Presidents Day, a Florida Debt Collectors Perspective.

As we look back, and finally forward, there are 3 talking points I’d like to put on the table this Presidents day.  Let’s  not let this pass a simply another empty holiday, but focus instead on the impact these great men have had on the state of our union.

To contract new debts is not the way to pay old ones.

GEORGE WASHINGTON, Farewell Address, Sep. 17, 1796

A people… who are possessed of the spirit of commerce, who see and who will pursue their advantages may achieve almost anything.

1. For our industry that amounts to simply, don’t incur debt to pay debt.  Manage your debt wisely.
2. Don’t get into debt, and when times are good, make paying down your obligations your first priority as a hedge against when times may be lean again.
3. Commerce fuels our economy, for commerce to work, vendors must be paid what they are owed, and it is incumbent on all of us to do our utmost to produce and contribute all we can to make our lives, and this nation great.

I will end this very brief treatise with

At this auspicious period, the United States came into existence as a Nation, and if their Citizens should not be completely free and happy, the fault will be entirely their own.