Chris Cosentino

small potatoes

Rut

How's Business

Business stinks. All of the gov't efforts address huge companies and poor people and leave the small businesses feeling the squeeze from both ends. I'm a product design consultant and nobody is thinking of designing new products, they are all trying to sell existing designs and stock. I don't do construction so am cut out from 'shovel ready' stimulus funding. I've shifted from doing engineering design to fabrication (much less profit) but now even the fabrication work is fading. The banks (mine is JP Morgan Chase) have tens of billions from the gov't that has no requirement for small business lending so they invest the gov't money to make more profit and leave us small guys hanging. How is a small guy supposed to keep his head above water, let alone prosper, these days?

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