Rating: 10
November 23, 2007
It’s around Thanksgiving, and what I am thankful for is the renaissance of independent documentaries and their muckraking spirit. Many of my favorite films in the past two or three years have been documentaries, and this one ranks way up there.
It skillfully shows how credit card companies target the poorest of our society and keeps them in virtual slavery to their debts. But the poor aren’t the only ones playing fiscal catch-up: the U.S. government leads the charge, racking up a debt that amount to $90,000 per U.S. family, and it still rises. According to the film, the U.S. government spends more on interest from debts than on healthcare, education and homeland security combined. “Houston, we have a problem.”
Almost every part of our society is crippled by our mismanagement of finances, while corporations continue to leech off the most naive. The film also highlights those who have taken their own lives under financial duress.
Everyone needs to watch this film. And pray.
And all Americans need to be financially educated somehow. But I don’t remember ever taking a class on personal finances, not in public school, not at a private college, and not even in the church. Didn’t Jesus talk about money more than any other subject except the Kingdom of God? Someone has to step up the charge to educate our people about finances, because we’re being taken advantage of.
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