It came to guitarist, Keith Richards, literally in the middle of the night. He woke up, recorded the lyrics on a cassette tape player and went back to sleep. Three weeks later, the Rolling Stones recorded that song and it became their first number one hit, both in the United Kingdom and in the United States and it became their launching pad to fame. Mick Jagger, who wrote the lyrics to the song, said at the time it simply expressed his frustration with the consumerism and commercialism he found in the United States.

In forty years, nothing has changed. You could almost make this song the national anthem of our nation. In the last twenty years, the quote, "jet-set" has become the "debt-set." The new slogan seemingly has become "buy now, pay maybe." Newsweek Magazine once said that people t…