yeah the economy sucks right now...hopefully this new economic plan obama is promising will do something to turn things around ...my income has dropped by atleast 40% in the last year and i sell tools to the federal gov. u know your in trouble when the federal gov. is broke... i have had this job for 10 years and i have never seen it this bad...normally if we are slow u just wait for a new quarter to hit and they get their new budgets...this year every quarter has gotten worse and worse.... and when i ask my customers when they think things are gonna turn around all they say is they are gettin more and more budget cuts and layoffs... its kinda hard to sell a guy drill bits when he just had to lay off half his crew...oh well... hopefully now that democrats are back in office the gov will tax the hell out of the big business owners and ill get a break...either way its just shifting the problem from one place to another...