Hell of a cover of Tennesee Ernie Ford’s Sixteen Tons by Jeff Beck and ZZ Top.

I get credit card offers in the mail almost daily. I always toss them but it never stops.

I used to get tons of those when I was in the paper business. I was like, WTF? Don’t they know what I do for a living? How the hell do they think I’m ever gonna pay them back?

It has finally occurred to me that they don’t care if you can pay them back unless you’re one of the big fish. They just want a as many of us little fish as possible TRYING to pay them back. That’s something they can work into their budgets.  

They’re not worried about you going bankrupt. They’re worried about the real estate developer.

Bankers are really trappers and we’re the fur! How’s that for a mixing metaphors?

Gotta share the OG version of Sixteen Tons. Dedicated to Granny, who I forced to listen to Creedence Clearwater Revival in the car when she mistakenly thought they were a gospel group.

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