Traveling Salesman??

I read a little story in my English book about a traveling salesman and how he went around selling ladies slips and undergarments. 

The author wrote about how her dad was the traveling salesman and how after years of doing so, there was no longer a need for his job, and therefore went on to another career, one that seemed to be very prosperous.  The author went on to explain how she and her mother have been moving from city to city due to lower cost of living because she no longer had a good paying job.

She also went into some detail about the economy and how over seas companies are taking away jobs from American people because the workers over seas will work for far less than what people in America expect to work for. 

As I kept reading all I could think about is when will it end?  When will people stop wanting more?  Sadly, but I don't think this will ever happen.  What I see a lot of with younger people and couples, and some older ones, is their abuse of the credit card.  Charge it, charge it, charge it!  Not a good idea. 

People are living beyond their means.  They have a good job, maybe making more money, so instead of saving that money, they spend it or assume their job and amount they are paid will always be there.  Take it form me, life can throw you curve balls and things can change in a hurry. 

I had a job where I was making more money, but when the need for better health insurance came first, that was it.  I make probably 6 to 8 hundred dollars less a month and let me tell you...it is hard to go from making more to less.  You get use to a certain amount of money and now all of a sudden you have to budget big time. 

I think people need to start learning to live with less, before you are forced to and then it really won't seem so bad.