You know.... (big, heavy sigh)... I don't mind being a penny pincher, in fact, I come by it naturally, but, I am really tired of being broke.

We have had the worst year this year since we started our business 20 years ago.

I'm sure I'm like so many others that just kept thinking that the economy was going to turn around for the better... after tax season.. .during summer.. but our economy has gotten steadily worse. We hung on for a while when gas prices were still high because a lot of our shop work is oil field related but when gas and oil prices dropped our business slowly sank. Right now some of biggest customers who have been in business for 20, 30 years are barely able to keep their doors open.

I guess we took those millions of stimulus dollars and threw them away or rather gave them away to the crooks that already had all the money.

Our online retail store has all but just disappeared. We don't get but one or two orders a month anymore. If it weren't for local sales and install jobs we would have to just shut it down. And, those jobs are few and far between.

I'm not sure what we are going to do, just keep trying to keep our head above water, I guess... what choice do we have? The government sure as hell isn't offering to bail us out, are they?