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A friend from TN Sent this. I’m sure there’s a variant for your state. Rural areas are increasingly relying on telecommuting and self-employment to replace wages lost as industry moves outside the US. These monies tend to go to the well connected and those with time to fill out the mind numbing forms. As […]

If your home based business was threatened by the potential loss of your home to foreclosure, the Hope Now problem may help.
You can read more here.
The lenders who represent 50% or more of the mortgage lending market have signed on to a deal that involves the Treasury and HUD in a “private” effort called “Project […]

Need help with the paperwork of getting a business off the ground? Talk to the U.S. Small Business Administration. Learn how to write a business plan, register your company, and deal with the tax details of running a home business at your local Women’s Business Center evening classes (men are welcome, too). Note: Novices […]

Since the elections are coming up, it’s a good time to remember that perhaps we need to elect people who remember what it was like for people to have freedom instead of being micromanaged by nitwits in Washington.
Check out how, in Sweden, everybody is an unpaid work at home garbage sorter. It’s insanity aplenty…
So what […]

This is an excellent way for County governments to help their residents telecommute. It can be a great way for rural counties to attract residents who can bring high income jobs to these counties.
From Fredericksburg.com
Starting Friday, Caroline County residents wishing to telecommute to work can do so from the Community Services Center.
Every Friday in February […]

The Nuts must run Walnutport, PA and the rest of the state for that matter. Some Jackbooted Cretan from the pre-internet era and the State of Pennsylvania waltzed in on a mom trying to earn a living while caring for a child with a brain tumor.
Her noxious crime was selling items online (10,000 in fact) […]

The weenies in local government are worried about “blight” in Concord, CA.
So, to them, the old legal principle of a “Man’s home is his castle” means nothing.
Property ownership means nothing.
Your right to earn a living means nothing.
Your right to associate with whomever you choose in your home means nothing.
And basically YOU mean nothing.
That’s why they’re […]

Can you say with me “You Idiot!” 
Man arrested in eBay sale of historic documents
I guess if he worked at the National Archives, he’d try to sell the Declaration of Independence on Ebay too!
In 2007 alone, Lorello stated he took 300 to 400 items, including the four-page Calhoun letter, which drew bids of more than $1,700 […]

The news tonight is all about the US Tax Rebate to “stimulate the economy”.
The idea behind the rebate is for us to get our hot little hands on some “free cash” and go down and blow it at the mall to get America back in business.
Here’s my question… how many people will take the cash […]

From SlashDot: More Federal Workers are Telecommuting and those left behind are finding their work “less fulfilling” according to Small Business Computing
Telecommuting may boost morale, and cut stress, but it can have the opposite effect on those left behind in the office, according to a new study.
The more I think about it… what do these […]