On P.O.V. last night

[catmandu57]

Waging a Living in the scene where the divorcing waitress recieved a platinum visa card, my wife asks me why would bother to apply for it. My response "Why the hell not"? She's already 15,000 in debt on credit cards, loosing her car and house, what does she have to lose? when she can't pay it off what are they going to do shave her head and send her to Iraq?
At best it's going to keep her family together just a little while longer.

[proud2BlibKansan]

1. That was the saddest show

Just broke my heart. Damn these republicans and their war on the poor. Damn them all.

[Gormy Cuss]

2. And that is exactly the thinking.

Since the existing debt can't be paid, what does it matter if she incurs more? The worst that will happen is that she'll be forced to file for bankruptcy.

There is something seriously twisted about a system that makes it easier to acquire more debt rather than to get a helping hand when you're in such desperate straits.

[catmandu57]

3. I think she'll do like so many

others do and just walk away from it, catch me if you can. I didn't watch the entire program, I'll go to PBS and see if I can stream it. They must have made it around last Christmas and I'd like to see follow ups.
Her case was just so sad and these days all too common, I have the feeling that if she hasn't already she doomed to homelessness and disintegration of her life.

[catmandu57]

4. I just read her update

Things turned out well for her, she remarried and kept her family together. I wish it were the same for the millions of others in her shoes.

[jwirr]

5. I wonder if there is anything that can be done about this easy

credit policy of credit cards? I do not know a single person who is not way over their ability to pay. The problem is not the use of the card for survival as the woman in the show did. The problem is credit card companies that offer credit to people who obviously have nothing to pay it with.

I know of a case of a credit card company that allowed $15,000 credit to a person who was living on general assistance - $206.00 a month. It started with just enough money to pay for a stereo and when that was paid off they upped the available money. Every time there was an problem in the family - no food in the cupboards, no gas to go to work, etc. it was put on the credit card.

This kind of easy credit is not good for either the individual or the country. What can be done about it?

[CAG]

6. That show has haunted me for the last 48 hours... I kept thinking

what if Limbo, Hannity, and Coulter were locked into a room to watch it.

Why do I think the 1/2 ounce of soul all three have put together would have cared at the least?

[bobbolink]

7. I seriously doubt it would affect them --at least, not the way you

hope.

It takes not only a heart, but a conscience to be moved by other people's suffering.

The names you mention are among the crowd of sociopaths who have overtaken this society.

Sociopaths can't feel the pain of others, or imagine what it's like to walk in their shoes.

It's completely lost on them.

Only those with sensitivity can feel others' pain.