Hip to Be Poor

Bankrupt Pikachu thinks back to happier times when kids were still lame

Crises are in style, folks. Mid-life crises, identity crises, ‘my baby ain’t mine’ or ‘my baby ain’t yours’ crises, and of course the ubiquitous ‘financial crisis’. Some Americans may think that the state of our national economy is not unlike that of the latest fashion trend. Just as one would not be caught dead in leg warmers in 1990, young people in 2009 are loathe to show a good credit report. Ripped jeans were apropos in the age of grunge, and today good credit and savings accounts are ‘so 2008’.