Sometimes, I am out of news loop, so this is an interesting concept by Obama and democrats based on the European model. Many of you heard of it, it is called “Cash for Your Clunker” an effort to get people driving better fuel efficient vehicles, you can either get a $3500 voucher or a [...]
With Chrysler being sold to Fiat, many dealerships find themselves out of business. I read this on AOL news yesterday. Perhaps back in the 70’s or so, American cars meant something. Through the years people are more concerned with cost, reliability and so on and so one. To save the American Car industry, they need [...]
I am all about education and I think if you want to make some okay money or have a better job, education is the way to go. But for some people, going to a regular school is not their cup of tea. It is not for everyone. Today, I read a story in CDT about [...]
As many of you know, Circuit City is closing down and they are liquidating their merchandise. And this could be why they are going out of business. Their prices are still inflated even though there are signs all over the place saying more like screaming 10-40% everything in the store. We had to go and [...]
With internet sales climbing and states running out money it seems as though some states want to collect sales tax from ecommerce. While this may help cash strapped states this will be detrimental to many web based business owners. When shopping online the pay off instead of sales tax are the shipping costs. Many businesses [...]
He is not even president yet and Barack Obama is pushing for a second stimulus package. I did some reading on what he would like to accomplish and I like some of the ideas. Instead of giving us money to stash because we scared but giving money to public works projects and helping communities, I [...]
So now the news people are throwing the “R”word around. The “R” word being recession. This is the first time I have been a recession of this magnitude. Obviously I was alive in 2001 and I felt the affect of the recession as I was laid off from factory job in the beginning of November [...]
I sure am there is no question about this. Maybe I watch too many news shows but there seems to be a lot of talk from economists that is not a good thing and one day we are going to be slapped in the face because the price of oil will sky rocket again. I [...]
That is what gas is where I work. In Altoona gas is $1.69. When my daughter was born gas was $1.99 in 2004. Before that I worked at a conveince store in one town and I lived in another. Gas was $1.69 when I worked there and I actually quit my job because I [...]
Today is Friday and normally on Fridays the store is busy all day but not today. It was weird. I started working at 9 am and by this time it is a little busy by the afternoon booming. For some reason not today and it is actually weird. A lady I work with said [...]
