"We absorb a way of perceiving the world from parents and neighbors. We mimic the behavior around us. Only at the end of the process is there self-conscious oversight.

America once had a culture of thrift. But over the past decades, that unspoken code has been silently eroded."

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/20/business/20debt.html?em&ex=1216872000&en=0409650470deb162&ei=5087%0A

When it effects the rich, we get response, is McSames bank account draining, no; watch his speeches, he is like a STEPFORD WIFE, programed for business.