Except for our house, we have paid cash for everything we have -- well, we did a few home improvement jobs on time, but with zero per cent interest for 12 months, and we made damn sure to pay them off completely before any interest became due. We buy week-to-week on credit card and pay the full amount off each billing period, and refuse to pay interest if we can possibly avoid it.

Still, it was a rhetorical question in ligth of the fact that Mexico, notorious for corruption and authoritarian priveleged leadership, is now making laws constraining warrantless search while our administration is demanding the right for warrantless search.

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