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Four Chimneys on the island of Nantucket was built in 1835, long before Nantucket was a thriving tourist destination and was still a community based on the whaling economy. Like many of Nantucket’s older houses, this grand four-story home has since served as one of the island’s many bed and breakfast inns. The home was renovated in 2003 and with new electrical and plumbing systems. The first floor includes the stairway with a decorative painted floor and two parlor rooms with high ceilings and fireplaces. There is a huge kitchen and a dining area with wide, plank floors, fireplace and a window seat. There’s also a bedroom on the first floor and a large covered porch. The second floor includes more bedrooms and a master bedroom with access to a big deck which provides ocean views. The basement includes a two-bedroom ground floor apartment with an open living and kitchen area. This home listed at $6.495 million.

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Children are fantastically creative because they don’t know they aren’t.  Adults are not creative because they know they’re not.

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If you want to create, what’s stopping you?  I have some inspiration for you, in a book by an author named Brenda Ueland.  You can win this book by responding with a comment to my Contest Post (click HERE).

Today is the last day.  I will accept your comments until midnight.  Then I’ll use the random number generator to choose a winner, who will receive Brenda Ueland’s wonderful book If You Want to Write: A Book about Art, Independence and Spirit

This book isn’t just about writing; it’s about creativity in all of its forms.  So far, entries have included:

poetry
painting
children’s books
suspense novels
comic books
quilting
a cure for cancer (!)
a dollhouse

How about you?  What would you like to create?  Tell me!

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Baby Boomers in business:  I’m curious.

Has the credit crunch affected your business?  For example:

  • Have you found that business is slower?
  • Have you had trouble collecting money from customers?
  • Has your bank pulled bank your credit line or denied you additional funding?

Comment or use my latest poll to let me know.

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cashAs the ever-increasing stench of socialism wafts from the halls of our legislative branch, one must take pause to wonder exactly how we got to where we’re this day economically. Yes, I know that there has been a lot of pausing and wondering going on lately. What ticks me off is that it seems that very few of those who are pausing and wondering seem to be able to form the words to express the reality of what they have determined to be true, which is: that the single most significant root cause for today’s economic dilemma is the erosion of income for the American middle class private sector.

For the purposes of this piece, I’ll state that I think about the “middle class” to be those workers who earn between $14,000 and $125,000 per year. That covers just about every worker from entry level manufacturing to first tier management. We create the bulk of real wages that move throughout this country. We also pay virtually all of the taxes in this country. Never mind that corporations pay large sums in corporate taxes every year, because the fact of the matter is, they collect those sums from us at the consumer level. Yes, we pay those corporate tax bills, and we know it.

It’s the middle class private sector which supports capitalism. It’s the middle class private sector which supports the government. It’s the middle class private sector which builds and floats Wall Street. Laugh if you’ll, then look at today’s Dow Industrial Average… gotcha!

I warned readers almost two years ago that our incomes here at ground level were drying up. I told the world that we were closing our wallets. I almost begged investors to exit retail, and the worst there is yet to come. Face it folks; we, the American middle class, are the support structure for the world financial system. Blind capitalists have raped and pillaged us. Now we are being ignored as the system to which we are essential slowly dies. I called the dance, ” world economic shake down.” Now it’s here, but no one is dancing.

At this point, I don’t think I’ll call myself a Patriot-Capitalist-Industrialist. I think I’m a Patriot-Industrialist with Capitalist leanings now. The reason for this is simple; As I’ve written on these pages before, “If you don’t have manufacturing, then you’ve nothing at all.”

It’s high time for capitalism to again take a far back seat to manufacturing. Industrialism built this country. Without it, we shall fall.

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