----- Original Message ----- From: "Miles Jackson" <cqmv at pdx.edu>
Yep. Joanna, you're a deadbeat! (And that epithet for people who prudently use credit cards is a nice synecdoche for everything that's fucked up about the financial services industry.)
---- My ex (an American) used to make fun of me for avoiding debt like the plague. He called me a peasant basically. But the thing is poverty and debt are very, very expensive.
Joanna