Global Resorts by Jim

The beautiful coastline of St. Thomas and the natural contours of it’s hills and valleys, combined with year-round sunshine and tropical flora, make the Magens Bay Villas Club the ultimate vacation experience.
El bello contorno de costa de St. Thomas y los contornos naturales de sus colinas y valles, combinado con el sol y su flora tropical convierten al club “Magens Bay Villas” en la mayor experiencia vacacional.
 
 

The breathtaking beauty of Magen’s Beach was voted one of the 10 most beautiful beaches by National Geographic Magazine, and provides the perfect setting for this tropical resort.
La imponente belleza de la playa de Magen ha sido votada como una de las 10 playas más hermosas por la Revista National Geographic y ofrece el emplazamiento perfecto para este resort tropical.
 
 

When comparing the exact dates and unit size with membership, non of the major travel providers had any availability.
Al comparar en las mismas fechas y tipo de alojamiento ofertado en nuestra membresia, ninguno de los más importante proveedores de viajes tiene disponibilidad

We called the resort direct to get a quote for the week being offered through membership.
Procedimos a realizar la consulta directamente en el resort para obtener un precio en la comparativa en esta semana.

We would have spent over $260.00 per night totaling $1,841.00 for the week. Membership has it for only $298.
Habriamos pagado hasta 260 USD por noche con un total de 1.841 USD por la semana completa. La membresia nos lo ofrece por solo 298 USD

That’s a minimum savings of over $1,500.00 on this one week alone. These types of savings are available exclusively to our members.
Este es un ahorro mínimo de 1.500 USD en esta única semana. Este tipo de ahorros son exclusivos de nuestros miembros

Enjoy Life!
Disfruta la vida

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G L O B A L   R E S O R T S   N E T W O R K
22601 N. 17th Ave. Suite 230
Phoenix, AZ 85027
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First, while it is easy to spew rhetoric that casts employers against employees, you have to understand that for every business owner there is a “Back Story”.  This back story is often neglected and overshadowed by what you see and hear.  Sure, you see me park my Mercedes outside.  You’ve seen my home at last year’s Christmas party.  I’m sure that all these flashy icons of luxury conjure up some idealized thoughts about my life.

However, what you don’t see is the BACK STORY:

I started this company 28 long years ago.  At that time, I lived in a 300 square foot studio apartment for 3 years.  My entire living apartment was converted into an office so I could put forth 100% effort into building a company which, by the way, would eventually employ you.

My diet consisted of Ramen noodles because almost every dollar I spent went back into this company.  I drove a rusty “previously owned” Toyota Corolla with a defective transmission.

I didn’t have time to date.  Often times, I stayed home on weekends working on ways to improve my business, while my friends went out drinking and partying.  In fact, I was married to my business — hard work, discipline, and sacrifice.

Meanwhile, my friends got jobs in existing businesses.  They worked 40 hours a week and made a modest $50K a year and then spent every dime they earned.  They drove flashy cars, lived in expensive homes and wore fancy designer clothes.

Instead of hitting the Nordstrom’s for the latest hot fashion item, I was trolling through the discount store extracting any clothing item that didn’t look like it was birthed in the 70’s.  My friends refinanced their mortgages and lived a life of luxury.  I however, did not.  I put my time, my money, and my life into a business with a vision that eventually, some day, I too would be able to afford these luxuries my friends supposedly had.

So , while you physically arrive at the office at 9 am, mentally check in at about noon, and then leave at 5:00 pm, I don’t.  There is no “off” button for me.  When you leave the office, you are done and you have a weekend all to yourself.  I unfortunately do not have the freedom.  I eat and breathe this company every minute of the day. There is no rest.  There is no weekend.  I somehow now feel that I have people to support.

There is no happy hour.  Every day this business is attached to my hip like a 1 year old special-needs child.  You, of course, only see the fruits of that garden — the nice house, the Mercedes, the vacations.  You never realize the Back Story and the sacrifices I’ve made.
Now the economy is falling apart and I, the person that made all the right decisions and saved his money, have to bail out all the people who didn’t.  The people that overspent their paychecks suddenly feel entitled to the same luxuries that I earned and sacrificed decades of my life for.

Yes, business ownership has its benefits, but the price I’ve paid is steep and not without wounds.

Unfortunately, the cost of running this business, and employing you, is starting to eclipse the threshold of marginal benefit.  Let me tell you why:

I am being taxed to death and the government thinks I don’t pay enough.  I have state taxes, Federal taxes, Property taxes, Sales and use taxes, Payroll taxes, Workers compensation taxes, Unemployment taxes and Taxes on taxes.  I have to hire a tax man to manage all these taxes and then guess what?  I have to pay taxes for employing him.  Government mandates and regulations, and all the accounting that goes with them, now occupy most of my time.  On October 15th, I wrote a check to the US Treasury for $288,000 for quarterly taxes. You know what my “stimulus” check was?  Zero.  Nada.  Zilch. 

The question I have for you is this: Who is it that really stimulates the economy?  Me, the guy who has provided 23 people good paying jobs and serves over 200,000 customers per year with a flourishing business?  Or the single mother sitting at home pregnant with her fourth child waiting for he r next welfare check?  Obviously, the current government feels the latter is the economic stimulus of this country.

The fact is, if I deducted (read: Stole) 50% of your paycheck, you’d quit and you wouldn’t work here.  I mean, why should you?  That’s nuts.  Who wants to get rewarded for only 50% of their hard work?  Well, I agree–which is why your job is in jeopardy.

Here is what many of you don’t understand:  to stimulate the economy you need to stimulate what runs the economy.  If the government had suddenly told me that I didn’t need to pay taxes, guess what?  Instead of depositing that $288,000 into the Washington black hole, I would have spent it, hired more employees, and generated substantial economic growth.  My employees would have enjoyed the wealth of that tax cut in the form of promotions and better salaries. But you can forget it now.

When you have a comatose man on the verge of death from a heart attack, you don’t shock and defibrillate his thumb thinking that will bring him back to life, do you?  Or do you defibrillate his heart?  Business is at the heart of America and always has been.  To restart it, you must stimulate it, not kill it.  Certain power brokers in Washington believe the poor of America are the essential drivers of the American economic engine.  Nothing could be further from the truth.  They are however, the ones who vote for those politicians and therefore the reason they are there.

If any new taxes are levied on me, or my company, my reaction will be swift and simple.  I will fire you and your co-workers. Then I will close this company down and retire somewhere in this world where I believe I can survive in comfort.  You see, I have my limits.

You can then plead with the government to pay for your mortgage, your SUV, and your child’s future.  Frankly, it won’t be my problem anymore.  If you lose your job, it won’t actually be at the hands of the economy; it will be at the hands of a political hurricane that swept through this country, steamrolled the constitution, and changed its landscape forever.  If that happens, you can find me somewhere sitting on a beach, retired, and with no employees to worry about.