I was just saying to a friend, “If we knew how many foreclosure properties existed and if every available, for sale or rent property in our area had a sign posted…you’d would think we were living in an up-and-coming Ghost Town.” The economy is really hitting our families hard now. Plus, small businesses are getting big hits too. I was sad to see the Cantonment Pharmacy close it’s doors.

I personally would love to help my community grow by opening a new business! Supporting local and made in USA only products. I would love to be able to offer even a handful of jobs and eventually save enough business dollars to offer scholarships to students in our area! I have big dreams but at times, the risk doesn’t seem to make good business sense.

Look at the recent small businesses that have had those same dreams already. How much support have we been able to provide? Eventually, I see empty shops and that is so sad to me. Business is a risk. But, in today’s economy it seems to be an even bigger risk.

Here is to (my) continued dreaming and community support!

If we want to eat out, we drive. That was our choice.

If we want to shop at Walmart or Target, we drive. That was our choice.

Leave our country life alone and for the LOVE OF GOD PLEASE do not put yet another light on Hwy 29!!!!!!

We used to have small stores on nearly every corner, back before cheap fuel, good roads, reliable automobiles made it possible to drive further distances economically. That mostly went away and resulted in urban sprawl as people sought more room and the owners of the small stores went broke as people bypassed them to go to IGA, Piggly Wiggly, Food Giant, whatever. (Some stayed in business by selling things people didn’t want to drive half an hour to get one or two items of.)

We aren’t a planned society where the government tells us what we can do and what we need and what we can have. (Those tend to go broke, by the way.)

People will be risking their money in hopes of making money by providing a service to others.
Maybe they will succeed, maybe they will fail.

When we talk about being lazy as meaning the same as not driving further to get what we want, how does lazy enter the picture? The vehicle does all the work.

Stores closer to users should mean fewer vehicles on the roads for less time for fewer miles, thereby making the roads safer, extending the useful life of the vehicles and conserving energy in the process.

To point out that other stores are also needed closer, or at least desired closer is to note other opportunities to serve others for a profit. Nothing stops investors from opening those other things if they believe they can make money by doing so.

David for leaving command economies behind