It's like if you have a son or a daughter who wants to buy a car but doesn't have good enough credit to get a loan.
For example, if you don't pay your bills, you won't be able to get credit.
"The way that history works, you don't get a lot of credit for what didn't happen, " Cheney says, referring to Rumsfeld's departure.
But Oberlander says he thinks Democrats didn't get enough credit for what they did manage to accomplish, particularly after Republicans decided to oppose the entire effort.
This isn't great news for folks who don't pass carriers' credit checks, or for anyone who doesn't want to get tied down into indentured servitude yearly contracts with cell carriers.
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It is hard to miss that car sales have plummeted, not because people don't want to buy new cars but because they cannot get credit.
The small-business owner who can't get credit and the mounting number of unemployed and foreclosed homeowners would beg to differ.
All of this is having an effect on the price of your home or the ability of someone to buy your home because they can't get credit easily.
He asks: Shouldn't there be a way to give credit to store owners who get their suppliers to finance their inventory?
And I'm going to acknowledge also Gene Sperling, who doesn't always get the credit he deserves for doing outstanding work.
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Citi obviously made an offer attractive enough for Mr. Lew to get over the fact that he didn't care about consumer credit markets.
So we've got to figure out how to create economic growth and ultimately create jobs in an economy that isn't dependent upon the examples that I used a minute ago -- easy credit that allows housing speculation for people that can get but shouldn't get loans to buy houses.
Buyers who don't complete their purchases by April 15 should get an extension unless they want to claim the credit on the 2010 return, which also is an option.
Legislators in Florida and California are pressing to force universities to accept credit from MOOC courses, especially if students can't get into the in-person versions of the courses they need.
In prior years, some banks would encourage homeowners to pay off mortgages with credit cards they issued to get rebates or other rewards, but they haven't done this since the housing bubble burst.
But Dahjanay Williams, a 21-year-old junior at Wheaton College in Massachusetts, still worries that if she doesn't get a job before her loans come due, she won't be able to make regular payments and her credit will take a hit.
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And Senators Feinstein, Levin and Stabenow couldn't be here because they're busy voting on credit card legislation that we're going to get done before Memorial Day.
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