If you aren’t investing in small businesses, then you aren’t investing in your future. The only future guaranteed by working for big companies is insecurity and daily sadness. And, those big companies have slaughtered the engine of America: family-owned businesses. Now, everything is a cubicle farm, a big box…

Showrooming is killing retail stores.  “Showrooming” is when you go to a store, but buy the product later online, because it’s cheaper. The product is cheaper for two reasons: low overhead (no store or employees to pay for) and no sales taxes.  Amazon’s freedom from charging sales tax is unfair…