Welcome to the 2009-2010 SMHS Savings Challenge

In the SMHS Savings Challenge, students compete to achieve their savings goals over the course of the school year. A+ financial coaches guide these students and help them learn life-long money management skills. This blog will feature posts by past and present contestants, A+ coaches, and others.

Reality TV and Debt

Thursday, April 8, 2010

During the past year, I have learned that there are many reasons that people lose as much money as they do.

One reason is people use up too much fake money on their millions of credit cards and are incapable of paying back the debt. This causes them to go into debt, and occasionally can make them go homeless if they overspend too much.

Another reason is because they take way too many loans out of their banks and get to the point that they feel as if they don’t have to pay back their bills.

Issues such as this are becoming so popular nowadays that it has made the repo business very productive.

People such as the ones on the television show Operation Repo are able to pay their bills because of the repo job, and are trying to educate others how to keep on top of their bills so as to not get their things taken from them in a repo.

There are many things that can be taken in a repo, such as boats, cars, trucks, houses, and air planes. They are subject to repo because they are very expensive, and many people either can’t afford to pay for their property, or they don’t care. Most of these people have overspent and were taught that it was ok to do such things.

I also learned that if all the people in the world saved, and never had to pay any debt off to anyone else in the world, the world would be such a better place. Unfortunately though, borrowing has been overdone, and there is quite a bit of trouble paying off every ounce of debt owed.

For example, the United States is in such a large debt that some say we are risking going into another depression. We owe over seventy billion dollars by a long shot, and are going to be paying it off for centuries. Scientists and other people who are looking into this subject say that our grandchildren’s children will be paying off the debt that we are creating to this day.

- Lynda

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