Released: November 30, 2008

Bright ideas for more frugal holidays

Source: Eileen Ambrose, Baltimore Sun (Free Registration)

The Big Three automakers need a bailout because we don’t buy enough gas-guzzlers. The Wall Street Journal reports the government has less gas tax revenue to pay for bridges and roads because we’ve been driving less. Now we hear that retailers will go out of business if we don’t shop till we drop this holiday season.

Enough. Consumers have done more than their fair share to keep the economy afloat for years. We have the debt to prove it. It’s time to let others lift up the economy.

Or, as ethicist Bruce Weinstein says: It’s OK to be a tightwad.

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