You Sleep When You Die

The big reason Party City is a great role model for today’s retailers is that they treat the customer’s money and time just as though it were their own…Party City now has an extremely successful marketing methodology in place, one that’s resonating powerfully with consumers … even when discretionary dollars are tight.

Here are some tough-minded observations on America’s ever-worsening fiscal nightmare from a leading US politician. See whether you can figure out who’s talking.

Marketers looked at their research numbers and concluded — correctly, it turns out — that many consumers were going to have to choose between paying their rent or mortgage and buying school supplies this August.

The United States government is the biggest business in the world, and for our political leaders, Republican or Democrat, to think it’s okay to run a deficit is just plain wrong.

This post is dedicated to everyone who supported Barack Obama in 2008…it’s now obvious that you wasted your vote.