Tuesday, March 24, 2009

1st In The Nation Recession Survival EXPO

WOW- what an event. 20 speakers, exhibitors, food drive, and lots more. It took alot of energy but we pulled of the first one. Learning alot from this event, we've decided to do a seven city Recession Expo tour- Here are the dates and areas:

May 30 San Diego California

June 27 Los Angeles California

July 25 San Francisco California

August 8 Chicago Illinois

August 29 New York City, New York

September 26 Washington DC

We're taking HereToHelp.US and te Recession Help Expo on the road!

Come join us at one of these great recession outreach events. Stay tuned at heretohelp.us for more details.

Tuesday, March 10, 2009

Enough Already! Let's Do Something About It! INTRODUCING THE RECESSION SURVIVAL EXPO MARCH 21 at The Del Mar Hilton- San Diego California





RECESSION SURVIVAL EXPO
March 21, 9:00am to 5:00pm
Del Mar Hilton Doors Open at 8:30am


Guiding Philosophies and Values at the Heart of This Event:
We can do more than just wait for the Federal government to bail us out-
We Can Help Each Other.

America is such a generous country. There’s an awful lot of help and assistance out there- connecting people to it can take the hard edge off this recession right now, while we buy time to implement some smart new ideas.

Entrepeneurialism, will, creativity and drive have always been the real assets of America. It’s time we exercised those muscles again to restore the small-business heart of the American economy.

There is no doubt that this recession is happening. We’re all going to have to adjust and change- so we might as well get started.


Agencies:
San Diego County Housing Commission
San Diego Parks and Recreation
North County Community Resource Center
San Diego County Water Authority
County of San Diego Assistance Programs
Sign On San Diego Job Search Resources –Union Tribune
Well Point- Healthy Families/AIM program

Speakers:
(See speaker bios at HereToHelp.Us Recession Survival Resources Web Portal)

Opening Session:
Bart Allen Berry, Author Of “How We Will Endure—Values, Strategy and Leadership In The New Recession. Bart will also moderate the event.



Feature Speakers:
(seating is limited for these popular presenters - RSVP at HereToHelp.Us )

David Burke, Founder of The Real Talk Network- Consumer and Mortgage debt is Strangling America- Find out how Dave’s best practice innovative debt reduction techniques and approach can have all your debt paid off in 5-7 years – no kidding. New and fresh approaches will help you free up cash flow, accelerate your payments and kill your debt fast. Your situation IS salvageable. Don’t worry, Dave has seen everything. Bring it.

Conrado Hinojosa, Esq. is a Bankruptcy Specialist with The Doan Law Firm who have handled more than 20,000 bankruptcy cases. Find out the pros and cons of bankruptcy, debt collections and garnishments, impacts from foreclosure, Chapter 13 and Chapter 7, Lien Stripping and more. Questions are welcome.

Teresa Penunuri, San Diego County Water Authority. On top of everything else, there is a water shortage coming. Get ready for your rates to double in some areas. Take the 20 gallon challenge and learn new techniques for not only saving water, but how to reduce your water bill before it goes up.

John McConnin, Esq., attorney, real estate broker will present the Anatomy of A Short Sale, dangers and pitfalls, benefits and relief. No one starts out with the short sale in mind but if you have to do it, learn all you can. Distressed mortgage holders need to hear this before they make their decisions.

Blanca de La Torre. Cross-Border Promotion. Blanca will share an insider’s view of consumer money saving opportunities across the border, cheaper medical care in Mexico, and promotion of low-cost manufacturing at over 1000 NAFTA world-class facilities that are ready for American ingenuity and creativity to compete with products made in China. Want to manufacture something again?

Irka Davis, Principal, Baja Bungalows will present the opportunities for expat living a few hours south of the Border with a high quality of life on the coast and much lower overhead. As an active retiree, a senior who needs support but can’t afford high priced care in the US or just someone who wants to ‘wait it out’, the fun loving enclave of hundreds of who have been there for thirty years or more. are happy to tell you about one of the best decisions they ever made.

James Brady, principal, Home Loan Preservation. Learn what best practice looks like from the loan mitigation experts working on the front lines nationally. As the moving target of bank behavior, new Federal programs and refinance policy continues to confuse and befuddle, this ‘white hat’ champion of ethical behavior will give you straight answers, insights into what banks are really doing, and guidance for what you might expect from the mortgage work-out process.

Richard Manning, California Department of Insurance- State Sponsored Low Cost Auto Insurance. Learn how you can reduce your car insurance to as low as $265. per year! The State came up with this? You bet. Real relief in the wallet right where you need it.

Sharon Lieder, Strategic Consultant Organizations of every size have sustained traumatic losses of long-time employees and organizational memory, market share and commercial relationships, and are holding things together with duct tape. What will it take for an organization to create a healthy culture and a commitment to quality, success and excellence.

Joe Emmet, Marketing veteran. Out of a job? It may be time to look at a part-time business. Joe will moderate a lightening-round of two minute presentations from some of the best network marketing companies out there. This will be fun and you might be surprised.

Erika Rooks, San Diego Housing Commission. Recently awarded Federal dollars for neighborhood revitalization, this new Housing Commission administered program reaches out to foreclosed properties to stop deteriorization of neighborhoods. The housing has also been administrating a range of low income housing programs for many years and will explain how these programs work for those who may be looking at them for the first time.

Simon White, CEO of Online Marketing Profiles. Answering the need of the newly unemployed, but non-web programmer, Simon will cover the minimum core essentials of getting yourself established as a ‘web-entity’ to launch your home business, your new consulting business, or as a way to leverage the WWW network to get yourself found by employers. Social Media Networking, keywords and search optimization, basic functionality and multi-media and more will be covered fast. Plan to take notes and talk to him afterwards..

Center For Sustainable Energy. Got a high electricity bill? Who doesn’t? Cut it.
Learn all of the things you can do to save on that regular monthly bill- and help the planet in the process.

Steven King of Pacific Rim Wealth Management. Invest Now? Where and How? Index funds, gold, T-bills, munis, dividends, the mattress? Where can I put my money today? Have we hit the bottom? Steve will share some logic and clear thinking about your money in these troubled times.

Harlan Friedman. SBA loan specialist. Is there still money out there for my small business? Although conditions for lending have changed here are still program available including the Obama administration’ s micro-finance option for loans of $5,000. to $35,000. Conditions are tighter but the door is still open.

3:00pm Panel Discussion: Economic Stimulus in The San Diego Region-
Is there one BIG IDEA for San Diego that will stimulate growth, jobs, investment, opportunity and economic activity?

Could San Diego lead the country as the first major city to embark on a 21st century project that turns this recession on it’s head?

We think so. We’ll share our ideas - you share yours. Vote on the one you like the best.

Activities
Food Drive. Everybody bring something. Cans or dried goods and we will re-distribute to those who need it at the expo. If there’s any left it goes to the North County Community Resource Center. Loaves and Fishes anybody?

Frugal Ideas and Cheap Fun. This interactive session will give everyone a chance to share their best living-thrifty ideas from cooking and car mechanics to cheap travel and buying in bulk. Bring your ideas to share and we will create a giant comprehensive resource list at the heretohelp.us web portal to be shared with the entire world.

Hanna Badura, holistic practitioner and spiritualist, will lead an uplifting meditation to release stress and anxiety in these troubled times, and to project positive feelings of hope and compassion for the days ahead.

Transcendence Theater Company will be performing recession oriented vignettes and whatever else they want in the expo area. We don’t know exactly what they are going to do…

12 Year Old Rock Band-special appearance. Will play the expo as their first gig. They’re practicing furiously now. They may have to make it big and take care of Mom and Dad. We’ll see how they do.

Each attendee will get a 50 question recession survival self-assessment and recession planning guide, as well as thousands of additional recession resource links at the HereToHelp.Us Recession Survival Web Portal.


Invited:
Congressman Bob Filner
City Councilwoman Marti Emerald
Supervisor Ron Roberts
Weatherman Gardener Guy Loren Nancarrow
Consul General Mexican Consulate
Father Joe Carroll


Exhibitor Area
Features one on one consults, in depth questioning with presenters and exhibitors.

Forms and qualification for various programs such as Cal works/Food Stamps,

All kinds of job search resources including registration for upcoming career fairs.

Grow your own vegetable garden and feed yourself-even on a micro scale.


We’re adding more daily-




Remember this event is absolutely free.. and everyone is invited.




Interested Exhibitors/Sponsors contact@heretohelp.us 760-815-4527
Businesses of all kinds are encouraged to donate to the food drive.

Monday, March 2, 2009

AIG...Thirty Bil Mas?

OK Ok, some of you are thinking-- wouldn't it just be cheaper to start a new company instead of flushing another thirty billion with a 'B' down this cesspool?

At what point do you stop trying to resuscitate the diseased tree and spend the money on growing some new ones?

The scary part is not that the new Treasury department guy doesn't know what he's doing, or the possibility that he's in collusion with the same old boys club-- the truly terrifying thing is that these are intelligent people making really well-informed decisions and THERE WILL BE SOME TRULY CATACLYSMIC REPERCUSSIONS if we don't pump in another 30 billion. No Senate hearings, no open discussion- they all just agree that WE HAVE TO DO THIS..!!!

Damn. That means you might actually have a heart attack if you saw their balance sheet.

What I want to know is---Who were the specific individuals who let things get this bad-? Where do they live? Why aren't they in prison? If we aren't due for any financial relief, maybe we can get some emotional release by seeing these guys get keel hauled.

And oh yeah, The DOW dipped below 7000 today (not far to go for a loss of 50% of the DOW from it's historical highs).