When things get tough, take a Payday Loan and fight another round

Will Payday Loans be there when I’m at the bottom of the barrel?

Andrew Carnegie

Everyday I say, “smile, things can’t get any worse…” And then I smile, and sure enough, things get worse. But yesterday I found out that there is other types of worse that are worse than mine. This is the story of a Payday Loan Utopia – everyone in town needs one.

We are talking about a small steel town in Pennsylvania called Braddock, once a famous wellspring of industrial might. This is the place where steel baron Andrew Carnegie built his first steel mill. Remember the Carnegie empire that helped build modern America? Well it started in Braddock. This is where Carnegie built a library, the first of more than 1,500 Carnegie libraries in the United States. Braddock is now a jumble of boarded-up storefronts, disintegrating houses and vacant lots.

This is the bottom of the barrel

The town of Braddock is dead but it won’t lie down. The new mayor is trying to create an asset out of his town’s lack of assets and has even set up a website to publicize the town.

The Road

This year, almost in answer to the mayor’s dream, the town will be featured in the film version of Cormac McCarthy’s novel “The Road.” Set in a post-Armageddon America where food is so scarce that many survivors turned to cannibalism, “The Road” was shot partially in Braddock.

Braddock is definitely the bottom of the barrel and this is where the few remaining residents of the town, who still work in the old steel mill, will be applying for Payday Loans.

Can this happen anywhere?

Isn’t it frightening to think that the town where you live, where your children go to school, where you shop in the mall and eat in the restaurants, could one day fall into disrepair and eventually turn into a ghost town? It happens and one can see these towns all over the world, many of them turned into refugee camps.

How bad can it get?

I wonder if anyone really knows. Governments of the world, as is happening now, will pump money into their economies and will keep pumping until there is nothing left to pump. And then? The citizens will get nervous and run to pull their money out of the banks and hide it under the bed at home. The banks will collapse – a bank cannot exist without money – and businesses that depend on financing from the banks will fold. Everything will come down like the house built of cards.

How can we keep off the bottom?

Work. Work means earnings, earnings means money and money is what one keeps in the bank and spends to stay alive in the supermarkets and stores. Like it says in the song, “Money makes the world go round…”

Don’t give up

If we give up, we’re sunk, we’ll all end up in a town like Braddock. We have to keep pushing, keep working and hanging on in our town. When the going gets tough, take a Payday Loan and give yourself extra fighting time. The minute you stop, the weeds will start growing down Main Street and your town will disappear, eaten by despair.