Obama Fans Now It's Really Time To Unite

Okay Obama fans, first the good news:

GOOD NEWS: you more than proved you can act as a united force to unify your support and get out and spread the word and vote. Look what happened, you helped make history. But the bad news...

BAD NEWS: that was the easy part!

I'm not really sure (and certainly if I were Obama, I'd not be relishing January 20th) he's still partying it up about the victory you led him to. Take a peek at the facts of what he's walking into:

THE FACTS:

1. We are faced with the biggest global economic catastrophe in history

2. The Feds don't seem to have any real solutions. "Let's cut the rate - again!" just won't cut it any more.

3. Bankruptcies are up 28% and still rising

4. Unemployment is at an all-time high - and I predict will definately hit 10%

5. Consumer confidence is down 40%

6. I'm not even going to mention the housing market!


Trust me, I'm an extremely optimistic person and always try to look on the bright side, but this is like standing on the high board of a pool without knowing how to swim looking down at a bunch of very hungry sharks! What really worries me is that most people don't seem to be as scared as me, or even scared at all. Am I hallucinating this impending depression, or is everybody else drinking some LSD-loaded KoolAid?

My business is barter, via my company Merchants Barter Exchange, and as such I deal with sales people and business owners all day long. Almost everybody is putting a 'brave face' on things. Believe me, Obama is not going to wave a magic wand on January 20th and make all these bad dreams go away! But there is some good news:

GOOD NEWS: if Obama and his supporters are prepared to put in the same (or more) effort it took to get him elected, we may be able to speed the recovery process. This isn't intended as a sales pitch, however I cannot help but be a little biased due to all the great work Merchants Barter Exchange has been doing for over eight years preparing and supporting businesses for just this situation.

YOU can help the problem by becoming part of the solution. Just getting out and voting was a good start, but that is all it was. If that is all your participation is going to be and you are going to flop back down on your 'welfare' or 'entitlement' couch and watch as everybody else does the work, then you really didn't do justice to the campaign you voted for.

OBAMA needed your help then and he needs it now and will continue to need it on a daily basis until we are out of this economic catastrophe. So, what can you do...? Well, for starters you can badger your politicians and get them to see that the stimulous package actual stimulates something useful. You can also spread the word (twitter, email, blog, call, whatever - do everything you can) to everybody and anybody that will listen - just like you did during the campaign - that we all need to work as a team. Tell your local business owners to call Merchants Barter Exchange to help them save cash on things they need. Tell local entrepreneurs about MBE and get them involved. Now more than ever before we need a strong, serious back-up economy.

2009 needs to see the power of the people stand behind Obama-nomics, and Obama-nomics has to include MBE-barter as part of his success strategy otherwise we are on a very slippery slope to a bottomless pit. As he says, "It's gonna get worse before it gets better." Be prepared for a tough battle, but the end result can be very positive.

Let's pull together as a nation and show the rest of the world where our true strength lies, in the UNITED States of the American People.

Thanks for reading, now get twittering... texting... emailing... and lay the foundations for Obama to make some serious progress in January 2009.

Happy New Year????

Hopefully everyone out there is working out the cobwebs and defining their goals and purpose after an abysmal economic relapse. Before I stand on my soapbox and preach, I'd like to preface things with this... My motives and intents are pure. That being said, here we go. January 20th is quickly approaching and that takes on a historic, global magnitude. Anyone with a pulse clearly understands that their own personal and business security is being threatened. My company, Merchants Barter Exchange is the only company that is actively seeking out business owners and entrepreneurs to help weather the impending global economic collapse. Businesses that are SERIOUS about staying in business will have to incorporate MBE barter into their business plans or they will be history. My company has been supporting and preparing businesses nationally for the last eight years for this exact economic meltdown. We incubate businesses from what's unfolding in the economy around them by: helping them stop spending cash to get things they need and want, move surplus inventory, maximize capacity and acquire new business clients that normally they wouldn't have the reach to obtain.

The oldest form of commerce known to man will outlive any economic infrastructure for milennia. Folks, contrary to what some think, this alternative payment dynamic is far from a paradigm shift. Any business that is accepting credit cards or cash is bartering. This world more than ever needs a back up economy because what's in place clearly isn't. Mr. Obama MBE-Barter can help you make your term a success and you will go down in history as the most powerful and intelligent man ever. Help the world by incorporating MBE-barter into its economy.