Gunner wrote:
On Sat, 7 Jan 2006 21:57:37 -0500, "Proctologically Violated©®"
wrote:


Maybe the problem is extending credit to liberals.
Mebbe put in a li'l questionaire as part of the credit app:
Do you believe in Prayer in school?
Ebonics?
God?
Bush?
Death Penalty?
Or, if Cliff had any input, WMD's?
Or, require a written paragraph: Printed, or scrawled, w/ at least 5
grammatical errors, instant credit.
Typed w/ no grammatical errors, instant denial.



Chuckle..there are few Liberal machine shop owners. Not even in So.
Cal.

The problem is...is that work is coming in pretty good for my clients,
particularly after a long slow period we have had. And most have to
upgrade or repair their plant, buy materials and so forth.

Cash flow is slow for them. They managed to survive the recession of
the last 5 yrs..by tightening up. And that includes letting machines
sit without PM or repair. Now they need em to get the work done..and
their reserves are small or non existant. And they get paid in drips
and drabs from THEIR customers..and of course payroll, taxes and so
forth come first (sigh) so the vendor tends to get pushed off to the
edge of the payment sheet. Some survived by borrowing money, or in one
case..the GM bought the business from the owner..now he is making
payments...though the work is steadily increasing.

Everyone that owes me money has been a very long time friend as well
as client..and they are not lying to me. This I know.

Once their receivables start coming in in significant amounts..Ill get
mine. In the mean time..I struggle to keep or get their machines
running and only lean on them nicely. And they keep calling me back,
bad times or good times. I always get my money..and sometimes I get
nice toys to take home too..like that HLV-H I just turned off a few
moments ago.

California has been slow to recover from the recession..last one
out..last one to recover. Its always been this way. Shrug
Now spindles are turning again and its a matter of time before we have
a little Shining Time again. We can only hope it will be a Big Shining
Time...but I think those glory days are long gone. Sadly.

If I had any brains...Id pitch my tent and go elsewhere..but at 52,
with two back surgeries behind me (pun intended) and having had a
heart procedure..not too many HR people are going to give me a second
look..least of all with no college degree of any note.

So I can age in genteel poverty, and die early, or age in genteel
poverty and live to be a ripe old age as a ward of the State. Though
I suspect Ill die on the job as a very old man, fixing
toasters..chuckle.

In the mean time..shrug..to quote the Duke.."a mans gotta do what a
mans gotta do"

Gunner

Yea and get he truck fixed pronto. From what I am seeing a lot of the
small manufacturing plants (Buck knives for one) are leaving California
and heading for Nevada, Utah, Idaho, to set up shop in a more business
friendly state. Also with the Oil boom now going on in Utah, (that
place is going crazy) you might want to look there for machine repair work.

Last survey from the Las Vegas Chamber of Commerce shows that Las Vegas
has more manufacturing jobs than jobs in the entertainment industry.
Hell the manufacturers are even pulling workers away from the casinos
with higher pay, signing bonuses, better working conditions etc.

You might consider doing some cold calling on manufacturing companies in
Reno, Las Vegas, Boise Idaho, and South of Salt Lake City, using your
current client base as referees.

No Gunner you may be down in the dumps now but I suspect that things
will be looking up for you. I know that the company that I work for has
booked over 10 million in business in the west in the first 7 days of
January 2006. And none of the business has any thing to do with New
Orleans or the Hurricanes.


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Censorship and Gun Control are the political equivalent of binding and
gagging a victim before raping and mugging them.

Such acts are carried out by the same thugs, one with a law degree from
a state pen, the other a law degree from a university for the same sick
perverted purposes which are to remove you from your property, liberty
and dignity, and bend you to will of others.