We have an on-line bank where we get .9% on our balance.  We have a local Michigan bank (soon to be an Ohio bank) where we get .1% on our balance.  And then we have an account at the Charles Schwab & Co. bank where we get a disgustedly miserly .01% on our balance.  Shame on you Schwab Bank!

Actually, the word "Michigan" is an old Indian term.  Loosely translated, it means: "Oh $hit.  rain again today"!

It's all about people.  Top management must realize that their greatest asset are the employees dealing with the money spending public.  Circuit City found that out so too has the remaining top management at JC Penney.  Do you think they are smart enough to realize and accept this basic fact?   There are a lot of JC ...more

The world is full of companies that lost track of who they were.  JCP is not alone in that.  We only have to look at Kodak, Bell & Howell, Argus Camera, Bill Knapps and others.   If the JCP Board of Directors hired me (no chance of that), I'd copy Kohl's marketing and run with it.   On the other hand, any Board of ...more

I've said it before and I'll say it again.  There is not one single politician in Washington DC that gives a "tinker's-dam" about our economy and how it effects us..  Did you or I screw-up the economy?  No! Of course not!  Those fools in Washington are responsible for the mess this country is in.  The worst part is tha...more

Seems to me that House Speaker Pelosi took similar trips, but the main-stream news media never delved into that, did they?

Have all Federal politicians pay into Social Security. Put the system in a "Lock Box" so they cannot touch it. Raise the full retirement age gradually to 70 (over a 20 year span) and take the cap off the wages..  The "ultra-High" earners can only take out how much they put in.  Establish a true cost-of-living factor to...more

What a shame 'cause I like shopping at JCP.  Funny, last time I made that post I got a lot of negative feed-back.  Probably from those "workers" busy playing games and watching You Tube videos!  If so, I hope they all got fired or laid-off.

NBC in trouble?  Aw, what a shame.  I hope they go out of business.  After-all, they were the ones who altered Zimmerman's comments and turned it into something he did not say!  OK, so NBC fired the producer.  I'll bet the only reason was he/she got exposed for doing it.  I do not trust our main stream news media and N...more