Posted on 02/09/2010 6:41:23 AM PST by Need4Truth
From Reuters: Dark clouds hang over U.S. small businesses: survey
The outlook of small business owners remained bleak at the start of the new year, according to a survey released on Tuesday by the National Federation of Independent Business.
(Excerpt) Read more at calculatedriskblog.com ...
"The biggest problem continues to be a shortage of customers."
Note, biggest problem is not that lack of credit. They won't borrow more from Obama if they don't have customers.
Manufacture them.
Amen, brotha. The business world is frozen because businesses are shrinking now expanding, and consumers are sitting on the sideline watching their dollars carefully.
Note the last line...
Retail container traffic to rise 25% in first half
2/8/2010 8:24:00 AM
http://www.hometextilestoday.com/article/CA6717990.html?desc=topstory
On a year-over-year basis, shipments are expected to climb 23% in March, 27% in April, 26% in May and 36% in June.
That would put the first half of 2010 at 7.4 million TEU, up 25% from last year’s 5.9 million TEU.
“This forecast assumes that we are not in a double-dip recession and that a recovery is underway,” said Hackett Associates founder Ben Hackett.
My son is down to 32 hrs a week in his manufacturing job, which he is lucky to still have. That just barely means a take home pay to cover the above listed items.
Seniors on fixed incomes who have only SS to rely on are one of the most vulnerable groups. I see more of them each month at the commodity give away in Millington, TN.
Rename, repackage, rewrite it a tad smaller, and sell another pig in a poke.
Tennessee has joined several other states in trying to pass a Health Care Freedom Act. NO COLAs for granny, retired Military or retired fed employees for 2-3 years. BIG NEW fees for Tricare for Life retired over 65 Military's secondary health ins. (DOD bill already passed, delayed but goes into effect 2011)
New Dem mantra: Woof, woof eat dog food granny....ala let them eat cake.
As the saying goes the last time you need to go to the bank is when you need money.
THIS IS A FACT!!! WE in small business have seen an 60% drop in business... many of us are hanging on... worst I have ever seen in over 40 years of business ownership.
LLS
All to true. Our daughter is an IT professional, she opened her own small business about 3 years ago. She makes ends meet, except for her health ins. we pick that up. Her business is not growing fast enough to keep up with inflation. And believe me she works every angle including bartering her services for needed repairs to her car, etc.
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