Me too! (Glad that I AM retired, not you!!)

Finding Bill some new interns to boink? (ducks)

It finally dawned on me. Could this be a Galt Recovery?
We've reached the tipping point where a majority of the producers are saying we've had enough and we're not going to help perpetuate an economy where we and our contributions are taken for granted. So, good-bye.

This is exactly what a "Progressive" recovery looks like thanks for the over-regulation, the attacks on the private sector and the runaway expansion of the "faux" economy money supply (print bogus dollars until it hurts). Being that this is also the first time in such a cycle that business deaths outpace business births also bodes ill for this "anemic" Obama recovery! On second thought! Its not a recovery at all, just a bunch of bogus numbers from the beltway pirates and their "cooked" books. Real unemployment is still over 10% and we are still in a recession despite what this administration and its apologists are trying to promote!

I am overjoyed to hear this, Michael;;; Thank You!
the GIs always come to mind when I think of those
out of work and homeless, especially at Christmas. -- j
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A partner and I started up a small business one and a half years ago. And then along came the new sage grouse rules. And we are out of business.

The final death throes are unfolding as we speak.

"We don't need no stinking badges."

I thought I'd never say this, but I'm glad I'm retired.

The tax police do go to county fairs, flea markets, and even garage sales. This doesn't mean you can never evade them but I wouldn't assume you always can.

I would expect immigrants succeed at this more than the rest of us, because the language barrier makes things harder for the cops.

But not exempt from being absurd.

Jan

Starbucks' Howard Schultz started with one coffee shop then opened one store with partner. Fred Meyer began selling coffee from a horse-drawn cart to workers at farms and lumber camps. The kinds of situations I described are a perfect place to acquire capitol. Oh yes, I think some of those rustic starters are now funding orbital rockets.

It is difficult to innovate from that foundation, Turfprint. You can sell/resell things that other people made, but you cannot produce an orbital rocket.

Jan

In the days of Hammurabi, when all of the laws of the kingdom could be carved on a single pillar in the middle of each city, it was reasonable to say, "Ignorance of the Law is no excuse." Now, when there are thousands, perhaps tens of thousands of laws that apply to each person and/or business owner, that is an absurd statement. We need a reset button.

Jan

When I first went into business for myself way back in 1969, there was nothing to it. If you had the money and desire and energy and were a bit of a gambler you could open up in many cases in a couple of days. Perhaps you might have to pay an occupancy fee and have the premises inspected unless you bought out an existing business. From that point on, it was up to you. I suspect that is no longer the case. I wonder how many Gulchers in business now or recently out of business could tell me what they had to do to create a start-up.