Anti-consumerism is not anti-capitalism. The original capitalists in this country were not consumerists and the explosion of insane levels of consumerism is relatively new... in fact it seems to exponentially correlate with all the immorality you guys blame on secularism... and obsessive consumerism is a much more plausible cause for rampant loss of values.
Capitalism is also about building and producing. It's about solving problems. It's about saving money for important things and creating wealth.
Consumerism is removing these virtues from capitalism... And without them, capitalism is no better than communism... It becomes a ticking timebomb of selfish people in their own worlds who do not create or produce anything new and do not solve any problems.
When all you do with your wealth is consume, you give up your ability to invest. If you give up your power to invest, your wealth is really nothing.
Deficit spending is a bad policy for all of us. I know from personal experience.
