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    The Plastic Devil
    The Plastic Devil
    The Plastic Devil
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    The Plastic Devil

    By Raymond Vasquez

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    The Plastic Devil
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherXlibris US
    Release dateDec 17, 2012
    ISBN9781477175811
    The Plastic Devil
    Author

    Raymond Vasquez

    Raymond Vasquez is a 39 year old married man with three beautiful kids. My mission with this book is to open up the eyes of so many people who live under the cloud of paying interest and making the rich richer

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      The Plastic Devil - Raymond Vasquez

      Copyright © 2012 by Raymond Vasquez.

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the copyright owner.

      To order additional copies of this book, contact:

      Xlibris Corporation

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      Contents

      CHAPTER 1 Interest Is a Killer

      CHAPTER 2 Society: Systems to Keep Us Going in Circles

      CHAPTER 3 Credit Cards: The Plastic Devil

      CHAPTER 4 Department Store Credit Cards

      CHAPTER 5 ATM Fees

      CHAPTER 6 Bank Fees

      CHAPTER 7 Cell Phone Contracts

      CHAPTER 8 Vacations on Credit: Time-Shares

      CHAPTER 9 Financing Cars

      CHAPTER 10 Bill-Me-Later Furniture Purchases

      CHAPTER 11 Student Loans

      CHAPTER 12 Home Interest Rates

      CHAPTER 13 Refinancing Your Home to Do Repairs: Pay Off Loans, Car Loans, Vacations, or Credit Cards

      ABOUT ME

      ABOUT THE BOOK

      CHAPTER 1

      Interest Is a Killer

      We all work hard for our money for a better living—to pay bills, to buy nice things, to eat. We work, we get paid, then we proceed to spend the cash that we have earned. Some of us spend the cash we are going to earn in the future now, and that’s where the interest kicks in, and that

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