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Welcome to to Ask Good Questions Podcasts, broadcasting live every Wednesday,
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six pm Eastern Time on W four CY Radio at
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we will reach for a higher purpose in money and life,
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as well as a focus on health and wellnent. Now,
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let's join your host, Anita bell Anderson, as together we
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start with Asking Good Questions.
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Hello, and welcome to the Ask Good Questions Podcast. I
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am Benita bell Anderson, your host, and today we have
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something that I tell you what It's pushed my buttons
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a little bit. We're gonna be talking about credit card debt.
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But I have an expert that is going to maybe
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shift your entire paradigm. I'd like to invite Tommy Kilpatrick
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to the Proverbial podcast stage.
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Well, thank you very much, thanks for inviting me. I'm
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excited some pla.
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Yeah. Well, I like I was saying, I'm gonna probably
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re re ask some questions because this has made me
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really you know, for crying out loud. I'm a financial
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advisor and I shouldn't get this wrapped up with something
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like this, but he has such a unique way of
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looking at this. I felt like this was important for
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us to discuss and then I would love your feedback,
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as you know, as far as what you think. I'll
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also give you his information at the end so that
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you can contact him if you go, Wait a minute,
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what is this all about? So first, let me tell
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you a little bit about this guy. He's actually in
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the Philippines. I'm in Hawaii. He's in the Philippines. So
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he is a retired American living in the Philippines teaching
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farmers how to build dome structures with bamboo vertical gardening
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and to open free, self managed health care clinics. Maybe
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we should do something about that one of these days.
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He was born and raised in California. He has a
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double major of abnormal psychology and accounting. Or maybe this
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is going to be abnormal accounting. Huh, Tommy.
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Crazy, that's crazy.
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Author, teacher, entrepreneur, Twenty eight year marriage ended, He became
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homeless on purpose, and he had a voweve of poverty
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for ten years, living on farms on the East Coast
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and walks in faith with God. So, Tommy, I'm going
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to turn the time over to you. Why don't you
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give us the story about how this whole thing with
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your unique way of looking at credit cards came about.
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That's fine, thank you very much. Timon, author and I
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wrote a book on health and healing, and it was
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so popular that the company contacted me to do an infomercial,
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and this was in two thousand and four, so to
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test market different strategies, I was put on the radio
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as a guest for about six months, and so I
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lived on my credit cards. I had three cards and
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I looked on them. And then what happened is one
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of the talents got in trouble with the FTC. He
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made false claims about weight loss, and so the FTC
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came down hard on him and the company and all
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the new talents. Contracts were termining, and so I've left
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eighty five thousand dollars of credit card debt and that
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put me into a little bit of a depression. So
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working with Michleil children it helped to tell you the least.
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So then about a month into it, I kind of
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came out of a fog of depressions. How am I
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going to pay for this? Because I was promised about
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one hundred thousand dollars a month, so eighty five thousand
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was no big deal. And so also the expectations of
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making a kind of money was great, so that didn't
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all happen, so disappointment. But then I woke up one
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morning and I remember my dad being a CPA and
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I was in school to be a CPA. I never
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finished and got the credential, but I did the work
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of a CPA, and I realized that the bank did
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not have an invoice and they didn't have a debt.
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And then my memory goes back to my accounting class
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in banking, and we were given a manual called Modern
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Money Mechanic, and in that manual, on age six, it
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says banks accept a promisory note and then they write
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numbers into your free Chicken account. Basically, that's what it says.
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So I never signed a promisory note. At the time,
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my flon law was a judge and an attorney, and
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we had long discussions about how fraud undoes all contracts,
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so I don't have a contractual agreement with the bank
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through their fraud. So with his help, I filed three
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federal lawsuits against the banks, and in their depleting I
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explained the crimes they were committee and what they had
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done to me, and it wasn't a debt. So things
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are going on pretty good. We were coming up to
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a deposition date for the bank to provide me one
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of their people who's going to claim that I actually
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had debt and had the evidence. So then all of
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a sudden I was called into court and my falla
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was said, that doesn't happen. I mean, judges want to
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know what's going on in discovery. When are we going
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to do this for trial? I don't call the litigant
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in and without the other side. So I went in
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and judge said, mister Kilhaff, do you have a credit card?
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And I went, well, let me start at the beginning. Oh,
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we'll start at the beginning. Later, do you have a
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credit card? And I went, uh, well, now it started
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off as a gift card. Our opened, grow all it up,
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open that show me that card. So I opened up
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my wallet, showed me what's to say right there? Credit card?
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You're an idiot. Get out of here. So he dismissed
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all three cases against me. So then I'm going I'm
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walking out of court, going now what here's come to lawsuits? Here?
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It comes to everything. World's a turtle against me again.
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So bout a month later, I looked at my credit
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port and all three of the bank credit card debt
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was gone, was off my credit pord. So I never
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got a D nine ninety. See that's important. We just
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speak a little quickly about that. Is that when the
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bank loans you one hundred thousand dollars and you don't
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pay him back, they notify the IRS that you've got
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one hundred thousand dollars cash and you have to pay
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taxes on that, and on the other side you take
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in deduction. So the banks did not take an eighty
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five thousand dollars tax deduction. So that's because their network
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was alone.
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Well, and so the thing that you know because I
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talked to this guy for what two or three times
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because I'm trying to wrap my head around this. I
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was worried about, you know, appropriately paying your own debt.
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So so you talk about nuking credit card debt? What
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does that really mean? What are you talking about?
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Absolutely? And I asked, the good questions is a perfect show?
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She got here? So I asked, what I'm going to
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ask you a question.
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Well, all the things that I have gotten in trouble
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with in my life is because I didn't ask good questions, right,
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So it was it was like easy to name this
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because I knew that all the things that I wanted
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to talk about had to do with asking good questions.
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So we are maybe asking some good questions, but also
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maybe stretching people's beliefs on what they think. Is so
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with this topic today.
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Yeah, and this is a great question, I think. So
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is it possible that you, your audience and me, I'm
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including myself in this too. Is it possible that we
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have been lied to, indoctrinated and brainwashed? What do you think?
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Is it possible?
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Anything is possible? And I guess depending on who you
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would talk to at the bank, they it would all
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be like, well, what's the definition? What are you talking about?
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That's the critical point we're getting to. That's great, So
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we want to ask questions. So if you have been
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lied to, you can go wait a second, But then
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what if it's generational. What if you've been lied to
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generation generation for sixty years, you've been lied to, then
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it's in doctrination. But when you don't question it, it's
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now brainwashed. So what I'm trying to get through to
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your audience is that you don't happy brainwashed. You don't
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even realize even brainwashed, because you're not going to ask
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a good question. So we want to ask a good question.
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So the thing is, when we watch television, we see
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a bank robbery and so we say alleged. All I
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want you to do is add one word is alleged
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credit card debt. Now, once you start saying that, then
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the bank has to prove there's a debt. If you
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go into court and you use their language, you're going
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to lose. You're going to lose the argument. There's no
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way because if you say you have credit card debt,
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you've got it. You morally got to pay it, and
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that's what it is. You have a debt, so pay it.
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What I'm saying is there is a difference. And so
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that's what I'm trying to have your audience just start
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to ask a good question, is is it alleged? And
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now we get into that coming kind of an answer.
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Well, so what's the difference between actual debt that you
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really should pay and.
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A lunch debt? Yes? Well, the thing is there is
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true credit cards. Okay, Now, a true credit card is
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Let's say you need tires for your car, but you
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don't have the money. You know it's going to be thousand,
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fifteen hundred right before tires and balancing and put it on.
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So you go to the store to find out the prices,
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but you're tired. Are so bald, you're going to die
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if you dray another mile on his car in this car, right,
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and he's bad tires. So you say to them, I
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don't have the money. Oh well why don't you, Beneda
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just fill out our in store credit card application and
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if you're approved, we'll do it. And you apply, you're approved,
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they put tires on your car, You drive away without paying,
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right right, and then.
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You start making your month's payments on your not yet.
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Now this is from a store. So they send you
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a statement at the end of the month, and that's
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a true statement on it. It has an outstanding unpaid
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invoice and that's what you have to pay. So this
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is a legitimate credit card debt. When you have an
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invoice that you have not paid, you are morally obligated,
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legally oblieved to pay that debt. That's a true debt
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that they have an invoce. Now, my first job as
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an accountant, the CPA came up to me. I never
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met the guy. He came into my office. I'm sitting
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at my desk and my things sorted out to my
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first few minutes, and he's angry and he looks at
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me and he points his finger at and he says,
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if you pay from a statement, I'm going to fire you.
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That is in my head. That image is that he
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was a really nice guy, and all of a sudden's
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energy shage. He says, Look, if we get a statement,
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how do you know we didn't already pay it. So
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you never paid from a statement. I did that on
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purpose to put an impression on your head. They never
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pay from a state. You see the invoice here, I go, Yeah,
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it's bluck. It has no authority to pay. See a
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stamp right there. Yeah, that's an apartment head signature. Only
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paid from an invoice that my department head has already approved.
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So you never paid from a statement, never paid from
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an invoice unless it's been authorized to pay. I don't
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care if they're calling you. I don't want to hear
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their story about we're not paying them. There's a reason.
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So if there's a problem, you come to me and
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I will tell you which invoice to pay for, only
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from an approved invoice. So that is what has put
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in my mind. So the question is does the bank
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have an outstanding unpaid invoice?
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Usually not not on a credit lnel.
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Did the bank put tires on your car?
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No, merchant who's signed up with the bank.
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We're talking about credit. So if you when you go
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into a store like a general store years ago, Hey Charlie,
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I need five pounds of flour a pound of sugar,
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and I'll pay you when my crops come in. That's right,
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it writes it down. That is true. Credit. Credit means
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Latin to believe that you're going to pay, So there's
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a belief. So you had hires on your car, you
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didn't pay for them, and so you drove away. You've
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got a statement at the end of the month saying
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there's an outstanding unpaid invoice, so you have to pay it.
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That's morally, legally your obligation. However, how do you know
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the difference between a legitimate credit card and a phony one.
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Look on the back of your credit card. If that
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card says like Walmart or Amazon or any department store,
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and if it says issued by Bank of America, City Bank,
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Wells Fargo, Bank of London, Bank of Tokyo, but any