Vanity: So... How long before we see the next big wave of Layoffs?

Have a board meeting tomorrow. Present my annual equipment purchase list to the board. Three New Holland tractors and one International truck. Close to $480,000. Hope those factory employees aren’t too disappointed when my board and other boards of directors around the country say now is not the time to be spending, expanding but rather hunkering down and seeing what the future brings.

As has been witnessed personally, in a defense contractor’s plant, a big Thanksgiving dinner get-together, with the announcement that the gates will be closed, as of the next morning, through to the end of the calendar year.

Or, as also seen, when the company shuts down for Christmas and New Year’s, the pink slips, effective immediately, are inside the thank you letter from the CEO.

I see a retailing bust, because all the crap I see on the shelf now, for the holidays, is just that, crap! People will be buying “b,b,b” (bullets, band aids, butter).

This is December 2012, remember? “Something” is supposed to happen, remember?

When a Tom Clancy paperback costs $9.00, and that was written BEFORE 9/11, (Sorry, Tom), even reading a book is a luxury item! And that is sad to say, because I’m a writer, as well.

Business leaders who said they would have no alternative but to fire employees if Obama got reelected were not kidding. The firings will begin immediately, within days and millions will lose their jobs, their homes, their lives, their fortunes.

America and Americans have forsaken the Lord Jesus Christ, God the Father, the Word of God and the very Judeo-Christian principles and ethics we as a nation was founded upon. They have removed God from school, from government, from their personal lives. America has made her choice = "we do not want you, we are our own god, we are going to go our own way." Last night, Almighty God removed His hand of protection and mercy and said in effect: "ok I am giving you over in judgment, to the very thing you want."

The American dream is over. This is not 1776, this is 2012. The American populace is not godly (except for a small "righteous remnant"). We are ungodly, we have chosen sin over Him and no man or movement, conservative or otherwise can deliver us. Only the Lord Jesus Christ and we have said : "Go from us, we want no part of or with you."

There is no "salvation" from this... only sure and certain judgment. God is under no obligation to deliver America as a nation and unless there is a massive, nation-wide repentance, He will not do so. The best you and your family can hope for is personal salvation from your sin and the coming judgment through personal faith in the Lord Jesus Christ.

To be honest, I have a rather high 5 figure salary, and I feel as if I’m holding on by my fingertips. I was already worried about Christmas for my daughters, and now, I honestly don’t know anymore. I’m seeing the light at the tunnel, but it’s SuperTrain, coming in at 100+ miles per hour loaded with nuclear waste, and I’m stuck on the tracks in a vehicle that someone else has locked me in and they’ve got the keys.

We’ll be seeing en masse cuts in defense jobs — including those that were basically told to wait by the Obama administration — immediately.

If Christmas doesn’t go well for retailers, unemployment will be back over 8% after the holidays.

The socialist in the White House just doesn’t get it when it comes to creating jobs. Additional legislation, taxation and legislation is not a good thing.

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