http://mystory.today.com Maybe some things I learned will help newly self-employed home-workers Thu, 07 May 2009 20:42:02 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I was born during the Great Depression. Over the last century, my relatives and I have served in the U.S. Armed Forces to protect the American way of life. My great uncles served in Europe during World War I. In 1942, my father, the father of three young sons, was drafted. ... http://mystory.today.com/2009/05/07/capitalism-vs-socialism/ Sometime in the past 8-10 years, in accordance with Federal directives, the small town I live in spent a lot of money installing handicapped curbs at the crosswalks across the street from my house. I have no objection to handicapped curbs; this is not the point. These curbs were installed ... http://mystory.today.com/2009/04/24/a-good-use-of-tax-money/  I just saw a news story dated April 16, 2009, that the US Congress is once again considering a law making online merchants collect sales tax no matter where the purchaser lives. At present, only sales tax has to be collected from purchasers living in a state where the seller ... http://mystory.today.com/2009/04/18/more-taxes/ I haven’t posted anything for several days, partly because I had to spend a good bit of time assembling records and preparing income tax returns.  It was also end-of-month and end-of-quarter time, meaning assembling and compiling more records for tax reporting.  My plans for posting on my blog have gone by ... http://mystory.today.com/2009/04/03/giving-up/ In an article by James Abourezk, former Democrat Senator from South Dakota, for Playboy magazine in March 1979 he stated the eight Laws of Politics. Abourezk’s laws are these:  Anybody who really would change things for the better in this country could never be elected President anyway. Don’t worry about your enemies, it’s ... http://mystory.today.com/2009/03/20/does-the-federal-government-help-or-hurt-your-business/ It dawned on me today as I was listening to and reading reports about our so-called representatives in Congress that they are good at something. There are none better than they at blaming everyone else for their screw-ups! No matter how clearly it can be shown that they are responsible ... http://mystory.today.com/2009/03/19/boy-are-they-good/ Elected government officials are pointing the finger at private companies’ executives as being greedy. One representative has gone so far as to call for the AIG execs, who are receiving millions of dollars in bonuses, to commit suicide. Of course, an aide later said he really didn’t mean it. I’m not ... http://mystory.today.com/2009/03/17/greed-its-all-pervasive/ If our current socialist federal government has its way and passes the Employee “Free” Choice act, free enterprise will be dead. Presently employers have 90 days before a vote of its employees whether to form a union or not in which to offer alternative solutions to work conditions. If the proposed ... http://mystory.today.com/2009/03/11/the-end-of-free-enterprise/ Not taking my own advice, as posted recently about making time for breaks and vacations, I’ve suffered some burnout the last couple of days. Normally I take two days a week off; one full day and another if not full then at least half of it. Mainly it’s the ... http://mystory.today.com/2009/03/05/dont-feel-like-it/ We live at a time where almost everything is constantly changing, and many are becoming motion-oriented. Most of the changes and flash-type productions are absolutely unnecessary, and can only lead to confusion. Just because you can change or do something does not mean you should change or do it. Before you ... http://mystory.today.com/2009/02/27/unnecessary-changes/