luishinton: SMALL BUSINESS OWNER'S DILEMMA ? The Burning Platform

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ThePessimisticChemist says:

Times are getting rougher in this area. My company does a LOT of business overseas, so we are still doing very well, but the blue collar jobs are taking a beating.

I feel bad when we turn away someone fully qualified for a position, but they wouldn?t want the pay anyways. Most are ex-union and want 25-50% more pay for the same work as people who have never been in a union before.

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28th December 2012 at 5:11 pm
Hope@ZeroKelvin says:

What a timely cartoon.

Since the election, about 75% of my patients have been asking me if I will still be around once Obamacare kicks in over the next few years.

I say that I don?t know, I just soldier on every day, that I am more worried about the economic collapse of the country, that I?ll hang on as long as I can but I am not optimistic.

I either get tears of acknowledgement of how screwed we are or looks of blank astonishment.

At this point, I hand out my little American flag pins (which I tell them to wear upside down indicating a nation in distress) and a little card with all my favorite websites on it, also the names/phones of our CONgresscritters.

Trying to spread my gospel of Embrace The Doom, one person at a time.

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28th December 2012 at 5:29 pm
Muck About says:

Attention llpoh!!

Paying attention? Listen up and act accordingly. I closed my own ?small business? 3 years ago just to avoid excessive taxes. Fuck ?em. They?ll keep spending any income they get until they get no more. Then they?ll spend more that the Fed gives them (now happening) until that won?t work anymore (maybe 2013).

Starve the beast. Stop paying taxes. Collect Free Shit from as many sources as you can.

Break the bastards and let?s start over from a lower baseline..

MA

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28th December 2012 at 7:17 pm
Administrator says:

Muck

How are you feeling? We haven?t heard from you for a few days.

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28th December 2012 at 7:21 pm
The Watchdog says:

@HZK,
Aside from TBP, what other web sites are on your little card?
ZeroHedge, Mish, King World News, The Onion?

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28th December 2012 at 7:44 pm
Llpoh says:

Muck ? already putting in plans for option number two. My prediction is for an exodus of small- business owners from their businesses. Despair will over-take them. Get out while the getting is less bad. No way in hell I am going broke just in order to keep my employees employed another year or three. I do not run a business for their benefit, which will come as a shock to them. At least to those that have ever given it a single thought.

I have always been pleased that what I do has provided a social good. Not any longer ? I no longer get to share in the good, but only suffer the bad. Screw it.

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28th December 2012 at 10:00 pm
Administrator says:

llpoh

I?m guessing your employees don?t frequent TBP.

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28th December 2012 at 10:12 pm
Chronic Agitator says:

Timely cartoon Indeed! For the time being I do not have to be concerned with Obama care because I have less than 50 employees but year after year gross revenue continues to deteriorate. If sales go any lower I will have no choice but to become ?Arnold?s Rug? as the old yellow pages advertisements used to say. Going back to a one man show would have it?s benefits but I have staff who need jobs, although, I believe most of them think it will be easy to go elsewhere.

Even though it is very stress full, I keep holding on?hoping that I can do a magical turn around but month by month it is getting less likely. Although it is possible, I like to think I am not to blame for everything in my company going to shit?maybe that is why I keep coming back to TBP because I want to feel like I am not responsible for all of this clusterfuck economy we have. [Rant Off- Temporarily] Be Safe FFs.

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28th December 2012 at 10:22 pm
Chronic Agitator says:

Lloph? I like your fucking attitude?really!

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28th December 2012 at 10:24 pm
Llpoh says:

Admin ? I suspect not. Too bad for them.

CA ? it is very important to abandon ship while the ship is still floating. If you wait too long, you can go down with it. I appreciate the kind words.

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28th December 2012 at 10:29 pm
crazyivan says:

?CA ? it is very important to abandon ship while the ship is still floating.? -llpoh

A good Captain will always get off a ? ?Brace For Impact? message.

A better Captain will admit to boarding passengers, that he has a very strong stinging pain in his penis, but assures that the flight will not be affected.

The best Captain will give everyone a parachute and say ?good luck you fuckers, I love you all?

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28th December 2012 at 11:23 pm