Our Blog ~ Pros and Cons

Have you ever spent hours writing a proposal, submitted it to a client, then never heard back?

I have, especially recently, and so have associates I’ve spoken with.  We may initially get a response or two by phone or e-mail saying that no decision has been made yet, but then nothing.  The prospect moves on without telling us what, if anything, has been decided.

Is this happening in your business?

Every year, they’re exterminated by the millions.  As you read this, they are being eradicated with poisonous gases, crushed and wiped out.

Yet many Americans stand by and not only tolerate this mass murder, but cheer it on or participate in it.

I’m talking about bugs, of course.  Mosquitoes, flies, beetles, gypsy moths, termites, locusts, hornets, wasps, fire ants, fleas, ticks, bedbugs, cockroaches, earwigs and other species that get no respect.  Where is our compassion?

It’s not easy to spend $1 trillion – unless you’re a member of Congress or President Obama.

In the U.S. Senate’s first budget in four years, Budget Chair Patty Murray would, among other things, cancel the sequestration cuts and rewrite spending caps to allow another $1 trillion in spending.

The federal government spent $3.6 trillion in fiscal year 2012 and the federal debt is now $16.5 trillion and growing by the day, so what’s another $1,000,000,000,000?

As people give up looking for work, the unemployment rate goes down.

Only in the federal government would that make sense.  Yet the official unemployment rate is reported faithfully by most journalists with little analysis.

Not surprisingly, it was reported as good news last week when the Labor Department announced that the economy created 236,000 new jobs in February, bringing the unemployment rate down to 7.7% -- its lowest level since President Obama took office.