So who am I to think I have a better plan for saving the American auto industry?  Why not?  After all, the plan on the table calls for $15 billion dollars (oops, now its down to $14 billion) in taxpayer money to be sent straight down the bail-out rat hole.  But it certainly won’t stop there.  Recall the original request was for $36 billion.  Does any thinking American really believe that that $...

I'm trying to break myself of a bad habit I picked up as the current economic malaise came calling upon our company.   In response to the proverbial, "how are you?" greeting, I've taken to answering, "stressed but blessed".  Sort of like positive self talk with a spiritual twist, I suppose.  Sounds better than, "it's tough, but I'm gonna make it", don't you think?  W...

I thoroughly enjoyed reading Deep Survival:  Who Lives, Who Dies, and Why by Laurence Gonzales over the Thanksgiving break.  Within it I discovered many survival tips well worth knowing, including how to survive the current recessionary winter. “The climb up the edge of the cliff was the hardest and most dangerous thing I’d ever done.”  Yates arrived at the top “shaking and so strung out tha...