Over the Limit

For those Americans who have trouble with credit card debt, Folly has the perfect job for you: as a member of the federal government.

As part of the Katrina recovery bill just approved, the 250,000 federal employees with credit cards, an interesting number in and of itself, had their credit limits slightly increased from their current limit of $2,500.

To $250,000 each.

As in the past these cards these cards were used for such purposeful activities as prostitutes and gambling, New Orleans should once again emerge as the party capital of America.