Signs of the Hard Times: Many repair old mowers; Educator turns to prostitution
In these financially troubled times, people all over this great nation are taking desperate measures just to scrape by. If you read the news casually, it sounds like we’re just being thrifty, like we used to be when Starsky <3′d Hutch : Many repair old mowers.
But it’s darker than that. The whole story is really about motorized equimpent manufacturer Briggs & Stratton falling on hard times due in small part to a shortage of hurricanes, it would seem:
A lack of hurricanes so far this year has been felt in Briggs’ portable generator business.
In a year with multiple storms, industry-wide generator sales can top 1 million units. Briggs is one of the industry’s leaders, and generators are among its most profitable businesses.
“The generator business for us is a means of supporting our engine business,” Shiely said. “A hurricane really drives sales. It’s bad news for a lot of people, but it’s good news for the generator business.”
In other economic news, it’s not clear at this time whether the high school teacher arrested for prostitution at a Houston Hotel was moonlighting in a desperate effort to repay her ARM-reset disaster-mortgage, or maybe she was trying to save up in order live like the the McCains in one of ten million-dollar mansions… Something tells me after watching the video, high school teachers are not in the million dollar mansion market.
So we can’t yet conclude which is the least successful tactic: fixing lawnmowers, whoring, or running for president. Maybe a better idea is faking a bigfoot and then running away with $57 grand. [FAGGZ!!!]
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