Small Businesses Like Mine

19Dec/0931

Small Businesses Like Mine

I have long struggled with the fact that I don't fit well into Large Corporate environs. I have worked for huge companies - and small companies - and find I am better suited toward the small ones. It is not important why this is so, but it is so. This is, in part why, over the Summer, my long-time friend and colleague and I purchased a business. This is not the first time I have tried my hand as an entrepreneur - but it is the first time I have had the professional pedigree to make a real go of it. So, I am excited (though nervous) about the prospects for 2010. In all manner of speaking, it will be a decisive year for us.

If one thing is for sure, I know why small businesses often fail: it is a serious grind to grow one. Payroll and bills come in unforgiving intervals. And no employee gives a rip that clients are sitting on their checkbooks dealing with the same economy we are. But it still seems a little worth it. To build a place of my own. It seems kind of worth it. And, if we can make it, I might be able to have a couple nickels to rub together by the time my eldest sets off for college (presuming she can get a scholarship and a student loan). I am allowed to dream.

Now, besides the weekly challenge of cash flow (can't pay anything with receivables), a small business owner has to spend time and money complying with the various governmental entities that seem to have a keen interest in the gravy train they are on - at the expense of the businesses they regulate. I can't tell you how many hours in a year are devoted to helping the government help itself to my hard work.

But still, the dream persists to grow our small company from the 4 of us to something more. We can't do it without the disciplines the four of us cover as a team. We just can't. The nature of our business is such that it requires specialists - and to do what we do the way we do that stuff, requires significant experience. So, each of us has some 10-12 years in the fields in which we specialize. But still it seems worth it to invest sweat equity (that is, not earning near what the market would pay for any of us) so that the business might prosper. So that we might have a place where we don't have to work for some Baby Boomer shithead (no offense to the Boomers, but the ones I have worked for, to a one, just suck... they are the last of the hold-outs who cling to the old ways of olden-day-style-management). So that we might have a place to call our own. A place that young sharpshooter pros will like to work and grow.

But the government seeks to kill businesses like mine. We cannot afford to offer "affordable insurance" to our employees. Hell, none of the partners has insurance. So, how can I offer something I myself cannot afford? I can't. So, this gets me to thinking: I might be able to afford carrying coverage for myself - especially if I am criminally-liable if I fail to get coverage - if I let one of our employees go.

Is this what the Progressive-Soroses want? They do not understand what they are doing. None has worked in the private sector. None has grown anything, risking it all, in order to realize their unlikely dreams - and invariable employing others (sharing their hard-earned rewards).

Where do they think jobs come from? And do they not realize what they are about to do to the economy in so passing such an atrocity. Mark my words - lifetime employment provisions - such as in Europe - are not far behind.

As much as I hate to work for a large, unwieldy, inefficient, and gluttonously-wasteful corporations, a government job is not sounding too bad at present. Or maybe a subsidized sofa-sitting job. The Dole I think they call it. At least I could catch up on my daytime dramas. Ahhhh - the Gravy Train - the New American Nightmare.

You're killing us, Soros Administration. Just. F**king. Killing. US.

Enoch_Root

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Das Tohr - Creampuff
December 19th, 2009 - 10:13

Who do you think George Soros is?

He’s a man who started a small business and grew it into a big one because he didn’t sit around persecuting the world with insufferable why-me delusions.

If you don’t like the current state of economy that was caused but the ideology you pimp, move to China. They got a whole different set-up.

And by the way, last I checked most parts of Europe were doing better than we, save Ireland.

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- fishman
  December 19th, 2009 - 10:50
  
  Ann, your a moron. Have you ever created anything but contempt?
  
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  - Das Tohr - Lightweight
    December 19th, 2009 - 10:59
    
    Create, no. I buy and sell morons, like you.
    
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    - Enoch_Root
      December 19th, 2009 - 11:02
      
      fishman buys and sells morons? that’s an odd sounding industry
      
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Enoch_Root
December 19th, 2009 - 10:48

Tohr – I made no “why-me” complaints at all. Soros grew his small business when government was still interested in businesses doing well.

And what is unusual about a Boomer bilking all they can get and then changing the rules at the expense of others?

You are likely a trust-funder. That is fine with me. Good for you. But I am not looking for a hand-out. I am willing to earn it. And I certainly would not speak one thing out of one side of my mouth while doing the polar opposite.

The reality is that ideologues like you stand in my way.

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Das Tohr - Trust-Funder
December 19th, 2009 - 10:55

You have no idea of the what and when of George Soros’s business, obviously.

The stimulus package included tax cuts and extended tax-loss carry forwards for small businesses.

Your taxes are lower today than when BushJeeenyus was President. Get to work, Spanky, and keep up that can-do attitude, rubber tree plant, all that.

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- Enoch_Root
  December 19th, 2009 - 11:00
  
  Obama owns this economy, f***kstick. And to argue that the economy is stronger now that bobama is in office is silly. But a trust-funder like you needn’t worry bout it.
  
  Back to your XBox, Tohr!
  
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  - Ann R Kissed
    December 19th, 2009 - 14:36
    
    This trust-funder business is hard work. I’m very very close to getting a small operator to pick-up one of our NM leases below 5000-feet. They’re a section over and drilled four test wells and hit the formation nicely.
    
    It just comes up out of the ground, black gold, crude!
    
    I tell you what, Eno, if times get hard for ya I’ll sell you a 5-acre spread cheap. It’s next to one of our pump jacks. It’s on a timer so it doesn’t go up and down all day and night and it’s fenced with barbed wire so your kids can’t get to it. City water and sewer and ready to build, right across the street from a row of very decent looking suburban blue collar abodes.
    
    Do you know what a mixed gas well smells like? And they live across the street from ours, hahaha. Toxic nauseous smelling gas – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrogen_sulfide
    
    Have any of you city bums ever been out to West Texas and seen the utter petro-wasteland of pump jacks, holding tanks and pipeline strewn out as far as the eye can see?
    
    Drill, baby, drill my ass. Sounds great until you live in the toxic abyss. And when I hear Inhofe of Fox News pimping America’s unproven reserve numbers I simply shake my head. You people actually buy his silly crap, and that’s sad. He plays you people for fools like a fiddle.
    
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    - happyfeet
      December 19th, 2009 - 16:28
      
      You get used to the smell. I love going to Luling Texas and it’s a cheerful little place I always thought. I like driving around those little Texas towns on google sometimes cause it makes me feel like the world is still like it should be.
      
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    - Ann R Kissed
      December 19th, 2009 - 21:06
      
      You get used to the smell.
      
      Pine Bluff, Arkansas.
      
      Corpus Christie, Texas.
      
      “Used to the smell” is code for you’ve taken to much to the head.
      
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    - SDN
      December 20th, 2009 - 08:41
      
      Which is why thor don’t live there any more.
      
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  - Ann R Kissed
    December 20th, 2009 - 09:53
    
    Obama owns this economy, f***kstick. And to argue that the economy is stronger now that bobama is in office is silly. But a trust-funder like you neednâ€™t worry bout it.
    
    Back to your XBox, Tohr!
    
    What country do you live in, Sir Thud? When you were standing there in your feathered chicken suit watching your flat screen dumb box what reality did you witness in the second half of 2008? While the glowbul financial world melted, specifically, you wheezing snothead.
    
    Could it be that you’re both terminally damaged in the head and hopelessly blind? It’s a hard act your performing.
    
    Memo to Eno: we’re still working to repair the damage.
    
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    - Enoch_Root
      December 20th, 2009 - 10:10
      
      Obama owns it. Pushed us completely off the ledge with the Federal worker bonus and job security bill.
      
      Now, the final nail in the coffin: health care bull.
      
      Kiss your Liberty goodbye Tohr.
      
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    - Ann R Kissed
      December 20th, 2009 - 10:25
      
      Hey candy nipples, the health care reform bill will allow your employees to get health insurance and, since you probably don’t pay ‘em dick, they’ll purchase it at a price partly subsidized by Medicare.
      
      You’re the winner. Mow Ron.
      
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    - Enoch_Root
      December 20th, 2009 - 10:52
      
      I’d rather “win” a hot poker in the eye, thx.
      
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    - Bob Reed
      December 20th, 2009 - 11:37
      
      Not only will Obamacare increase the government expense while lessening the quality of delivered care, but it will drive premiums across the board for all others…
      
      Don’t try and candy-coat this crap sandwich, that has no free market mechanisms and liberty-crushing, state controlled mandates.
      
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    - Ann R Kissed
      December 20th, 2009 - 12:02
      
      Here comes our eeKKKonomics jeenyus, Bob, with a fresh r-wingy update to his lies of doom meme.
      
      As a reminder, Scare Pee Bob doesn’t read the NYT, he’s eyeballs the weaselzippper blog for facts. Straight to the source! Directly from the lips of the weasel! Teh shovel ready wingy meme thus burstsforth!
      
      So, um, let me get this straight if I can, the government will pay “more” and consumers will pay “more” via policy premiums yet all will get less and not more? Where will the “more” go, Bob? To “more” heaven?
      
      This “more” paradox, please unwind if you can, Bob.
      
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    - Bob Reed
      December 20th, 2009 - 12:20
      
      It will disappear in the bureaucracy thor. Just like the each $8,000 housing tax credit actually costs the taxpayers $43,000, and “cash-for-clunkers” cost $24,000 for each up-to-$4,500 dollar subsidy. Really great efficiency, eh?
      
      And that doesn’t begin to address the service cutbacks, or the rationing that the FCCCR “death panels” will contrive.
      
      http://thehill.com/homenews/senate/69763-cbo-report-predicts-increases-in-insurance-premiums
      
      http://www.cbo.gov/ftpdocs/107xx/doc10781/11-30-Premiums.pdf
      
      I know, both “The Hill” and the CBO are bastions of wingnuttery…
      
      And why is it you are generally the only person ever mentioning Hannity, Limbaugh, Beck, or Weaselzippers?
      
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    - Ann R Kissed
      December 20th, 2009 - 20:38
      
      Wrong, Bongo Bob.
      
      Up to 30% of private med insurance monies are spent on management and overhead while only 8% for Medicare.
      
      Death Panels! Fuck you, go whine about Aetna’s and Blue Cross’s death panels, you phony baloney spouting dumbtard.
      
      Ask Dan about the NIH’s death panels why don’t you.
      
      Doh!
      
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    - Bob Reed
      December 20th, 2009 - 21:31
      
      Thta’s because some of the overhead of medicare/medicaid is hidden amongst the many line items at HHS…
      
      But I do notice you can’t dispute the points i made, yet again. The bottom line is it costs government more to perform just about any service than the private sector, free market solution. That’s why the government size needs to be decreased, to allow the free market to flourish and stop redistributing our money to overpaid clerks.
      
      And for the final time I’ll say that if one doesn’t agree wit the actons of a private company they can do business elsewhere or appeal to the insurance commission. That’s the difference between the decisions private companies make and the “death panels” that the FCCCCR will effectively be. Especially with ghouls like Zeke “Logans Run” Emmanuel and his complete life philosophy are allowed even the least input into the decision-making process.
      
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    - Bob Reed
      December 20th, 2009 - 11:35
      
      That’s not what a preponderance of economists and business leaders think; at least the ones that are not kool-aid addicts…
      
      Barney Frank is working to crank up the CRA style liar loan machine into overdrive again. The Obama spendulus bill was all about enacting a 10 year accumulated liberal wish list; not only has an appreciable percentage of the money spent this year been stolen, but the “shovel ready” make work projects have failed to do that. And, although the dollar has appreciated this week, the monetization of the debt will eventually lead to terrible inflation.
      
      I could go on, but the last thing this administration has on their minds are jobs and recovery. They’re more concerned with implementing their ideological agenda, and cementing a statist-oriented electorate for all time…
      
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    - Ann R Kissed
      December 20th, 2009 - 12:15
      
      Duuuuuh, and of your failed idealogical agenda, it’s collapse must have missed your head. But of course, duuuuh ebol gubomint fill Scare Pee’s pocket wif teh shiny coins of ebolness. Gubomints anyone!
      
      The “preponderance” claims teh oblivious from his fish bowl!
      
      Here’s what I link-hopped and was reading before I was so rudely interrupted by our ever-wise one who clings to his ebol gumbomint crutch:
      
      http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/20/opinion/20rich.html?hp
      
      http://money.cnn.com/2006/05/29/news/enron_guiltyest/
      
      http://money.cnn.com/2009/12/18/news/warren_buffett_stein.fortune/index.htm
      
      See how the authors go from Frank Rich to Ben Stein? I was able to read their opinions with nary a wittle prissy-boi political smear or sneer.
      
      When one’s not a single-nutted butthole one’s able to perform such acts of partisan bridging bravery.
      
      Try it.
      
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    - Bob Reed
      December 20th, 2009 - 12:31
      
      Sure thor,
      
      You offer as some form of evidence a friggin’ theatre critic, that gained prominence as a Booooooosh! basher, talking about Tiger Woods, an article from 2006 about Enron, and a piece by Ben Stein, who I respect by the way, where he says Buffett doesn’t see any signs of recovery and the labor market will stay soft for some time…
      
      What the heck does any of that have to do with the price of Tea in China, or what Obama has done to our country? They are non-sequitors at best!
      
      They do nothing to address the points I, or others, have made. I mean, what are they supposed to show? How open minded or well informed you supposedly are? Frank effin’ Rich? A theatre critic?
      
      Here’s a clue for you. No one is saying the government is eeeeevollll. It is simply too bloated, and too invasive. We need to get rid of half of the civil service employees right away, and cut all non-military spending by 25% across the board.
      
      And next time why don’t you have more germaine links, okay?
      
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    - Ann R Kissed
      December 20th, 2009 - 20:14
      
      A twiddly-dee former Navy flunky! A fattened aging man whose wife carries him! Yada, yada, yada…
      
      It’s funny how when you’re smeared in the same manner of your native adolescent tongue that you cry like a fallen girl. Evidently former theater connoisseur Rich has a lucid mind and talented hand for writing for he’s employed by the NYT while you’re wasting your life away pretending you’re something near to Frank Rich’s equal.
      
      Harumph! It’s just a silly little newspaper, the NYT, it’s not like a big time blog like weaselzipper!
      
      Man you’re so… I don’t know what, immature, deluded, gone?
      
      How did you become such a wack?
      
      We need to get rid of you, cut your retirement to zero plus a dollar. Move yourself off the welfare roll then you can talk of removing civil servants, you know, those people who actually do something for a paycheck. Let’s cut military spending 50%, what’ya say? Half those Sir-yes-Sir losers simply end up in prison once their free ride on the military welfare dime ends. They should be trained to be capitalists instead of compliant order takerering.
      
      America needs thinkers, not military hand maids!
      
      Haha. And Ben Stein is half-nutty too.
      
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    - Bob Reed
      December 20th, 2009 - 21:42
      
      “ Half those Sir-yes-Sir losers simply end up in prison once their free ride on the military welfare dime ends.”
      
      Prove that smear poseur. I want a link that proves it; and not 3 non-sequiter ones like you posted earlier. Put up or shut up; or has your battleship mouth once again gotten you into a jam your row-boat ass can’t handle?
      
      The idea that you consider a theater critic who made his name as a serial Boooooooooosh! basher to be some oracle or soothsayer is risible enough, let alone that we weren’t even discussing Tiger Woods.
      
      Frank effin’ Rich is pathertic, as is your citation of him in the vein of this discussion.
      
      And once again, only you are talking about Hannity, Limabaugh, or Weaselzippers, all while alluding to them as our only source of information. Nice try, but as usual, a lie…
      
      We need to rid ourselves of the bloated civil service bureaucracy, rid ourselves of those politically invested in growing government, and cut all non-defense spending 25% across the board if we’re to get our fiscal house in order. I won’t entertain your rank insults, but simply ask you; what have you done for someone else today?
      
      It’s easy to be kind to those who do things for you, or who’s association benefits you. What have you done for the less fortunate today?
      
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    - Ann R Kissed
      December 21st, 2009 - 15:09
      
      Huh? What are you on about now, weaseltard?
      
      I was exaggerating for effect. I don’t know the actual percentage of our prison population that once sucked at the military welfare tit, I’m sure it’s way-way too high though.
      
      You’re no Frank Rich, you’re just a dumb bigoted hypocrite of the first order who wallowing in jealous rage of your bettors. Ben Stein was a huge Booooosh basher too, BTW, and a man of Hollywood, and a Nixonian.
      
      Kiss me, you pig!
      
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    - Bob Reed
      December 21st, 2009 - 16:03
      
      You have the gall to call anyone else a hypocrite? You better look out for a lightning strike!
      
      And I knew you couldn’t back up your weaselzuppery assertion; just like that wahed up hack theater critic that made his mark by ingratiating himself with upper-west-side-of-Manhattan liberals and Berkley Bozos through the mechanism of bashing Boooooooosh!
      
      And Ben Stein criticized Bush for the same things I did; so, you know, at least he’s thinking correctly!
      
      My betters…How can I be jealous of someone who doesn’t exist?
      
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    - Bob Reed
      December 21st, 2009 - 16:05
      
      Oh, and one more thing…
      
      YOU LIE!
      
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Falahime
December 19th, 2009 - 12:44

I understand exactly what you’re talking about. There is a reason we wanted to sell our distributorship before the last election. As it was, government regulations were killing us so we knew it would only get worse.

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happyfeet
December 19th, 2009 - 16:17

We live in a burgeoning shit hole.

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Madalyn
December 20th, 2009 - 19:21

This “health care reform” is a smokescreen for Obmama and thugs to take over and make this a socialist country. Anyone who doesn’t believe this needs to wake up.
Madalyn

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