[Dirigo]

Originally Posted by ilovetv

After reading Doodlegirl's post....

I have a different take on the economic and social stressors she mentioned in the first section.

I think television and extremely biased t.v. "news" networks (ALL of them) have created a lot of envy.

I think the "It's MINE" and "I NEED more" mentalities have grown out of seeing distorted pictures of what televised fictional characters or other real people have, that we don't.

And then there is what we've been led to believe we "need" and are "owed" thru television advertising and campaigning politicians on television.

Where, besides in a few radio programs that teach debt-free living, are we taught to be content with what we have without borrowing more money than what we can actually repay?? Credit card offers flow like drinking water!

We don't have cable or satellite television. To say I dislike commercials would be putting it mildly. We watch movies and tv shows on Netflix. We stopped watching national news a couple of years.

We are debt free and enjoy the financial peace that was inspired by a radio program that taught debt-free living. We live within our means and do not use credit.