Archive for the 'Government' Category

I suppose in some ways, the hue and cry about “Global Warming” is good for people who want to work at home. Companies who want to be “green” and “good” and all that are being pressured to allow telecommuting to save the world from Global Warming. So more work at home jobs could result from […]

Newsday has a good article that highlights the different perspectives at work after a lay off.
After American Home Mortgage laid of 1500 workers on August 3, 2007 many have been scrambling for new positions in the Long Island NY area. Many of them are still unemployed, their unemployment checks are about to end soon and […]

Anywhere the money supply is determined by government whim instead of the the value of their gold and silver reserves (is there anywhere nowadays where this isn’t the case anymore? Perhaps Switzerland? I can’t recall.), unregulated expansion of the currency produced runaway inflation. It’s a hidden tax you might say since it’s imposed by the […]

I must have had my head buried in the sand. I just ran across the article announcing the Congress has banned the incandescent light bulb… by 2014 of course when the people in Congress then can shrug their shoulders and say “We didn’t do this! Don’t blame us!”
The argument is that the small fluorescent bulbs […]

This is really more of a question than anything else.
First of all, the Senate voting to require autos to get 35 mpg in the name of setting the United States free from the power of the OPEC Cartel is like trying to put out a raging fire with a thimble of water. But really, what […]

One of the hot topics from time to time in this election relates to the “Fair Tax” - a plan to eliminate the IRS and replace it with a flat national sales tax.
To take the issue from the level of abstract babble to “money in your pocket” FairTax.org has created an online fair tax calculator […]

Because Congress and the White House haven’t managed to do anything about illegal aliens, the states are looking for ways to do something.
Businesses are scared because who knows what a business will have to do to prove that they didn’t intentionally hire an illegal alien.
Basically multi-million dollar operations can be threatened by $15 per hour […]

Many people work at home because of a desire to be with their children or family members more.
Here’s how that’s shaping up trend wise - family friendly cities are growing as people “vote with their feet”.
That means the cities and regions that attract families will grow while as will their economies while the urban centers […]

The East Longmeadow Small Business Association is working to help the Planning Board come up with some workable solutions for home business owners. The antiquated zoning laws, created in 1962, do not reflect the economic realities of the community and business world today.
Thankfully this sounds like one Planning Board that is forward thinking instead of […]

I hope this works and that many new small and home based businesses will result. Hopefully this program won’t be all photo-op, bluster, and paperwork and that some businesses will actually start, thrive, and blossom as a result. One recent study of these “job development” programs showed 5 jobs “created” per $200,000 in […]