http://www.ambitgambit.com/2009/03/23/creamin-it-in-canberra/ Ambit Gambit Wed, 08 Feb 2012 14:01:16 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.ambitgambit.com/2009/03/23/creamin-it-in-canberra/comment-page-1/#comment-3050 ronda jambe Sun, 29 Mar 2009 18:15:38 +0000 http://localhost/ambit/?p=3518#comment-3050 Yes, gov short sightedness makes me 'disappointed' too. Staying out of debt is one of my few strategies that seem to work so far. Buying second hand stuff is another, but then I've been doing that all my life. Yes, gov short sightedness makes me ‘disappointed’ too. Staying out of debt is one of my few strategies that seem to work so far. Buying second hand stuff is another, but then I’ve been doing that all my life.

]]> http://www.ambitgambit.com/2009/03/23/creamin-it-in-canberra/comment-page-1/#comment-3051 Disapointed Sun, 29 Mar 2009 10:05:08 +0000 http://localhost/ambit/?p=3518#comment-3051 cognitive dissonance!!!! there is a term you don't hear every day. i agree, i believe that we are kidding ourselves if we think that we can spend our way out of the problem that has been caused by overspending. it is completely counter-intuitive!!! but we nod and smile and delude oursleves that if we somehow do more of the same, then it will all be ok... we are dudding ourselves, it will just put off the inevitable a bit longer. if we don't fundamentaly change the paradigm of our consumption habits and rigourously enforce (we don't even really need to change them)the existing laws we do have, to prevent unsustainable lending and "casino" investment practices, we will be back here sooner, rather than later. government investment is fine!! government "scratch it" card handouts are not......... cognitive dissonance!!!! there is a term you don’t hear every day.
i agree, i believe that we are kidding ourselves if we think that we can spend our way out of the problem that has been caused by overspending. it is completely counter-intuitive!!! but we nod and smile and delude oursleves that if we somehow do more of the same, then it will all be ok… we are dudding ourselves, it will just put off the inevitable a bit longer.
if we don’t fundamentaly change the paradigm of our consumption habits and rigourously enforce (we don’t even really need to change them)the existing laws we do have, to prevent unsustainable lending and “casino” investment practices, we will be back here sooner, rather than later.
government investment is fine!! government “scratch it” card handouts are not………

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