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Good question...maybe Shorty is an insider and likes posting vague innuendo, that or he has a mouse in his pocket.
Doesn't appear that smart money or anyone else for that matter cares two bits about the news today.
Shorty,
Pardon the following run on sentence as it is ugly. I agree with most of that, however, mass dilution to create strength for takeover options does not drive shareholder value, internal net profits do, and I have yet to see their business model perform in a way that is beneficial to shareholders other than those that are of the direct marketing model as members. Pyramid/ponzi scheme components do exist as deep roots within this company and its board. Shareholders have thus far funded the dry powder and many of the board sit on millions of free shares as a result. A massive stock buyback after sustainable revenue creates shareholder value, not dilution and acquiring revenue through offering of free shares.
For what it's worth, smart money has yet to enter the room, unless you consider my share purchase last week as smart money. I picked up over half of the total traded shares of YGYI for the week in order to strengthen my position in this company as I see it as pump and dump at a minimum. I did make money on nearly 100k of shares early in JCOF's pre-merger run, but I held half a bag full after getting off the phone with Scott Pumper anticipating a better structured merger. Consider me the board pessimist until I see the money and a real revenue stream that justifies a billion dollar market cap. Cheers to smart money making a mitt full and when I begin to see volume of a million plus on a regular basis, then I'll believe smart money actually gives a $hit about YGYI.
Gogo,
It's because they know midwesterners are rich and gullible. They make the perfect audience for direct marketing snake oil. Next stop California.
BTW...I'm a Midwesterner and have bought several bags of Javafit coffee and JCOF stock. So I guess I fit the mold. Bring Tony Robbins to the party and everyone will think they can fly.
When JCOF, I mean YGYI gets back to $2 a share presplit, I will change my tune. As for now, it's all a bunch of PR fluff. If they continue to use the shelved shares to drive revenue it may suffice short-term, but organic growth is the only true indicator of sustainability. Time will tell.
Another missed PR opp. This thing wouldn't go up if it swallowed a pickle jar full of viagra. Ding ding ding...start selling organic viagra....bam instant billion dollar market cap. Free stock for me!
No problem. Full disclosure...I once held over 200k shares when JCOF was solely a trending coffee sector stock. I sold some prior to the merger. I now hold 93k which are all under water. Good Luck!
What do expect, this is a direct sales company...the supporters have been brainwashed. It's like going to a Tony Robbins camp...sky's the limit. Better yet, a tele-evangelistic worship hosted by our prophet Dr. Wallach.
The problem with javafit...I mean JCOF...I mean AL International...I mean Youngevity....I mean YGYI...I mean CLR Roasters...I mean our direct sales company...I mean our combination of a coffee roaster and a direct sales company, is that we have been massively diluted, and our company has no true identity for anticipatory investors. At some point, the lard will surface, but as of now, the cash cow is hiding under the manure pile. The manure pile being roughly 400 million shares of outstanding stock. A buy back saves the shareholder....until then, you'll need half a billion in revenue and massive bottom line growth to get this pig to Scott Pumper's projected pre-split $5/share call. It will take years. And if the direct sales execs and members continue to get rewarded with free YGYI stock, there will never be a sustainable market cap. Open market purchasing will raise the stock. Dissolving or buying back massive blocks of outstanding shares will raise the stock. Higher revenues by means of expansion without increased bottom line profit or free cash will not. Particularly if expansion is obtained through devalued stock offerings or options.
Agreed. I think I posted seven years ago that Cortex should do a low dose Focus Factor type supplement to generate a revenue stream and advance the higher dosing molecules through the FDA. Focus Factor sells millions of bottles worldwide and if there is a smidge of mental efficacy at a low dose while co-mingled within a supplemental cocktail that doesn't force FDA restriction, it may have been a viable revenue stream. Sure this may have discredited the company and their cure AZ ideology, but at least I would have held a maintainable financials driven investment. Not to mention, it provides statistical data by consumer review in volume at low dosage. I'm probably talking out of my ass, but there had to be some options other than this, if indeed they hold such impressive compounds and know how to run a business.
I think we all have so any residual at this point would be a huge bonus.
They should dilute the hell out of ampakines and add some supplemental value to it in order to bypass the FDA, then market it as a mind boosting and sexual enhancement cocktail.
Take Whoretex twice a day to become Einstein by day and Ron Jeremy by night...wham billion dollar market cap in six months.
I'd rather have a business sensible individual running the company that knows how to manage cash flow and expenses, market product, making rational cost effective decisions while proceeding forward in directions that target shareholder value, than some dream worthy, misguided, non transparent, self inflated, microscope slide geek that has no clue how to generate a buck by means other than of taking an inflated salary.
"The Company has not yet determined on which committees of the Board Mr. Weingarten will serve, if any. Mr. Weingarten and the Company are still negotiating his compensation; however, like the other officers of the Company, he has agreed to take no cash compensation for the time being."
Pay for performance model seems logical at this phase...
Jury still out, but I prefer these comments over those I've heard over the past decade...
Buy, Buy, Buy...to the moon!
Davey,
Creating a glimmer of hope in an otherwise hopeless situation. Sounds like the new mgt group comes with some actual business sense. I'll take anything at this point. Thanks for following this dead rat out of the sewer.
To all paddling the same boat...
Thanks for the condolences!!
I too should be able to withstand the loss at 46 years of age and should manage to utilize the capital loss portion of this investment in whole. Brutal as it was, I am a businessman that believes pro-bono is part of standard operations with the ups and downs in business as a business owner. And I am working for free with my own money, not the money of other sap investors. I would really harbor some guilt if I pissed away good folk money while I accomplished virtually nothing. Varney should gladly offer some pro-bono hours after the debacle of action and lack of communication that was afforded his beloved shareholders. It's easy to spend other people's money. Hell, put back four years of salary to carry the company into a new study and I'll pat him on the back. Until then, my impression is that they couldn't find a cure for a dick tickle if they sat in a strip club. I could sell more bags of shit on Halloween than these guys could wiggle a toe in their industry. And I'm not in the shitbag business. They are invisible. A cure for AD was on the way, yet they couldn't get a german data analyst to break away from his extended vacation to report the wonderment of Ampakines. Yet the board expert said this is typical behavior within the bio-tech arena. The writing was on the wall. This is when I consider myself an idiot for believing such bone head rhetoric. It's now in the rear view mirror. Move on dude...and I shall.
Thanks for the Chi-town blessings, Aaron Rodgers is one cool cat and a great man of our community, not to mention, quite fun to watch. I think he's about to light up the vi-queens as we call them. I'd rather the Bears got in as I think it would have been a better game and would have brought slightly more revenue to the area. Believe it or not, I'm a Cutler fan...seems tough as nails but can't control his emotion in the game. Go pack...see you on the other side guys.
F4T.
And the biggest loser of the board....drumroll please....tada.... it's FOOD4THOUGHT!
Losses at corx=zero totaling $414,387.
Most of which came from selling $7.99 cheeseburgers and $3.00 beers for 10 years, a difficult way to make a living mind you. Luckily for me, I live in Wisconsin where cheeseburgers chompers and beer drinkers are plentiful. But if anyone on this board has ever ran a restaurant, you will understand my angst and anger towards this investment. Most of which is directed at myself, for entering a misunderstood industry of investment and following the lead of intelligible narrow mined genius posters. Phrases such as "billion dollar market cap potential", "To the Moon", and "undeniable IP value with the very likelihood of near term advancement to the market', hooked me like the lights of Las Vegas.
Does this make me the biggest loser/moron on the board for trying to gambling my way onto an early retirement. The answer is clearly yes. I do blame myself, but clearly, over the years, there were hidden agendas streamed throughout this board. Freto's game would have yielded me a far better and more obvious exit opportunity than the introduction of a slam dunk RD trial. I balked on many opportunities to minimize the damage, and was solely focused on the words of our board experts. Can't see the forest as for the trees, seems to pretty accurately describe my wildly misguided Cortex investment.
For the record, I would have equally praised the board alum with my new subscription in hand, had any of the cortex promise came to fruition. My attitude towards this is no different than that of a stake in a Bernie Madoff investment. I should have analyzed the risk, but it all sounded too good to be true. Better get in quick while the poker is hot...I mean many pokers in the fire. And hell, a bunch of other really smart and rich people are doing it, so it must be a no brainer.
The biggest Homer SImpson Doh of my life = Cortex Pharmaceuticals.
Good Night and God Bless the Social Republic of America where you are free do as you are told. Now back to more mind numbing programming.
Just who are you trying to impress? Let me guess...you wear a hairpiece and drive a corvette too. You should do a skit on Saturday Night Live Pat , I mean Neuro. You'd think with all your big boy contacts and hoity toity round table discussions, you'd have a better track record of picking an industry stock. Oh but I suppose you'd have to subscribe to that underpriced newsletter of yours to receive those. Get over yourself man. A loser is a loser. Feel free to not try and get the last word in to impress your board aliases.
Shirt...hell I lost two houses on this piece of garbage. The touters of this crap, that being our resident expert and Varney, should be working on wall street or in prison. At least then you would see them for what they are. Amazing how the knowledge spews throughout the baiting process, but no one can claim responsibility or offer an end of game strategy. Don't know how some of you people sleep at night. Cortex or Enron, it's all the same to me....just another public company ran by greedy pigs. Last time I listen to a board full of geniuses...I'll go back to making my money the old fashion way.
My point was, I'd have made far more money investing in toilet paper than the glorious Ampakines over the past several years. Again, one seems to have a purpose far less magical than what I was lead to believe about this garbage. My bad for believing in the powers that be on the cortex message board.
If the Ampakines platform has value, then clearly you and a few others are the only ones that think so. Many studies have been done to prove their efficacy. Billions of dollars are throw into study and advancement of meagerly functioning biotech companies every year and yet no one steps up to see the wonderment of Cortex's offering. End result, the industry has pissed on their fire and its remains are barely smoldering.
Call me when a landslide wipes out Stoll and Varney's homes that were built on the likes of my hundreds of thousands of dollars that I put into this pig. And no I am not exaggerating. I am clearly a bigger idiot than most and am looking for any reason to celebrate my loss. Misery does indeed love company. I'll be glad when its over....sub penny more than likely.
I wasn't dissing MF's commentary...I was dissing the managements constant willingness to leach onto anything monetary at virtually any cost to maintain their selfish direction of worthless accomplishment. It's clearly evident by now...AMPAKINES ARE INDEED WORTHLESS!!!! What a sickening end to this miserable story. Hell must be chock full of CEO's the likes of Varney. Which is worth more....asswipe or cortex stock? Well at least asswipe has a purpose. You go Varney...gett'er done.
What is the goddamn point anymore....really!
Gfp,
Where do you come up with this stuff...you clearly have too much time on your hands. With your analytical skill and intelligence, you should be working towards a better cause and pulling in at least six figures, instead of wasting away on message boards. If think you have a severe case of Einstein syndrome...part genius, part nuts.
Yeah, something amiss...don't jinx it.
Probably just a Halloween trick.
Gfp,
I clearly am not for the deregulation of the crooks at the bank cartel and wall street levels, but there are many legitimate business owners that create jobs in this country that could use a little less of a choke hold from our state and federal governments. There should have been far more persecution by the media and prosecution by the courts of the crooks that created and fleeced this country though the derivatives scam. Freedoms are offered to all the wrong people in this country. Murderers, crooks, scam artists all seem to have more legislation and state appointed officials on their sides than the average joe living within the rules of our society. The state offers safe havens and agencies for the crooked and the lazy while the working man gets his ass kicked daily by taxes used to pay for them. The most bassackwards system you could think of exists in our daily world as American citizens.
Simply put, too many americans are happy to maintain their lifestyles within their bubbles and not take a stand which is why you have to give the tea party some credit for grossly exploiting the malfunctioning ways of our current government. Like them or hate them, they've got people talking.
Bigworld,
Spectacular post! I would hang with you any day. Realist points of view make far more sense to me than left wing give me more drivel. But what do I know, I'm just a small business owner trying to make a living to support myself and my family without asking for a handout while the long arm of the government tries to squeeze more and more out of me everyday. Great stuff Big, great stuff! F4T
MF4,
You took "tale" out of context. I was being hypocritical towards the doubters of your thoughts. I typically believe what others conceive as insensible. My thoughts were in line, enforcing your hypothetical. I'm no Jesse Ventura, but there is far more intentional unknown than known at the general public level...simply to protect us of course, as we couldn't possibly handle the truth. Carry on my friend...you're doing good work. F4T.
MF4,
That is an impressive tale. I need to read this board more often.
I found it preposterous that the invincible well informed navy seals could be taken out in mere helicopter crash. Where was the protection and intelligence for such an important cargo? And what are the odds that such a mishap happens to members of the heroic division that conducted the Bin Laden raid so soon after their successful mission? There are no coincidences this large. Seems contrived and deliberate. They say the individuals that perished are not the same individuals that participated in the raid, but who would ever know...they were sworn to secrecy as were the members and commanders of their division.
And in this day and age, to have no photos surface of his body seems an impossibility. To reign in the sheeple, our government would have hung him from the top of the Brooklyn Bridge had they had the opportunity. The US had no shame in allowing the Saddam Hanging videos to hit the net. All of the sudden, religion and scruples by the US are going to play a part in the disposal of a mass murderer's body that killed thousands on US soil...doubtful. I'm sure the loose ends in the compound have been tied up as well.
Keep the stories coming, they make for great morning reading...far better than they fear factor crap that hits the press these days.
Back to work...working harder for less every day. Fun times aren't they.
F4T.
Looks like the shareholders are taking over the company with some suggestive reasoning. I have a very rich friend whose father has the disease....maybe I'll have him mention Cortex and their potential at the next dedication ceremony. Seems a bit unscrupulous however. The team at hand would be lucky to serve a compound to generation next squared at the rate they get things done.
Ombow,
If this management team isn't already aware of this fact, then they must be on the hookah and should all be dismissed for blatant ignorance. I guess a push in front of the obvious bus doesn't hurt at this point though. Not much logic left to this one.
MF4,
It gets sickening being caught on the wrong side of the action on a regular basis. Looks like the true direction of the market is upon us. If I had some balls, I'd short the emerging markets and my future long positions but my luck QEIII would come out the minute I did. I do better in Vegas...educated gambling versus this crap. Cortex started my demise and looks like it may end it.
Bigworld,
Aren't you concerned that the fed will take further action in the form of QEIII?
If they intervened before, chances are they will intervene again at some point.
Bigworld,
You got me into the bear etf's about 18 months too soon. Unfortunately for me, I capitulated about month ago in TZA near its 52 week low. What are the odds. Oh well, the market got me again. First VXX now TZA. I'm probably going to short both of them near term and try to make a bit back. This looks like the first step off the cliff with some small leg up coming to settle the fear.
As much as I hate owning stock in this company, at this point, I have to agree with Davidal. If Servier decides to exercise their option to own CX 1632 for an additional 2 beans, it should be somewhat telling. If they don't, I will be nervous, but given that Cortex is on death row and just given her last meal...this stay of execution is welcome by me. Sure it's business as usual but at least Servier sees some value here and a million dollars is still a million dollars. I see it as good faith. If Servier has a glimpse of success with this compound, why wouldn't they buy the whole shebang. This could finally be the shareholder's out. Fingers, toes, and dick crossed.
MF4,
Well I guess at this point it's better than them running out of cash and selling the farm on craigslist for Bitcoins. It appears that Servier still believes in the ability of Cortex's compounds, so in my mind this shows some upside potential from here and if Servier can advance something over the pond, it can only help this turd. Cortex still maintains North Amercian, Australian, and New Zealand rights for now. Not sure of Servier's ability to get things done, but they clearly can't do any worse than the stars in Cali. I'll take this news for now. Back to flippin burgers and crackin beers. Cheers!
Alert,
You don't get it. There is a fat line between insider selling and someone being aware of a situation by association. Cortex didn't call you to explain their situation and ask for more financing as they probably did with Samyang. Samyang undoubtedly is aware by association and can draw their own conclusions due to communication from Cortex. This is not illegal.
"We can tell from the pps that the situation is dire."
This has been evident all along. Samyang's actions add another element to that statement. Your executives at Cor will not work for free and cash is near an end. Samyang is willing to sell shares on the open market so they are undoubtedly not part of a new financing agreement. I doubt MJF has any more money for Cor so you do the math. Where do you think the money is going to come from?
"Gotta find someone who wants a million shares. Obviously no one does."
Exactly! This is all too telling in my mind. If there was any chance for Samyang to profit exponentially from their investment, they would not be acting as they are. We're set for mass dilution and a give up of the farm or this puppy is about to shit the bed.
Alert,
They didn't give cortex $10,000,000 on a blind crap shoot. Clearly they were offered a prospectus when the deal was struck. Samyang undoubtedly required timely progression updates as part of their financing agreement as well. Trust me, they are privy to much more information than us. Not to mention, as Cortex's current cash dilemma escalated, they were probably approached by Varney for additional funds. Therefore my conclusion is that Samyang clearly has more at hand information than the average shareholder. Samyang is legally able to sell shares if they are not part of any current negotiations or workings within the company. If indeed Samyang was approached for more financing, which is highly likely, and is willing to sell shares on the open at these levels, then it is pretty evident in my mind that things are pretty dire. You draw your conclusions, I'll draw mine.
Market_Fest4,
The fat lady has cleared her throat. It looks like we are all going down with this ship. Samyang has privy to inside info and they are bailing. Tran had privy to inside info and he has bailed long ago. The rest of the cannibals are taking all they can from this corpse. Zero disclosure from our leaders. I hope they starve when Kotex is laid to rest. I wish I followed ASU out the door when I had my chance. The more money these fools get the more time they take to do nothing. Eleven million in the bank and what has progressed since? Good times for them for sure.
If only Freto would come around to hype this piece of crap one more time so I could bail, I'd be forever grateful. 500,000 shares to wipe my ass with. Cheers with an empty glass.
Bigworld,
It took a tsunami and a potential nuclear disaster, but the inevitable now seems upon us.
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Stock futures plunge 16 percent after PM radiation comments
Reuters – Employees of the Tokyo Stock Exchange (TSE) work at the bourse in Tokyo March 14, 2011. REUTERS/Issei …
TOKYO (Reuters) – Japanese stock futures prices plunged 16 percent on Tuesday as the country's prime minister said radiation levels at a stricken nuclear plant had become high, deepening concerns about the disaster and its likely economic toll.
Cash stock markets, closed for the regular midday break, were down 7 percent but were set to fall sharply when trading resumes.
After Naoto Kan's comments, Nikkei equity futures prices dropped sharply, triggering a circuit breaker to halt trade. When it started again, the futures were down more than 16 percent on the day. Kan also said the possibility of radioactive leakage had increased.
Japanese government bond prices rose as equities fell. The pressure on Japan's already bleak fiscal situation in any reconstruction was likely to be high, with Japan's yield curve steepening some 10 basis points since Friday.
Unlike Monday, when construction stocks rose, none of the 225 constituents of the benchmark Nikkei average were up on Tuesday.
Four explosions, including two on Tuesday, have occurred at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear complex in Japan's ravaged northeastern coast since the magnitude 9.0 quake on Friday, raising concerns about radiation leakage and the longer-term stability of power supply.
"All focus is on the nuclear crisis. In the situation where the crisis appears to be worsening, foreign investors, domestic fund operators are pulling out from Japanese shares," Hideyuki Ishiguro, a supervisor at Okasan Securities in Tokyo.
The broad TOPIX share index slumped 7 percent by the regular midday break to 787.90, after posting the biggest decline since the 2008 financial crisis on Monday on record volume.
So far this week, the index is down nearly 14 percent and has shed around $528 billion in market capitalization.
The Nikkei share average dropped 6.5 percent by the midday break to 8,999.73. The sharp decline in the futures market will pull the cash market lower when it resumes trade.
Osaka Nikkei futures fell more than 16 percent.
Chart support for the Nikkei index lies at around 8,800 -- the low from September 2010.
"We are making every effort to prevent the leak from spreading. I know that people are very worried but I would like to ask you to act calmly," Kan said in an address to the nation.
Power companies were the biggest percentage losers in early trading, with shares of Kansai Electric Power and Chubu Electric Power, which both own nuclear plants, down 12 percent.
Shares of Tokyo Electric Power were untraded with a glut of sellers at the indicated price of 1,341 yen on Tuesday, down 280 yen or 17 percent from Monday's close as an emergency appeared escalate at the utility giant's quake-damaged nuclear reactors in the northeast.
The firm's credit default swap spreads, contracts that protect against debt default and restructuring, were 150/170 basis points compared with 40 basis points on Friday -- an indication of increasing caution on the outlook for TEPCO.
Since the quake, Japan's CDS spreads have widened by nearly 20 basis points to 97 basis points, but were still narrower than the record 120 basis points reached in February 2009.
Ten-year Japanese government bond futures rose 0.40 point to 140.49, on the way to testing the high for the year hit on January 4 at 140.71.
In the cash market, the 10-year yield fell to 1.17 percent, the lowest since January 2011. The 5-year to 20-year yield curve, or the difference between the maturities, steepened to 158 basis points.
"The immediate impact on Japan may be stagflationary: negative for growth and upward pressure on the prices of items in short supply such as rice, some other foods and possibly even some materials needed for reconstruction," said Gerard Lyons, Standard Chartered's chief economist, in a note.
"The scale of the devastation means that the region impacted may take years to recover fully, as it needs major reconstruction and some of the agricultural areas will need to be repopulated; not easy for a country with a rapidly aging population."
The yen was steady at 81.72 per dollar, relatively stable in the face of the equity market selloff. Traders were on alert for signs of Japanese investor capital repatriation that could push up the yen similar to what happened after the 1995 Kobe earthquake.
The dollar had touched a low around 80.60 on Monday, less than a yen from the record low of 79.75 yen touched in 1995 on
EBS.
(Additional reporting by Tokyo News bureau and Masayuki Kitano in SINGAPORE, Writing by Kevin Plumberg)
Gfp,
This sounds vaguely familiar to some views I heard on Alex Jones yesterday.
He mentioned that we currently have an untapped oil reserve of light sweet crude under the rockies large enough to make the US energy independent resulting in gas prices well under a dollar per gallon. That the technology exists to retrieve this oil, yet it is being blocked from extraction for a multitude of political and timeline driven agendas.
Do you listen to Alex Jones?
I think he's an extremist nut at times but some of his theories are very interesting. He preaches strongly about the impending dollar collapse and globalization of a new currency system tied to a new world order as you seem to mention periodically.
Bigworld,
Where are you invested right now? Are you back in VXX?
Haysaw,
There are so many problems at the state and federal government levels that the what ifs or did he try this or that arguments could go on forever. This governor is aggressively trying to right a ship that has been steered down an overspending path for years that has nothing to do with George Bush. Our previous democratic governor Doyle had more organizations and lobbyists in his pocket and was more crooked than Nixon. My opinion is that the state employed has had it too cushy for too long in comparison to the sacrifices of the private sector. Our governor is trying to save jobs by asking for this right now and asking for a breech in protective bargaining rights to keep the union out of the state's wallet is a necessary part of the process. He also stayed tax credits to keep certain corporations from leaving the state which is another example of him trying to keep jobs in Wisconsin versus playing pigheaded politics. His platform was evident pre-election and the people have spoken. Let him do his job. But no, rather than debate the proposed bill the democrats would rather run and hide... typical left -wing theatrics.
Let them march. Half of the protesters don't even know what they are marching for. It's a sheeple mentality that thinks a government that overspends and gives the futures of our children away is far better than a government that attempts to control spending with proper checks and balances. If you are pro union then you are against all that is pro capitalism. The unions do nothing more than destroy employer/employee relations and force their members out of jobs due to ridiculous and exemplified demands. How about giving some credit to the risk takers that created the jobs in the first place. Punish the hardworking and job creators to save our lazy and corrupt is the mentality of the left. I wish I had a union that would allow me to charge $20 for a hamburger and force you to pay for it, eat it, and like it.
I like this quote:
"I love it when the real face of leftism rises. Nasty, violent, bigoted and entitled (for what I am not sure). These union goons are absolute parasites on our country.I am also quite sure that the Post will ignore those signs made by our children's educators after this blog post of yours. Wisconsin teachers avg compensation is $89,000 per year for a 9 month job. That pay is considerably higher than the state avg. They are having a hissy fit about paying 12% of their own health care? Really? Buzzards."
The union almost cost 2300 Kohler employees their jobs last year. The unions inflated the price of automobiles for decades and are a big reason Detroit is in the peril it is in today. The unions had their place 60-70 years ago. They were designed to protect enslaved employees and create fair rights for workers across America. Now they overuse their power to rape and pillage state budgets and employers.
I used to think they were extremists nutjobs, but I am becoming a fan of Rodger Hedgecock and Alex Jones more and more everyday.
Ombow,
Being from Wisconsin, I am seeing the hypocritical actions of our public workforce first hand. Teacher walkouts begging the school board to close the schools so they can protest the actions of our newly appointed and proactive Governor, simply to fight an asking of pension and benefit contribution. Ridiculous. Their actions are selfish and have no concern for the state or community they serve. Think of the children. Get back to work and perform the job the tax payer flipped the bill for you to have. Not to mention Wisconsin teachers, by median average, are the highest paid in the nation. It's about time a conservative steps in and demands a government to begin to run itself like a business with proper checks and balances. Hopefully this will be the start of a nation wide approach to mismanaged state budget balancing. Hey teacher, get back to work and teach our kids. Protest in summer during your three months off. Another brick in the wall.
Scstocks,
More to come I'm afraid, salsa cup half empty sort of compensations. I've tossed around several cost cutting measures such as this. I was going to incorporate a refill charge to offset the overeaters drain on my free goods cost but am weary of the repercussion.
This summer I may begin growing my own tomatoes and herbs for my restaurants. Again, not necessarily a bad thing just very time consuming.