Windwalker, You gonna start a franchise burger joint? Would you like an apple pie with that? (DING) Fries are done!!

 

Sounds a bit like my contention that people will PAY a percentage of their income for National support to keep their jobs!

Windy, I understand local "franchising." Do YOU understand the national advertising they get for free? Do you understand that you are talking about cheap fast food restaurants that get the business when people can't afford REAL food at a REAL restaurant?

You ALSO said that most of these fast food restaurants in your area have cut their workforce in half! So much for job creation by small business! If a FAST FOOD (read: Cheap food) place can't maintain 8 people on the payroll, and must cut HALF of those jobs (as opposed to the 10% or so being cut by major manufacturers,) then there is no reason to believe that THAT is the economic future of our country!

When people don't have discretionary income to spend, they cut down on eating out. And the first to go is the fast food burger that they can make at home for about 1/4 of the cost!

Yet, I have not seen a SINGLE fast food location closed in MY area of the country!

I agrree! Dubya has raped our middle class economy, and now we must rebuild it. This, though it is a SURPRISE to many Republicans, will require TAX INCREASES! Same thing happened under Clinton! The GOP ruins the economy, and the Dems have to take the fall for raising taxes to PAY for it! :roll:

So have I! But, you can't compare apples and oranges! Rev said so!

What WE went through under the BUSH administration is NOT what is proposed under the Obama administration. The plans, and money, haven't even started flowing yet! Try again in a month or two! I've read with a marked disinterest your ideas for power generation. If you believe it will work, and you have SCIENCE behind you, NOW is the time to make that proposal! The "oil baron" Bush wasn't listening!

For what it's worth, Windy.... I wrote the proposal for an alternative fuel corporation in Colorado to use the methane gas produced by the Coors waste site to produce energy for Jefferson County, CO. At the time, we were listened to but ignored. Today, there is a moneymaking concern doing JUST that! I didn't get a DIME! :hellno:

If YOU think you have a PLAN for a renewable (or more efficient) energy source.... NOW is the time to submit it. Obama has a website for just this purpose! Get INVOLVED instead of angry! Drop your partisan attitude, and be a PART of America's future!

 

Small businesses come in all different types and sizes. Some businesses can generate millions of dollars of revenue and still be classified as a small business by the government. Small business owners often risk everything to realize their dream. Many risk their homes, savings and retirement to start and make a business successful. They work long hours and do what ever it takes to make a go of their business. The risks are great for the start up. The failure rate is high. That doesn't seem to deter new entrepreneurs from starting a business. They don't ask the government for a hand out only to get out of the way. Government does little to encourage start ups. In fact, they seem to do much to discourage small business. Small business hires more people, produce more goods per dollar and man hour and pay more taxes than large businesses. What may people don't realize is that all large businesses start as a small business. Many started in garages, basements or on the kitchen table. Many of today's major industries started by someone who had a dream and risked everything. This is a nation that was built by entrepreneurs. It was not built by the government. It can be destroyed by the government.

 

They closed 2 Hardees in my area but I suspect it was more because they were just plain dumps who could never get an order right.

 

Politicians have a decision when it comes to making a budget work. They can either raise taxes or cut spending. The Republicans tend to lower taxes. Democrats usually raise taxes. Government spending has never made this country work better. We have done better when taxes have been low. When people keep more of their money rather than giving it to the government for taxes they have more money to put into the economy.

 

Great insight GMAN !!

Who ever said truck drivers were dummies was a major fool !!

Unfortunately the same Washington law firms represent players in both parties, this is why justice fails and fraud is allowed to flourish.

If the Supreme Court put Bush into power in 2000 instead of the vote of the citizens we should all know that this nation has gone way wrong.

Guess who decided to appoint Bush in 2000 ??

A drug addict named Rehnquist, the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court appointed by Richard Nixon.

 

"You're going to love my nuts."

 

Hmmm. With the highest unemployment ever ...... any tax rate on zero is still zero

 

Sorry, but it didn't start with Bush. Not either one of them. It started well before that. Funny how things creep up on us without notice, isn't it? I honestly don't know how much Bush had to do with the rise in oil prices, but it could have been a whole lot. However, he had little to do with the original concept of having companies move beyond our boundaries. He had little to do with causing the "out-sourcing" that cost American jobs. How much he had to do with not counting food and energy in the Cost of Living Figures, I do not know, but I do know that is one of the mistakes by some idiots up there on the hill. The concept that has cost American jobs goes back to Ronnie Reagan.

It's early in Obama's administration, and a bit too early to tell if he's going to do anything about that or not. I suspect that what he may try to do isn't going to be all that effective. I do not expect any miracles from him.

I'm not getting angry, and I do plan to get involved. I have just found out that if I retire early, I will come up $300 a month less than if I wait until I can get full benefits. And, I can do odd jobs and work up to 20 hours a week. That will allow me to be home every night and give me the free time to put together a working model again, but in an area where I won't get orders to dismantle it again. So, between retiring and finally applying for my VA benefits, I should have no problem. I still have the components I had set up before, and when I can show it in operation to someone that has a little authority to give me the money to put together a commercial installation, I can do that. In the past, when I looked for funds, they were only willing to match me dollar for dollar. If I have zip to claim, it means I get zip to match.

Also, if I retire, it means a job opening for someone else. That improves the job market by a drop on the ocean.

 

And, here where I live, the foreclosure rate is one of the highest in the whole country. The foreclosure rate reflects the unemployment far better than the unemployment figures. For the last two years, I've been seeing things on the highway that looked like pictures from the great depression, except that the vehicles were newer. Once in a while, it was a convoy, and they were going to move in with relatives up north and try to get back on their feet again. Most recent was a family about a block away, going up by Rochester, NY. Bush's negotiations with the mortgage companies didn't even slow things down here. I suspect his "economic advisors" just didn't understand and could not get a handle on the cause of the problem.