CREDIT CARDS

                                                                                                              © 1999 David Zasloff

Credit cards. I figured out how they work. Dig this.

Let's say you buy something on your credit card and you spend $300.00.

So now you owe the bank $300.00.

But when you think about it, this $300.00 is money nobody ever had.

You never had the money.

The bank never had the money.

Then the bank takes the money nobody ever had and calls it an "Asset."

Now it’s an asset, the bank can charge you interest on money nobody ever had.

So the bank is making money off money nobody ever had.

Then the bank takes the money nobody ever had and loans it to Mexico.

Now Mexico has the money, you never had.

But they don't have it either.

But both you and Mexico are paying the bank interest on money nobody ever had. Now the bank is making more money off money nobody ever had.

The only person with money is the guy who had the idea to give you money he didn't have.

He’s livin' in a big house.

And he built it with money nobody ever had.

Well, eventually, you keep spending money nobody ever had, you’ll go bankrupt.

But once you go bankrupt, you only have to pay back part of the money nobody ever had.

As soon as you pay back part of the money nobody ever had, the bank will give you more money nobody ever had.

Because they want money, you don't have.

Right now the amount of money nobody ever had is enormous.

I would bet all the money I don't have, there isn't enough printed money in the whole world to cover all the money nobody ever had.

Most of my money is money people have.

That’s why I’m so broke.

I’m trying to make more money people don't have.

That’s where the big bucks are.

So if you ever buy my book, or my CD, or my DVD, or my t-shirt, or one of my ring tones, please, use your credit card.

I’m trying to make more money people don’t have.

(Excerpted from “The Complete Book of Every Thing, Part I, Second Edition”)