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[Akka Homestead <akkabhomestead AT yahoo.com>]

I keep hearing about how small business gets loans to make payroll.  Where I 
used to work, I think that was probably true.  We had bank visits once a 
month at least.  Perhaps I am generalizing from my old employer to every 
small business, but IMO, if the company is not solvent enough, doesn't have 
enough of a buffer, to make payroll before all the receivables are in, then 
something is amiss anyway and perhaps those companies need to scale back and 
buckle down, make those hard spending cuts, and turn things around.  Only 
once in my life have I taken out a loan to specifically pay off other debt. 
It certainly wasn't habitual, and if I had to do it over again, I'd probably 
file bankruptcy instead of getting the loan.  If you and I have to tighten 
our belts, why should small business be any different?  Where I worked, some 
people made outrageous incomes considering what duties they performed.  It 
was all upside down.  I know this is true at other
 places, too.
I'm amending what I wrote above.  I suppose, when it comes right down to it, 
every credit card I've ever owned pays off other debt, or is a substitute at 
best.  I'm trying to get out of that now, and I think I am out of the 
mentality, but I am still paying off the card.  Now, I buy almost everything 
with cash.  

Akka, listening to Glenn Beck who is saying the smartest thing I've heard all 
day...that we should not rely on government(<g>Lisa) to get us out of this 
mess as they are the ones who got us into this mess...the bailout 
fundamentally changes who we are and how we conduct business in this country.

Lynda wrote:
> Except for those playing the stock market, I fail to see where a bail out 
> is 
> needed.  Seems to me that most of the floundering banks are being bought up 
> by other banks, so where's the problem.  The natural order of things seems 
> to be working all by itself.
> 
> If people didn't get it in the 80s with all the junk bond kings and all the 
> money that was lost then and kept putting their money in get rich quick 
> skeems, oh well!
> 
> Just how many times do they have to be told that nothing in life is free?
> 
> Lynda




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I have 24 tomato plants, all kind of varieties.  They are all very healthy, 
growing, and have had blossoms for a while.  But, I'm hardly getting any 
tomatoes, just a very few on 2-3 plants.  It is right at 100 degrees today; 
yesterday was hotter

I use miracle grow and water well; is it just the heat, still, Or, could it 
be a pollination proble?  I have not seen a single bee so far this fall.  
Today was windy, maybe some pollen blew around ...bobford