In_Excess_We_Trust

In Excess We Trust In Liz Spayd’s essay In Excess We Trust, she states, “to be is to consume.” I believe she has come up with some very supportive details for her case, and makes a very good argument about us as American consumers. With the facts that she has presented I would agree with her viewpoints. I myself consume more then I need, and have witnessed many other people guilty of over consuming. Americans today consume more goods as a whole then we did twenty years ago. We also earn more money per household, which is proven statistically. She examines how the wealthy and poor buy a lot more than what is necessary. Everyone is screaming for more, and sometimes we still cannot get enough. We use our monthly paychecks to buy things we cannot even afford. Like going to the local Best Buy and upgrading your 27” TV to the new 72” Plasma set. This will only take four years to pay off, but having this new TV will make your life so much better. Knowing that Visa will always give you a bigger spending limit so we can go out and purchase buy, consume, new, something, over, out, now, much, money, look, always, spending, shopping, purchase, people, never, need, make, limit, just, items, garage, essay, consuming, cannot, buying, years, very, tv, think, things, takes, spend, spayd’s, shirts