The dock was slammed today at my barn in the northeast. Due to I'm sure, the skeleton crew over the holidays. Our outbound has been okay lately.
We'll see what happens when the holiday bubble comes out of the system, and especially after inauguration day..
I think alot of this "recession" is driven by the media. My wife was layed off, with 20 other people, strictly to a knee jerk reaction, on a slow month. When things pick up, the dummies are gonna be 20 people short. I told her today, to put in her resume back to her old job...
I talk to alot of people, being a city driver. The electrical industry is booming! One guy told me, that November was his best month in years. The printing industry is running two shifts, six days a week. The only companies that are slow, are traditionally slow this time of year anyway, such as my wife's dumb company! The only industries that are really suffering have to do directly with the "consumer confidence" industries... Housing, cars, appliances, etc., which require credit.
Obama is talking tax cuts across the board. If that includes small buisiness, we will be okay. As soon as the corporations learn that they will not be taxed to death by a liberal, things will snap back quickly. Congress and the Senate seem to be falling in line, as far as the press tells us anyway. We'll see the real deal soon enough.