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To: TobagoJack who wrote (21108)	7/10/2002 7:29:14 PM
From: EL KABONG!!!	Respond to of 74559

Hi Jay, You know, I never even considered the possibility of one family having more than one credit card with what I would deem to be a high balance. You are, of course, undoubtedly correct that there are indeed some people who do exactly that. I was thinking that $8.1K, as an average, means that for everyone with say a $500 balance, there likely is someone with say a $15K balance somewhere. Even if one was fortunate enough to have a lower interest rate card (say 10% or so per annum), that a tremendous amount of debt to pay down, especially considering that in the USA, credit card debt is no longer tax deductible. KJC