Economics textbook in 1948 argued that high consumption brought health to a nation, while thrift could be a social vice. As far back as the 1930's, H.L. Mencken in American Mercury magazine expressed contempt for the "curse of thrift". Charles Angoff s Literary History of the American People (1931) described

ep under wraps. I have represented people I love, people I hate and people I don’t give a damn about—good guys, bad guys, and everything in between. H.L. Mencken used to bemoan the reality that: “The trouble about fighting for human freedom is that you have to spend much of your life defending sons of bitches: