“Interest never sleeps
nor sickens nor dies; it
never goes to the hospital;
it works on Sundays
and holidays;
it never takes a vacation;
it never
visits nor travels;
it takes no pleasure;
it is never
laid off work nor discharged from employment;
it never works on reduced hours;
it never has
short crops nor droughts;
it never pays taxes;
it
buys no food;
it wears no clothes; it is unhoused
and without home and so has no repairs,
no replacements, no shingling, plumbing, painting,
or whitewashing;
it has neither wife, children,
father, mother, nor kinfolk to watch over and
care for;
it has no expense of living;
it has
neither weddings nor births nor deaths;
it has no
love, no sympathy;
it is as hard and soulless as a
granite cliff.
Once in debt, interest is your
companion every minute of the day and night;
you cannot shun it or slip away from it;
you
cannot dismiss it;
it yields neither to entreaties,
demands, or orders;
and whenever you get in its
way or cross its course or fail to meet its
demands, it crushes you.”
~~J. Reuben Clark, Jr., from
Bankruptcy, The Bitter Fruit of Debt
April 1938
Which makes me think it is all the more reason to having it work FOR us, rather than against us, right??