Wednesday, June 11, 2008

For a New Thrift: Confronting the Debt Culture

Op-Ed Columnist - David Brooks - The Great Seduction by Debt - Op-Ed - NYTimes.com -- David Brooks on Ben Franklin, and then the past 30 years--a "must read." Succinct. Concise. Well phrased.

Keywords & keyphrases: Benjamin Franklin, hard work, temperance, frugality, industrious, ambitions, living for the moment, decadent, moral guardians, debt culture, the lottery class, value shift, consequences.

Note the enumeration of the agents of destruction.

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