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As our nation mourns the loss of innocent life in Newtown and Sandy Hook, Conn., we know there will be a painful national debate on how to keep such tragedies from occurring.
The guys I learned my trade from were mostly World War II veterans and tough as nails. They showed up early, worked hard and could always be counted on to take care of business.
As
we continue our efforts to recover the economy and return jobs to America that
have been lost to foreign lands, many politicians are pointing the finger at
regulatory agencies as a hindering factor in America’s competitiveness.
Back
in the 1980s, the term “Trickle Down
Economics” was coined to describe a theory that if we gave incentives to
business owners, they will in turn invest and expand their operations, thereby creating
new jobs and greater opportunity for all. Economists and politicians are still
debating if the policies of the ’80s helped or hurt the country.
The plastering trade has, for thousands of years, passed down the knowledge and skill of the trade from one generation to the next. Except for the inclusion of modern machinery, the way and manner plaster is applied to a wall really hasn’t changed much since before the time of Christ.
Are contractors who pay their employees cash or who misclassify their workers as “subcontractors” for the purpose of avoiding taxes, worker compensation insurance cutting into your business?
I just returned from a few days in the hot Arizona desert where I met with lath, plaster and drywall
contractors from across America.
The meeting was well attended despite the so-called “down-turn” in the economy,
and everyone was cautiously optimistic for a change.
In the last few weeks, I’ve been invited to or heard about a dozen or more of my friends’ and relatives’ kids graduating from high school. And eventually the subject of what “college” they are attending ends up driving the conversation.
The battle cry of the GOP during the last presidential election has now come back to haunt us all as we watch the “mousse” roll ashore along the southern coastline (that’s what they official call the muck that washes ashore when oil and seawater mix).
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