Spendthrifts or Skinflints

Will thrift and discipline return

as we have less money to burn?

Perhaps humans will never learn

we shouldn’t spend more than we earn.

The money lenders say we should;

and being thrifty isn’t good.

Self-discipline is understood

as having less things than we could.

Inflation, somehow, seems to say

get whatever you want today;

for later, when you have to pay,

dollars are cheaper anyway.

Don’t forget about usury;

buying on credit isn’t free.

Walt Abbott –-24-2009