Carl Crossman Blog

One thing that I could never live without is my car. I rely on it for everything. When I go out in the driveway to start it, I expect it to work. That’s why I was very disappointed when it failed to start the other day. It turns out that all I needed was a jump start as my battery had gotten low, but it got me to thinking about taking it in for some general maintenance.

The problem I had was that even though I have been living in this area for awhile, I never really found a ford repair shop that I was happy with. I naturally don’t trust repair shops and I can be quite picky about the work they do. I started looking around online to see if I could find another shop to find. I found a few new places and decided to try one.

In the end, I found a shop I liked. My car got some of the love and care it needed and I feel much about its reliability. I’ll have to tell all my friends about the new shop I found. It won’t be too long before I will have to buy a new car, but I hope this one will last for awhile longer.

One thing that my company likes to do is to enter into the various trade shows that deal with our line of work. We go all over the country and participate whenever we can. It’s fun and interesting but sometimes it can get a little hectic. With so many people coming up to our stand, it can get a little hard to deal with. That’s why we decided to do something about crowd control for our display.

At first we thought that barricades may be the answer. But after thinking about it for awhile, we thought that might be a little too much to deal with. They are bulky and heavy and our staff didn’t want to go through a lot of setup. In the end, we decided that we could get away with just using velvet rope and stanchions to move people through our lines. It has helped us control the crowd in a non- confrontational way.

Now our displays are much more orderly. Everybody gets their chance to see our goods without interruptions from others who may interested. The whole thing has worked out very well for our crew and everyone is happy. I am always glad when we find a solution to a problem that helps us as well as our customers.

New reports have come out saying that the federal budget ran a deficit of $80 million dollars for the month of December. While this number is down from last December, it is still worrying for many economists. The total deficit is projected to be around $1.3 trillion dollars for the coming year.

The deficit is staggering and has many worried that the financial security of the U.S. is in danger. Efforts to close the gap have largely failed and there seems to be no end in sight. The economy is slightly improving though and some hold out hope that this will improve the situation. I sure hope it does.

A new report came out today about the money it costs to make a penny. It turns out that it costs 1.62 cents to make each penny because of the cost of raw materials. That means the taxpayers are losing money at an alarming rate.

There has been some talk about eliminating pennies altogether. The idea has not been popular and so things will continue as they are for now. The budget is busting though and the pressure is building to eliminate the penny or change the materials it’s made of. For now, all we can do is turn in your pennies!!!

I was extremely happy to hear today that the number of unemployment applications dropped off this month. I believe that the job market is getting better and this is good news for millions of Americans. Getting people back to work will help the nation recover from its economic woes.

The only problem is that there are still millions of Americans without work. I do hope that these numbers will decline as the economy gets better. Our nation has struggled with unemployment long enough and its time we get going again!