Mattress Answer Man Speaks |

The next congress hasn’t even taken office but Wall Street is poised to start it’s latest snake oil business. Derivatives.  Yes they haven’t gone away and now they are back to not only steal our money but to also sidestep the law. This is why things cost so much. There is too much money made on money. When you make money on money there is no labor costs but your own needs (unless you are making so much money on money that you can afford to throw a few pebbles of sand to multiply your greed). Facebook which has less than 500 shares of stock sells one share to an investment firm which then creates a derivative of the one share. By creating derivatives of the stock, the inves... Read More

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After yesterday how can any person in good faith vote for a republican. Maybe they should quit listening and start researching. Yesterday the senate republicans almost in mass voted for rape. Yes they voted for rape. While they stand and give speeches on how the new health care plan will fund abortions because it doesn’t say no payments for abortion even though that is already in law. These great two faced gentlemen voted against an amendment not to give any defense contractor money if they didn’t allow women to go to court after being raped by putting a clause in their contract preventing it. It’s ok to play the anti democrat game the other side plays the anti republican g... Read More

Today was not my best day. Unfortunately I had to spend it at the services and burial of a great man that few knew. In reality I know his wife better than I knew him. I was once a salesman then a manager at Sleepys.  For those of you not in a state north of Virginia on the east coast (and only on the eastern side of some of these states)  Sleepys is the largest singly owned mattress chain. When I started at Sleepys Harold Lorber and his wife Willie were already there. After a short while I was asked to take Willie’s store as the manager, these were at the time generally one person stores, displacing her  and she was asked to float between stores. Harold showed one of his best traits... Read More