California:   British empire based U.S. taxsucker BAE revealed they eliminated 165 additional jobs in San Francisco!  In San Jose, Boston Scientific issued a layoff WARN saying 75 people will be laid off after Xmas.  In Pleasanton, Albertsons-Safeway issued yet another layoff WARN, another 23 people being let go after Xmas.  West Sacramento based grocery store Raley’s announced it will shutdown its Sacramento and Stockton stores, 114 jobs lost between September and December!  In Stockton, CEVA Logistics eliminating 51 jobs after Xmas.  In Oxnard, Haas Automation revealed they laid off six people back in October.  In Irvine, Verizon issued a layoff WARN saying 171 people will become unemployed after Xmas!   LG NanoH2O laid off 48 employees in El Segundo and 35 in Hawthorne.  In Pacoima, Brice Manufacturing eliminating 33 jobs after Xmas.  In Redwood City, CoreLogic shutting down by January 2016, at least 21 jobs lost.  In San Diego, Arena Pharmaceuticals eliminating 79 jobs after Xmas.  The Declan Suites issued a layoff WARN for after Xmas, 35 jobs lost.  Circuit board maker ISOLA USA shutting down their Elk Grove ops after Xmas, 72 jobs lost. In Los Angeles, Napa Valley Grill shutting down before Xmas, 86 jobs lost, the operator claims it’s temporary.  In Calexico, Aqua Lung America shutdown without warning, 29 jobs lost.

Delaware: Ward Ellinger Gallery shutdown.

Failed State Florida: Ameris Bank shutting down their Jasper office in January 2016.

Idaho:  It’s been revealed that state taxpayers shelled out more than $2.1-million USD in failed state sovereignty lawsuits!  Those lawsuits are funded through the Constitutional Defense Fund.  For proof your ‘elected’ officials are idiots it’s also been revealed that The Gem State has lost every state sovereignty case since 1996!  There is only $322-thousand remaining in the Constitutional Defense Fund.  Gov’na Otter is asking ‘lawmakers’ to rape taxpayers for an additional $1-million for the Constitutional Defense Fund!  Possibly in connection, the Center for Public Integrity ranked Idaho ‘lawmakers’ and Courts among the worst in the United States for lack of openness and corruption.  

Failed State Illinois: Chicago based Tribune Publishing bribing 5-hundred employees to voluntarily quit (voluntary buyouts) or else outright layoffs will take place!  In Willowbrook, after 29 years Phillies Pizza shutting down before Thanksgiving.   In Murphysboro, after 61 years Gillenberg’s Furniture shutting down.

Kansas: In Valley Falls, after 125 years (surviving the Great Depression and numerous recessions) Stewart Hardware shutdown.  The current owners said their sales no longer support operating costs.

Michigan: In Howell, The Candy Bar shutting down in February 2016.  The property owner refused to renew the lease, yet, local news reports say the property owner has no plans for the building.

Minnesota: Minneapolis based software company Code42 laid off 30 employees.  The arrogant administrators said the employees weren’t a good fit for the new corporate culture of growth. 

Missouri: In addition to the hundreds of people being laid off in California, taxsucker Boeing announced 80 people will be let go in Saint Louis, by January 2016.  More layoffs could be in the works as company administrators originally warned of 450 layoffs!

Nebraska: Warren Buffett’s Omaha based Berkshire Hathaway revealed it began dumping its Walmart and Goldman Sachs stocks back in September.

Failed State New Jersey: The new California based owner of the Saint Clare’s Health System laid off 50 people. The new administrators blame it on “current volumes” caused by ObamaCare.

Failed State New York:  NYC based The WeinStein Company eliminating 50 jobs before Thanksgiving.  Administrators said it was necessary to “grow the business”.   WYNIT Distribution is joining the mass exodus from The Empire State and moving its HQ from North Syracuse to South Carolina in 2016.  In Clifton Park, after 156 years (surviving the Great Depression and numerous recessions) Clark Music shutting down when its inventory of pianos are gone.

North Carolina: What automotive industry recovery?  In Greensboro, Spring Garden Tire and Auto went chapter 7 bankrupt and is being liquidated.

North Dakota:  Another mom-n-pop going down in Fargo, after 136 years (surviving the Great Depression and numerous recessions) Straus Clothing shutdown.

South Carolina:  Nason Medical Center shutdown all five  Lowcountry urgent care centers and laid off all remaining employees, saying “We thank you and wish you the best of success in your new positions wherever they may be.”

Tennessee: After 18 years Ev’s Boutique in the Columbia Mall shutting down as soon as the inventory is gone.

Texas: In Port Lavaca, the oil fed coker known as Seadrift Coke laid off 20 employees and an undisclosed number of contractors. 

Utah: The Utah National Parks Council of the Boy Scouts of America reports a massive crash in donations and will conduct layoffs: “We have to make those cuts now: The longer we wait, the harder it is. The real challenge here is the fact that these are real people here we’re talking about. It’s a sad day for the Boy Scouts to have to make this kind of announcement.”-Stan Lockhart, council president

10-12 November 2015: “… it wasn’t funny anymore.”

WARN=Worker Adjustment & Retraining Notification

Former employees who receive severance are not counted as unemployed

The U.S. Department of Labor (DoL) no longer issues mass layoff reports: “On March 1, 2013, President Obama ordered into effect the across-the- board spending cuts (commonly referred to as sequestration) required by the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act, as amended. Under the order, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) must cut its current budget by more than $30 million, 5 percent of the current 2013 appropriation, by September 30, 2013. In order to help achieve these savings and protect core programs, the BLS will eliminate two programs, including Mass Layoff Statistics, and all ‘measuring green jobs’ products. This news release is the final publication of monthly mass layoff survey data.”

The Bank of England is warning that in the near future robots (automation) will take away 80-million jobs from U.S. citizens!

Failed State Alabama: After 65 years Capitol Book & News shutdown: “…to earn a living out of a retail bookstore….it’s hard these days. It’s hard to be little. It’s hard to be independent. Just think about all of the people who have gone out of business.We used to make jokes, like people do, that some day they’re going to have to carry us out of here feet first. I told that joke one day, and it wasn’t funny anymore.”-Thomas Upchurch, co-owner

California:  San Diego based drug testing lab Millennium Health now bankrupt busted after being caught ripping off Medicare.  Florida based General Mills Restaurants suddenly shutdown their San Diego Yard House restaurant, 110 people jobless!  In Costa Mesa, after publicly blaming the greedy landlord Scott’s Restaurant finally issued a shutdown WARN saying 106 people will become unemployed by the beginning of January 2016! In Studio City, Grill Concepts restaurant is shutting down by January 2016, 49 jobs lost, however the operators claim it will be temporary.  In Los Angeles, restaurant Greystone Manor issued a shutdown WARN saying 61 people will become unemployed by January 2016, however they claim it’s temporary.  In Bakersfield, Golden State Drilling issued a WARN saying 104 people will be laid off by the beginning of December!  Penske Logistics issued two WARNs saying 60 people will become jobless right before Thanksgiving.  Tax-sucking defense contractor Microsemi eliminating 57 jobs in Garden Grove,  by the beginning of January 2016.  Tax-sucker Boeing issued more layoff WARNs adding another 66 layoffs to the hundreds already announced.   In Sun Valley, JC Entertainment Lighting Services issued a mass layoff WARN saying 169 people will be laid off by the beginning of January 2016!  In San Jose, Cisco Systems continues to kill jobs, this time 126 employees were laid off!  In Santa Clara, Pennsylvania based Vishay Intertechnology announced they will eliminate 292 jobs by March 2016!  They are moving jobs to other countries, calling it “…moving headcounts into lower cost geographies.”  More proof brick-n-mortar stores can’t blame the internet, San Francisco based HotelTonight reservation app laid off 34 people.   

Colorado: British empire Canada based Kinross Gold shutting down their Denver office, eliminating 110 jobs!   

Idaho:  After six years in Pocatello Cynthia Louise Boutique shutdown.  The owner is focusing on her Christian ministry to female prisoners.

Iowa: In Shell Rock, farm equipment maker Unverferth Manufacturing laid off about 48 people, blaming low sales.  In Davenport, after 66 years Riefe’s Family Restaurant shutting down right before Xmas.

Kentucky:  AK Steel jacked up the number of people to become unemployed after December from 940 to 1-thousand 1-hundred!  They blame cheap imported steel (which is an excuse I’ve heard since the 1980s).  Ferus Natural Gas Fuels shutdown their Jenkins plant without warning, laying off at least 20 people. 

Maine: Payment processor WEX eliminating 80 jobs in South Portland.

Minnesota: In Minneapolis, after 17 years Chiang Mai Thai restaurant shutting down right before Xmas.  The owners did not want to renew the lease.

Failed State New Jersey: In Florham Park, Germany based BASF issued a WARN saying 92 people will be laid off by mid-January 2016.  East Orange General Hospital now bankrupt busted despite its pending $84-million USD sale, 860 jobs threatened!

New Mexico: Oil service company Baker Hughes Pressure Pumping suddenly shutdown their fracking ops in Farmington and laid off 67 people.

Failed State New York:  Affordable Care Act (ObamaCare) forcing EmblemHealth Services to issue a shutdown WARN for their NYC Claims Processing office, 101 jobs lost by February 2016!  In Rochester, Sweden based medical tech Getinge Sourcing announced 52 layoffs by January 2016.  In Staten Island, after 44 years iconic Mandolin Brothers guitar shop shutting down when the inventory is gone.

North Dakota: In Fargo, after 13 years Monte’s Downtown restaurant shutting down after Xmas, blaming competition.

Ohio:  Hyundai Ideal Electric eliminating 56 jobs in January 2016.

Pennsylvania: In Lancaster, American Axle & Manufacturing revealed it laid off 11 employees back in August.   Trib Total Media eliminating 133 jobs (the WARNs say 133, news reports say 153) between Xmas and mid-January 2016!  In West Mifflin, after 25 years Levin Furniture shutdown after the landlord made a deal with Lowe’s.  After 29 years Distelfink Bakery shutdown without warning: “We were struggling, and thought we had come to an agreement with attorneys and with the landlord, to stay current … plus pay the back rent.  In the meantime, they went to court and got a judgment against us.”-Kate Berger, co-owner

South Carolina: 95 years old (surviving the Great Depression and numerous recessions) Moe Levy’s Reliable Loan and Pawn Shop shutting down because the lease will not be renewed due the rent being jacked up.

Texas: ObamaCare forcing TAPS medical transportation in Wichita Falls to shutdown after Thanksgiving.  In Corpus Christi, after surviving the Great Depression and numerous recessions Braslau’s Fine Home Furnishings shutting down when the inventory is gone.

Washington DC:  Education tech company Blackboard laid off an undisclosed number of employees.  News reports guesstimate 1-hundred people lost their jobs! 

Wisconsin: What automotive industry recovery?  Racine based transmission maker Twin Disc laid off 15 people and announced pay cuts and work furloughs for everybody else in order to save $4.3-million USD!    Rockwell Automation warned of 255 layoffs in 2016, saying “…we believe we’ll see a slowing of the economy.”  

08-09 November 2015: “It is a bummer…we can’t keep going.”

WARN=Worker Adjustment & Retraining Notification

Former employees who receive severance are not counted as unemployed

The U.S. Department of Labor (DoL) no longer issues mass layoff reports: “On March 1, 2013, President Obama ordered into effect the across-the- board spending cuts (commonly referred to as sequestration) required by the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act, as amended. Under the order, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) must cut its current budget by more than $30 million, 5 percent of the current 2013 appropriation, by September 30, 2013. In order to help achieve these savings and protect core programs, the BLS will eliminate two programs, including Mass Layoff Statistics, and all ‘measuring green jobs’ products. This news release is the final publication of monthly mass layoff survey data.”

What automotive industry recovery? Bermuda based business insurance company Hiscox surveyed mom-n-pop businesses across the United States.  Mom-n-pop auto repair shops are being hit hardest by the lack of economic recovery, 56% say they will be forced to shutdown between now and 2020!

Failed State Alabama: Video Warehouse shutting down their Dothan store.  In August they shutdown their Ozark store.

Arizona: In Phoenix, Paz Cantina being shutdown by property developers who want to build an apartment complex.

California: Irvine based newspapers, websites and mobile applications operator Freedom Communications now chapter 11 bankrupt busted.  In Costa Mesa, after 66 years Grant Boy’s outdoor supply (including guns, oh my!) store shutdown.

Connecticut: After 65 years Chick’s Drive Inn Seafood Restaurant shutting down as requested by the now deceased owner.

Failed State Florida: Dade Medical College shutdown all its campuses without warning, thousands of students and hundreds of employees out in the cold!  Basically school administrators realized they are flat broke (for numerous reasons)!

Georgia: In Athens, Vision Video shutting down their Homewood Hills store.  At one time there were three Vision Video stores in Athens, now they’ll be just one.

Idaho: Evil property renters are jacking up rents on farmers!  The USDA’s National Agricultural Statistics Survey says the cost to rent non-irrigated farmland in The Gem State has gone up to $158 USD per acre (0.4 hectare), a 5% increase from 2014 to 2015.   Irrigated farmland hit $208 per acre, an 8% increase!  However, it was revealed that rent for farmland with a pivot irrigation system and strong water rights access was going for as much as $350 per acre!  Here’s another whammy against farmers; the USDA said many of the current rental contracts were signed when commodity prices were high, this means farmers are actually paying rent so they can lose even more money for what they grow!

Failed State Illinois: What automotive industry recovery? News reports say heavy vehicle maker Caterpillar began eliminating more jobs at its Decatur factory.  Back in May they eliminated 150 jobs at their Decatur factory!

Expect Less, Pay More?

Indiana:  Retailer Target shutting down their Anderson store after Xmas.

Failed State Iowa: The state National Guard shutting down and selling off their Corning armory.  News reports say it’s the 13th state militia armory to be shutdown.   Retailer Target shutting down their Ottumwa store after Xmas.

Massachusetts: GE (General Electric) Oil & Gas shutting down their Avon valve factory and moving it to Florida, 3-hundred jobs lost by mid-2016!  California based computer chip maker Intel eliminating 175 jobs from its Hudson factory, starting January 2016!  At one time the Hudson factory employed 7-hundred people!

Michigan: Advertising agency Doner Partners eliminated an undisclosed number of jobs due to the loss of their JCPenney contract.

Minnesota:  Retailer Target shutting down their New Ulm store after Xmas.

New Hampshire: Nashua Corporation shutting down its Merrimack paper mill in April 2016, 53 jobs lost.

Failed State New Jersey: In Montvale, after 90 years the DePiero family says they were forced by skyrocketing operating costs to sell-off their farm and market to evil property developers.

Failed State New York:   Yet more layoffs in the video game industry, this time 12 New Yorkers lost their jobs with Avalanche Studios.  In Brighton, Mario’s Italian Restaurant shutting down before Xmas, blaming ongoing property development by commercial property developers.  In Hamburg, Tina’s Italian Kitchen shutting down before Xmas.  Sentry Safe issued a shutdown WARN for their Rochester factory, 301 jobs lost by June 2016!  Administrators told state employment weenie heads that they’re getting the hell outta the Empire State and moving to Mexico!    Aluminum giant Alcoa shutting down its Massena smelting ops, 487 jobs lost! 

North Carolina: After 18 years Tír na nÓg pub shutting down before Thanksgiving.

Ohio: Century Aluminum suddenly announced it is killing 150 jobs as it shuts down a ‘pot line’ at its Sebree smelter!  It was also revealed that last month Century Aluminum eliminated 350 jobs when it shutdown its Hawesville smelter!  They blame competition from China.

Pennsylvania: (more proof ‘mericans are a bunch of legal drug addicts) Hatboro based mail order drugs pusher Philidor RX Services shutting down within 90 days, 630 jobs around the country will be lost because of accusations of improper tracking of drugs shipped for another drugs pusher Valeant Pharmaceuticals!  After 37 years the owners of Mandy’s Place pizza joint blame escalating crime for why they shutdown: “I sit at night and I worry that if that phone rings, this time somebody got shot…..Nobody held the meeting! They [mayor’s office] went on media and said they would and it never happened.”-Steve Negri, owner

South Carolina: Mother Nature (flooding) and lack of sales are being blamed for the layoff of 17 employees at the events center known as Cypress Gardens.

Washington: After 30 years Yakima Tropical Fish and Pet Village shutting down. The Yakima Police K-9 unit will be hardest hit as for the past 15 years the pet shop donated 2-hundred pounds of dog food every month to feed the police dogs!  Aluminum giant Alcoa shutting down two smelting ops in Ferndale and Wenatchee.  It’s part of the company’s plan to eliminate 1-thousand 5-hundred jobs!

Washington DC: News reports say National Geographic magazine is asking employees to take voluntary buyouts, or retire early, or be laid off outright.  This comes two months after the iconic magazine sold its soul to evil Rupert Murdoch!

Wisconsin: Retailer Target shutting down their Superior store after Xmas.

30-31 October 2015: “we need…to be growing…that is not happening”

WARN=Worker Adjustment & Retraining Notification

Former employees who receive severance are not counted as unemployed

The U.S. Department of Labor (DoL) no longer issues mass layoff reports: “On March 1, 2013, President Obama ordered into effect the across-the- board spending cuts (commonly referred to as sequestration) required by the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act, as amended. Under the order, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) must cut its current budget by more than $30 million, 5 percent of the current 2013 appropriation, by September 30, 2013. In order to help achieve these savings and protect core programs, the BLS will eliminate two programs, including Mass Layoff Statistics, and all ‘measuring green jobs’ products. This news release is the final publication of monthly mass layoff survey data.”

California: Grocery chain Fresh & Easy officially chapter 11 bankrupt busted, a few weeks after it announced it was shutting all its stores down.  Oil giant Chevron announced they are eliminating an additional 7-thousand oil industry jobs!  Basically they don’t think oil prices are going to go back up, significantly.  It could also be because after their last job cuts their profits went way up.   In Saint Helena, after 40 years David’s Jewelers shutdown.

Colorado: Denver based Chipotle shutdown 43 restaurants in Washington and Oregon states.  They claim it’s temporary, so they can eliminate  Escherichia coli (E. coli O157:H7) after Washington state health administrators issued an outbreak warning on Halloween.  It should be noted that affected stores posted notices blaming “equipment problems” or “supply chain problems” for their shutdown!

Idaho:  The U.S. Food & Drug Administration slammed shut Ketchum-based Sun Valley Juice Company for repeated violations of federal food safety regulations.   The company got in trouble with the federal regulators back in 2006 as well.   Idaho’s ObamaCare insurance exchange admitted that 78-thousand Idahoans (in a state with about 1.5-million people) whose low incomes (or sex; that fact they’re healthy low income adult males) won’t allow them to qualify for Idaho’s sexist Medicaid program!  Don’t talk to me about equal rights for women until you’ve come here and researched all the anti-men laws in Idaho!

Failed State Illinois: In Woodstock, after 46 years Red Barn Farm Market shutdown. Heavy vehicle maker Caterpillar ‘escorted’ an undisclosed number of Global Information Services employees out the door.  Administrators tried to say they were the employees who took the “voluntary buyout” (then why the escort out the door?).    After 12 years Mama Compton’s restaurant in Rock Island shutdown: “We’ve got to find a better place. In order, as a small business, to thrive, we need this downtown area to be growing, and we decided that is not happening.”-Psyndy Compton-Muse, co-owner

Indiana:  United Minerals issued a layoff WARN saying 138 people will become jobless after Xmas!

Kansas: Overland Park based cell phone company Sprint warned it will eliminate $2-billion in costs, including labor costs!

Massachusetts: New Bedford based Top Quality Seafood & Shellfish now chapter 11 bankrupt busted.   It’s blamed on massive debts.

Failed State New Jersey: Basking Ridge based cell phone rip-off artist Verizon on the verge of eliminating 6-thousand jobs!  This is according to an investment advisor who says he’s been warned of the massive layoffs from inside sources.

Failed State New York:   Binder & Binder shutting down their Bronx Social Security Disability Advocates operations by the end of January 2016, 109 jobs lost!  Warren Buffett owned Kraft Heinz shutting down three food factories; Avon, Walton and Campbell eliminating about 930 jobs! 

North Carolina: Heavy vehicle maker Caterpillar revealed it is shutting down its Franklin factory by June 2016, 122 jobs affected! 

Ohio: Canton based TimkenSteel announced another 90 employees will be laid off, this after 91 employees were laid off in Texas between March and August.  It’s blamed on continued crashing revenues due to the oil industry cutbacks.

Oklahoma: In Muskogee, Vallourec Star laying off an additional 75 people.  In April they laid off 30 people, blaming the oil industry.

Pennsylvania:  What I call Disappearing Students Syndrome is forcing Rider University to eliminate programs and layoff 14 people.  Philadelphia Media Network merging its The Philadelphia Inquirer, Philadelphia Daily News and Philly.com, resulting in mass layoffs sometime after January 2016.

Texas:  Oil service company Noble Energy warned of additional layoffs, on top of the 230 already unemployed!

Washington:  In Vancouver, after seven years Bad Monkey’s Bikes shutdown: “The last half 2013 and all of ’14 were spent trying to recover from that purchase. We had a rough ’14.  This year was spent trying to get caught up so I could change the business plan and create a different style of bike shop. I wasn’t able to get the money….”-Wade Leckie

Wisconsin: WEC Energy Group laying off just under 2-hundred people as a direct result of their merger with Integrys Energy Group!  Mining equipment maker Joy Global announced they eliminated an additional 26 jobs on top of the 113 eliminated earlier in the month!  

28-29 October 2015: “an industry-wide slowdown…throughout North America”

WARN=Worker Adjustment & Retraining Notification

Former employees who receive severance are not counted as unemployed

The U.S. Department of Labor (DoL) no longer issues mass layoff reports: “On March 1, 2013, President Obama ordered into effect the across-the- board spending cuts (commonly referred to as sequestration) required by the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act, as amended. Under the order, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) must cut its current budget by more than $30 million, 5 percent of the current 2013 appropriation, by September 30, 2013. In order to help achieve these savings and protect core programs, the BLS will eliminate two programs, including Mass Layoff Statistics, and all ‘measuring green jobs’ products. This news release is the final publication of monthly mass layoff survey data.”

California: In Oakland, Svenhard’s Swedish Bakery shutting down after Thanksgiving, 168 jobs lost!   In Gardena, Apro Distribution shutting down after Thanksgiving, 61 jobs lost.  In Irwindale, Southern California Edison eliminating 32 jobs right after Thanksgiving.  Too Big to Jail British empire Barclays eliminating 35 jobs right after Xmas.  In Thousand Oaks, tax-sucker General Dynamics eliminating 55 jobs right after Thanksgiving.  Audio electronics maker Western Digital eliminating 111 jobs right before Xmas!  TTM Technologies shutdown with short notice, 175 jobs lost in Milpitas!  In Santa Ana, Zenith Education laying off 48 people after Thanksgiving.  In Poway, Rockwell Collins laying off 29 people before Xmas.  Twitter issued a layoff WARN, 240 people in San Francisco losing their jobs before Xmas! In Eastvale, GENCO laying off 68 people before Xmas.  Tax-sucker Boeing eliminating 222 jobs between Thanksgiving and Xmas!  What housing market recovery?  Ontario (California) based First Mortgage ceased to exist, news reports say the lender actually stopped issuing home loans back in July!

Colorado: Longmont’s Front Range Community College shutting down its nursing program!  For the 2017-18 school year the program is being consolidated to other campuses, apparently due to the construction of a new hospital.

Georgia: In Emory, after 70 years Evans Fine Food shutdown.

Idaho: Hungry people have increased in The Gem State as demonstrated by the fact that the Idaho Foodbank Fund (funded by donations from taxpayers) has supported seven more local food banks than last year!  The evil Right to Work (you over) ‘lawmakers’ made it harder to qualify for federally funded food aid (aka SNAP or food stamps), but created a local taxpayer supported Idaho Foodbank Fund.  Since then evil pro-government weenie heads pointed to the resulting drop in food stamp (SNAP) distributions as proof Idahoans weren’t going hungry! I wonder what those Right to Work (you over) ‘elected’ lawmakers are doing with that federal food stamp funding?   Idaho’s version of ObamaCare has directly caused a death. Jenny Steinke died in Idaho Falls,  her husband Jason had just gotten insurance, but it didn’t go into effect until 01 September, the very day Jenny suffocated to death due to her asthma.  Jason stated that ObamaCare is “just not affordable” and bemoaned his wife’s death “I wouldn’t wish that on my worst enemy.”  Jason’s mother Cella describes Idaho’s version of ObamaCare as nothing more than “death by poverty.”

Failed State Illinois: Despite record number of local layoffs the desperate non-profit charity United Way is begging cash strapped residents for at least $11-million USD!  So far they’ve raised $8.8-million, that’s less than last year.

Indiana: Columbus based diesel engine maker Cummins announced it must eliminate 2-thousand jobs before the end of the year!  CEO Tom Linebarger says there ain’t no gott-damned economic recovery: “We are taking difficult but necessary actions to lower costs in the face of weak demand in many of our markets. Global off highway and power generation markets have been weak for some time and are worsening.”

Kentucky:  Lexington based bed maker Tempur Sealy eliminated jobs across the country, saying it’s necessary to remain competitive in the long run (in other words no economic recovery is taking place).

Main: Paper maker Verso Mills submitted an official WARN saying 3-hundred people will become jobless right before Xmas!   They’ve already shutdown mill #2, blaming crashing sales.

Failed State Michigan: Midland based lithium ion battery maker XALT laid off another 106 employees (35 in September) blaming the failure of its Chinese customer who so far hasn’t been buying all the batteries it ordered back in March.  This is what happens there’s only one global customer with the money to buy your product, and their economy starts crashing.

Minnesota: South Central College eliminating five jobs.  Even with a piddly reduction in tuition college administrators expect enrollment to decline by 3.5%.

Missouri:  Saint Louis based evil Monsanto announced more layoffs, shutting down three research centers across the U.S., about 90 evil jobs lost.  In Columbia, industrial supplier Grainer shutting down the day before Thanksgiving.  In Springfield, the false God refused to stop the shutdown of ‘his’ 25 years old CPO Christian Discount Store: “Each year has become increasingly more challenging. Although we have made many changes and adjustments to our store, sales have been on a steady decline for many years.”–Bruce Erdel, owner

Montana: Great Falls based restaurant chain Shoot the Moon Grill now chapter 11 bankrupt busted.  Customers got suspicious when restaurants started shutting down, posting signs that read “closed due to flooding”. 

New Jersey: The false God refuses to stop the shutdown of ‘his’ Our Lady of the Assumption church in Bayonne, even though it supposedly has 1-thousand 7-hundred families as members, and despite reports that the local population is actually growing!

New York:  Insurance company POMCO laid off yet more employees, this time 18 on top of the 50 last month.  In Pekin, after 40 years restaurant Schimschacks shutdown.  In West Village, after 30 years Empire Szechuan Village restaurant shutdown because the landlord wanted to jack the rent from $5-thousand per month to $25-thousand!  Who’s really to blame for the crashing and burning?

Ohio: Global food company Manitowoc suddenly announced they are shutting down their Cleveland ops and leaving 274 people out in the cold by April 2016!  Like the rest of unAmerican corporate Amerika Mantiwoc is consolidating production.  Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act forcing Gallipolis based Holzer Health System to eliminate 1-hundred jobs in Ohio and West Virginia!  Administrators directly blamed ObamaCare saying it “resulted in dramatic change in healthcare service delivery models.”  They also stated that ObamaCare is actually doing the reverse of what it promised, it’s actually preventing people from getting healthcare!

South Dakota: In Sturgis, the Whitewood Campground and Event Center now bankrupt busted and shutdown.

Tennessee: After 15 years Vaudeville Cafe shutdown due to “financial burdens”.

Texas:  12 Del Taco restaurants shutting down in the Dallas/Fort Worth metro, 218 jobs gone before Xmas!  Administrators said “Del Taco has made this decision for financial reasons.”, however the real reason is the company has a new owner from the Failed State of Illinois (Larry Levy) and he’s crashing and burning the burrito joint.

Despite being abandoned by their false god they still ask him to bless you. Perhaps it’s really a curse? Willkommen zu Amerika, Hündin!  Hey, I can be a jerk if you can choose to remain blind! I’m constantly on the verge of being homeless myself, so screw you Amerika!

Washington DC:  U.S. Department of Commerce confirms the new home market bubble is bursting.  Home sales are still below the 52 year average.  In September: A drop in sales of 11.5% overall since last month, but a huge 61.8% crash in the northeast of the U.S.!  

Wisconsin: Middleton Sports & Fitness shutting down right before Xmas.

23 October 2015:“I lost, they won.” Banks & illegal drugs cause illegal immigration to U.S.!

WARN=Worker Adjustment & Retraining Notification

Former employees who receive severance are not counted as unemployed

The U.S. Department of Labor (DoL) no longer issues mass layoff reports: “On March 1, 2013, President Obama ordered into effect the across-the- board spending cuts (commonly referred to as sequestration) required by the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act, as amended. Under the order, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) must cut its current budget by more than $30 million, 5 percent of the current 2013 appropriation, by September 30, 2013. In order to help achieve these savings and protect core programs, the BLS will eliminate two programs, including Mass Layoff Statistics, and all ‘measuring green jobs’ products. This news release is the final publication of monthly mass layoff survey data.”

God’s immigrant help NGO Pontifical Council for the Pastoral Care of Migrants and Itinerant People is warning of increased illegal immigration to the United States caused by the crashing & burning of the Honduran economy.  It’s partly blamed on a crackdown on illegal drug trafficking which has revealed even multi-national corporations and the government are involved, like Jaime Rolando Rosenthal Oliva owned Grupo Continental-Continental Bank.  Of Romanian ancestry Rosenthal Olivia got his business and civil engineering degrees from MIT in the U.S. (just like so many other evil people)!  The latest layoffs involve 7-thousand government employees!  At least 1.5-million Hondurans are currently unemployed and more layoffs are expected. (that’s equivalent to the entire population of the U.S. state of Idaho, which is much larger geographically, by almost double the square miles)  (Obama orders new War on Drugs targeting legal prescription drug users & his own ObamaCare!)

Italy based drugs maker Perrigo eliminating 8-hundred jobs and selling off its U.S. Vitamins, Minerals and Supplements division!

Failed State Alabama: The city of Bayou La Batre laid off six employees without warning.  The city is in the financial hole by at least $750-thousand USD.

California: In Saint Helena, after 28 years Tra Vigne restaurant shutting down right before Xmas, the lease was not renewed.

Florida: Tampa based restaurant chain owner Bloomin’ Brands is in trouble (as usual), but so much so this time that investor analyst Zacks has told shareholders to dump their stocks in the corporation.  Stocks of Bloomin’ Brands downgraded to Sell status, the company failed to show any significant increase in revenues in its last report but is still considered to have too much debt.  The debt is probably from all the new restaurants Bloomin’ Brands has opened in the past year.  The food corporation controls restaurant chains known as Outback Steakhouse, Carrabba’s Italian Grill, Bonefish Grill, Fleming’s Prime Steakhouse and Wine Bar, and Roy’s.  Interesting side note, several of Bloomin’ Brands restaurants have suffered fires this year; the Outback Steakhouse at the Meridian Crossroads plaza in Meridian, Idaho (blamed on corroded gas line).  Then two months later another Meridian, Idaho, Outback Steakhouse caught fire, this time at the Bonita Crossroads Shopping Center, firefighters said it “seemed to be electrical”.  The Carrabba’s in Suntree, Florida, caught fire last week with initial reports saying the fire started on the roof around an air conditioning unit.  In June, the West Springfield, Massachusetts, Carrabba’s caught fire twice, first initial reports said the fire somehow started in between the metal and rubberized roofing materials around a vent fan, then the next morning the kitchen caught on fire!  It’s not just fires, the Richland, Washington, Bonefish Grill was vandalized with a blowtorch in June.

ISU located in Pocatello, Idaho, lost 671 students since last year!

Idaho: Yet again, Idaho State University reports crashing enrolment (what I call the Disappearing Students Syndrome affecting schools across the U.S.).   This year’s admission (as in they’re admitting they lost students, because in recent years past they lied and said enrollment was up) stated that they lost 671 students compared to Fall 2014!

Failed State Illinois:  Peoria based Caterpillar bribed 2-thousand 1-hundred employees to take early retirement!    In Aurora, after less than a year the massive Cosmopolitan Marketplace grocery store shutting down!  The shutdown was revealed by signs that read “All Sales Final”.  A local alderman blames the shutdown on lack of sales.  In Danville, after eight years consignment store Kid’s Kloset shutting down when the inventory is gone.

Iowa:  In Keokuk, after 88 years (surviving The Great Depression and numerous recessions) Johnson-Schmidt Menswear shutting down as soon as the inventory is gone,  because the owner says he can’t eat it “Because it doesn’t taste good with salt and pepper”.

Kansas: Cell phone company Sprint is eliminating jobs, but now it says it doesn’t have the money to cover the two weeks of severance originally promised.  As a result they will cut it down to one week of severance for all layoff notifications made after January 2016.  After 16 years E.G. Geller shutting down their Country Club Plaza shoe store in January 2016, blaming crashing sales caused by most of the Plaza’s tenants shutting down.

Maryland: After 32 years The Yule Cupboard shutting down before Thanksgiving, blaming “…a smaller clientele. Today’s retail world is so different. We realize that you have to have an online presence basically, and I’m not willing to do that. We’re just too hands-on. We buy what we see, we don’t buy from a catalog…”  In Cross Keys, after 40 years the Jones & Jones boutique shutting down by December.

Massachusetts: Boston Weak based evil holding company State Street warned of layoffs due to flat profits and declining assets (running out of cash).

Failed State Michigan: What automotive industry recovery?  General Motors (GM) eliminating another 5-hundred jobs as it shuts down its 2nd shift in the Orion Assembly factory!  GM administrators say they must “align” their production to meet demand.  The city of Detroit has already eliminated 1-thousand 1-hundred water department employees and now news reports say another 1-hundred will be let go!  In Kalamazoo, after 50 years Wayside West sports bar shutdown.  Local news reports blame a shooting that happened last year, but in reality the property was sold-off.

Minnesota: After 115 years God refuses to stop the shutdown of ‘his’ First Presbyterian Church in Wilmont.  The Rapture has resulted in 12 members being Left Behind.

Nebraska: In Omaha, God refuses to stop ObamaCare from forcing Catholic Health Initiatives from eliminating 60 jobs.

New York:  Premier Laser Spa of Albany now chapter 11 bankrupt, local news reports say the company hasn’t been able to pay its advertising debts.  TD Bank revealed it will shutdown its Glens Falls office. The dumb administrators opened too many offices too close together.

Oklahoma:  Halliburton killing more jobs in The Sooner State.  In Duncan, 30 former Halliburton employees reported to the local unemployment office on Friday, that’s how the layoffs were discovered.

Oregon: In Prineville, Woodgrain Mill shutting down 55 remaining jobs lost.  The mill has been struggling since last year’s roof collapse, which forced 2-hundred people out of work!   

Pennsylvania: State budget cuts forcing pre-Kindergarten programs to shutdown.  Local news reports say some pre-K operations are trying to stay open by asking employees to work for free!  In Jim Thorpe, after surviving The Great Depression Dugan’s General Store cannot handle this so called ‘recovery’ from The Great Recession and will shutdown.  News reports revealed the current owners have been floating the store using lottery winnings they won back in 2000!

Rhode Island: Bankrupt busted City Sports shutting down their Providence store at the end of the month due to crashing sales.  It’s the eighth City Sports store to shutdown.

South Carolina:  ObamaCare killing off yet another affordable insurance co-op, this time it’s non-profit Consumers’ Choice Health Insurance being forced to shutdown, leaving 67-thousand customers without affordable insurance!

Texas:  Retailer JCPenney eliminated another 3-hundred jobs at its Plano HQ!  In Victoria, a Subway sandwich shop on Main and Constitution streets shutdown.

Zions Bank branch in Pocatello, Idaho.

Utah: Mormon Zions Bank reported what they think is good news, they’ve increased loans to small businesses in Idaho (71% increase) and Utah (29% increase).  Here’s why it’s bad news; those loans are to help companies make payroll, in other words companies still can’t generate enough revenue to pay their employees with cash.   Zions Bank administrators claim their debt financing of regional businesses created more than 5-hundred jobs!  Jobs created by pure debt is not a good thing, debt financing of things like payroll is one of the main reasons Corporate America is in such financial trouble.  In Cottonwood Heights, police are being blamed for the shutdown of the 25 years old Canyon Inn.   The owner said he’s tired of cops intimidating his customers into staying away: “I lost, they won.”-Jim Stojack

Washington DC:  JUST A FEW OF THE POTENTIAL JOB LOSSES DUE TO PROPOSED 2017 MILITARY BASE SHUTDOWNS  

20 – 22 October 2015: “…an absolute nightmare!”

WARN=Worker Adjustment & Retraining Notification

Former employees who receive severance are not counted as unemployed

The U.S. Department of Labor (DoL) no longer issues mass layoff reports: “On March 1, 2013, President Obama ordered into effect the across-the- board spending cuts (commonly referred to as sequestration) required by the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act, as amended. Under the order, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) must cut its current budget by more than $30 million, 5 percent of the current 2013 appropriation, by September 30, 2013. In order to help achieve these savings and protect core programs, the BLS will eliminate two programs, including Mass Layoff Statistics, and all ‘measuring green jobs’ products. This news release is the final publication of monthly mass layoff survey data.”