It must be noted that I started documenting these education shutdowns at the beginning of 2014. In that year I posted the reports biannually (every six months). In 2015 education cutbacks ramped up and I posted quarterly (every three months). For the past four months of 2016 there have been so many education cutbacks that I’ve posted a report every month!
Disappearing Students Syndrome (DSS): A phrase created by me to describe a phenomenon taking place across the United States, affecting both privately and publicly funded schools, from Kindergarten all the way through University levels.
Incomplete list of publicly announced education related layoffs & school shutdowns, April 2016:
Arizona: Scandalous University of Phoenix eliminated more jobs, this time 470 people were laid off without warning, due to crashing student enrollment! The for-profit university is for sale. More proof higher education is a waste of your time and money; the state Department of Administration says the fastest growing sector of the Grand Canyon State’s job market (by 27.7%) are jobs that don’t even require a high school education! The next biggest job sector is that which requires only a high school diploma. You should note that the ‘elected’ state leaders have been focusing job promotion on sectors that require higher education.
California: New York based Barnes & Noble shutting down an office in Santa Clara, 80 jobs lost. It’s part of the book seller’s plan to cut costs by $13-million USD. For-profit ICDC College shutting down their Huntington Park campus, 244 jobs lost by the end of May! University California Berkeley announced it will eliminate 5-hundred jobs (not counting the 60 people being laid off now) over the next two years, due to lack of taxpayer funding!
Florida: In Orlando, Florida Connections Academy issued a WARN, 80 jobs lost between June and August.
Georgia: The Ivy Preparatory Academy’s Young Men’s Leadership Academy shutting down by next school year. This is the second Ivy Prep school to be shutdown by state education administrators, supposedly due to weak finances and academic performance (but I wonder if it really has something to do with the plurality of the students and employees being ‘black’).
Idaho: The Dean of Science for University of Idaho was found dead in his Prius after it was pulled from the Dworshak Reservoir. He was reported missing and a few hours later was found in his car in the reservoir, near a boat ramp. The situation is being investigated. In Twin Falls, after 37 years God powerless to stop ‘unofficial’ Mormon Bell’s Family Books from being shutdown by ‘official’ Mormon bookstore Deseret Book! You read right! Local news reports say Bell’s Family Books was facing increasing competition, the final straw being when their own religion opened a bookstore down the street.
Illinois: Chicago State University announced the elimination of 3-hundred jobs! It’s blamed on the fact that failed ‘elected’ state lawmakers withheld a year’s worth of funding from Illinois higher education providers by failing to come up with a budget!Local news reports say Harper College in Palatine, and College of Lake County in Grayslake, laid off about 49 employees due to the failed ‘elected’ lawmakers’ budget battles. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign warning of mass layoffs due to the incompetent ‘elected’ state lawmakers. The mass layoffs would take place by the end of August. Highland Community Collegeeliminating six jobs, blaming the failed ‘law makers’ for failing to come up with a state budget. Highland Community College is also jacking up tuition! Edwardsville School District 7 warning of mass layoffs, fee increases and local tax hikes due to the economy failing to recover, contrary to what U.S. ‘leadership’ and main stream news media falsely claim. Local news reports explained that the school district was flush with “reserve” cash when the official recession started, but the economy never recovered and now the district is not only out of money, but is $4.5-million USD in the hole! Read the Belleville News-Democrat for the sobering truth (and a long list of drastic school district changes). Barnes & Noble shutting down three bookstores by the end of May; one in the Arlington Shopping Center, the Woodfield Plaza Shopping Center and in Deer Park Town Center! No word on how many jobs will be lost. Western Illinois University laying off 110 employees:“Despite the ongoing furlough/voluntary pay reduction program and the drastic reductions to spending, these layoffs are necessary to protect the university’s cash resources. In spite of our best efforts to conserve financial resources, without an appropriation from our state government, the university will face even greater financial challenges.”–Jack Thomas, president
Kansas: God powerless to stop the shutdown of ‘his’ 46 years old Shawnee Presbyterian Preschool. The Rapture, I mean what I call Disappearing Students Syndrome is forcing them to shutdown by the end of the year. Mission Group Kansas owned Wright Career College ceased to exist. The chapter 7 bankruptcy shuts down campuses in Kansas, Nebraska and Oklahoma. Administrators said “From our beginning in 1921 until our closure, we have always operated with the focus of putting the interests of our students first. It is unfortunate our students cannot complete their programs at Wright Career College.” However, in 2013 hundreds of students sued the college saying it “purposefully enticed prospective students to enroll and apply for student loans they cannot pay back through a systematic, deceptive marketing scheme.”
Kentucky: Jefferson Community and Technical College eliminating 101 jobs (61 ’employees’ & 40 ‘instructors’) due to what I call Disappearing Students Syndrome (DSS)! Since 2010 student enrollment has crashed by 4-thousand 3-hundred!
Michigan: Kalkaska Public Schools ending its lease on its Northside Alternative High School. It’ll save the struggling school district $3-thousand 8-hundred USD per month. The district is in trouble after a check of accounting books showed that it had been overpaid by 900-thousand tax dollars over three years. It’s suspected certain administrators within district knew of the overpayment, but never said anything. Now the state is taking $29-thousand per month away from the district, until the overpayment is corrected. Pittsford Area Schools Board of Education approved the layoff of five employees. It’s blamed on what I call DSS, the school board even stated that families are moving away from the state of Michigan.
Missouri: Missouri University eliminating 54 jobs due to $5.4-million USD in taxpayer funding cuts, caused by what I call Disappearing Students Syndrome. University of Missouri-St. Louis Chancellor Thomas George eliminating 85 jobs due to a shortage of $15-million USD!
New Hampshire: Dartmouth College’s Geisel School of Medicine laying off 30 people, and conducting restructuring that will affect 285 employees! The 285 are being considered for transfer to Dartmouth-Hitchcock.
New Jersey: In South Amboy, after more than 1-hundred years (surviving The Great deflationary Depression and numerous recessions) God powerless to stop the shutdown of ‘his’ Sacred Heart Elementary School because “…enrollment has decreased by 40 students and the subsidy required to sustain the school’s operation has risen to over a half-million dollars annually…” The Clifton Board of Education approved the outright elimination of 49 jobs and also notified 5-hundred non-tenured employees that they will not be considered for re-hire next school year! The Lacey Township School District eliminating 25 jobs and jacking up local taxes by 4.4.%! Local news reports said school taxes are supposed to be capped at 2%!
New York: God powerless to stop ‘his’ Catholic Charities of Buffalo from shutting down their social services operations within taxpayer funded public schools (hey, isn’t that a violation of the 1st Amendment, government shall not recognize a religion?), at least 65 jobs lost by the end of June. After ten years P.S. Bookstore forced to shutdown because it can’t pay its NYC (Brooklyn) property taxes. The bookstore operator says he never got a tax bill for the first three years of operations (the fault of the landlord, in NYC evil landlord’s collect property taxes from their tenants), then he suddenly got a massive bill in 2014 which he just could not pay. He even tried raising the money through internet crowdfunding but failed. Lighthouse Guild issued a shutdown WARN for their The Ethel and Samuel J. Lefrak School, 32 jobs lost between July and August. In Albion, after almost six years the owners of Bindings Bookstore suddenly shut it down. Sales are good, but not good enough for the owners and they’re trying trying to sell it off. Sodexo lost its food contract with Fordham University, 382 jobs gone by the end of June!
North Carolina: Teachers Memorial School in Kinston shutting down by August. Vague news reports say the county questioned the school district’s operating costs.
North Dakota: University of North Dakota suddenly laid off 20 people and halted admissions to several programs. The school is short at least $5.3-million USD! However, local news reports said the UND music therapy program, itself, is short $7-million USD!
Ohio: After 164 years (surviving The Great deflationary Depression and numerous recessions) children’s mental health treatment chain Beech Brook forced to eliminate 179 jobs due to Medicaid funding cuts!
Pennsylvania: The Society Hill Playhouse (educating kids and adults in the theater arts) shutdown after more than 50 years. There was no reason given in the reports I read. ‘Troubled youth’ caretaker NHS Youth Services issued a layoff WARN for their Northwestern Academy, but failed to say how many people were losing their jobs. In York, Durham School Services announced it will eliminate 88 jobs by the beginning of June. In Lansford, Our Lady of Angels Academy has gone from 8-hundred students to just more than 1-hundred, and god is powerless to stop the shutdown in July. Administrators said the only way they could stay open was to jack up the fees, but christian parents can’t afford to pay more fees.
South Dakota: Southeast Technical Institute warned of layoffs due to what I call DSS.
Texas: In Austin internet based business education service Amazing Academy (amazing.com) laid off 50% of its employees without warning! The news came from the former employees.
Vermont: For the third year in a row the Burlington School District is prepping employees for mass layoffs, and for the second time is jacking up local taxes, and will eliminate classes because “…the decline in overall enrollment has resulted in numerous under-enrolled classes that can be consolidated.” Teacher Bob Abbey bemoaned “…Burlington has become a second-tier educational system. We are going in the wrong direction.” Read the sobering Burlington Free Press article which gives a list of drastic changes coming for the school district.
Washington DC: U.S. Department of Education has revealed that their economic outlook for the future of the United States is so bad that 43% of us fools who got into debt to get a higher education will never be able to pay off that debt to the government! As of January 2016, 3.6-million former higher education students had defaulted (meaning they stopped making payments, you can’t declare bankruptcy against student debt) on $56-billion USD worth of student loans!
It must be noted that I started documenting these ObamaCare/healthcare related shutdowns at the beginning of 2014. In that year I posted the reports biannually (every six months). In 2015 ObamaCare cutbacks ramped up and I posted quarterly (every three months). For the past four months of 2016 there have been so many ObamaCare cutbacks that I’ve posted a report every month!
Incomplete list of healthcare related layoffs and shutdowns, April 2016.
California: In Berkeley, Sutter Health shutting down their Alta Bates Summit ER operations. But wait, don’t blame ObamaCare on this one. It’s the result of a 1994 state regulation (SB 1953) requiring hospitals to meet tougher earthquake survival standards, by 2030.In Temecula, Abbott Vascular continues with its medical device layoffs, this time 131 people laid off without warning at the beginning of April! In Pacoima, after 50 years (and surviving several robberies) Laurel Pharmacy shutdown. Owner Barry Wise was hoping somebody could takeover the business, “But I couldn’t find a buyer, so it’s sad.” San Francisco based health tech diagnostic company Counsyl laid off 27 people, despite boasting of “double digit” demand for their carrier screening services. More proof ObamaCare is a failure: “Something has to give. Either insurers will drop out or insurers will raise premiums. The industry is clearly setting the stage for bigger premium increases in 2017”-Larry Levitt, Kaiser Family Foundation commenting on the ObamaCare “correction”
Connecticut: Danbury based IMS Institute for Healthcare Informatics is reporting that for the second year in a row, since ObamaCare went into effect, U.S. residents will be paying more for their prescription drug fix, and it will continue going up until at least 2020. Immucor Transplant Diagnostics issued a shutdown WARN for its Stamford location, 59 jobs lost by the beginning of June. More proof ObamaCare is a failure: “We continue to have serious concerns about the sustainability of the public exchanges.”-Mark Bertolini, Aetna CEO referring to the ‘correction’ of the Affordable Care Act (ObamaCare)
Florida: In Pinellas Park, Transitions Optical laying off 11 people by the end of June. In Panama City, healthcare “revenue cycle” manager Navigant Gymetrix issued a WARN, 60 jobs gone by the end of June.
Hawaii: Taxpayer funded Wahiawa General Hospital is begging for emergency funding to stop it from shutting down. Administrators revealed that since ObamaCare went into effect they’ve lost $9-million USD!
Idaho: The Gem State’s version of ObamaCare is in trouble, news reports reveal that at the end of March a warning letter was sent out to Your Health Idaho employees telling them what to do if a healthcare provider is dealing with a person with life threatening issues, yet doesn’t qualify for Idaho’s version of ObamaCare:“Please be sure to include MEDICAL URGENT in the subject line as well as a detailed description of the client’s situation in the message body.” (this is probably due to the claims by hospital directors that at least 1-thousand Idahoans have died as a direct result of not qualifying for ObamaCare through Your Health idaho) However, an insurance agent in McCall said he deals with insuring people in five other states and compared to them Idahoans have it good: “It’s just an absolute train wreck! I’m licensed in six states, and believe me, in the other five states, it’s even worse.”-Stanley Dean
A Twin Falls woman is in desperate need of brain surgery but doesn’t have enough money to pay for insurance herself, yet also does not qualify for ObamaCare under Your Health Idaho! But wait, that’s not all! It turns out that when she first went to doctors they ignorantly told her she was crazy and didn’t have a physical problem! Finally, after several MRIs she was diagnosed with Chiari malformation: “If it goes untreated, then I will slowly become paralyzed, and from there I will end up on machines. That is something that is a reality for me if I don’t get it taken care of.”-Brittany Long
Yet another hospital manager is condemning Idaho’s version of ObamaCare; Your Health Idaho. Michael Baumann, of the Mountain Division of the Hospital Corporation of America, said “…those who are not getting the care that they need, by the time they show up, it’s even more costly. So why don’t we provide the access up front through Medicaid expansion? ….You know I’m actually fairly conservative, but when it comes to healthcare…..I’m just really open to the fact we need change.”
In Boise, christian healthcare scammer Saint Luke’s Regional Medical Center has been found in violation of the federal Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA). In 2015 an employee reported to the U.S. Department of Labor (DoL) that Saint Luke’s was not ‘coding’ certain time off as FMLA. The DoL reviewed two years worth of “hundreds” of employee records and concluded that Saint Luke’s “…failed to ensure that all employees on FMLA-covered leave received all the protections…” Interestingly the DoL determination, and resulting Saint Luke’s resolution actually took place in November 2015, but only now is being made public! In February I reported how Saint Luke’s was caught stealing local property taxes!
Illinois: Maker of hospital administrative software Valence Health suddenly laid off 75 people, including an executive. I should point out that in 2014 the company got at least $11.9-million USD from state taxpayers to create jobs in Obama’s homie town of Chicago. Germany based Siemens Medical shutting down their Wood Dale location by March 2017, at least 29 jobs lost. “Financial” issues forcing Pioneer Center for Human Services to issue shutdown WARNs for its Woodstock and McHenry locations, 103 jobs lost by mid-May! Nathan Health Care shutdown their East Saint Louis nursing home, 87 jobs gone.
Indiana: In LaPorte, after 62 years Hilbish Drug shutting down: “We just got to the point where it was time to move on.”-Tom Hilbish
Kansas: In Hutchinson, after 77 years Fraese Drug Store and Soda Fountain shutdown. A co-owner said ObamaCare and inflation forced him to take a job with a competitor: “We just had no choice but to do this because of decreased payments from Medicaid and Medicare. Also, add into that the huge increase in the cost of generic drugs. A lot of them jumped 1,000%! That really hurt our profitability.”-Don Kaufman
Maine: In Farmington, Franklin Community Health Network laid off a little more than 50% of its employees (mostly full time jobs), blaming $15-million USD in losses on ObamaCare! Administrators say the losses would have been much bigger if they hadn’t received a one-time federal grant. In Portland, Mercy Hospital shutdown its outpatient addiction treatment center, blaming ObamaCare reduction in funding. Mercy is joining with other organizations, including local police, in forming the Greater Portland Addiction Collaborative as a way to provide addiction recovery services for those with little or no health insurance.
Massachusetts: Baystate Health is demanding $10-million taxpayer dollars to avert the layoff of 2-hundred people, due to ObamaCare. Administrators say that’s just for starters, calling it “bridge funding”, if the ObamaCare situation continues then additional taxpayer funding will be needed!
Minnesota: The largest health insurance company in the United States is getting the hell away from ObamaCare! Minnetonka based UnitedHealth joins BlueCross-BlueShield is declaring the Affordable Care Act Dead on Arrival! UnitedHealth will begin exiting ObamaCare plans beginning with the states of Arkansas and Georgia. In 2014 UnitedHealth entered the ObamaCare market, but is getting out while it can still live to tell about it: “It was for us a bad decision. In retrospect, we should have stayed out….”-Stephen Hemsley, CEO
Mississippi: Magee based Pioneer Health Services now chapter 11 bankrupt busted. Pioneer Health Services operates hospitals in Georgia, North Carolina, Mississippi, Tennessee and Virginia. Administrators blame ObamaCare reimbursement reductions and the forced shift to outpatient care.
New Hampshire: Dartmouth College’s Geisel School of Medicine laying off 30 people, and conducting restructuring that will affect 285 employees! The 285 are being considered for transfer to Dartmouth-Hitchcock.
New Jersey: Middleton shutting down their 911 dispatch, eliminating 15 jobs. 911 services will now be handled by Monmouth County Sheriff’s Department.
New York: Buffalo Cardiology and Pulmonary Associates issued a shutdown WARN for its Williamsville location, 119 jobs gone by mid-May! In Bronx NYC, Saint Barnabas Rehabilitation & Continuing Care Center has been sold to a vulture capitalist, a shutdown WARN has been issued, 254 jobs lost in July! In White Plains, The Esplanade nursing home shutting down due to renovations of the building, 55 jobs lost by mid-July. Quantum Medical Imaging shutting down their medical instrument factory in Ronkonkoma, 83 jobs lost between July and November. NYC based EmblemHealth warning of “several hundred” layoffs in their Information Technology (IT) department! The IT jobs are being outsourced to cheap-o contractors as part of ObamaCare “modernization” of the healthcare industry.
Ohio: Northside Medical Centereliminated 68 full time jobs because ObamaCare has greatly reduced “the community’s usage of services”. In McArthur, after more than 19 years Gill’s Family Pharmacy shutdown. The drug seller has been praised for community service such as buying computers for county first responders. The county of Warren is privatizing its employment service for disabled people, known as Production Services Unlimited, 60 county jobs will be lost. County administrators blame ObamaCare saying they’re following orders from the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services. After 164 years (surviving The Great deflationary Depression and numerous recessions) children’s mental health treatment chain Beech Brook forced to eliminate 179 jobs due to Medicaid funding cuts!
Oklahoma: Integris Health notified employees of massive layoffs, blaming Oklahoma’s version of ObamaCare for “…a 25% reduction in provider fees…beginning June 1…” attributed to “…the state’s struggling economy….also…the Affordable Care Act…”
Pennsylvania: In Harrisburg, DST Health Solutions issued a WARN, 107 jobs gone by the end of June!
Puerto Rico: The economy is so bad that CNN reported that one doctor per day is fleeing the U.S. territory! National Public Radio reporting that 50-thousand people flee Puerto Rico every year! You must note that Puerto Rico has true socialized healthcare, and the lack of taxpayer funding, caused by crashing tex revenues, is forcing most doctors to go to Plan B: “Plan B is you have to leave the island because there’s no other way, there’s no choice.”-Antonio Peraza, doctor interviewed for NPR
South Carolina: In Orangeburg, Regional Medical Center laying off 33 employees, cutting hours for 27 and eliminating 30 vacant jobs. Because of ObamaCare the hospital needs to cut $4.9-million USD in expenses!
Texas: In Dallas, Select Medical issued a WARN, 77 jobs gone by the end of May. Massive oil industry layoffs have revealed a major lie about ObamaCare. One of the promises of the Affordable Care Act was that people who were not employed, or who lost their jobs, would still be covered for healthcare under ObamaCare. A Houston Chronicle investigation found that most oil industry survivors have learned they don’t qualify for ObamaCare: “In the U.S., losing your job could mean losing your health insurance. Most other countries don’t do this. …The ACA, if anything, entrenched our dependence on employer-provided health insurance….. That’s the hole. It is contrary to the spirit of the law.”-Jessica Roberts, University of Houston’s Law Center
Virginia: Augusta Health shutting down two Convenient Care clinics located inside Walmarts, by May. Administrators say ObamaCare is pushing people to go to Urgent Care clinics instead.
Washington: In Arlington, Cascade Valley Hospital & Clinics shutting down, 418 jobs lost by the end of May! After prodding by local news, health insurance company Premera Blue Cross admitted it eliminated 165 jobs since November 2015! Employees are pissed because they say corporate administrators never told anybody there were going to be mass layoffs: “Layoffs are handled poorly, allowing rumors to spread like wildfire, creating a horribly negative atmosphere. And instead of owning it and calling it layoffs, it’s referred to as restructuring and the cuts aren’t deep enough the first time around, so everyone knows they’ll be coming again…”-unnamed employee to local news media
“New York City, as a major city in the U.S., is one of the most restrictive cities in the country concerning gun licensing laws. What they’re doing is they’re creating a privilege for having a gun and licensing it and they’re creating this ‘Prohibition’ style system where people are paying someone off to get a gun”-Stephen D’Andrilli, retired cop
Only days after New York City police shot and killed a man in Brooklyn, and after a former Westchester County police commissioner was caught illegally armed with a loaded gun (unnamed cops say they were ordered to let him go), and after the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) caught two “high ranking” NYC cops taking bribes, a member of a Jewish ‘security’ organization was charged with attempting to bribe an honest cop (who blew the whistle on the bribery) with $6-thousand USD to “expedite” city gun licenses for his fellow security organization members. But wait, this is after the Jewish ‘defense leaguer’ bribed dishonest NYC cops (who’re more than happy to go along with the illegal deal) with nearly $1-million to obtain 150 guns!
Demand for guns is so high in the anti-gun Big Apple that illegal gun running now rivals dealing illegal drugs! NYC prosecutors say they’ve just busted a gun running gang that had been successfully selling banned guns for at least the past ten years!
I’ve written in many other articles how those areas of the world with the strictest anti-gun laws also have some of the highest gun ownership and violence rates, despite what the anti-gun peaceniks tell you. There are some things that you can’t get rid of by making them illegal, you actually end up increasing demand. Study what happened with the failed U.S. anti-alcohol decade known as Prohibition. Study the continuing disaster known as the U.S. War on Drugs. How about the never ending U.S. War on Terror?
“They treated me in such an un-Christlike way, like I was some sinner. There was no forgiveness and mercy.”–Brooke, rape victim at Brigham Young University who says when she reported being raped she got an official suspension letter stating that university administrators viewed the rape as “consensual sex” therefore violating the Mormon university’s official Honor Code.
Incomplete list of U.S. Christian shutdowns and layoffs 1st Quarter 2016.
California: Christian owned (Presbyterian/Agnostic Warren Buffet, numerous wealthy Mormons and other christian denominations) Coca-Cola announced they will shutdown their Odwalla juice bottling op in Dinuba, 164 jobs lost! Local news reports indicate employees are shocked, many saying they heard about a possible shutdown but, like typical sheeple employees, put it off to rumor & innuendo. Coca-Cola is consolidating bottling operations to cut costs. Presbyterian/Agnostic Warren Buffett owned Kraft-Heinz issued a shutdown WARN for their San Leandro food factory, 117 jobs lost by mid-April! In the Santa Cruz Mountains, Christian campsite in San Mateo County Parks Department’s Memorial Park shutting down. It’s due to water supply issues. The state water regulations concerning the campsite limits how many people can use the site at one time, apparently God’s minions have been overpopulating the camp. God’s minions tried to build their own water well, but failed (remember, there is a drought): “We have our last group in here now and are closing down Thursday and I’m laying off staff.”-Reverend Larry Rice
Colorado: In Lafayette, the Crossroad’s Tavern shutdown by the greedy christian landlord. The landlord is the Flatirons Community Church.
Connecticut: 89 years old (surviving The Great Depression and numerous recessions) Saint Augustine School shutting down, it’s the last Catholic elementary school in Hartford. It’s blamed on what I call Disappearing Students Syndrome (some Christians call it The Rapture). Battery maker Duracell being forced to move its Bethel HQ to Illinois due to being taken over by job killer Presbyterian/Agnostic Warren Buffett. Saint Vincent De Paul in East Haven and Saint Gabriel in Milford shutting down. The christian schools managed to survive The Great Depression and numerous recessions, but for some reason they can’t survive what I call Disappearing Students Syndrome.
Delaware: In Newark, British empire based 23 years old Salvation Army Thrift Store (in the Park N Shop plaza) shutdown. The greedy landlord demanded more in rent.
Florida: More layoffs by Christian owned (Presbyterian/Agnostic Warren Buffet, numerous wealthy Mormons and other christian denominations) Coca-Cola, this time their Brandon finance office will lose about 70 jobs. In Gulf Breeze, more than 60 years old christian WaterFront Rescue Mission shutdown their women’s shelter, consolidating men’s shelters, selling off Olive Road Career Development Center and laying off 20 paid staff. The homeless shelter funded itself mainly with recycling projects, but because of the crash in prices of recycled goods they’re now broke: “We’ve been in the business of trying to help people, so we have given away every dollar.”-Devin Simmons
Georgia: In Albany, after five years christian owned (Flint River Presbytery) non-profit Bare Bulb Coffee shop shutting down due to road construction that killed customer traffic. British empire based Salvation Army second hand Family Store shutdown in Decatur. But it’s not due to lack of sales, instead God failed to fix the heating system in the building so they’re looking for a new location.
Idaho: More proof the real ‘christian god’ is money; ‘christian’ run Saint Luke’s Health has agreed to return revenues from two hospitals to the respective tax districts. The privately funded hospital system took over management of the taxpayer funded McCall and Mountain Home hospitals over the past six years and, according to the state Attorney General, was keeping the tax revenues for themselves in violation of the law. An Idaho Statesman investigation also revealed that the two dominant ‘christian’ run hospital chains, Saint Alphonsus and Saint Luke’s, control $793-million USD worth of property that are tax-exempt, and that’s just the 1-hundred properties they own in Ada County! A christian student ripped off the Mormon Brigham Young University-Idaho of $6-thousand 2-hundred, using a university credit card. Of course that ‘christian’ student wasn’t very smart because you can trace credit card transactions, and that’s how he got caught.
Illinois: Saint Agatha Catholic Academy, Saint Peter elementary and Seton Academy shutdown. It’s blamed on The Rapture, I mean what I call Disappearing Students Syndrome. ObamaCare forced Catholic Presence Health to eliminate 7-hundred jobs through attrition and outright layoffs! CEO Michael Englehart said ObamaCare was forcing them “to get in line”. Lutheran Social Services shutting down their Chicago nursing home services, 109 job lost! In Belleville, Saint Elizabeth’s Hospital shutting down. Administrators blame ObamaCare for “increased utilization of outpatient services”. 26 non-nursing jobs eliminated, nurses will supposedly be transferred to smaller healthcare operations. Franciscan Saint James Health hospital shutdown, blaming millions of U.S. dollars in losses over several years. Archdiocese of Chicago threatens to shutdown at least 1-hundred churches (parishes) due to lack of money, lack of priests and The Rapture, I mean lack of church goers. In Streator, ObamaCare forced Saint Mary’s Hospital to layoff 1-hundred employees! Another 2-hundred employees affected as the hospital shifts to out-patient care services! Oak Park Saint Edmund Catholic School shutdown, due to crashing enrollments.
Indiana: In Anderson, Family Christian Stores shutting down. Company administrators said the only thing that would keep them from shutting down was a better lease deal or “100-thousand new customers”!
Iowa: In Granger, 87 years old (surviving The Great [deflationary] Depression and numerous recessions) Assumption Catholic School shutting down. 15 years ago there were 150 elementary students, this current school year only 62!
Kansas: In Topeka, the manager of the Simply Amish furniture store said it is shutting down as soon as the inventory is gone. The owner of the store was not answering phone calls from local news media. Perhaps they’re Simply Broke?
Maine: In Portland, non-profit Good Cause Thrift Shop being shutdown by its owner, the Catholic girls only Catherine McCauley High School, which claims it’s an economic decision. According to Maine’s employment law, if you work for God’s non-profits you do not qualify for unemployment assistance! A local news report revealed the employees were ordered by ‘christian’ leaders not to reveal the shutdown, but the employees basically said ‘bullshit on that’! (that’s why we know about it)
Massachusetts: In Spencer, after 174 years (surviving The Great Depression and numerous recessions) First United Methodist Church shutdown. The local reverend blames it on The Rapture, I mean crashing membership. Framingham based, Mitt Romney (yep, the very same Mormon guy who’s threatening to run against Donald Trump) co-founded Staples announced it is shutting down an additional 50 stores. Mitt Romney’s Staples has shutdown 242 North American stores in the past two years, and eliminated 1-thousand jobs between November 2015 and January 2016! In Agawam, after only two years the Young Men’s Christian Association shutting down by the end of May due to lack of membership. Since opening in 2014 a grand total of only 550 people signed up! A school for disabled boys was shutdown after the ‘christian’ (the school hosts the traditional Great Barrington Christmas Party) employees were arrested for abusing those students, and even threatening witnesses. Eagleton School also had a contract with the state of Vermont, which is now scrambling to find a new school. One student had his sternum broken: “Eagleton staff continue to place residents at risk by utilizing physical force and unwarranted restraint techniques to control emotionally and mentally disabled individuals.”
Michigan: In Lansing, 150 years old (surviving The Great Depression and numerous recessions) Trinity Lutheran School shutting down. Parents criticized the church leaders saying they never considered outside sources of funding and the decision to shutdown came without warning.
Minnesota: 70 years old mega-church North Heights Lutheran shutting down. Local news reports say it’s due to a “civil war” inside the church!
Nebraska: Omaha based job killer Presbyterian/Agnostic Warren Buffett says vehicle insurance rates are going up due to increased accidents. He should know, the insurance industry is his forte. Buffett got his start with GEICo, which stands for Government Employees Insurance Company, in a ’round-a-bout way making his first fortune off taxpayers.
New Hampshire:River University is so desperate for christian students they are now offering a guarantee of employment upon graduation! If the student can’t get a job after six months of graduating from a bachelors program (undergraduate) then the university will pay for their masters program (graduate)!
New Jersey:Mother Teresa Regional School in Atlantic Highlands shutting down, 24 jobs lost by the end of June. Catholic Saint Francis Life Care shutting down their Franciscan Oaks nursing home, 257 jobs lost by the end of April! It’s been for sale since 2014. Quaker Cadbury Senior Lifestyles shutting down, 255 Cherry Hill nursing home jobs lost by the end of April! 113 years old (surviving The Great Depression and numerous recessions) Our Lady of Assumption church in Bayonne shutting down.
New Mexico: Christian owned (Presbyterian/Agnostic Warren Buffet, numerous wealthy Mormons and other christian denominations) Coca-Cola shutting down its Portales bottling factory, 59 jobs lost to consolidation. Coca-Cola’s warehouse in Clovis is also being shutdown.
New York: NYC based Martha Stewart Living and Martha Stewart Weddings revealed they laid off employees but refused to say how many. The convicted fraudster and Catholic Martha Stewart reportedly gave the employees the bad news herself. The layoffs are connected to the fact that Martha Stewart no longer owns her namesake, Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia is now owned by Sequential Brands Group. Albany Roman Catholic Diocese shutting down their Saint Augustine school in Lansingburgh. Church leaders blamed the state government for refusing to give them taxpayer funding (do churches pay taxes?). Mormon Mitt Romney co-founded Staples shutting down one of its two Binghamton stores by mid-April. After 47 years, Elmira Christian Academy shutting down due to The Rapture of students (what I call Disappearing Students Syndrome). At the school’s peak there were 220 students, this year there’s only 80, but the pastor blames doesn’t blame god, he blames the parents: “It’s hard to compete with families who feel that it would be more advantageous for them to educate their kids from home.”-David Leandre
North Dakota: ObamaCare forcing Saint Alexius Health hospital to layoff 23 people and re-classify another 39. Inpatient rehab and child care services have been shutdown! They referred to ObamaCare as “Industry trends and other circumstances”.
Ohio: In Youngstown, the 106 years old Masonic Temple on Wick Avenue shutting down by the end of June. The members say the large building has become too expensive to heat during winter.
Pennsylvania: After 104 years (surviving The Great Depression and numerous recessions) SS. Cosmas and Damian Church in Conshohocken shutdown. Church administrators say it just cost too much to maintain the old building. The Diocese of Erie shutting down four grade schools; Venango Catholic high school and Saint Boniface, Saint Peter Cathedral and Our Lady of Mount Carmel elementary schools. Church leaders blame The Rapture, I mean low enrollment.
South Dakota: The Catholic Diocese of Sioux City will begin shutting down 41 churches in Summer 2017, blaming The Rapture, I mean declining membership which results in declining revenues. Some of the surviving consolidated churches won’t even operate on a weekly bases!
Tennessee:Saint Francis Hospital laying off 33 people. Administrators said ObamaCare was forcing them to do business “more efficiently.” Three LifeWay Christian Stores shutting down on Southern Baptist seminary campuses. It’s blamed on the sale of Southern Baptist Convention property and changing spending habits of Christian students.
Texas: 30 years old Central Christian Academy shutting down. Church leaders blame The Rapture, I mean declining church membership for forcing them to sell the school property (told you before, this proves money is the true god). Mormon Mitt Romney’s co-founded Bain Capital-Glencore manipulated Alcoa aluminum maker continues its factory shutdowns started back in 2012, this time Alcoa is shutting down its Point Comfort alumina factory. Along with the shutdown in Indiana, 1-thousand 270 jobs will be lost!
Utah: Wild West themed Porter’s Place shutdown its Lehi restaurant because Mormon city administrators ran the operator outta town. The city owns the building and they want to tear it down. The owner of Porter’s Place say he hopes to open a new restaurant in the city of Nephi.
Vermont: After 142 years (surviving The Great Depression and numerous recessions) Quechee Community Church shutdown and sold-off.
Virginia:Southern Baptist International Mission Board eliminated 30 jobs andshutdown their Richmond Communications Center. In Ruther Glen, donation funded ‘christian’ run Cinderella’s Closet shutdown. The operators of the charity prom dress ministry said they need to quit, and nobody else wanted to take over the operation. Dresses were given away, and anything left over went to Concord Baptist Church. After 137 years (surviving The Great Depression and numerous recessions), Belle Haven Presbyterian Church announced it will shutdown after the ‘pagan’ Ishtar inspired holiday of Easter: “It’s for sale, someone can turn it into a restaurant if they want to.”-Nancy Bunce, church treasurer
Washington: In Bellingham, bible software company Faithlife Corporation laid off 60 christians, due to declining demand for their Logo software. In Everett, Trinity Lutheran College shutdown, due to The Rapture, I mean what I call Disappearing Students Syndrome: “…the Board of Directors of Trinity Lutheran College has come to the conclusion that any efforts to increase enrollment at Trinity will no longer sustain the college.”-Kevin Bates
Wisconsin: Another Mormon Mitt Romney co-founded Staples store going down, this time the Morgan Square store in Beloit shutting down. 45 years old ‘Black owned’ North Milwaukee State Bank shutdown by state Department of Financial Institutions, assets are being turned over to First-Citizens Bank & Trust. The federally mandated, but privately run, FDIC is overseeing the transfer. Black Enterprise Wealth for Life stated that most of North Milwaukee State Bank’s customer base were christian “Church congregations…”
“But the root of all these evils is the love of money, and there are some who have desired it and have erred from the faith and have brought themselves many miseries.”-1 Timothy 6:10 Aramaic Bible
“And Yeshua entered the temple and drove out all those who were buying and selling in the temple, and overturned the tables of the money changers and the seats of those who were selling doves. And he said to them, It is written: ‘My house will be called the House of prayer, but you have made it a den of robbers.’ “-Matthew 21:12-13 Aramaic Bible
“Yeshua said to them, ‘Give what is Caesar’s to Caesar and what is God’s to God.’ And they marveled at him.”-Mark 12:17 Aramaic Bible
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.-1st Amendment, U.S. Constitution
WARN=Worker Adjustment & Retraining Notification
Employees of religious non-profits might not qualify for unemployment assistance: “If the non-profit organization is a church, you may or may not be entitled to unemployment. It all depends upon state regulations for church employers. In many cases, churches are allowed to set their own rules regarding unemployment benefits, meaning the church can choose whether to offer benefits to former employees.”
“But the root of all these evils is the love of money, and there are some who have desired it and have erred from the faith and have brought themselves many miseries.”-1 Timothy 6:10 Aramaic Bible
“And Yeshua entered the temple and drove out all those who were buying and selling in the temple, and overturned the tables of the money changers and the seats of those who were selling doves. And he said to them, It is written: ‘My house will be called the House of prayer, but you have made it a den of robbers.’ “-Matthew 21:12-13 Aramaic Bible
“Yeshua said to them, ‘Give what is Caesar’s to Caesar and what is God’s to God.’ And they marveled at him.”-Mark 12:17 Aramaic Bible
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.-1st Amendment, U.S. Constitution
Incomplete list of U.S. Christian shutdowns and layoffs in 2015.
Presbyterian/Agnostic Warren Buffet co-owned Canada based international restaurant chain Tim Horton’s eliminated at least 350 jobs and shutting down restaurants in Canada and United States!
Christian Mercy Health System eliminated at least 350 jobs in the states of Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas: “Mercy faces increasing challenges to our reimbursement structure as we adjust to reductions mandated by the Affordable Care Act and other budget cuts, as well as the lack of Medicaid expansion in most of our states.”-official statement
Alabama: Presbyterian/Agnostic Warren Buffet owned carpet maker Shaw Industries announced they will layoff 160 people in Dekalb County! Warren Buffet administrators blame crashing sales. After 38 years the Robert Moore & Co. Christmas Town in Mobile shutdown.
California: Bankrupt Daughters of Charity Health System tried to sell-off six hospitals but nobody wanted to buy, so now at least 280 christian healthcare workers unemployed! Administrators stated that the current layoffs will barely “restore our hospitals to break-even status financially” due to Obama Care insurance reimbursement cuts. To make matters worse, state government administrators have told ten insurance companies to stop sending their customers to Daughters of Charity Health System! Lutheran founded American Red Cross shutdown its San Diego call center, 38 jobs lost. In Eureka, Saint Bernard’s elementary school shutdown. Hollywood Presbyterian Medical laid off 87 people in July. In Santa Maria, Mormon Mitt Romney co-founded wunderkind Staples shutdown their Superstore in the Crossroads Shopping Center. 82 years old Ventura based Gospel Light Publications chapter 11 bankrupt busted up for sale. Administrators partly blamed God’s financially scandalous Family Christian retail chain. In Modesto, 32 years old Grace Lutheran School shutdown. ‘Christian’ administrators admitted they were in so much debt that the current student enrollment couldn’t cover the church mortgage payments. In Garden Grove, iconic Crystal Cathedral shutdown in July. In Burbank, Providence Saint Joseph Medical Center halted its blood donor service, 34 jobs lost. In Napa, Saint Joseph’s Religious Gift & Bookstore shutdown: “I love the business. And I really love the people, but it’s just not enough. I’m just not making money.”-Joseph Sciambra
Colorado: Christian mission operator Compassion International laid off 48 people. Despite increased donations, company administrators say currency wars are making it harder to pay for expenses in the various countries they work in. Arapahoe County based Catholic Health Initiative they will eliminate 1-thousand 5-hundred jobs people across the United States!
Connecticut: In Meridian, Saint Stanislaus School shutdown.British empire based christian run Salvation Army shutdown their Manchester Thrift Store. The Salvation Army joining other evil corporations in the consolidation trend. Saint John Paul II School shutdown. Christian officials officially blame lack of money, but one christian parent thinks it’s a conspiracy: “I don’t think the entire truth is here because it’s NOT about money!”– Ewald Kuchciak, who pointed out that christian students are being forced into a smaller school building
Delaware: In Dover, 25 years old Branch Christian Bookstore shutdown. The owner said “We just couldn’t compete anymore.”
Florida: The 133 years old (surviving the Great Deflationary Depression and numerous recession) First Presbyterian Church of Sanford shutdown, at one time there were 1-thousand members, now there’s only 27! Lutheran founded American Red Cross shutdown their West Bradenton operations. Clearwater Christian College shutdown. Administrators blamed debt and crashing enrollment. In Tampa, Mormon Mitt Romney co-founded Staples shutdown their Oak Fair Boulevard store, 47 jobs will be lost.
Georgia: In Lexington, 230 years old Lexington Presbyterian Church shutdown. Local news reports indicated they were down to just three members! Christian owned (Presbyterian/Agnostic Warren Buffet, numerous wealthy Mormons and other christian denominations) Coca-Cola increased their planned job destruction to 3-thousand 8-hundred! Atlanta based Southern Baptist created and owned Chick fil-A made a secret pact (legally it could also be called a conspiracy) with a Missouri based property owner, which forced three Romano’s Macaroni Grill restaurants to shutdown in Missouri! Romano’s employees had no warning and were all notified on the day of the shutdowns by phone calls!
Idaho: An independent investigation revealed that re-‘elected’ Mormon Pocatello mayor Brian Blad farmed out city road crews to other cities, for free and without permission of the city council (as required by law). The cost to Pocatello taxpayers is at least $15,773 in labor! To add insult to injury the Mormon dominated city council said they aren’t going to pursue the matter, even though Idaho laws allows them to call in the Attorney General! The investigation was done by Deaton and Company, who submitted a seven page report to the city. Local news media refer to the scandal as ‘Pokey PaveGate’.According to National Association of Counties most recent data eastern Idaho’s Mormon dominated (U.S. Census Bureau data) Bannock County has failed to make any recovery in the areas of Jobs, Unemployment, GDP or Home Prices since 2008! Never mind that Bannock County is still assessing the value of homes at tens of thousands of dollars above what they will actually sell for!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. Lewiston’s non-profit Saint Joseph Regional Medical Center sold to a for-profit op out of Tennessee. Proof christians are not united as Northwest Nazarene University cannibalizes itself! Right wing christian administrators eliminating staff, but left wing christian staff accused administrators of conducting a “witch hunt”! The right wing christians declared a “financial emergency” in order to justify the “blood letting” of left wing christians.
Illinois: Christian dominated Boy Scouts of America’s Pathway to Adventure Scout Council in Chicago is reporting crashing enrollment and as a result they’re shutting down their scout camps in neighboring Wisconsin! In Chicago, lead contamination shutdown the Saint Elizabeth School. Affordable Care Act (ObamaCare) forced Saint Mary’s Hospital to shutdown, being replaced with a smaller outpatient clinic. Most of the hospital’s 3-hundred jobs lost! Catholic Charities shutdown two family shelters and two child development centers in July. The religious organization blames lack of taxpayer funding. In the U.S., religion is supposed to be separate from government! 44 years old Sunshine Preschool, based in the Wheaton Evangelical Free Church, shutdown.
Indiana: In Terre Haute, John Paul II Catholic High School shutdown. The school was opened in 2000 but could not generate enough cash to continue operating. Frontline Foundations addiction treatment center in Valparaiso shutdown. Christian administrators blame lack of funding.
Iowa: In West Des Moines, Kingdom Kids Academy shutdown. News reports say administrators refuse to say why, but employees say new management suddenly backed out and quit. In Mason City, employees of Presbyterian/Agnostic Warren Buffett went to the local news media to report mass layoffs at the local Kraft plant. In Belmond, 112 years old Saint John Lutheran Church shutdown. Church administrators said they’re lucky if 15 people showed up on Sundays (by the way Sunday is the 1st day of the week, not the 7th). Originally sermons at Saint John Lutheran Church were done in German, reflecting the fact that German, not English, was the most popular non-hispanic European language in the early days of the United States.
Kansas: 1-hundred years old (surviving the Great Depression and numerous recessions) Mercy Independence done in by ObamaCare. They tried to merge with another christian hospital chain but that failed, 2-hundred healthcare jobs now lost: “This was not the outcome we had sought or expected at the beginning of the discernment process, and our hearts are heavy. However, like many other rural health care providers today, we have struggled to remain viable in the face of a changing environment and economy.”-Lynn Britton, ceo
Kentucky: In Owensboro, Precious Blood Catholic Church daycare center shutdown. Church administrators say the daycare center is $60-thousand USD in debt.
Maine: Parkview Adventist Medical Center chapter 11 bankrupt, 180 jobs affected!
Maryland: In Frederick, after 1-hundred years (surviving the Great deflationary Depression and numerous recessions) Saint Timothy’s Episcopal Church shutdown. Attendance was down to less than 13 per week, and administrators said “They were just not going to be able to pay their bills.” In Elkton, the Historic Little Wedding Chapel reportedly shutting down because Too Big to Jail Cecil Bank refused to renew the owner’s debt financing, and then demanded payment in full immediately (this is called deleveraging, it happened to me). Deleveraging related: IMF pushes for U.S. consolidation, code for even more drastic deleveraging!
Massachusetts: Lutheran founded American Red Cross shutdown its Springfield call center. Boston Weak based, Mormon Mitt Romney co-founded Bain Capital liquidating its Absolute Return Capital hedge fund due to long term losses caused by a “challenging” environment. Mormon Mitt Romney co-created, Framingham based Staples killed off 2-hundred jobs in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan and shutdown their Regina call center. Staples also announced that 1-thousand stores will be shutdown due to their takeover of Office Depot! In Charlton, Masonic Health System-Overlook Life Care Community laid off nine employees and cut the hours for eight others. Saint Mary’s School shutdown after 91 years (surviving The Great Depression and numerous recessions) of education, due to lack of paying students. 60 years old Saint Paul School in Wellesley shutdown: “Over the past several years, St. Paul School has faced a steady decline in enrollment. An attempt to secure solid commitments from parents for the upcoming school year was not sufficient.”
Michigan: Christian bookstore Kregel Parable shutdown. The Saint Joseph Mercy Port Huron hospital supposedly sold to California’s Prime Healthcare Services. In Niles, British empire founded Salvation Army Food Pantry shutdown. The local Salvation Army Major blames a decrease in donations and a steady increase in poor people: “We have been seeing for the last three or four years a lot of new folks that we’ve never seen before.”-Major William Walters
Calvin College began begging employees to quit, and warned that outright layoffs are coming. The christian college has been relying on debt financing and christians have already donated $25-million USD to pay down the debt. News reports from 2013 said ‘christian’ administrators overspent on new construction and made bad investments with donated money. In one case, $5-million that was supposed to pay down the debt was used to buy real estate instead: “The former administration, the former president certainly had a reputation as someone who understood finances and business. He came from a banking background. And so I think there’s some bewilderment at the scope of the problem.”– David Diephouse, professor
Minnesota:Catholic Diocese of Duluth now chapter 11 bankrupt busted. The Christian God must now fork over $8.4-million USD to settle sex crimes lawsuits. After 115 years the First Presbyterian Church in Wilmont shutdown. There were only 12 members Left Behind. ObamaCare final straw for Saint Olaf Lutheran nursing home, which shutdown right before Thanksgiving. Saint Margaret Mary Catholic Church shutdown. It’s blamed on “…the age of the building, the maintenance of the building, the facilities……We have less priests, and we have changes to where people live, work and pray…..We have less people in the pews…”
Mississippi: The Young Men’s Christian Assosiation shutdown its Jackson Deville Plaza ops, it’s blamed on lack of local support.
Missouri: 117 years old Dover Place Christian Church shutdown. One member of the church lamented “We don’t have the income on Sunday morning’s to take care of everything.” You see, even christians think only about ‘money’. Don’t they remember Jesus evicting the money changers? Chesterfield based Mercy Health eliminated 474 jobs across their multi-state hospital system! Christian administrators directly blame ObamaCare: “…Mercy faces increasing challenges to our reimbursement structure as we adjust to reductions mandated by the Affordable Care Act and other budget cuts, as well as the lack of Medicaid expansion in most of our states.”
Montana: In Butte, Trinity United Methodist Church and Mountain View United Methodist Church both shutdown due to “severely dwindling congregations.”
Nebraska: In Fremont, First Christian Church shutdown after 125 years of service (surviving The Great Depression and numerous recessions). The property is for sale and there are indications that competition from other churches done them in (so much for ‘christian’ charity and brotherly love). In Omaha, ObamaCare forced Catholic Health Initiatives to eliminate 60 jobs. 47 years old Christ Child Society Center shutdown, blamed on The Rapture, I mean declining enrollment.
Nevada: In Las Vegas, non-profit Safe Faith United shutdown. The administrators of the safe house for victims of domestic violence blamed crashing donations federal government grant money.
New Hampshire: 50 years old Pelham Saint Patrick Catholic School shutdown. Enrollment crashed to just 32 students! In Manchester, after 55 years Saint Vincent de Paul Thrift Store shutdown. The operators say they could not compete with Savers and Goodwill.
New Jersey: In Vineland, the Amish Market shutdown. No reason has been given, but apparently their sales weren’t good enough to justify keeping to their ten years lease. Neighboring businesses say they will lose customer traffic after the Amish Market shuts down. Holy Family School in Lakewood, and Saint Denis School in Manasquan, both shutdown. 54 years old Mount Laurel Monastery shutdown. Monks say it’s due to lack of work, however, local journalists discovered the property has been zoned for residential use and valued at $1.3-million, and church administrators had conducted an audit of assets on the property. In Jersey City the Thessalonians Community Outreach Church’s food pantry lost its lease. Saint Mary’s General hospital laid off an undisclosed number of employees, blaming ObamaCare (Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act) on greatly reducing overnight customers. The California based owner of the Saint Clare’s Health System laid off 50 people. Administrators blame it on “current volumes” caused by ObamaCare. In Cherry Hill, ObamaCare forced Saint Mary’s Catholic Home to eliminate 50 jobs after Thanksgiving. In Vineland, ObamaCare forced Bishop McCarthy Residence to eliminate 50 jobs after Thanksgiving. In Pleasantville, ObamaCare forced Our Lady’s Residence to eliminate 50 jobs after Thanksgiving. Our Lady of the Assumption church in Bayonne shutdown, even though it supposedly has 1-thousand 7-hundred families as members, and despite reports that the local population is actually growing! Saint Michael’s Medical Center chapter 11 bankrupt, threatening 1-thousand 4-hundred jobs! It’s been up for sale but Catholic republican Chris Christie’s minions are interfering: “We’ve done everything the state has asked us to do. After two and a half years, it would appear we’re no further along than when we started.”-David Ricci, ceo
In Manville, the Diocese of Metuchen shutdown Christ the King School. It’s the 11th ‘christian’ school to be shutdown by the Diocese of Metuchen, since 2009. In Atlantic City, Saint Michael‘s and Saint Monica‘s shutdown as the Catholic community forced by the Diocese of Camden into one parish. Catholic administrators blame massive debts and the growing exodus of people on the city’s collapsed gambling industry, and warned more bad things are coming: “The consolidations are not done. There will be more as we go forward.”
Intermission: “Hey, tell me lord, what should I know!…. ….We’re on the verge of genocide!”
New Mexico: In Las Cruces, atheist and homosexual marriage are being blamed for the shutdown of the First Baptist Church’s daycare center. God’s church administrators said they don’t want the government forcing them to hire “homosexuals and atheists”, but you have to blame the money grubbing false christians for violating the 1st Amendment and taking government taxpayer money to run their daycare: “When the government gives you money, they have the right to tell you how to run certain aspects of your organization. We understand that. It’s not one particular group…it’s the fact they get to dictate to us, across the board, how to run our organization or different organization or ministries.”-David Burrows, church leader just now waking up to the fact that they must “Render unto Caesar the things that are Caesar’s…..” (Matthew 22:21)
New York: British empire christian University of Cambridge shutdown their Chancellor, Masters and Scholars of the University of Cambridge in West Nyack, 42 jobs lost. Catholic Charities Neighborhood Services WARNed they are canceling funding for all Residences and Day Habilitation operations across the state, at least 719 jobs lost! In Brooklyn NYC, Catholic Charities shutdown all their Early Childhood Education Programs. In Yonkers, Saint John’s Riverside Hospital sold-off their Michael Malotz Skilled Nursing Facility, 226 jobs lost! In White Plains, God refuses to stop his Academy of Our Lady of Good Counsel High School from issuing a shutdown WARN, The Museum of Biblical Art shutdown, due to the American Bible Society selling off the building. The American Bible Society also moved its headquarters to Pennsylvania. Presbyterian/Agnostic Warren Buffett shutdown the Tarrytown Heinz food factory, 149 people unemployed by Thanksgiving! Father Flanagan’s Boys’ Home Boys Town eliminated 83 jobs across The Big Apple. Hyde Park Nursery School and Roman Catholic Regina Coeli School both shutdown, christian administrators partly blamed it on not being allowed to take part in the taxpayer funded public school district’s pre-kindergarten program. Church of the Nativity, on Second Avenue in the East Village NYC, shutdown. Only 30 people showed up for its last Sunday service. Catholic Charities Neighborhood Services shutdown their Monica House homeless shelter it now costs too much to maintain, 26 jobs lost. Saint James Mercy Hospital eliminated 342 healthcare jobs! Due to the shutdown of New York Presbyterian Hospital Family Medicine Center (caused by ObamaCare) Hunter Ambulette-Ambulance lost their contract, 113 jobs lost after the Gregorian Xmas! After 158 years (surviving the Great deflationary Depression and numerous recessions) the Young Men’s Christian Association shutting down in Amsterdam. Administrators say they are $75-thousand USD in debt and they are cash broke! The Rapture, I mean lack of participation by those unrepentant heathens, forced United Methodist churches in Dorloo, Mineral Springs and Hyndsville to shutdown. Two Westchester Catholic churches shutdown. Also, God is joining unAmerican Corporate America and will consolidate the following churches; Our Lady of Mount Carmel in White Plains and Our Lady of Pompeii in Dobbs Ferry. Saint Matthew in Hastings-on-Hudson will unite with Our Lady of Perpetual Help in Ardsley. Saint Paul’s in Congers and St. Ann’s in Nyack. At least 28 parishes will be affected when the consolidations and shutdowns are complete. College of Saint Rose laid off 63 christians during the year. In just five years the school went from having a budget with a “modest surplus” to a “structural deficit”: “Like many institutions across the country, enrollment at the College of Saint Rose has declined….”-Lisa Haley Thomson
North Carolina: First Presbyterian shutdown their respected First School daycare program, due to a 50% crash in enrollments. The Roanoke Rapids Staples store shutdown, as well as the Greensboro store on Golden Gate Drive, it’s just par for the course for the Mormon Mitt Romney co-founded wunderkind: “As customers shift online, we are taking aggressive action to right-size our retail footprint.”
North Dakota: Presbyterian/Agnostic Warren Buffet owned BNSF Railway furloughed employees due to crashing demand for North Dakota Oil Patch shipments by rail.
Ohio: After 130 years (surviving numerous depressions and recessions) Saint Aloysius School shutdown due to a 50% drop in enrollment! In Toledo, Good Shepherd Parish shutdown, they lost 65% of their congregation. 1-hundred years old (surviving The Great Depression and numerous recessions) Saint Matthew Lutheran Church in Mansfield was sold to a competing version of christianity. Good Shepherd Parish in East Toledo, and Advent Lutheran Church in Sylvania, shutdown. It’s blamed on decreasing membership and increasing costs of operations. The ‘christian’ president of Ashland University eliminated 23 faculty positions despite strong student enrollment numbers and a $3-million USD surplus at the end of the 2014 school year! In Mansfield, Saint Peter’s Child Care Center shutdown in June. Church administrators say “The Child Center’s operational losses have been substantial, with a projected shortfall this year in excess of $50,000. These factors make it impossible for Saint Peter’s to continue offering this service to our community.”
Pennsylvania:Our Lady of Mount Carmel School in Roseto, and Pius X Junior/Senior High School in Bangor, shutdown. In Oakmont, after 88 years (surviving the Great deflationary Depression and numerous recessions) Saint Irenaeus Catholic Elementary School shutdown, enrollment dwindled to only 44 students. Incarnation of Our Lord Church, Our Mother of Sorrows and Holy Saviour Church all shutdown. Church administrators said all are in desperate need of repair work that the congregations (members) cannot afford to pay for. Saint Patrick Grade School shutdown, local news reports say Catholic leaders tried to secretly stop christians from protesting the shutdown. La Salle University laid off 23 employees due to a $12-million USD shortfall caused partly by crashing christian enrollments. Saint Joseph’s University eliminated jobs and cut programs due to lack of christian students with cash. God not as powerful as ObamaCare as Saint Joseph’s Hospital shutting down, at least 675 people unemployed by March 2016! In Pottsville, after 65 years Good-Will Christian Bookstore shutdown after the Gregorian Xmas. The owner said he tried to sell the store but nobody wanted to buy it. 166 years old (surviving The Great Depression and numerous recessions) Saint Mary of the Assumption Church shutdown due to the loss of $142-thousand USD. Saint Joseph the Worker Church shutdown due to lack of money. The state Department of Human Services shutdown Glade Run Lutheran Services in Zelienople ‘prison’ for teens with mental problems after a local police investigation revealed a “secret sex club”. Watch a local TV report on the sick christians. With the official motto of Under God’s Power She Flourishes, Princeton University’s American Boychoir School chapter 11 bankrupt busted: “The board has been compelled to consider several drastic alternatives, including closing the school immediately and ceasing operations.”-Rob D’Avanzo, Chairman of the Board
South Dakota: In Sioux Falls, Christian Center School shutdown (after 35 years of service). Administrators would only say to news media that they prayed a lot.
Tennessee: In Somerville, Methodist Healthcare shutdown. The Jackson Young Men’s Christian Association shutdown, administrators blame a history of losing money. Young Men’s Christian Association (YMCA) in Murfreesboro also shutdown. The YMCA also shutdown another three Tennessee locations, in total at least 2-hundred jobs killed! After 70 years Tennessee Temple University shutdown. Local news reports say some student athletes were told about the shutdown, and were also ordered by christian administrators not to tell anybody about it.
Texas: Presbyterian/Agnostic Warren Buffet owned BNSF Railway laid off an undisclosed number of employees, due to crashing sales caused by the oil and agricultural industries. BNSF is the second largest U.S. rail operator by sales. Oak Cliff United Methodist Church shutdown. The pastor said the building needed at least $3-million USD in repairs, but the 120 church members could not afford it. Methodist McMurry University eliminated 12 jobs due to lack of christian students. Southern Methodist University laid 1-hundred people and eliminated 50 vacant jobs! Typical of ‘christians’ the administrators are living in denial, calling efforts to cut $35-million from their budget “addressing our slight structural budget deficit”.
Utah: Homeless military veterans left out in the cold as Saint Mary’s Center for Recovery shutdown due to lack of county taxpayer funding. Mormon dominated 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
Washington: In Seattle, 33 years old Zion Preparatory Academy shutdown. At one point the school had 6-hundred students, but because of the bad economy christians can’t afford to pay for private school: “We just basically ran out of funds.”-Doug Wheeler, owner
West Virginia: In South Charleston, Young Women’s Christian Association run Saint John Heart and Hand Day Care shutdown blaming “government regulations and the economy”. Mormon Mitt Romney’s co-founded Staples shutdown their less than five years old Martinsburg store.
Wisconsin: Evangelical governor Scott Walker‘s plan to create jobs has done the opposite according to American Bridge 21st Century: “At the halfway point of 2015, Wisconsin employers have already notified the Department of Workforce Development (DWD) of more planned layoffs than in all of 2014.
As of June 30, state employers have notified DWD they will be laying off a total of 6,685 employees. That is higher than the total number for both 2012 (6,511) and 2014 (6,186).
At the current pace Wisconsin would see more than 13,000 planned layoffs announced in 2015, the highest of any year under Gov. Scott Walker (R-Wisconsin). The previous high during the Walker administration was just over 9,000 in 2011, his first year in office.”
Presbyterian/Agnostic Warren Buffett shutdown the Kraft-Heinz owned Oscar Mayer meat plant in Madison, 312 jobs lost! In Sturgeon Bay, United Methodist Church’s addict recovery Kimberly House shutdown. It’s blamed on crashing donations. The Young Men’s Christian Association (YMCA) shutdown their Wausau childcare center “due to unforeseen circumstances”. The South Shore YMCA in Cudahy shutdown. Mormon Mitt Romney’s evil Massachusetts based wunderkind Staples laid off 53 people at their Oak Creek Tech Solutions operations. ObamaCare forced Ministry Health Care to eliminate 5-hundred jobs from their christian hospital system! Lutheran founded American Red Cross shutting down nine of their 19 offices across the state, by 2017. Some buildings have been sold while others will be leased to companies that can make the greedy property owners more money. Christian republicans shutdown the Daughters of the Father Christian Academy. Christian democrats are demanding an explanation. However, it seems the private ‘christian’ school was being funded with public tax dollars, which should be a violation of the U.S. 1st Amendment. In Madison, British empire based Salvation Army Thrift Store shutdown. Christian administrators implied that saving souls in that town was not worth renewing the lease. After 64 years Redeemer Lutheran Church in Caledonia shutdown. Church leaders would rather blame it on people being sinful, but maybe it’s something called The Rapture: “Churches across the board are having this kind of problem….It’s hard to have them when you don’t have a lot of people.”-Doris Kidd, church secretary
Wyoming: Saint James of the Valley School shutdown due to lack of christian students.
WARN=Worker Adjustment & Retraining Notification
Employees of religious non-profits might not qualify for unemployment assistance: “If the non-profit organization is a church, you may or may not be entitled to unemployment. It all depends upon state regulations for church employers. In many cases, churches are allowed to set their own rules regarding unemployment benefits, meaning the church can choose whether to offer benefits to former employees.”
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency revealed that ever since oil industry Fracking ops have been allowed to take place in the Pacific northwest (about 2004) water quality has suffered. More than 60 public water sources in Idaho, Oregon and Washington have exceeded federal safe levels of lead contamination in the past three years!
The majority of contaminated water systems are in Oregon with 37, followed by Idaho with 22. Washington has eight contaminated systems.
The majority of those water sources supply local grade schools. Some Oregon school administrators admitted they were informed of the lead contamination in 2013, and have been buying bottled water ever since. In Idaho, several school directors blamed lead contamination on old plumbing and claim that lead levels went down after the plumbing was replaced. In Washington the first reported case of lead contamination was at the State Patrol Academy, in 2012. Directors say they’ve been on bottled water since then, but are working to hook up to ‘city’ supplied water.
Most of the contaminated water sources involve systems using well water. Across the U.S. the EPA found at least 1-thousand 4-hundred public water systems contaminated with lead, affecting 3.6-million people!
In Oregon there are reports that Fracking stopped by 2015. Fracking for Liquid Natural Gas (LNG) began as early as 2004. Apparently Fracking for LNG in Washington was supposed to start in 2012, however, recent reports say no Fracking is taking place. It is difficult to find reliable sources of public info on Fracking because the industry, and even state governments, are tight lipped about the controversial operation.
The Stanford case study points out that “only one industry is allowed to inject into underground sources of drinking water”; the petroleum industry.
The researchers had to file Freedom of Information Act demands to get the data they needed. The data concerns the Pavillion Fields in Wyoming. The data was originally collected by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, then for some reason the EPA turned the data over to the pro-mining industry government of Wyoming (the oil industry is technically part of the mining industry).
The state of Wyoming has bee releasing tids-n-bits of data, but not the damning evidence that fracking is destroying the aquifer.
The conclusion of Stanford’s case study is that the drinking water cannot be used, and that the entire Rocky Mountain area could lose its precious aquifers: “Geologic and groundwater conditions at Pavillion are not unique in the Rocky Mountain region. This suggests there may be widespread impact to underground sources of drinking water as a result of unconventional oil and gas extraction.”-Dominic DiGiulio
Incomplete list of announced United States food supply shutdowns for the month of March, 2016: Many food suppliers/distributors are consolidating operations and killing jobs due to the collapsing grocery store and restaurant industries, as well as rising costs of food production, spread of disease and extreme weather.
Nation’s Restaurant News reports yet another perfect storm of problems for the U.S. restaurant industry, this time mainly blaming employees. The top three issues are keeping “quality” employees, minimum wage increases and ObamaCare costs. Some restaurant executives admitted their low pay is the reason they can’t keep quality employees, but said the industry’s profit margins are too tight to significantly increase pay. Then doesn’t that mean the actual threat to the restaurant industry is the bad economy?
Anti-sugar soda-jerks are celebrating the news that U.S. soda consumption is at a 30 years low. Many think it’s because people are finally giving up on so-called ‘sugary’ drinks. Check the ingredient label on those ‘sugary’ sodas you jerks, because the overwhelming majority don’t contain any sugar at all! Since the 1990s soda-pop makers have been using GMO corn syrup! All those studies on ‘sugary’ drinks were really testing drinks made with GMO corn syrup. I personally choose sodas made with 100% sugar, not GMO corn syrup or those sickening diet sodas made with ungodly chemicals. Perhaps the real reason is that U.S. consumers are waking up to the fact ‘sugary’ sodas are made with GMO corn syrup, or maybe it’s the suck-ass unrecovered economy? (originally a soda-jerk was the employee who served you your fav soft drink at the local mom-n-pop establishment, now it refers to extremists who want to eradicate carbonated soft drinks)
Due to skyrocketing demand, the price of vanilla beans has tripled. But get ready for even higher prices as a major producer of vanilla, Madagascar, is reporting a low harvest for 2016.
Alabama: The saga of the sudden mass FMP owned Ovation Brands/Buffet LLC bankruptcy continues as at least four Ryan’s restaurants were suddenly shutdown in as many cities.
Arizona: In Phoenix, Fuego Bistro shutdown its CityScape location. In Glendale, after 46 years restaurant La Peria shutdown due to not being able to pay its rent. In Scottsdale, Stingray Sushi shutdown. RT O’Sullivans sports bar-eatery shutdown on U.S. 60.
Arkansas: In Fayetteville, the AQ Chicken Express suddenly shutdown without warning and the AQ Chicken House also shutdown, according to an unnamed employee.
California: In Berkeley, after only two months “high-priced” restaurant Antoinette shutdown due to disagreements with the Claremont Club & Spa hotel. In El Segundo, after ten years restaurant Farm Stand shutdown. The owners hope to open a new restaurant with new partners somewhere in Los Angeles, sometime next year. City administrators of Stanton are suing to shutdown a thriving coffee shop. What’s the problem? GZ Cafe employs waitresses that wear bikinis (and even just pasties), however, there are reports that several customers complained to the city claiming some of the waitresses were showing off their ‘hardware’ to other customers. A next door barber shop owner praises GZ Cafe for greatly increasing his business!In Stockton the S-Mart grocery store shutdown, 50 jobs lost due to lack of profits. In Oakland, after 47 years restaurant Francesco’s shutdown: “There’s nobody to pick it up. So it’s going into history.”-Theresa Erwin, 3rd generation family owner
Colorado: In Steamboat Springs, after 34 years La Montana shutdown after being sold off. It’s hoped the new owner will keep the 38 workers employed with a new establishment.
Connecticut: In Stamford, after 50 years Pat’s Hubba Hubba restaurant shutdown.
Florida: The saga of the sudden mass FMP owned Ovation Brands/Buffet LLC bankruptcy continues. This time reports that several Ryan’s Buffets shutdown without warning in Horry County. A local news report said as many as 3-hundred restaurants across the U.S. are affected by the sudden bankruptcy! In Miami, food service contractor Boykin Management issued a mass layoff WARN, 119 jobs lost by May! Tomato Land Farmers Market store-restaurant shutting down in April, due to the property being sold-off. In Tampa’s Ybor City, after 33 years The Spaghetti Warehouse Restaurant shutdown, no specific reason was given, but in 2010 the Church of Scientology became the new landlord. In Center Hill, Central Beef Industries issued a WARN, 214 jobs being eliminated between now and the end of May! For nearly a decade the meat packager was dumping water contaminated with salt and feces onto a rancher’s property. It took the rancher filing several court actions, and a plant manager turning whistleblower, to get any of the state and federal government agencies to act! The dumping was stopped, however, criminal charges against the food company were eventually dropped. So far there’s no explanation for the mass layoffs. In Jacksonville, after eight years O’Brothers Irish Pub shutdown: “I tell people that restaurants are like martinis: One isn’t enough and two is too many. We’re going back to one. It’s time to slow down.”-Drew Cavins, co-owner
Georgia: In Liburn, the Versace Dominican Restaurant hit by food contamination, revealed by surprise health inspections. The inspectors ordered the desserts and juices thrown out due to food poisoning (desserts & juices being made right next to raw meat, cooks not wear gloves or washing hands), and gave the eatery a health score of 47/U (failure). The health inspectors were there for a follow up inspection after a questionable inspection a month ago. In Atlanta, employees of Thirteen Pies pizza joint reporting they’ve been told they will become unemployed within 60 days. The company that owns Thirteen Pies, Raised Palate Restaurants, says no final decision has been made, however local news reported that Raised Palate Restaurants shutdown another food joint in the same plaza back in January. In Albany, after five years God powerless to stop Christian owned (Flint River Presbytery) non-profit Bare Bulb Coffee shop from shutdown due to road construction that killed customer traffic. In Atlanta, after more than five years H. Harper Station bar shutdown, the owner blames the landlord: “While signs point to the area’s impending development coming to fruition, it also brings the pressure of increased costs. After a great five-year run, we feel the model is no longer sustainable. We wish the best to the new tenant…”-Jerry Slater
Idaho: East of Boise, after 73 years iconic Ben’s Crow Inn shutting down by September. The owner admitted in the early years all he served was pizza and beer. Now it’s famous for seafood and steak. The owner also admitted that the ever expanding metro of Boise has jacked up local property values so much that he couldn’t refuse an offer from a greedy property developer. In Boise, after only four months the brand new Boise Co-op grocery store located at The Village at Meridian laid off 29 employees, due to lack of sales! Boise Co-op opened the store in November 2015 expecting big sales because Maureen Valko, Boise Co-op marketing manager, assumed “There’s a demand for a good, natural food store on this side of town….” It should be noted that also in 2015 Boise Co-op was hit with numerous health code violations by city inspectors, in connection to a June 2015 salmonella outbreak at an older store. So much for ‘natural foods’. Also in Boise, it was revealed that Idaho Heritage Inn was sold-off last month, the former owner blames a 20% crash in bookings on Airbnb.com. However, it should be noted that the bed-n-breakfast owner accepted a healthy offer from Saint Luke’s Medical Center for the land. Recently Mexico’s Minister of Trade Armando Orellana died. Idaho’s government and agriculture industry are officially mourning Orellana as he’s credited for making Idaho a major ag partner for Mexico, generating $191-million USD in sales for Idaho’s minority (mainly corporate owned now) farmers-ranchers, just in 2015: “Idaho agriculture lost a great friend. He touched many lives over the years and the tragic loss of Armando will be felt throughout Idaho.”-Celia Gould, Idaho Department of Agriculture (Idaho even has its own website promoting itself in Mexico) Some good news for Idaho; New York based yogurt maker Chobani announced plans to expand what is already the world’s largest yogurt factory, in Twin Falls, primarily to make products for sale in Mexico! An update on that false organic seed selling operation that ripped off dozens of farmers east of the Rockies for five years; one of the co-owners of Saul Farms/Bliss Seed pled guilty to mislabeling products. Prosecutors say the seed sellers sold ‘inorganic’ seed at organic seed prices, getting at least $1 USD per pound more than they should have, resulting in $1.9-million USD in fraudulent sales!
Illinois: In Moline, bankrupt FMP owned Ovation Brands/Buffet LLC Ryan’s Steakhouse shutdown without warning, pissing off employees. The restaurant was shutdown officially for an “asset inventory”, but then, the employees were told they could pick up their final paychecks! In Naperville, after 3-million customers the 21 years old Zero Gravity Food-Dancing club shutdown. Rumors say it’ll be replaced with a bigger operation. In Chicago, after two years critically acclaimed restaurant Tete Charcuterie shutdown without warning over the weekend, due to lack of sales. In Frankfort, Burger King shutdown their Town Center location without explanation. Food giant Tyson issued a shutdown WARN, 170 frozen food jobs eliminated between April and August! In Elk Grove Village, food service company Sodexo issued a shutdown WARN, 54 jobs lost by the end of April.
Indiana: In Fort Wayne, Gropp’s Famous Fish of Stroh shutting down due to the retirement of the owners. The family hopes to make money by licensing its secret recipes.
Iowa: The saga of the sudden mass FMP owned Ovation Brands/Buffet LLC bankruptcy continues. This time a Ryan’s in Clive, and an Old Country Buffet in Des Moines shutdown without warning. Chain restaurant Village Inn shutdown its Lindale Mall location without warning, administrators blamed it on high rent
Louisiana: In Baton Rouge, after 49 years the elitist private membership only eatery Camelot Club suddenly shutdown due to “declining membership and a dramatic increase in rent”. In Baton Rouge, restaurant supplier Ready Portion Meat shutdown their 56 years old retail operation this past Friday, and eventually will end wholesale ops as well. It’s connected to the 2013 sale of the company to Washington based government contractor Mobius Industries. Administrators with Mobius refused to give job loss numbers, but blame the shutdown on crashing sales to the restaurant industry, a 20% crash just last year: “We put a tremendous amount of effort into increasing sales in the last year or two and haven’t been able to get that magic to happen.”-Brian Clayton (the claim of crashing restaurant industry sales is interesting because every year the National Restaurant Association claims sales are way up)
Maine: In Portland, after 40 years Paul’s Food Center shutting down, and being sold-off due to the death of the owner.
Maryland: The saga of the sudden mass FMP owned Ovation Brands/Buffet LLC bankruptcy continues as the Hagerstown Ryan’s restaurant shutdown without warning. Allen Harim Foods shutting down their 71 years old Cordova operations, 3-hundred jobs lost as the company consolidates ops to save money! In Amherst, beef eatery White Hut shutting down by the end of the month. The family owners say sales have only been “modest” and not enough to justify renewing the lease. They hope their flagship Great Depression era restaurant in West Springfield doesn’t meet the same fate. After 58 years Harbin Farms shutting down due to A-Hole zoning rules which will impose at least $375-thousand USD of property upgrades upon the family owners: “We’re probably going to move. We have to remove ourselves from what once was.”-Kim Taylor
Massachusetts: Yet again, Chipotle restaurants are being shutdown due to people getting sick! This time an employee at their Billerica location got sick with norovirus. After 47 years Johnny D’s Restaurant Music Club shutting down this weekend. In Needham, after 18 years Cowlicks Deli suddenly shutdown due to the new landlord refusing to renew the lease. The new landlord is convenience store chain 7-Eleven. After 32 years Au Bon Pain shutdown their Harvard Square restaurant apparently because of property remodeling by Harvard University. Administrators say “We continue to search for a location in this area.”
Michigan: The saga of the sudden mass FMP owned Ovation Brands/Buffet LLC bankruptcy continues as the Battle Creek Old Country Buffet shutdown and was auctioned off. In Lansing, 50 years old restaurant House of ING shutdown. The owner says he must focus on his other restaurants. Feeding America shutting down its warehouses in Ishpeming and Sault Set Marie, claiming they’re moving to a larger operation. However, several food banks are reporting that the move by Feeding America is actually forcing them to shutdown. The Ishpeming Food Bank and Tom’s Pantry in Quinnesec both point out that even though Feeding America’s is moving to a larger location the delivery times aren’t compensating for the further distance, meaning food banks will have to expanded refrigerated storage and/or hire delivery trucks to make extra food runs: “Because they only come up twice a month, you’re going to have to have a lot more refrigeration space than what I have. You’re going to have to have pickups and trailers in order to pick up your food. This is going to cause us to have to close.”-Mary Dixon, Tom’s Pantry
Minnesota: In Minneapolis, Maison Darras sandwich shop and the U.S. Postal Service extension office being forced to shutdown on Thursday, due to massive $20-million USD remodeling of Baker Center. News reports say the sandwich and postal operations will not resume because the ‘Skyway’ is being eliminated by the remodel work. Ferrara Candy shutting down their Winona factory and consolidating to its factory in Illinois, more than 120 Minnesota jobs lost! In Saint Paul, after 38 years Bonnie’s Cafe being shutdown by the greedy landlord who refused to renew the lease: “We were never offered to renew the lease……I never thought it would end!”-Becky Moosbrugger
Missouri: After two years of booze and coloring books, ArtBar St. Louis shutdown without warning due to “circumstances beyond my control.”
New Mexico: In Santa Fe, iconic Santa Fe Baking Company and Cafe shutdown on 15 March, without warning due to “new ownership”. Loyal customer Kerth Lundell bemoaned “I came for a breakfast burrito…This is the go-to place….” A local radio host who does her morning shows from the restaurant, Mary-Charlotte Domandi, is pissed: “I have no idea what is going on. My equipment is still in there!”
Nebraska: In Lincoln, after 21 years Doozy’s sandwich shop shutting down: “There are a number of reasons….We have other jobs and other things happening.”-Tafe Sup Bergo, co-owner
New York: What was that about not being able to keep “quality” employees? In NYC, the Shake Shack settled a lawsuit for failing to pay nine mangers their due, yet at the same time publicly stated they were not guilty of shorting their managers about $50 per week in pay! In Montauk, the Sloppy Tuna restaurant shutdown due to the co-owners filing lawsuits against each other. The saga of the sudden mass FMP owned Ovation Brands/Buffet LLC bankruptcy continues as the Amherst Old Country Buffet was suddenly shutdown. In SoHo, pub Puck Fair shutting down due to the property owner tearing down the building. British empire owned Chartwells lost their food service contract with Nazareth College, 90 jobs lost by May (Chartwells is owned by British empire Compass Group, which runs food ops for the military and prisons, and owns other food servers that’ve been involved in scandals such as lying about meat product ingredients in Europe and underpaying U.S. employees!). Food service company HMS Host issued a layoff WARN for their JFK Airport ops, 134 jobs lost due to loss of contract! NYC based research company Nielsen says the U.S. bar industry is now in an official Death Spiral.Every month an average of 334 new bars open across the U.S., but, that pales in comparison to the 609 per month that shutdown (and that’s why it’s a death spiral, more deaths than births)! It’s blamed on jacked up rents, increasing competition from restaurants serving booze and increasingly restrictive laws. It’s been revealed that troubled NYC based restaurant chain Fig & Olive eliminated an undisclosed number of jobs, revealed by at least four former employees. Fig & Olive had to shutdown restaurants back in 2015 because of a salmonella outbreak. In Buffalo, the Blue Monk beer church (just kidding) shutting down sometime between April and May. A co-owner of the brew-pub says his partner is also the landlord’s son, and they no longer get along! Oceanside Institutional Industries issued a shutdown WARN for their food service linens operations, 171 jobs lost by mid-June! In Rochester, Corner Bakery Cafe suddenly shutdown after the owner posted a sign that said “will be closing early tonight.” Local news reports blame it on property developers.
North Carolina: In Raleigh, after four years ‘night life’ joint and former restaurant Zinda shutdown, no explanation. In Beaufort County, after 18 years the Golden Corral suddenly shutdown on Friday, rented Uhaul trucks were carting away the contents of the restaurant. Local news media said there was no explanation from the corporate office. In Durham, Bar Lusconi shutdown.
Ohio: Grocery store giant Kroger warning investors that same store sales crashed in the last three months of their fiscal 2015 (for the entire year their sales were still up)! Kroger owns stores that sell more than just food, but administrators warn that across the board sales will be down for 2016, which breaks Kroger’s record of more than 12 straight years of sales increases! Kroger administrators blame competition, and deflation which will kill profit margins. Atwood Lake Resort and Golf Club shutting down: “Management informed us it is no longer economically feasible to continue operations due to the current economic state.”-Bob Wirkner, Carroll County Commissioner
Oregon: The Kroger owned Fred Meyer distribution center in Clackamas is threatening 2-hundred jobs, as Kroger decided to find a new contractor to provide the labor! Bankrupt Washington based Haggen (assassinated by Albertsons-Safeway) issued shutdown WARNs for their Clackamas, West Linn and Oregon City grocery stores, 208 jobs lost by mid-May! Washington based Starbucks coffee rip-off artist suddenly shutting down their Lancaster Mall shop this weekend. The press release gave no explanation why, and local news sources said even the employees refused to talk!
Pennsylvania: In Philadelphia, Perch Pub shutdown, the building’s owner wants to construct a hotel. In Fredericksburg, after 28 years ‘natural’ food store The Pantry Self shutdown due to the death of the owner. The saga of the sudden mass FMP owned Ovation Brands/Buffet LLC bankruptcy continues. This time the Old Country Buffet in Summit Township suddenly shutdown, claiming it was for “asset inventory” and asking employees to return for an update. In Wilkes-Barre Township, two Old Country Buffet restaurants shutdown without warning, leaving almost 1-hundred people without a job! Weis Markets shutdown its 56 years old Manchester Township grocery store claiming it’s too small: “Given the age and size of the building, it was no longer possible to operate a full service supermarket in this location.”
South Carolina: The saga of the sudden mass FMP owned Ovation Brands/Buffet LLC bankruptcy continues. This time six Ryan’s restaurants (in Columbia, Conway, Greer, Orangeburg, Spartanburg and Surfside Beach) suddenly shutdown, at least 4-hundred jobslost! Two Ryan’s restaurants suddenly shutdown in Upstate South Carolina leaving 80 people without a job. Local news reports say this is the third bankruptcy for Ovation Brands/Buffet LLC since 2008! Nation’s Restaurant News reports that 92 restaurants across the country were shutdown over the weekend without warning! That’s on top of 74 restaurants shutdown last month, for a total of 166 in the past five weeks! Not only did they shutdown the restaurants without warning, but they quickly removed cooking equipment and hauled it away (this must be what they mean by “conducting asset inventory”)! Ovation Brands/Buffet LLC was taken over last year by Texas based FMP (Food Management Partners). In the bankruptcy filing FMP claims their take over of Ovation Brands was a big money losing mistake as sales immediately crashed by 22%! Nation’s Restaurant News discovered that FMP is a Mitt Romney-Bain Capital style vulture capitalist group that is responsible for the sudden shutdown of California based Catalina Restaurant Group’s Coco’s Bakery and Carrows restaurants last year!“FMP has also acquired Don Pablo’s, Furr’s Fresh Buffet and Zio’s Italian Kitchen.”
Tennessee:Kroger shutting down their Memphis grocery store on South Perkins, admitting they built (or took over) too many stores, several within a mile of each other!
Texas: In Houston, after two years Georges Bistro shutdown, the husband and wife immigrant owners (who’re longtime Houston restauranteurs) are getting the hell outta Dodge and returning to their home country of France! In Houston, bar Hughes Hangar suddenly shutdown, owners won’t explain, but there’s speculation that a recent electrical fire might have something to do with it. Fiesta Mart shutting down their 40 years old North Shepard grocery store for “business reasons”. Basically the store needed upgrades and the company administrators believe it’s not worth it (this has become a common excuse for shutdowns in the retail sector). 1-hundred jobs lost! In El Paso, Bruce Foods shutting down, 171 jobs lost by May! In Cleburne, Caddo Street Grill shutting down, the owners directly blaming the Affordable Care Act: “The Obamacare mandate has effected us in ways that do not effect other local restaurants, due to the various businesses we own. This forces us into an uncompetitive business environment and it is no longer viable for us to continue in the restaurant business.”
Virginia: Just short of a year Shoryuken Ramen shutting down its noodle eatery on Virginia Commonwealth University campus in May. In Danville, Bubba’s Ice Cream shutting down and selling the property. Irony; the ice cream shop owner is selling the property so he can retire, and he’s selling it to a nursing home. Martin’s shutting down three grocery stores by Summer, they are not part of the shutdowns due to the merger of Giant Food and Food Lion, but are the result of a decision back in 2015. Another ten Martin’s stores in Virginia will be sold off as part of the merger! Hundreds of jobs lost! In Norfolk, Empire Little Bar Bistro shutting down in April, can’t renew the lease. The owners blame never ending construction and city trash dumpsters taking up precious space in the parking lot for crashing sales. In Clarendon, after four years Grateful Red Wine & Gifts suddenly shutdown. The owners decided the rent for their brick-n-mortar op was too expensive and they will continue sales on the internet only. In Radford, after 17 years Wade’s Foods shutting down, the owner blames skyrocketing costs and competition with big corporate stores, more than 50 jobs lost. Local news says plans to shutdown were made last year. In South Richmond, after less than six months White Horse Tavern shutdown due to lack of dinner sales. News reports say yet another restauranteur is about to take a whack at opening an eatery in the same location. The saga of the sudden mass FMP owned Ovation Brands/Buffet LLC bankruptcy continues as the Old Country Buffet shutdown without warning or paychecks in Alexandra. Local news reports revealed the so called “asset inventory” is a cover for mass auctioning of kitchen equipment: “Each store contains everything from kitchen equipment and smallwares to furniture and decor. To be able to bid on the entire Alexandria VA Old Country Buffet is an amazing opportunity for anyone in the restaurant business!”-Jose Paz, vulture auction manager
Washington: In Bellingham, Albertsons-Safeway shutting down their 56 years old store on Birchwood Avenue, 66 jobs lost by May. Bankrupt Haggen issued more shutdown WARNs for its grocery stores; Puyallup, Port Angeles, Federal Way and Burein, 270 jobs lost by mid-May! Despite being killed off by Albertsons-Safeway, by being tricked into buying more than 1-hundred money losing Albertsons stores, Haggen is now attempting to sell 33 of its remaining stores to Albertsons-Safeway! In Spokane, after almost 60 years Williams Seafood suddenly shutdown on Saturday. The owner blames increasingly low quality of imported seafood and damage from a windstorm back in November.
Washington DC: Restaurant GDB (Golden Brown Delicious) shutdown suddenly.
Wisconsin: In New Berlin junk food maker Mexican Accent issued a WARN, 155 jobs lost by the end of April! Food service company and construction industry supplier Mantiwoc Company announced layoffs for their operations in Manitowoc and in the state of Pennsylvania. No numbers were given but it’s part of Mantiwoc Company’s “right sizing” which recently included the spinning off it’s construction crane maker subsidiary called Cranes. In Middleton, Max’s Farm Table shutdown. The pissed-off owner revealed he recently spent $1-thousand USD for one week of advertising, yet still his restaurant went several hours per day without a customer: “Sales aren’t even close to where they need to be to justify continuing to invest. Not even close!”-Max Harn, who also said the rent was too high for the unpredictable location
It must be noted that I started documenting these education shutdowns at the beginning of 2014. In that yearI posted the reports biannually (every six months). In 2015 education cutbacks ramped up and I posted quarterly (every three months). For the past three months of 2016 there have been so many education cutbacks that I’ve posted a report every month!
Disappearing Students Syndrome (DSS): A phrase created by me to describe a phenomenon taking place across the United States, affecting both privately and publicly funded schools, from Kindergarten all the way through University levels.
Incomplete list of publicly announced education related layoffs & school shutdowns, March 2016:
California:Plumas Unified School District laying off ten teachers due to lack of taxpayer funding. Sebastopol based Safari Books Online laid off an undisclosed number of employees, including the CEO! The layoffs were revealed by the former CEO. The company, which does business on the internet, is consolidating operations. Barnes & Noble shutting down their Mountain View College Bookstore, 40 jobs lost by May. 11 months after going out of business Corinthian Colleges lost a lawsuit brought by the state. They must now fork over $1.1-billion USD after being caught lying about employment placement after graduation, running ads for education programs that didn’t exist, illegal debt collections, and using U.S. Department of Defense promotional material without permission! It’s also hoped that the thousands of students who were suddenly dropped will get some restitution to help them pay back their student loans (you can’t claim bankruptcy protect against student loans).
Connecticut: God powerless to stop ‘his’ Archdiocese from shutting down 89 years old (surviving The Great Depression and numerous recessions) Saint Augustine School, the last Catholic elementary school in Hartford. It’s blamed on what I call Disappearing Students Syndrome (some Christians call it The Rapture).
Delaware: Delaware State University eliminating 23 programs, claiming lack of student participation. Administrators also claim no jobs will be lost.
Florida: Yet more medical school shutdowns! The first victim of non-profit Zenith Education Groups massive cutbacks; Everest University announced it must shutdown campuses in Lakeland, Brandon and two in Tampa Bay, affecting at least 343 medical students: “It’s a slap in the face for everybody really!”-Angela Adams, medical billing student
Idaho: In Boise, public school officials are finally outing the so-called friend of education J.A. and Kathryn Albertson Family Foundation for what it really is; a covert effort to Dumb Down Idahoans: “Why would someone want to undermine public education in Idaho? The motive is quite clear. At a recent Downtown Rotary Club meeting, the executive director of the Albertson Foundation stated that the goal of the Foundation is to increase charter school seats by 20,000 in the next few years. That will only happen if Idahoans lose faith in their public schools….. …..Let’s be clear; this campaign promotes an agenda designed to undermine public schools. It is highly inaccurate. It offers no real solutions to increasing post-secondary readiness. It is a disservice to the work public school teachers, parents, and students do every day.”-Boise School District
Illinois: Barrington District 220 notified 114 employees of layoffs, saying they’re prepping for the state ‘lawmakers’ to cut their funding by $2.6-million USD! 1-thousand Northeastern Illinois University employees must take one day off without pay, due to the Failed State ‘lawmakers’. All Illinois universities are warning of massive layoffs if the Govna’s proposed budget is adopted. Kishwaukee College has decided to eliminate about 24 jobs due to Failed State ‘lawmakers’ failing to come through with funding. Sycamore School District 427 approved an additional 18 layoffs, on top of the 56 approved last month. Administrators blame it on a shortfall of $2.3-million USD, partly caused by Failed State ‘lawmakers’ failing to approve state funding. John A. Logan College eliminating 55 jobs, claiming to be short $7-million USD. Protesting students pointed out that certain departments are not suffering job losses and that school executives refused to say why. Computer Systems Institute shutting down campuses across the state, eliminating 172 jobs between now and September! Chicago Public Schools laid off 62 people on 01 March .
Indiana: In Bloomington, after 45 years Caveat Emptor bookstore shutting down in August. The owner is hoping to sell the business.
Kentucky: Morehead State University notified employees of a pending furlough of five days without pay. It’ll happen before the end of June and is the result of governor Matt Bevin’s $1.95-million USD in funding cuts.
Massachusetts: In Lowell, God powerless to stop the shutdown of ‘his’ 108 years old (surviving The Great Depression and numerous recessions) Franco American School. It’s blamed on increasing costs and declining student enrollment.
Michigan: Farmington Public Schools approved the shutdown/repurposing of three schools. The school district has lost 12% of its student population since 2000, causing an $11-million USD reduction in taxpayer funding.
Minnesota: After ten years of paying for eye checkups, tutoring and giving teachers grants, non-profit Saint Paul Public Schools Foundation shutting down due to lack of corporate donations. Traverse City Area Public Schools shutting down the Interlochen Community School and the International School at Bertha Vos, blaming a $1.2-million USD shortfall. Administrators will also not replace retiring employees (attrition) and reduce school bus service. Stillwater School District shutting down three elementary schools. Interestingly administrators blame increasing enrollment! They claim they’re shifting children out of older schools into new buildings designed to handle more students.
New Jersey: God powerless to stop the shutdown of ‘his’ Mother Teresa Regional School in Atlantic Highlands, 24 jobs lost by the end of June. Mercer County Community College eliminating IT jobs as it will now use a cheap contractor. Some in-house Information Tech employees will be laid off while others will be shifted to other departments. Trenton Board of Education shutting down Stokes Early Childhood Center and eliminating a net 164 jobs! It’s the second year in a row for shutdowns and layoffs due to lack of students and taxpayer funding.
New York: After more than 30 years of school bus service, Carrier Coach issued a shutdown WARN for multiple locations, 224 jobs lost by the end of June due to “economic” reasons! Berkley Publishing Group revealed they eliminated an undisclosed number of jobs, blaming crashing book sales. News reports say the book publisher has been eliminating jobs since Summer 2015. Lack of funding and students forcing Kenmore Town of Tonawanda District to shutdown the Roosevelt and Hamilton elementary schools and Kenmore Middle School (Junior High damn it, we’re not supposed to be part of the bloody British empire!) next school year. Local news reports say the district has been trying to figure out a way to cut taxpayer costs since 2012, and this was the best they could do. After 47 years, God powerless to stop the shutdown of ‘his’ Elmira Christian Academy due to The Rapture of students (what I call Disappearing Students Syndrome). At the school’s peak there were 220 students, this year there’s only 80, the pastor blames the parents: “It’s hard to compete with families who feel that it would be more advantageous for them to educate their kids from home.”-David Leandre
North Carolina: After ten years and without warning the Park West Barber School shutdown four of its campuses. The school’s website had the following message: “IT IS WITH GREAT SADNESS AND REGRET THAT WE MUST INFORM YOU THAT EFFECTIVE TUESDAY MARCH 29, 2016 PARK WEST HAS MADE THE DIFFICULT DECISION TO CLOSE…..THINGS SEEMED PROMISING, BUT UNFORTUNATELY AT THE FINAL HOUR, OUR ONLY OPTION WAS TO CLOSE.”
North Dakota: Dickinson State University shutting down their Strom Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation due to the loss of $1-million USD in grants and taxpayer funding.
Ohio: In Hebron, Lakewood Digital Academy shutting down in June due to cancelation of taxpayer funding. The local school district must also payback $150-thousand USD to the state Department of Education. It’s blamed on changes in laws affecting charter schools.
Pennsylvania: In Wilkes-Barre, Book and Spy Shop shutting down mid-April. The owner is selling the building saying the costs to maintain the building have become too expensive.
South Carolina: Pickens County School Board approved the shutdown of two elementary schools due to lack of taxpayer funding. Obviously uneducated taxpayers protested the decision. If you can’t generate the tax revenues you can’t have your cake and eat it too.
Texas: God powerless to stop ‘his’ 30 years old Central Christian Academy from shutting down. Church leaders blame The Rapture, I mean declining church membership for forcing them to sell the school property (told you before, this proves money is the true ‘god’).
Virginia: In Richmond, low income daycare Southside Child Development Center shutting down in June: “Funders are saying that they just can’t continue to support us without us being able to support ourselves, which is a hardship when you deal with the families that we serve.”-Sheila Pleasants
Washington: Apollo Education-University of Phoenix shutting down their Seattle operations, 46 jobs lost by the end of April. After 39 years Kathy’s Studio of Dance shutting down: “This was a very difficult decision for me to make but the dance world is changing and I am no longer up for the challenge. I started my studio with the idea that anyone should be able to dance – no matter their size, talent or ability to pay…….This worked for many years but times have changed….”-Kathryn Lahey
Washington DC: Independently operated Law School Transparency has revealed that only 56% of law school graduates find full employment after graduating, which challenges the official employment placement claims made by the top law schools in the United States. The U.S. Navy planning on shutting down its remaining 20 voluntary education program College offices saying they can no longer afford to offer courses ‘on base’. Civilian employees will be relocated to a central call center. Administrators say they’re trying to save everybody some money: “For every dollar I get to spend on college education for our sailors, I would like to see it go to their tuition assistance pot and not paying for overhead.”– Rear Admiral Mike White, Naval Education and Training Command
In Idaho, several school directors blamed lead contamination on old plumbing and claim that lead levels went down after the plumbing was replaced. In Washington the first reported case of lead contamination was at the State Patrol Academy, in 2012. Directors say they’ve been on bottled water since then, but are working to hook up to ‘city’ supplied water.
