MAXED OUT

Maxed Out is a great documentary about how American’s continue to live in debt, and how credit card companies and financial lenders feed off that, to help us grow even more debt. We also can’t forget how Bush and prior presidents haven’t helped our national debt situation, and have borrowed out of the social security fund to pay-off interest rates so we would not default. And, to save money, the government continues to cut federally-funded programs, rather than getting to the root of the problem, which is ridiculous govt spending, and trying to bail out other countries.

Yeah, we want to be the dominant power, but why do we have to put our noses in everyone’s business? Let the world deal with their problems, and we only get involved when our own freedom is at risk.

So, as interest rates rise, and our eyes get bigger than our pocket books, we increase our personal debt, which can take two lifetimes or more to get paid off. Overall rating is a 4. The only other thing I would liked to have seen is how we compare to other countries, and what their relief programs are.