A few minutes of telly watching in canada and one would get to see multiple adds on debt counselling, bankruptcy help, help with bad credit history and cash for jewellery! I mean I know there’s a global meltdown and people across the world are adversely affected… but this?!

Apparently this is ever quite so normal here…. People going bankrupt all the time, not being able to control their credit spend. From what I understand, medical costs can often spiral and cost people their livelihood. It’s quite the experience listening to cash man’ Joe go on about being able to give you instant cash for your jewellery and Mr. Aggrawal (attorney at Law) encourage you to file for bankruptcy in order to get out of your debt trap! (He even had a gujju chick intone in gujju how it is marvellous to get legal help from a gentlemen who can speak in her very own language!)

I thought emerging economies like India had problems… of population, of poverty, of development. And that our more developed counterparts had at least the livelihood issues figured out. But I guess everyone has problems… only different kinds.