Modern Day Slavery

I am convinced that slavery is alive and well today.  I am convinced it is far more wide spread than it ever was during the early years of this country.  This slavery doesn't care if your male or female, it doesn't care what color your skin is, it doesn't care how old you are, it doesn't care what religion you are.  It is amazingly non-discriminant.  What is this form of modern day slavery?  DEBT.  I felt this was an appropriate topic having just passed through a very expensive season.  My main goal in life right now is to become debt free.  Only then are we truly free.  Only then do you have the freedom to say, I just don't want to work anymore.  Now I admit there are some things that almost universally require us to go into debt for.  A home, an education, and perhaps a car.  But that is it.  I hope and pray that for this new year we will all get a little closer to becoming debt free. 
I remember meeting a dentist in Cleveland on a golf course.  My friends and I were out golfing and he was playing as a single so he joined us.  Through the conversation we had with him we discovered that his father who was also a dentist was still working at 80 years of age because he couldn't retire.  I just about lost my lunch.  I felt so sorry for his dad.  Now if his father chose to work at 80 years of age more power to him, if however he had to work for financial reasons, that is very sad. 
Some people blame the banks for our current financial problems in this country.  If you do how can you get back at them?  Become debt free. 

On a happier note, I wish you and yours a happy new year and truly hope you had a merry Christmas.
That is all.