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I doubt you'll find many small businesses who think forced unionization, forced healthcare, forced paid vacations and some of the other items you advocated in a recent article would help them grow and employ more folks. Increased regulation doesn't help the small guy either. In fact it drives them out of business because they cannot compete. If someone truly is an advocate for the small business they’d support lower tax rates and less government involvement. Those two things alone would allow small businesses to flourish more than anything else. The federal government does a piss poor jo

When I was reading this I was wondering if that was been enough. Then I read this... I cut down a large pine tree in my back yard that was leaning a bit. I was tall enough to hit my house... I was nervous the entire time. It then took me all to day clean up. Like you I will be writing check next time a tree needs to come down.

And that is what matters in the end isn't it? Making the decision you feel is best? Some might think a spouse or parent working sun up to sun down and longer isn't the best choice for the family, but they also might not see how important it is to ensure a "proper" lifestyle or having enough to not worry about things that suck up money like a vacuum. Others might feel it is better to live without and have more time with family than working to provide more “stuff”. Only the individual person can answer that question and in the end it’s nobody else’s business. If you have to ask the ques

Is providing a roof over head, food on the table, medicines needed to survive considered picking job or family??

There is a big different between a $4000 job and a $400 job. You paid an average of $200 a tree when you had 20 of them cut down. It seems reasonable the price would double for a single job. You buy in bulk and you usually save. You better do a good back ground check if someone offers to cut down your tree, remove the stump and clean up the area for $200. Think of the time required in driving your place, getting setup to cut the tree down, cutting the tree down, cleaning up the area and grinding down the stump. Then factor in gas is $3.55 a gallon and $400 seems very reasonable for a coup

$400 sounds like a good price if it’s a decent size tree. If that includes removal of the stump it sounds like a pretty good price. I paid more than that for a tree and thought I was getting a good deal. It’s been a few years so maybe the market has changed?? Cutting a dead tree down is usually more risky than a healthy one.

I understand you believe you’re the resident expert on all things military service related, but I was actually there… I also personally know others who received partial or full disability and monthly checks for things many would consider silly or completely unrelated to military service. It’s turned in to something almost as bad as our current disability system where if you’re persistent enough you can get your disability.

It has. Yet it is all Bush's fault...

You don't even have to be injured. I don't remember what it was, but I was offered a percentage of disability for hearing loss. The loss of hearing from when I entered to when I left met the criteria so I was offered disability. I told them I thought my hearing was fine and they confirmed that even with my "loss" I was above average for my age. I turned it down... I know others that have it for shaving bumps. There is some medical term for it but that’s what it is... When I see members with real physical injuries that limit their ability to function on a day to day basis I think about how

These aren't career type jobs you do your entire life but for those who can't or won't do anything else. A bit of manual labor would do many folks some good. How about we require people receiving a government check who aren't handicapped down there to do a little work? Everyone who isn’t handicapped is required to work a “job that can’t be filled” to receive their hand out. The farms would then reimburse the government for the hand out it gives to the individual. Farms need workers > it gets workers from the unemployment ranks People need jobs > they get jobs from the farms i

Pubby, You must have missed my question so I'm bumping this back up. I am still very curious about what you are doing as a business owner to combat the lower income issues you mentioned above.

I’d rather see food prices go up a tad because American citizens or legal immigrants are getting higher salaries instead of paying a tad bit less and that money being funneled out of the country by illegal immigrants. Not only will the money have a much higher chance of staying local but taxes will be collected as well. I’d love to see this happen with the energy industries as well so we could keep as much oil money in the states as possible.

So what is your solution? Raise the minimum wage? Require businesses to pay for vacation time, sick days, and parental leave? Mandate labor organization in every business? How many of these do you offer people who work for Paulding.com? Do you have set salaries higher than minimum wage? Do you offer paid vacation, sick days, and maternity leave? Are you a union shop? Since this is such an astounding find, I’d like to know what you doing with your business to lead the way in a better direction.

Tybee

Why doesn't this surprise me?

I'll probably end up owing another 4-5K on top of what I have already paid. Makes me sick when I hear of others "getting money back" even though they didn't pay any or very little in. My mother works for the government so I just convince myself I'm paying her salary to make myself feel a little better....

Interesting. This man is selling a video of information that was common knowledge among a lot of the people I grew with. When was the last time you seen someone canning anything? Maybe it’s just me, but I haven’t seen anything in a while. He is correct in saying there are many natural solutions for things. I still remember several.

If it smells fine I'd eat it. People are too sensitive today. Cook it longer if you have any concerns.

Nope. Southern Indiana along the Ohio River area. I'd love to get back to doing it someday just to be in the woods again. The terrain was pretty much like it is here so I can't image it being much different. I've been to the WMA locally a couple times walking about but have read it is illegal to remove any plants so never really looked for them. When possible, we always replanted the berries from anything we took in hopes that'd it regrow. Some of this stuff was 20 years ago and few people had permission to hunt the areas we did. I'd have to believe that stuff is everywhere now if no one

Growing up we collected all sorts of wild plants. Much of it we sold and did pretty good on. We'd munch on stuff we found while out hunting. Anything from different types of berries to cattail roots. I used to make trips that were half hunting half collecting plants. I sold a bunch of ginseng, golden seal and blood root. I don’t remember much of it now but there were all kinds of goodies to find if you knew what to look for. I always stayed away from mushrooms. Everyone I knew growing up that did any of this kind of stuff is now dead or too old to do it. I don’t know anyone that does

You're splitting hairs. Marriage would be a ceremony. Could be in a church, in a house, or skipped all together if desired. It would not be required to be “joined” in states eyes.

I think part of that would depend on what what being pushed and who was pushing it.

My God people… Sorry… I should have been politically correct and said “My goodness people”. Now everything I say will be discredited because I brought religion in to it. Wait… If I base my post against religion it somehow justifies my reasoning no matter how silly or uninformed it is so… You have proven over and over again that the equal rights argument is nothing more than a ruse to push acceptance and justification of a lifestyle. They are completely different things. I have the right to the pursuit of happiness. That doesn’t mean I’m going to be happy or other people must make me happy

Never once did I say I do not like the idea of gays have equal rights. I did say I don't believe the government should recognize marriage for anyone and create their own process of legally binding couples. This is a typical tactic of labeling someone negatively because you don't agree with them. I don't care if you agree with me or not. I will not support the enforcement and justification of one lifestyle over another. The ironic piece of all those pushing for "marriage" is you're fighting for the exact same thing you're fighting against. Its right in front of your face but you're too blin

Because you’re unwilling to accept the reality the issue is greater than just Christianity. Explain why California, a liberal mecca, voted gay marriage down when other "Christian" values can’t get passed.