-Stop using credit cards (if applicable)
-Track ALL your spending, carry a small notebook in your wallet/purse.
-Deal in cash whenever possible.
-Build a buffer of one month’s expenses in your checking account.

After a month or two of that, you should be able to put together a budget that is more than a guess.

Every month, your budget will get more accurate, and if you are disciplined enough, your savings will grow as you trim expenses.
As far as savings go, there are a number of methods, you can have some of every check transferred to savings, you can keep a piggy bank, you can buy CD’s from your bank when the checking account buffer gets to a certain size, or you can get creative. We have a dedicated savings plan for medium-sized purchases … we don’t spend $10 bills, they go in the savings box until there is enough cash to buy what we want.

-Save money on tables by having people eat out of a trough
-Allow people to throw their garbage on the floor with their peanut shells
-Refuse to refund money to customers who got salmonella
-Require kaftans
-Convince customers the D from the health inspection stands for delicious

Make sure you open your restaurant in an area that is near other restaurants. Offer to save them money on trash disposal fees by dealing with some of their food waste for them. Have your kitchen staff periodically pick through this trash and gather up anything that looks like it might still be edible, and incorporate it into the meals that you serve. It’s amazing how many people throw away perfectly good pasta, steak, meat from sandwiches, etc., just because they ordered more than they could eat and are too lazy to take the leftovers home. Let their loss be your gain, and help to save the environment at the same time by recycling food so it doesn’t end up in a landfill somewhere.

For example, let’s say the steak house across the street serves 16 ounce ribeye steaks. Many people won’t finish theirs, so there should be an ample supply of steak pieces, let’s say somewhere around four ounces each, in their trash. You can combine these and sell 12-ounce portions as three four-ounce mini-steaks, and because the food didn’t cost you anything, you can dramatically undercut the steak house’s prices and still make a profit.

I don’t seem to know of this happening since Vietnam.

Semper Fidelis,
Z

Republicans want to and advocate for:
- Make unions illegal
- Eliminate minimum wage
- Eliminate social security and pensions
- Outsource jobs to foreign markets
- Eliminate safety and health regulations
- Tax the workers more, eliminate taxes on the rich (who already pay much less as a percentage of income than the workers)

All of those things hurt workers. They have proposed NOTHING that helps workers.

Republicans claim, "Our government should not punish people for being successful." But in reality, the "successful" are not punished at all when the "successful" only pay 15% and the workers pay 30%.

How are we punishing the successful when the successful get enormous breaks from the government, while the workers are suffering lower and lower wages as the rich get richer?

THIS is the one part I cannot grasp or understand. They claim to hold and embody so many values yet assault the common working person at every turn. They want the worker weak and blind and dumb. I don’t understand.