By Paul Greenberg
When your credit card maxes out, why sweat and fret? Just extend your credit limit. Or apply for another card and start all over again. It’s the American Way, or at least it’s the way we got into this mess in the first place. No fuss, no muss, and it’s so much more convenient than having to cut back on expenses, on all those little extras that became necessities a long time ago.
There’s no need to change your spending habits, just your credit limit. And … Voila! All your problems disappear. (“I’ll gladly pay you Tuesday for a hamburger today!” –J. Wellington Wimpy, sage financier and general scam artist of the old Popeye cartoons, whose voice really should have been that of the immortal W.C. Fields cadging another drink.)
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