When is the last time you went to the bank? Hopped in your car to go shopping? Did your laundry at an opportune hour?
My daily life is pretty easy. Mostly everything is scripted and generally painless. I check my bank statements online, I do my laundry at 9pm on weekdays and I pay higher rent to walk to the Giant blocks from my house.
In today’s economy everyone doesn’t have it so easy. Check out this article. Being poor means you don’t have access to a lot of the things we take for granted in our daily life.
How did we get to where we are now economically. Greed, most certainly. Compassion, most certainly not. Businesses that prey on those who have access to the least; didn’t we learn our lesson the first time? 
Go ahead, google next day loans. The first 30 pages are littered with sites just begging to loan you money. Pictures of stacks of $100 bills. All for 25% of your paycheck. My checking is free. But what if you aren’t educated on what to do? Pictures designed to bait the uneducated.
Subprime mortgages, credit targeting and security derivatives were all in the pursuit of money. Why don’t we pursue making our cities stronger communities? Why not help those who are struggling so they contribute to the economy? Shouldn’t we be working together to fix the problems of our future instead of exploiting them for a profit.
Will we ever learn? CKP certainly hopes so.
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