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Business/Economics

U.S. Job Losses & Store Closings 20 – 21 March 2014: 13-thousand + teaching jobs being killed? Kiss 40-thousand Army jobs good bye! 10-thousand postal service jobs gone to hell! More proof of coming housing market crash! ObamaCare killing education jobs!

Incomplete list of announced closings & layoffs.

The U.S. Army wants to kill 40-thousand jobs by the end of 2015!

The Congress controlled U.S. Postal Regulatory Commission will eliminate 10-thousand U.S. Postal Service jobs between now and the end of 2015!  USPS has halted hiring. The USPS has already lost 320-thousand jobs since 2000!!!

California: Tax sucker Boeing continued killing jobs, this time 16 people became unemployed.  In Fresno, GAF continued killing jobs, this time 11 people became unemployed.  In San Jose, after only four years Elefante Blanco upscale thrift shop shutdown.  The owner blames it on a rent increase.

Colorado: Obama Care killing healthcare management company Global Healthcare Exchange (GHX).  Company officials said they must “restructure” to adjust to the new realities of Obama Care, which means more than 130 employees are now unemployed!  In Grand Junction, CenturyLink shutting down their call center by July.  The number of call center jobs being lost was not reported, but local news media said it would affect dozens of jobs outside the call center.

Connecticut: The city of New Britain warned its 500 employees of massive layoffs.  The city is projected to be in the hole $33-million USD!

Georgia: Jackson County School District wants to kill 42 jobs.  District officials blamed decreased funding and gott damned Obama Care for jacking up health insurance and retirement costs for employees!  Officials say reduced taxpayer funding and increased Obama Care costs have created a $4.6-million shortfall!   In Richmond Hill, after more than 33 years manufacturer of foodservice and food retail products, Hobart, shutting down.  50 jobs lost.  Operations are being consolidated to Ohio.

Hawaii: United Airlines laying off an undisclosed number of employees.  Reports say it could be in the “hundreds”!

Illinois: In Saint Charles, after only five years Dolce Bakery and Cafe shutdown without notice.  In Chicago, Angel Food Bakery shutdown, the owner Stephanie Samuels blames the gott damned economy, saying  “I have given my heart, soul, and just about everything else I’ve got to this project of mine, but I have not been able to make it sustainable for me….”     Dunlap School District laid off 17 employees.  It was revealed the district is in the hole $2.1-million.   Employees are pissed because last year the district led everybody to believe the district was in good shape.   State officials warned of massive layoffs across the board, because of a massive 2015 budget shortfall.  The Superintendent of Schools warned 13400 teachers could become unemployed!  Department of Corrections says besides a 20% reduction of prison guard jobs, 11 prisons will be shutdown and 15500 prisoners released!   ‘Elected’ officials said the only way to avoid such an economic hell is to massively raise taxes.  Sounds like the people of Illinois are damned if they do, damned if they don’t!

Kansas: Overland Park, cell phone service Sprint finally admitted they are going to hell!  Not only have they closed three major call centers (reported in previous Job Losses & Store Closings reports) but they will shutdown 55 Sprint stores and kill 1400 jobs across the United States!

Michigan: In White Lake Township, Kmart announced they will shutdown in April.  It was once called the Kmart Store of the Future.

Minnesota: Mortgage default servicing and publishing operation The Dolan Company, now chapter 11 bankrupt busted!  The really big banks halted all mortgage loans to the company!  The company’s CEO has resigned.  In Saint Cloud, Bo Diddley’s Pub & Deli shutting down in April.  The owner refused to say why, but did say he was expanding his other restaurants.

Missouri: In Kansas City, after 42 years Superlatives home furnishings and gift store shutdown.

New Hampshire: In Manchester, light maker Osram Sylvania shutting down a factory in September, 139 jobs lost!

New Mexico: After more than 3 decades Albuquerque Lighting shutdown.  The owner said the suck ass economy has “…been devastating for 5½ years!”

New York: In Amsterdam, Quandt’s Foodservice Distributors moved their planned layoffs to the end of April.  The company was sold off.  116 jobs will be lost!  In Fredonia, food supplier ConAgra continues factory shutdowns.  395 jobs to be killed between October 2014 and May 2015!  Trenton School District to layoff 77 employees. District officials blamed part of their $10.5-million shortfall on charter schools.

Pennsylvania: In York, light maker Osram Sylvania shutting down a factory in September, 118 jobs lost!

Rhode Island: In Central Falls, light maker Osram Sylvania shutting down a factory in September, 88 jobs lost.

South Carolina: The U.S. Army has warned of layoffs at Fort Jackson.  If the Defense Department doesn’t get the taxpayer funding it demands, then 3100 Fort Jackson employees will become unemployed!

South Dakota: In Sioux Falls, after 60 years Sid’s Liquor shutdown.  The president of Sid’s blamed his crashing sales on state officials who, in 2008, passed a law that allowed big corporations to have more than one liquor license: “It’s like there’s a liquor store on every block.  And we saw our sales decline by over 1-Million dollars a year! Which was a real kick in the pants. And we started losing money, and the losses just keep getting bigger!”-Paul Damyan

Tennessee: In Gallatin, after only two years Butterbean Bakery and Bistro shutdown.  It’s blamed on health problems.

Texas: Obama Care has killed off Hospice House of Odessa! The operators said the new health care law made it almost impossible for them to provide care for terminally ill people!

Virginia: In Charlottesville, tax sucker Niitek laid off 78 employees.  It’s blamed on reduced military spending.

Washington:  The U.S. Department of Energy announced it will shutdown the Waste Sampling and Characterization Facility for the highly contaminated Hanford nuke site.  60 jobs lost.  Apparently the DoE is going to send nuke waste samples to “offsite” labs.  Sounds like a False Flag set up to me.

19 March 2014: Government fails to dole out what it collects in school taxes, is it a conspiracy to kill education? 

The U.S. Department of Labor (DoL) doesn’t count the hundreds of layoffs involving less than 50 people each, in its mass layoff reports. It also doesn’t count all the little ‘mom & pop’ businesses that shut down.

“Our ideals and principles, as well as our national security……..That’s what makes America different. That’s what makes us exceptional.”-Barack Obama, 10 September 2013

Business/Economics

Exceptional Failed State: Recession on verge of Depression, “Total collapse” of U.S. GDP, $200-billion drop in production profits! Blame weather? Blame ObamaCare!!!

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The 1st quarter of the 2014 U.S. economy went into the shitter!  Zero Hedge is calling it “Total collapse”!

The gott damned main stream news media is blaming the drastically revised Q1 GDP data on winter weather!  However, if you read my Job Losses & Store Closings reports you’ll see that the healthcare industry has been killing thousands of jobs, no thanks to Obama Care.

Zero Hedge also blames the crashed GDP numbers on Obama Care culling healthcare jobs, saying Obama Care subtracted $6.4-billion USD from Q1 2014!   This is based on the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) third (aka final) revised Healthcare Services Contribution to GDP data.

It’s interesting that in prior Q1 2014 revisions the BEA showed huge gains due to Obama Care, but in their “Third Revision” the BEA shows Obama Care pushed Healthcare Services GDP into the Red by $6.4-billion!  It ain’t the gott damned climate change you numb nuts main stream news media!

But wait, there’s more!  Despite the main streamer news constantly reporting that consumer confidence is up, the truth is it’s way down!  The BEA reports consumer spending for Q1 2014 dropped below the  Q4 2009 Recession data!  Consumer Consumption was only 0.7%!  (again, read my Job Losses & Store Closings and you’ll see many business owners have been blaming crashing sales on their demise)

The result of citizens with no jobs and no money to burn resulted in  total Q1 2014 GDP dropping by 2.9%, I believe we’re in negative Depression level numbers folks!  According to what I learned in my college economics courses, anything at 3% or more is considered growth, 2.9%-0% is stagnation, once you go negative you’re in a Recession/Depression.

Main stream news media use their rule that if you get two or three quarters in a row of negative GDP then they call it a Depression (lets see if that happens this time).   True economists try to avoid declaring a Depression, because they see so many more variables than the news media reports.  They prefer to go by GNP (Gross National Product), but basically if GDP (Gross Domestic Product) drops by 10% or more they call it a Depression.

The Q1 2014 GDP revision has the biggest disparity between the first report and the third (final) report, since 1976!

Here’s more details from the BEA:

Personal spending increased 1%, but total domestic sales dropped 1.4%.  This is because of inflation; Prices paid by shoppers increased 1.3%.  In other words, people spent more money but got less in return!

And people had less money to spend, domestic income dropped 2.6%!

Commercial property/asset investments decreased 1.2%

Exports decreased 8.9% (this is a biggie, it means the U.S. isn’t selling anything to other countries), and the value of U.S. exports dropped by 1.7%, or $73.6-billion!!!

Federal government spending increased by only 0.6%, despite corporate taxes paid increasing by $27. 8-billion!

Increase in corporate taxes might have contributed to a decrease in dividends paid out to investors; a decrease of $87.1-billion!

Profits for financial corporations (Too Big to Jail banks) dropped $52.6-billion!

Profits from production dropped by a sickening $198.3-billion!!!

GNP, products and services, decreased 3.6%

“Our ideals and principles, as well as our national security……..That’s what makes America different. That’s what makes us exceptional.”-Barack Obama, 10 September 2013

U.S. Dollar to crash & burn!

Business/Economics

Exceptional Failed State: Sears kills more Kmarts! Store says it’s “Now hiring” then shuts down! Sears Outlet is not Sears!

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California losing a 40 years old Kmart, in July.  And a 70+ years old California Sears was sold for $25-million USD!  People should’ve known it was coming when protestors broke out the store front windows last year, and Sears simply boarded them up.  Another Ohio Kmart shutting down, in September.   Pennsylvania losing two Kmarts, including a 40+ years old Kmart whose only notice of their shutdown was a sign on the store front, right near their “Now hiring” sign: “Ironically, a small sign taped to the window of one of the store’s front doors reported it was hiring personnel for summer seasonal positions.”-The Post

A woman in Arizona learned the hard way that Sears Outlet stores are not true Sears stores.   She tried to return a new but broken washing machine for money back, the store manager refused.  In 2012 Sears Holdings spun off Sears Outlet and Sears Hometown into a new company known as Newco, it is an independent franchised store chain now.  Newco still uses the Sears name for their Outlet and Hometown stores, but they do not have to honor any of Sears’ customer policies.

In Mount Dora, Florida, an abandoned Kmart caught fire.  Firefighters said it was a small roof fire.

In Kanasa, the Merriam Kmart shutdown last year but people are still having their vehicles impounded for parking in the vacant lot!  The parking lot has signs posted saying  “Kmart Employees and Customers Only”, and somebody is still enforcing it: “There’s no Kmart, there’s no employees, there’s no customers, so what were we hurting if we parked there?”-car impound victim

However, the tow company operators told a local Merriam news source that the parking lot is actually a crime scene, ever since the tractor-trailer of a murdered trucker was found on the lot.

By the way, if you research crimes committed in Kmart stores you’ll notice an upward trend, especially for customers being robbed in the stores, and even in the public toilet rooms (like in Utah).

Here’s the updated list of U.S. Sears/Kmart store closings since the end of 2011:

Arizona: Scottsdale Sears/Great Indoors, Chandler Sears/Great Indoors.

Alabama: Gadsden Kmart (50 jobs lost), Mobile Sears (at least 40 jobs lost), Auburn Kmart (at least 40 jobs lost), Anniston Kmart (no word yet on how many jobs lost), Birmingham Eastwood Kmart (70 jobs lost), Decatur Mall Sears (91 jobs lost), Fort Payne Kmart, Northport Kmart (68 jobs lost).

Delaware: Dover Kmart (at least 72 jobs lost, some reports said 100), Seaford Sears (30 jobs lost).

California: El Monte Sears (at least 40 jobs lost. Damien Arrula, El Monte’s economic development director, said the store manager had lied about what was going on: “The general manager of the store had just indicated to me that they were remodeling.”), two San Diego Sears (more than 80 jobs lost), Pleasant Hill Kmart (more than 50 jobs lost), Torrance Kmart, Fairfield Kmart (63 jobs lost), Lampert owned OSH taken over by Lowe’s home improvement in bankruptcy court, at least 17 of 99 stores to be closed down (935 jobs lost!), Rancho Cordova Kmart (97 jobs lost), San Clemente Kmart/Sears/Kmart on Camino de Estrella (58 jobs lost), placed on an official hit list in 2011 the Oceanside Kmart on College Boulevard finally being shut down, Banning Kmart (91 jobs lost), Laguna Hills Mall Sears, San Diego Mid-City Kmart (73 jobs lost), recently revealed Hemet Kmart (77 jobs lost), recently revealed Oakland Sears (jobs lost unknown).

Colorado: Broomfield Kmart (at least 40 jobs lost), Glenwood Springs Kmart (at least 40 jobs lost), Lone Tree Sears/Great Indoors, Longmont Sears (at least 40 jobs lost), Pueblos’ South Side Kmart (52 jobs lost), Denver Kmart (number of jobs lost have not been made public at this time, but could be at least 40), Colorado Springs Kmart at Powers and Palmer Park boulevards (57 jobs lost).

Connecticut: Waterbury Big Kmart.

Georgia: Macon Sears (at least 40 jobs lost), Buford Kmart (at least 40 jobs lost), Douglasville Kmart (at least 40 jobs lost), Atlanta Kmart (at least 40 jobs lost), Columbus Kmart (at least 40 jobs lost), Jonesboro Kmart (at least 40 jobs lost), Cartersville Kmart (74 jobs lost), Hiram Kmart (53 jobs lost), Marietta-East Cobb Kmart.

Guam: Sears Hometown Store.

Florida: Fernandina Beach Kmart (at least 40 jobs lost), Callaway Kmart (at least 40 jobs lost), Orange City Kmart (at least 40 jobs lost), Deland Sears (at least 40 jobs lost), Stuart Sears (at least 40 jobs lost), West Palm Beach Sears (at least 40 jobs lost), Port St. Lucie Sears (at least 40 jobs lost), Crystal River Sears (at least 40 jobs lost), New Smyrna Beach Kmart (at least 40 jobs lost), Saint Augustine Kmart (at least 40 jobs lost), Pompano Beach Kmart (at least 40 jobs lost), Jacksonville Kmart on 5751 Beach Boulevard (71 jobs lost), second Kmart in Jacksonville on 4645 Blanding Boulevard (83 jobs lost), Ocoee Sears (102 jobs lost), Pensacola Kmart on Airport Boulevard closed in 2011, Pensacola Kmart on Mobile Highway closed in February 2013 (69 jobs lost), Pensacola Kmart on East 9 Mile Road will close in May (73 jobs lost), Hialeah Kmart (67 jobs lost), Bonita Springs Kmart (67 jobs lost), Mount Dora Kmart (100 jobs lost), Lake Mary Kmart, Panama City Beach Kmart (54 jobs lost), Winter Park Kmart (100 jobs lost), Niceville Kmart (59 jobs lost).

Hawaii: Honolulu Sears (owned by GGP, 372 jobs lost!!!), Kauai Sears (41 jobs lost), Iwilei-Honolulu Kmart for lease (no confirmation of store closing).

Idaho: Lewiston Sears (at least 60 jobs lost), Rexburg Kmart (63 jobs lost). No official announcement, but it’s painfully obvious the Chubbuck Pine Ridge Mall Sears going’ down. Or, maybe it’s preps for Shop within a Shop, or one of those domestic spy data storage centers? On 07 November 2013, GGP sold off the Pine Ridge Mall for a paltry $9 million USD. Across the street, in Pocatello, the property where the Kmart is located has a “pad site available” sign, posted ever since the Kmart bankruptcy. The Kmart building takes up most of the “pad”.

Indiana: Anderson Sears (at least 40 jobs lost), Saint John Kmart (at least 40 jobs lost), Indianapolis Kmart (at least 40 jobs lost), Richmond Sears (49 jobs lost), South Anthony Kmart (70 jobs lost), Fort Wayne Kmart on South Anthony Boulevard (70 jobs lost), FairOaks Mall Kmart, Logansport Sears (43 jobs lost).

Illinois: Alton Sears (at least 40 jobs lost), Melrose Park Sears parts and repair center (50 jobs lost), Zion Kmart (at least 40 jobs lost), Oak Lawn Kmart (at least 40 jobs lost), McHenry Kmart (at least 40 jobs lost), Peru Kmart (at least 40 jobs lost), Lombard Sears/Great Indoors (at least 40 jobs lost), Fairview Heights Kmart (81 jobs lost), Freeport Kmart (45 jobs lost), Pontiac Kmart (more than 47 jobs lost), Homer Glen Kmart (82 jobs lost), Streator Kmart (45 jobs lost), Lombard Kmart (70 jobs lost), Naperville Kmart (98 jobs lost), Calumet Sears (164 jobs lost), two Sears stores in Grand Crossing area of Chicago (247 jobs lost!), Mount Vernon Sears (68 jobs lost), Moline Sears (at least 60 jobs lost), Homewood Kmart (185 jobs lost), Belvidere Kmart (91 jobs lost), Champaign’s Market Place Mall Sears (56 jobs lost), Sterling Kmart (60 jobs lost), Montgomery Kmart (81 jobs lost), Mattoon Sears (more than 40 jobs lost), Chicago Sears on North State Street (160 jobs lost), Chicago Sears Craftsman Experience store, Galesburg Sears (46 jobs lost), White Lake Township Kmart (42 jobs lost), Orland Park Sears Appliance, Collinsville Kmart (84 jobs lost). 58 Chicago area stores up for lease or sale. By the way, Illinois elected officials gave Sears Holdings/Hoffman Estates a $150 million USD tax break to keep their headquarters in the state. The tax break was not tied to any promise not to close stores.

Iowa: Cedar Rapids Kmart on 16th Ave (at least 40 jobs lost), Davenport Kmart (at least 40 jobs lost), Burlington Kmart (50 jobs lost), Coralville Sears (94 jobs lost, this is a store sold to GGP earlier in the year), Cedar Rapids Kmart on Collins Road NE (56 jobs lost), Mason City Kmart (50 jobs lost).

Kansas: Lawrence Sears (at least 40 jobs lost), Merriam Kmart-then Sears-then Kmart (jobs lost unknown).

Kentucky: Middlesboro Sears (in September 2012 the Sears store re-opened under independent ownership, official grand re-opening scheduled for November), Winchester Kmart (back in May, Rankin Paynter bought out what was left of the inventory and gave it to charity), Hazard Kmart (at least 40 jobs lost), Lexington Fayette Mall Sears (114 jobs lost!), Newport Kmart (81 jobs lost), Cannonsburg Sears and Sears Auto Center (no employee info given), Louisville Dixie Highway Kmart/Sears/Kmart.

Louisiana: Slidell Sears (77 job lost), Gretna Kmart (94 jobs lost).

Maine: Lewiston Sears (60 to 70 jobs lost), Presque Isle Sears (80 jobs lost).

Maryland: Ellicott Sears (at least 40 jobs lost), Gaithersburg Sears/Great Indoors, Landover Sears (115 jobs lost).

Massachusetts: North Reading Sears Hardware store closed, lease not renewed.

Michigan: Novi Sears/Great Indoors, Brighton Sears Grand/Essentials, Harper Woods Sears Full line, Monroe Sears Full line, Adrian Sears Full line, Washington Township Kmart, Chesterfield Kmart, Woodhaven Kmart, Flint Kmart (46 jobs lost), Gaylord Kmart (48 jobs lost), Sterling Kmart (58 jobs lost), Bloomfield Township Kmart and Sears, Bad Axe Kmart (61 jobs lost), Ypsilanti Township Kmart (83 jobs lost), Petoskey Kmart (45 jobs lost), Saint John’s Kmart (48 jobs lost), White Lake Township “Store of the Future” Kmart (42 jobs lost),  Grand Blanc Kmart (49 jobs lost), Lapeer Kmart (56 jobs lost).

Minnesota: Willmar Kmart, Duluth Kmart, New Hope Kmart, White Bear Lake Kmart, Bemidji Kmart, Monticello Kmart, GGP owned Sears Auto Center in the Apache Mall closed (10 jobs lost), the entire Sears store in the Apache Mall being sold off, Fergus Falls Kmart (40 jobs lost), Fergus Falls Kmart (at least 40 jobs lost), Alexandria Kmart (46 jobs lost), Grand Rapids Kmart (61 jobs lost), Seritage is selling off three Sears Auto Centers in Minnetonka, Brooklyn Center and Saint Paul, Marshall Kmart (57 jobs lost).

Mississippi: Jackson Sears Full line, McComb Sears Full line, Columbus Sears Full line, Gautier Sears (71 jobs lost), Waveland Gulfport Kmart (32 jobs lost), Pass Road Gulfport Kmart (52 jobs lost), Pascagoula Sears at the Singing River Mall.

Missouri: Lee’s Summit Sears Grand/Essentials, Saint Louis Sears Full line, High Ridge Kmart (59 jobs lost), Ellisville Kmart (55 jobs lost), Springfield Kmart on South Campbell Avenue (60 jobs lost).

Montana: Missoula Kmart (50 jobs lost).

Nebraska: Grand Island Kmart (55 jobs lost).

New Hampshire: Nashau Sears Grand/Essentials, Keene Sears Grand/Essentials, Portsmouth Kmart (30 jobs lost).

New Jersey: Lawnside Kmart (about 80 jobs lost), Howell Kmart (57 jobs lost), Berlin Kmart, Dover Kmart (92 jobs lost).

New Mexico: Las Cruces Kmart (58 jobs lost), Albuquerque Kmart on Central SW (80 jobs lost).

New York: Depew (Lancaster?) Kmart (68 jobs lost), Colonie Kmart (72 jobs lost), Fulton Kmart (51 jobs lost), Clifton Park Kmart (74 jobs lost), Latham Kmart (61 jobs lost), East Greenbush-Rensselaer Kmart (70 jobs lost), Tonawanda Sears Appliance and Hardware.

North Carolina: Cary Kmart (71 jobs lost), High Point Sears, Moorehead Sears, Rocky Mount Sears, Statesville Sears, Durham Kmart (79 jobs lost), Asheville Kmart (53 jobs lost), West Smithfield Kmart (59 jobs lost), Winston-Salem Kmart (69 jobs lost), Hendersonville Kmart (58 jobs lost), South Ashville Kmart on Hendersonville Road, Raleigh Kmart (88 jobs lost), Garner Kmart, Cleveland County mall Sears (56 jobs lost), Charlotte Kmart (89 jobs lost), Conover Kmart (74 jobs lost), Raleigh Kmart on Capital Boulevard (53 jobs lost), High Point Kmart (71 jobs lost), Boone Kmart (41 jobs lost).

North Dakota: Jamestown Kmart (45 jobs lost).

Ohio: Chagrin Falls Kmart, Springfield Kmart, two Toledo Kmarts, Medina Kmart, Columbus Kmart, Columbus Sears/Great Indoors, Zanesville Sears (67 jobs lost), Trotwood Kmart (71 jobs lost), Austintown Sears auto parts and service on Interstate Boulevard, London Kmart (no word on number of jobs lost), Trotwood Sears (67 jobs lost), Westlake Kmart/Sears (at least 57 jobs lost), Xenia Kmart (at least 57 jobs lost), Norwalk Kmart (52 jobs lost), Blue Ash Kmart (77 jobs lost), Northwood Sears at Woodville Mall (36 jobs lost), Conneaut Kmart (43 jobs lost), recently revealed Anderson Township Kmart (71 jobs lost).  Also, Van Wert Sears franchise bought out by Kirk Berryman, owner of Computer & Networking Technologies (CNT), who plans on moving the store to a new location.

Oklahoma: Oklahoma City Sears (98 jobs lost, GGP owned, GGP wants a $2 million sales tax rebate, claiming it’s needed to offset capital investments needed to bring the space up to the standards for potential new tenants), Shawnee Sears (31 jobs lost).

Oregon: Roseburg Sears (at least 40 jobs lost), Tualatin Kmart Center (new property owner from California is tearing everything down for new shopping center, so far no indication the Kmart will be part of the new shopping center), Milwaukie Kmart (61 jobs lost), Coos Bay Kmart (25 jobs lost), Bend Sears (48 jobs lost), Klamath Falls Kmart (64 jobs lost), Albany Kmart (64 jobs lost), Portland Sears Homes Services (no notice).

Pennsylvania: Upper Darby Sears Full line, Pottstown Sears Full line, Pittsburgh Kmart, Wilkins Sears, Warminster Kmart (85 jobs lost), Shippensburg Kmart (46 jobs lost), Moon Kmart (143 jobs lost), Bethlehem Township Kmart (62 jobs lost), Philadelphia Gallery Mall Kmart (120 jobs lost), Philadelphia Kmart on Orthodox Street and Castor Avenue (169 jobs lost), Levittown/Middle Township Kmart (87 jobs lost), Waynesboro Kmart (43 jobs lost), recently revealed Sanatoga Kmart (jobs lost unknown, but the store was advertising for new hires!), recently revealed Lower Pottsgrove Kmart (65 jobs lost).

South Carolina: Sumter Sears (at least 40 jobs lost), Orangeburg Sears (57 jobs lost), Columbia Kmart on Fort Jackson Boulevard in 2012, Columbia Kmart on Bush River Road in 2009, Columbia Kmart on St Andrews Road (66 jobs lost), Irmo Kmart (no info on how many jobs lost), both Greenville Kmarts (140 jobs lost between the two), Mount Pleasant Kmart (43 jobs lost), Harbison Sears & Sears Auto Center in the Columbiana Centre mall (97 jobs lost), Aiken Sears & Sears Auto Center (at least 54 jobs lost), Inlet Square Mall Kmart (50 jobs lost), West Ashely Kmart (69 jobs lost).

Tennessee: Antioch Sears (at least 40 jobs lost), Cleveland Sears (at least 40 jobs lost), Oak Ridge Sears (at least 40 jobs lost), Hendersonville Kmart (at least 40 jobs lost), Morristown Sears (about 70 jobs lost), Clinton South Kmart, Franklin CoolSprings Galleria Sears (92 jobs lost), Memphis Hickory Ridge mall Sears (job loss data not revealed), 48 years old Nashville Kmart on Nolensville Pike to close by January 2014 (57 jobs lost), Franklin Kmart (33 jobs lost).

Texas: Two Sears parts and repair centers closing in The Woodlands (117 jobs lost), rebuild center in Garland (58 jobs lost), Farmers Branch Sears/Great Indoors, Houston Sears Great/Indoors.

Utah: Murray Sears (for some reason Mormon controlled news media in Utah never reported the closure, but they’re reporting that the building has just been demolished), Orem Kmart (no details reported).

Virginia: Norfolk Sears (at least 40 jobs lost), Midlothian Kmart (at least 40 jobs lost), Richmond Kmart (at least 40 jobs lost), Lynchburg Sears (84 jobs lost), Fairfax Kmart (no word on how many jobs lost), Christiansburg Sears (59 jobs lost), Norfolk Kmart on East Little Creek Road (77 jobs lost), Manassas Kmart (71 jobs lost), Stafford Sears Hometown, Newport News Kmart (at least 50 jobs lost), Wise Kmart (58 jobs lost), Harrisonburg Kmart (79 jobs lost), Wincester Kmart (91 jobs lost).

Washington: Walla Walla Sears Full line (in August 2012, it was reported that an independent owner of Sears Hometown stores will open a store in Walla Walla), Lacey Kmart (at least 40 jobs lost), Kelso Sears (47 jobs lost), Lakewood Kmart (59 jobs lost), Bellingham Sears (92 jobs lost), Seattle Kmart (85 jobs lost), East Wenatchee Sears (59 jobs lost), Puyallup Kmart (51 jobs lost), Oak Harbor Kmart (68 jobs lost), Sodo Sears and Sears Auto Center (79 jobs lost).

West Virginia: Oak Hill Kmart (59 jobs lost), Morgantown Kmart (100 jobs lost).

Wisconsin: West Baraboo Sears (at least 40 jobs lost, local village officials say the store generated 3% of local tax collections), Rice Lake Kmart (about 71 jobs lost), Brookfield Kmart (56 jobs lost), Racine’s Regency Mall Sears (52 jobs lost), Fort Atkinson Kmart (51 jobs lost), Greenfield Kmart (107 jobs lost), Portage Kmart (78 jobs lost) and Hales Corner (129 jobs lost), Chippewa Falls Kmart (79 jobs lost), Menomonie Kmart (at least 50 jobs lost), Ashwaubenon Kmart (80 jobs lost).

On top of that, Sears Holdings sold stores to General Growth Properties (GGP), of which it has been reported that most of those stores will be closed.

Here’s the list of 11 Sears stores now owned by GGP:

Iowa: Coral Ridge Mall (it’s official the Sears is closing, see above), and Mall of the Bluffs

Texas: The Woodlands Mall (this does not involve the two repair centers being closed by Sears)

Florida: West Oaks Mall

Utah: Fashion Place, and Provo Towne Centre (note the evil British empire way of spelling town & center. Due to a favorable lease agreement the GGP owned Provo Sears will continue to stay open under Sears Holdings management)

Oklahoma: Quail Springs Mall (it’s official, the Sears closed, see above)

Hawaii: Ala Moana Center (closed, see above)

Washington: Bellis Fair Mall (Bellingham store, see above)

Minnesota: Apache Mall (see update above, GGP will close Sears store by 2014)

Illinois: Market Place Shopping Center (see update above, GGP closing store)

Business/Economics

What Economic Recovery? Too Big to Jail bank blows off 89-thousand job applicants! More & more U.S. college students trying to get jobs with the evil banks!

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Bloomberg News reported that Morgan Stanley was hit with almost 90-thousand applications for summer intern positions, and the Too Big to Jail bank rejected 89-thousand!

According to Bloomberg Businessweek, over the past three years there’s been a big shift in undergraduate business majors regarding where they apply for internships.  The majority are now trying to get jobs with the evil Too Big to Jail banks!

 

Business/Economics, Idaho

More Economic Decline: New Pocatello furniture store shuts down after less than 3 months!

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After less than three months Timberline Home Furnishings-3G Used Car Sales is already busted!  The location used to be the Ashley Furniture Liquidation store, which went away in March.

Timberline already up for auction! Note that their Grand Opening sign is still up!

Timberline already up for auction! Note that their Grand Re-Opening sign (indicating they used to be Ashley Furniture Liquidation) is still up!

Timberline Home Furnishings is now going under the auction gavel on 28 June 2014.  “Everything must go!”

 

Business/Economics

U.S. job losses & store closings 19 March 2014: Government fails to dole out what it collects in school taxes, is it a conspiracy to kill education? 39% of Utica property owners being killed by unfair taxes! Growing E-commerce equals declining jobs!

Incomplete list of announced closings & layoffs.

Arizona: In Tucson, fitness clothing store ReActivate shutdown.

Arkansas: In Salem, J and P Flash Market Convenience Store shutdown without notice.   Company officials said sales were dropping, but customers dispute that claim.

Colorado:  In Denver, Kevin Taylor Restaurant Group shutdown two restaurants; Restaurant Kevin Taylor and Prima Ristorante.

Connecticut: Foxwoods Resort Casino laid off 65 employees.  The resort has seen a steady decline in revenue since 2011.  Legal drugs pusher XPect Discounts shutting down two pharmacies, in Milford and Cromwell.   The company closed stores in 2013 and 2012.

Florida: Broward County School District shutting down three charter schools (including The Obama Academy for Boys) for the 2014-15 school year.  This is on top of the 12 charter schools the district has already killed!  This time school officials say the charter schools being closed broke their contracts, by not operating at the locations stipulated in the contracts, and, they failed to get permits (they were apparently permitted as day care centers, not schools).  In Altamonte Springs, Sprint killed 400 call center jobs!  In Tampa, Time Warner shutdown a service center, 100 jobs lost!  Back in 2011 Time Warner promised they would hire 500 employees, it never happened.

Georgia: Another internet company killing their own jobs.  Atlanta based restaurant coupon & review site ScoutMob laid off about 20 employees.  Co-founder Michael Tavani said “Our Shoppe e-commerce growth is causing us to refocus the business and skill-set around that product.”  In other words more internet e-commerce equals less jobs.

Illinois: Belleville School District laid off 12 teachers, as a “precaution”.  School officials say the state and federal governments have not been paying what they are supposed to pay under school funding laws.  As an example; the state of Illinois still owes the school district $2.1-million USD! Taxpayers need to get pissed and ask their elected officials “why?”  

Indiana: In Fort Wayne, Old National Bancorp laid off 41 employees, and blamed it on their takeover of Tower Financial.

Kentucky: Two Shoney’s restaurants, in Henderson and Owensboro, shutting down.  It’s blamed on a franchise dispute and court fees.

Maine:  The University of Maine wants to kill 165 to 255 jobs!  University officials say it will have to be, if the state government goes through with draconian budget cuts.  In Fort Kemp, another clothing maker going down.  Officials with tax sucking Creative Apparel announced that their so called ‘temporary’ layoffs are now “permanent”.  More than 80 jobs lost.  It’s blamed on reduced military spending for uniforms.

Maryland: In Silver Spring, after 64 years Dale Music shutting down in June.

Massachusetts: In Brooklyn, after more than 50 years Oriental Rug Galleries shutting down, just as soon as they can find somebody to take over the building.

Michigan: Flint School District is considering getting rid of all 41 administrators for the 2014-15 school year.  It all depends on the actual student population for the upcoming year, Flint has been hemorrhaging students.  So far four school have been closed and hundreds of jobs lost.  In Saint Johns, Kmart announced they are finally shutting down in April.  Apparently the store has been on the shutdown list since 2011.

New Jersey: British empire based school book publisher Pearson laid off 68 Yankee employees.  It’s part of their plan to make digital ‘books’ only.  In 2013, Pearson killed 3300 jobs around the World! Pearson is probably one of the reasons evil empire Queen’s English is being taught in U.S. schools, instead of proper U.S. English.

New York:  Food supplier ConAgra announced it will kill 425 jobs when it shuts down operations in Dunkirk and Fredonia, in 2015!  Buffalo School District warned of layoffs for the 2014-15 school year, as many as 390 jobs could be culled! They’re short nearly $50-million.  Teachers in the district are pissed because in the past they’ve taken huge pay cuts, by as much as $15-thousand per teacher!  Utica City School District wants to kill 90 jobs, due to a shortfall of $6.4-million, and that’s with an increase in student population and taxes.  Property owners are pissed because the district (along with the city) has been jacking up their taxes, and it’s still not enough!  However, one district official revealed that 61% of elitist property owners are exempted from paying taxes!  The other 39% are burdened with funding local government.  Sounds like a f*cked up place to live.  In Rochester, Corix Utilities shutting down in May, 67 jobs lost.  They lost their contract.  Obama Care killed nursing home Blossom South, 140 jobs lost!   In Elmsford, Sprint shutdown a call center, 154 jobs lost!

North Carolina: Charlotte based Too Big to Jail Bank of America laying off at least 5% of its global trading and investment banking employees.  Bank officials refused to comment as to why.  Hartigan’s Irish Pub shut down.  The owner blamed safety issues with the 100 years old building.

Ohio: In Mansfield, CenturyLink shutting down their office and killing 82 jobs by June.

Texas: In Midland, Walter’s family restaurant shutdown.  The restaurant owner blames the greedy property owner for jacking up the rent.

Virginia: The last grocery store in Parksley shutdown without notice!    20 employees of Fresh Pride now unemployed.   The company that owns Fresh Pride, Camellia Food Stores, has a history of shutting down stores without notice, even on the day after Xmas.

Wisconsin: Blackhawk Technical College laid off 11 employees.  It’s blamed on reduced tax funding.  In Middleton, AMerican SuperConductor (AMSC) shutting down their factory, and killing 15% of their jobs across the country.  The company has been making cuts since 2011.  In Appleton, reports that after 21 years supplier to home beer, wine and soda pop makers, Homebrew Market, shutdown.

16 – 18 March 2014: “It’s not worth it anymore!”

The U.S. Department of Labor (DoL) doesn’t count the hundreds of layoffs involving less than 50 people each, in its mass layoff reports. It also doesn’t count all the little ‘mom & pop’ businesses that shut down.

“Our ideals and principles, as well as our national security……..That’s what makes America different. That’s what makes us exceptional.”-Barack Obama, 10 September 2013

Business/Economics

U.S. job losses & store closings 16 – 18 March 2014: “It’s not worth it anymore!” Economic warfare against 2nd Amendment? More jobs going to China & Mexico! More proof of coming housing market crash! Massive ObamaCare job destruction in New York and California!

Incomplete list of announced closings & layoffs.

Arizona: Prime Time Flavored Cigars chapter 11 bankrupt busted!  It’s blamed on higher taxes and on the banks refusing to issue new loans.

California:  In Culver City, Japan based Sony Pictures shutdown its Interactive Group as part of its killing of 216 jobs!  What housing market recovery? In Sacramento, major provider of appraisal, title and closing services to mortgage lenders, ServiceLink, laid off 97 employees.  The company was sold off to private equity vultures.  ServiceLink provided service to the top 25 banks in the U.S., and  Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.  Local news reports said nobody at ServiceLink, or its affiliate Black Knight Financial Services, were willing to comment on the layoffs.  In Napa, after 29 years Nor-Mar Fabrics and Gifts (which also provided scholarships to about 14 students per year) shutdown.  In San Francisco, British empire weapons maker BAe Systems continues killing jobs, this time 196 people will now go hungry!   In Pomona, Obama Care killing 187 healthcare jobs with Pomona Valley Hospital!  Obama Care forcing Shire Regenerative Medicine to kill 301 jobs!   In Rancho Cordova, Sprint killed 245 call center jobs!

Colorado: In Colorado Springs, India based Firstsource Solutions call center shutting down in September, 300 jobs lost!  Company officials would only say they lost a major contract.   In Fort Collins, New York based data storage company Veeco Instruments shutting down, and laying off 31  employees.

Florida: In Tampa, after 13 years The Palm restaurant shutdown.  The owners blame the f*cked up economy: “Unfortunately, we are not able to continue to operate our restaurant into the rest of 2014.”

Illinois:  In Highland Park, after 60 years Hi-Land Art shutdown.  The owner blamed competition with the internet.  He was also a little perturbed by the fact that when he put up the store closing sale sign he suddenly got flooded with customers.

Iowa: Iowa City Community School District eliminated 36 teacher and administrator positions for the next school year.  47 teachers are expected to retire and those positions will not be filled, but school district officials said some layoffs might still be necessary.  It’s blamed on state mandated education spending cuts.

Maine: In Pittsfield, home fire safety company United Technologies Corporation Fire and Security factory shutting down.  Nearly 300 jobs lost!  Production being moved to North Carolina, Mexico and China.

Massachusetts: In Falls River, Crosson Oil Company now chapter 11 bankrupt busted!

Michigan: More proof the internet is not making money.  After only two years internet based news outlet Deadline Detroit warned that if it cannot find new financing it will shutdown in April.  In Clinton Township, after only six years Tin Fish 3 restaurant/nightclub shutdown.  The owners hadn’t been able to pay half-a-million in back due rent!  In Saginaw, God refused to stop the shutdown of Christian Saint Stephen School.   Christian leaders say their budget problems are being caused by disappearing students.

Missouri: In Jefferson City, after more than 30 years Mortimer Kegley’s Bar & Grill shutdown.  The owner, Jason Jordan, blamed social media and a ban on smoking saying “When that smoking ban went into effect, I lost 30% of my customers straightaway!”

Nebraska: In Omaha, after 61 years Broadmoor Market shutdown.  The owners blamed the crappy economy: “Thank you for all your support and patronage over the years. It is unfortunate that circumstances have changed.”

New Hampshire: Japan based Olympus Biotech getting the hell out-a-dodge because of Obama Care.  The Japanese owners say it’s not worth it to continue biologics manufacturing, and is selling the factory.  Almost 200 jobs lost!

New York:  In NYC, after 14 years Sheherazade Home Furnishings shutting down in April.  The owner would only say “It’s not worth it anymore! It’s not profitable.”  Dallas Restaurant Management Company shutting down Fireside Restaurant and Lounge in June, 38 jobs lost.  FLIK foodservice company shutting down in May, 46 jobs lost.  In Brooklyn, Obama Care killing home healthcare provider 1 Prospect Park Residence, 68 jobs to be killed in June.  Obama Care killing home healthcare provider Regency Home Care, 259 jobs being culled in April!

North Carolina: The shopping mall known as Burlington Outlet Village (Burlington Manufacturer’s Outlet Center) is chapter 7 bankrupt busted and in foreclosure!  In Asheville, the Femcare abortion clinic shutdown.  State officials accused the clinic of violating 23 rules.

Ohio: Coshocton Hospital killed 25 healthcare jobs, and closed 22 open positions.  Hospital officials said it was part of their reorganization to meet Obama Care funding, and warned more layoffs are in the works.  In New Springfield, after 40 years the Hummel gift store shutdown. It once held the title of Largest and Finest.  In Fairlawn, after 20 years Thinker Toys shutdown.  The owners blamed several years of declining sales, and the final straw was recent flooding.   In Northwood, Sears announced they will shutdown in July, 36 jobs lost.

Oregon: Southern Oregon University eliminating 80 jobs by 2018.  It’s blamed on disappearing students: “We have to be as lean as possible. We’re trying to save enough so we can reinvest.”-Mary Cullinan, SOU president

Pennsylvania: In Nanticoke, Commonwealth Health shutting down and selling off its Special Care Hospital.  It probably has to due with the fact that Obama Care defunds long term healthcare.  130 jobs lost!

Texas: In Dallas, Frito-Lay shutting down two factories, 163 jobs lost!  Frito-Lay is owned by anti-2nd Amendment Pepsi.  Pepsi officials said the factories in the pro-2nd Amendment state of Texas were now considered “redundant”.

Virginia: In Christiansburg, Too Big to Jail Union First Market Bank to kill 80 jobs by May, as part of their consolidation efforts.  In Chester, taxsucker General Dynamics killing 344 Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services call center jobs, due to the end of open enrollment for the evil Obama Care! It is one of several General Dynamics Obama Care call centers being shutdown across the U.S.

13 – 15 March 2014: “…we can’t continue this way!”

The U.S. Department of Labor (DoL) doesn’t count the hundreds of layoffs involving less than 50 people each, in its mass layoff reports. It also doesn’t count all the little ‘mom & pop’ businesses that shut down.

“Our ideals and principles, as well as our national security……..That’s what makes America different. That’s what makes us exceptional.”-Barack Obama, 10 September 2013

Business/Economics

U.S. job losses & store closings 13 – 15 March 2014: “…we can’t continue this way!” “…we’ve been suffering…” “It’s like a death in the family.” “Nobody got rich!”, OfficeMax to kill Illinois? More proof tech jobs are not recession (depression?) proof! More women’s clothing stores going down! More school and hospital losses! Oil industry killing jobs due to economic collapse of U.S.!

Incomplete list of announced closings & layoffs.

Alabama: In Birmingham, after more than 100 years, and surviving the Great Depression, Cather Publishing shutdown.

California: In City of Industry, Macy’s department store shutting down a distribution warehouse, 63 jobs lost.  In Culver City, Japan based Sony warned of massive layoffs.  Sony says a coming U.S. economic collapse (perhaps caused by the collapse of the USD as trading houses switch to the RMB) is causing them to cut their U.S. operating budget by $100-million USD!   Galt Joint Union High School District says it must layoff five employees.  It’s blamed on disappearing students.  In Sunnyvale, once again tax sucker NetApp killing jobs.   This time 600 people will become unemployed!  NetApp killed 900 jobs in 2013!  It’s blamed on reduced federal funding.  NetApp is contracted by the federal government to store data that government spies have gathered about your internet and cell phone activities!  In Truckee, after 13 years Dragonfly Restaurant shutdown.   The owner said he was made an “offer he couldn’t refuse” by aggressive property developers.   In Torrance, after more than 40 years Vince’s Spaghetti shutdown.  35 jobs lost.  “The last three or four years have been a real struggle to make ends meet. It’s like a death in the family. For the past few years its been like watching a patient on life support.”-Gregg Parras, general manager

Colorado: In Steamboat Springs, state tax collection NAZIs seized the Bakery Restaurant.   The NAZI Colorado Department of Revenue says the restaurant owes about $8-thousand USD in sales taxes.  The NAZI city officials of Steamboat Springs says the restaurant owes them $4-thousand in taxes.  Apparently the restaurant also owes the federal IRS $26-thousand in payroll taxes!  This is what happens when the economy sucks ass!!!!  At least the restaurant was keeping people employed, now everybody’s unemployed!

Florida:  The Obama regime is shutting down Housing and Urban Development (HUD) offices in Tampa and Orlando.  More than a dozen jobs lost.  In Lakeland, after only five years DC’s Sports Bar shutdown.  And the Fishin’ Shed Tackle Shop shutdown.  The owners blame Walmart.

Illinois: Lincoln-Way Community High School District 210 laying off four of their ten art teachers.  It’s blamed on disappearing students.  OfficeMax announced they are ending all operations in the Prairie State, 1600 jobs lost!  Company officials are pissed because state officials refused to continue giving them asinine tax breaks, at huge expense to residents of Illinois! (hey, if small mom & pops don’t get tax breaks then neither should the money sink holes of Corporate America!) It’s also connected to the merger with Office Depot.

Indiana: Obama Care killing 17 jobs at private Monroe Hospital.

Iowa: West Des Moines’ Johnston Community School District voted to shutdown an elementary school and possibly kill 14 jobs, at the end of March.  School officials say they must shutdown an elementary school, then turn a Junior High into an elementary school, plus raise property taxes/fees in order to build a new High School.  (Hey they pulled that crap here in Chubbuck/Pocatello, Idaho, and it was nothing but a big mess and a scam for local taxpayers!)

Minnesota: Veterinarian drugs supplier Ivesco shutting down it’s Mankato warehouse in May, about 24 jobs lost.  The company was taken over by MWI Veterinary Supply.

New York: NYC based women’s clothing store owner Ann Incorporated (Ann Taylor, Loft) killing 100 corporate jobs!  Company officials admit they expect a crash in women’s clothing sales, and are trying to stay ahead of the curve by culling jobs now.  NYC based America On Line (AOL) has laid off an undisclosed “double digit” number of employees. In Islandia, CA Technologies laying off 600 tech workers!  These new layoffs are in addition to the 1200 layoffs announced in 2013!  In Middletown, Acme Bus Company warned of layoffs in June, due to the loss of a Department of Health contract.  In Copiague, Baumann & Sons Buses warned of 250 layoffs in June, due to loss of contrac!

North Carolina: In High Point, after 67 years sports memorabilia Autographed Ball shutting down.  The owner blames the gott damned economy: “This is the hardest thing I’ve ever had to do. We’re closing, we have no choice. We’ve sold every baseball we had left, every bit of the inventory. We’ll auction off everything else, computers, desks, chairs, everything, by March 24, and then we’ll be gone. Sixty-seven years will be over. Nobody got rich!“-Dick Culler Jr

Ohio: Central State University laid off 17 employees, and plans on reducing pay for everybody else.  It’s blamed on decreasing funding caused by disappearing students.

Pennsylvania: Obama Care kills 100 jobs at Pittsburg based non-profit healthcare provider Highmark! This is on top of the 160 jobs Highmark was forced to kill in February!  Allen Town School District wants to kill 100 jobs!  The district has already killed 350 jobs over the past four years.  It’s blamed on disappearing students, which results in massive funding cuts.

South Carolina: In Charleston, after 27 years upscale Carolina’s restaurant shutdown. In Greenville, after 20 years The Fashion Shack shutdown.  Aggressive property developers bought the building.  In Rock Hill, grocery store Compare Foods shutdown.  50 jobs lost.  The manager blames the suck ass economy: “The recession hit Rock Hill pretty hard and we’ve been suffering from that as well. There are a lot of businesses that have been dealing with that.”-Omar Jorge

Texas: In Houston, British-Dutch empire corporation Royal Dutch Shell killing 400 jobs in the United States!  The layoffs would affect Rocky Mountain area, Kansas, Texas and Oklahoma.  Company officials claim the North and South American markets caused them to lose $900-million USD in 2013!   In Sherman, two restaurants shutdown; the six years old Little Italy and the 37 years old Braums on North Travis.  The owners of Little Italy says city officials forced them to close.  No explanation was given by the owners of Braums.  In Canyon, after 65 years Varsity Theater shutdown.  The owners cannot afford the digital upgrades.

Virginia: Who said internet businesses are recession proof?  Reston based internet cell phone company Wirefly Mobile/Simplexity now chapter 7 bankrupt busted!

Washington: In Seattle, video game maker PopCap Games laid off an undisclosed number of employees.  After less than five years Savour specialty food store shutdown.

Wisconsin: In Lodi, after more than 93 years Weber’s Bakery shutdown. The owner Noel Weber blamed the not-so-recovered economy stating “…we can’t continue this way and we have to call it a day!”  In Two Rivers, after 162 years Suettinger’s Hardware shutdown!  The family historian blames the shitty economy, which is significant because this business survived the Great Depression: “It got just to the point where it wasn’t feasible for us to continue in this situation.”-Holly Suettinger Engelland

12 March 2014:  “It’s not fun anymore!”

The U.S. Department of Labor (DoL) doesn’t count the hundreds of layoffs involving less than 50 people each, in its mass layoff reports. It also doesn’t count all the little ‘mom & pop’ businesses that shut down.

“Our ideals and principles, as well as our national security……..That’s what makes America different. That’s what makes us exceptional.”-Barack Obama, 10 September 2013

Business/Economics

U.S. job losses & store closings 12 March 2014: More small business owners quit, saying “It’s not fun anymore!” God continues to kill Christian college jobs! ObamaCare kills another hospital!

Incomplete list of announced closings & layoffs.

Alabama: In Gadsden, after more than 70 years Hicks Family Shoes shutdown.

Arizona: Sunnyside Unified School District eliminated seven full time librarians.  Six librarians now forced to work at two different school libraries.

California: In Berkeley, after 80 years Pacific Steel Castings now chapter 11 bankrupt busted.  410 jobs threatened!  In Santa Clara, a leaked company memo revealed that computer chip maker Intel will kill 400 jobs by April!  In Burbank, after 13 years Art Wave art warehouse shutdown.

Connecticut: After only six years Mitchell’s Fish Market shutdown, no reason made public.

Louisiana: In Slidell, Sears shutting down, 77 jobs lost.

Michigan: Lakeland Specialty Hospital Berrien Center shutting down on 01 June 2014!  Hospital officials blamed Obama Care for forcing people out of hospitals and into managed home care.

New Jersey:  After 75 years Calumet Photo chain store now chapter 7 bankrupt busted.  All U.S. stores being shut down, employees given no notice (which is actually typical)!  God refuses to stop the killing of 17 professor positions at the Christian women’s College of Saint Elizabeth.

New York: Spain based hotel intelligence and reputation service company ReviewPro killed 10% of its U.S. jobs, and is trying to get more debt financing.   In Brooklyn, Tufaro Transit laying off 46 school bus employees in June, due to loss of contract.  School Days also warned of 45 school bus employee layoffs, due to loss of contract.

Ohio: Marietta College killed 20 jobs.

Pennsylvania: In Garden, after 20 years Youngsville Home and Garden shutdown.

Virginia: The 3rd largest privately held foodservice company in the U.S. killing jobs. Reinhart Foodservice laying off 49 employees by April.  Company officials refused to explain why.  In Bristol, after ten years Inari Wines shutdown: “It’s been slowing down and slowing down. Sales have been flat.…It’s not fun anymore!”-Paul Brandt, co-owner

Washington:  In Kent, Berry Plastics killed 118 jobs, as they end operations!  48 employees were laid off prior to this announcement.  Berry Plastics has killed hundreds of jobs since it started shutting down operations across the U.S. in 2013.

Wisconsin: Because the wimp ass Air National Guard won’t stand up to the Obama regime, 39 Guard jobs being killed.

11 March 2014: More jobs going to Mexico & China! 

The U.S. Department of Labor (DoL) doesn’t count the hundreds of layoffs involving less than 50 people each, in its mass layoff reports. It also doesn’t count all the little ‘mom & pop’ businesses that shut down.

“Our ideals and principles, as well as our national security……..That’s what makes America different. That’s what makes us exceptional.”-Barack Obama, 10 September 2013

Business/Economics

U.S. job losses & store closings 11 March 2014: Chemical spill kills restaurants! More jobs going to Mexico & China! Thousands more healthcare workers to become unemployed!

Incomplete list of announced closings & layoffs.

California: In Temecula “a global leader in cardiac and vascular care”, Abbott Vascular (Sevo Site), laid off 13 people.  In Fair Oaks, after more than 50 years Sam’s Kosher Style Restaurant & Deli shutdown.

Colorado: In Manitou Springs, the Craftwood Inn shutdown without notice. The owners blame it on the many wildfires and flooding in recent years: “I just found out yesterday. I don’t know what I’m going to do.  I’m pretty sure that they could not recover from the last two summers. The fires and floods hurt business so much the last few years that Dave and wife Kathy could not keep up.”-Matt Schee, hotel chef

Maryland: The city of Annapolis laid off 13 employees and placed 20 vacant positions in limbo, in an attempt to create a budget that does not raise taxes.

Massachusetts: Cambridge research center, The Broad Institute, laid off 22 researchers due to lack of funding.  The town of Shirley warned it will layoff employees, and cut work hours due to a $300-thousand dollar hole in the city budget.

Michigan: In Genesee County, Too Big to Jail FirstMerit Bank shutting down three branches in April.  Bank officials say the branch offices lack customers.

Minnesota: The Willmar School District laid off 87 teachers and administrators.  They hope it will be temporary.

New Jersey: In Jersey City, iconic Casa Dante restaurant shutdown without warning.  A finance company stated that the restaurant owners hadn’t paid rent since October 2013!  News reports say it was a court order that shutdown the Italian eatery & music joint.  Bankrupt busted Ashley Stewart now says they will shutdown 27 women’s clothing stores. Company officials say their sales have been crashing since 2012.

New York: God refuses to stop Saint Francis Hospital and Health Centers from shutting down.  Officials say they will cease all operations in May, 1141 jobs lost!  A major hotel operator, Morgan Hotel Group, laid off more than 20 HQ employees.  Company officials say the economy is forcing them to reduce costs.

Pennsylvania: In Bethlehem, after 80 years postal machine maker Bell & Howell shutting down their factory.  More than 60 jobs lost.  The company is consolidating operations.  In Scranton, gift store The Crazy Pineapple shutdown without notice.   The Southern Lehigh School Board tearing down the Lower Milford Elementary School.  Lower Milford parents are pissed, saying the K-5 school is not only the only school in the area, but doubles as a community center! School board officials say they cannot afford the $15-million USD needed to renovate the school.

Washington: What housing market recovery?  After 35 years Chamber’s Bay Realty shutdown.

West Virginia: In Charleston, Thelma Fay’s Cafe shutdown, it’s blamed on that massive chemical spill by Freedom Industries: “Sadly we have been unable to recover our losses during the water crisis……”

Wisconsin: Ice machine maker Manitowoc Company killing 150 U.S. jobs!  The patriotic ‘American’ company is moving production to Mexico and China.

10 March 2014: U.S. Army behind massive school shutdowns? 

The U.S. Department of Labor (DoL) doesn’t count the hundreds of layoffs involving less than 50 people each, in its mass layoff reports. It also doesn’t count all the little ‘mom & pop’ businesses that shut down.

“Our ideals and principles, as well as our national security……..That’s what makes America different. That’s what makes us exceptional.”-Barack Obama, 10 September 2013