What are 20 of them doing at Appleby's, probably the most expensive lunch place around, besides Chili's?   That's about $800 for lunch!!   Why not mcDonald's for a buck a  hamburg if they're trying to be humble, conservative, and supposedly doing God's work?   That would have been about $100!!   That's ...more

wiscobob; I hear you!  There are some holes, like pipe and valves due to the housing bust, and  Boeing aircraft work is light right now, but send your sales force out to look for some new customers!  Anyone doing machining can pretty much fill their shops up right now while your regular customers are slow!  Good luck!

I don't know where they are getting their numbers from.  My company is in basic manufacturing (metalworking) and we are a major manufacturer dealing on a national basis (in the hundreds of millions of dollars in sales)  with thousands of customers in every key industry and sector, aerospace, auto, power generation, hea...more