurances of all cheap classes and offers of financing or credit lines on our appreciation.
The holiday was finished. It was not only Wall Street the one that extinguished the music. The government, the banks and the consumers share the fault of having finished the holiday. As the government does not produce anything more that expenses, the responsibility of cleaning after the holiday will come across of the taxpayers.
The taxpayers are also the consumers and while they are contributing they are not going to be able to spend, which will accelerate the death of the consumerism.
(*) uzal@msn.com
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