Discuss what business supplies help your business be at the top of it's game. | Have you ever appeared in a newspaper issue? | | I have not yet done anything commendable so far in my life which could have made me appear in a newspaper article.
Has anyone of you had been fortunate to have been featured in a newspaper or for that matter in any other print media? If yes, then when and for what? | |
| | Cash for Clunkers ... do the math | | I got this in email and I can't vouch for the accuracy of the facts given here, but it is a good reminder that "there's no free lunch". It also calls to mind President Reagan's words to the effect that the scariest words ever heard are "I'm from the government and I'm here to help you". From a real "Car Guy" out in Los Angeles, CA .______________________________________________________________SO....you took FEDZILLA up on its offer of $4500 dollars to trade in your old "Clunker"(interesting choice of words)? Well, let's see who got the best of that "deal"...If you traded in a clunker worth $3500, you got $4500 off for an apparent "savings" of $1000. You could have gotten $3,500 if you had just traded the car in. So you really are $1,000 ahead (depending on your clunker'svalue) at this point. Not too bad... However, you WILL have to pay taxes on the $4500 come April 15th (something that no auto dealer will tellyou). If you are in the 30% tax bracket, you will pay$1350 on that $4500. So, rather than save $1000, you will actually pay an extra $350 to the feds. In addition, you traded in a car that was most likely paid for. Now you have 4 or 5... | |
| | Cash for clunkers... Not a good move....cheated..They were CHEATED!!! | | Okay I was going to write something about this and point out that the government had people trade in automobiles that were in perfect running order. They got supposedly $4500. for trade. The problem I had with this is the people trading good car and trucks in and having a payment to make on a new one. THEIR OTHER VEHICLE was liked paid for in full!
I saw a whole vacant lot with the autos traded in here, they had NOT FOR SALE ...CFC (cash for clunkers) on the windshields.
They took all of the vehicles to the crusher to be crushed! They only got at the most $300 and many where just $75 for each vehicle.
Why they did not take these vehicles and sell them to low income and people not working that could get the money to buy transportation because THEY NEEDED IT, I just do not know.
That would have put more money back into the government til. They could have sold these cars for $1000 or a little more. But making sure by checking the income of the people buying if they really needed the vehicle or not.
Not for selling to someone wanting to make a profit on them by resale of the vehicle.I'm appalled at the waste!
I got an email that is interesting and true. Please read this.... | |
| | Are Unions losing all of their power? | | I have a son who was the top bodyman at a Chevie dealership. The auto body shop and auto mechanics belonged to the same machinist union. The dealership was having financial problems and sold the dealership to another Auto Dealer. The new owner of the dealership never had an auto body shop at his other businesses and was going to eliminate the one in the dealership that he was purchasing.The workers and shop repair foreman lobbied to keep the body shop as they were the largest one in the area and were making a profit for the company. It was decided that they would give it a test run for 3 months and see how it worked out. They cut back some and let 2 workers go. The shop made money and there was a good profit received from the parts that were sold.The only catch was that the body shop was no longer going to be a union shop, although the mechanics would remain union. So the union representatives and lawyers got together to force the dealership to maintain the union in the body shop. After 2 months of negotiations the union reps failed and the body shop is no longer a union shop. My son needed to work two more years in the union to retire and... | |
| | Kurt Vonnegut Jr. is Dead | | Kurt Vonnegut, whose dark comic talent and urgent moral vision in novels like "Slaughterhouse-Five," "Cat's Cradle" caught the temper of his times and the imagination of a generation, died Wednesday night in Manhattan. He was 84.
His death was reported by Morgan Entrekin, a longtime family friend, who said Mr. Vonnegut suffered brain injuries as a result of a fall several weeks ago.
Mr. Vonnegut wrote plays, essays and short fiction. But it was his novels that became classics of the American counterculture, making him a literary idol, particularly to students in the 1960s and '70s.
Like Mark Twain, Mr. Vonnegut used humor to tackle the basic questions of human existence: Why are we in this world? Is there a presiding figure to make sense of all this, a god who in the end, despite making people suffer, wishes them well?He also shared with Twain a profound pessimism. "Mark Twain," Mr. Vonnegut wrote in his 1991 book, "Fates Worse Than Death: An Autobiographical Collage," "finally stopped laughing at his own
agony and that of those around him. He denounced life on this planet as a crock. He died."Not all Mr. Vonnegut's themes were metaphysical. With a blend of vernacular writing,... | |
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