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Business/Economics

U.S. Job Losses & Store Closings 02 – 03 July 2014: “This would be a worst case scenario…” God can’t stop the bad economy! “…please continue to pray…” Military contractor admits U.S. forces inside Iran? More Obamacare job cuts!

Incomplete list of publicly announced layoffs & shutdowns:

California: Who said the internet is killing brick-n-mortar businesses?  In San Francisco, ebay owned internet movie-concert ticket seller StubHub! killed 100 jobs! Company officials refused to comment to local news sources.  In Orange, Children’s Hospital of Orange County killed another 89 jobs.  This is on top of the 61 layoffs in June and the 20 layoffs in May, for a grand total of 170 in three months!  Hospital officials say job layoffs are the only way they can deal with decreasing insurance payments caused by Obama Care.  In Petaluma, Massachusetts based Brooks Automation announced they’re shutting down in October, 89 jobs lost.

Colorado: In Loveland, the Family Tree Restaurant shutdown and the owners are pissed about the bad economy saying “We don’t have enough customers to pay our bills, so we’re closing our doors! ….it’s stupid…..We did our crying….”  Also, it was discovered that the Red Dragon restaurant shutdown in June, the property was sold off back in May.  Also, the Great Wall Chinese Buffet could be shutting down due to the fact the greedy property owner is trying to sell off the building.  However, the restaurant owner swears “We’re not going anywhere!”

Hawaii: In Waikiki, Capital One shutting down their 360 Cafe in August.  The property is owned by California based  American Commercial Equities and might have been sold off.  In Honolulu, after only five years Cake Couture shutdown, not surprising when they were charging $3.50 for a little cupcake.

Maryland: In Silver Springs, after 64 years Dale Music Company shutdown.  The co-owner blamed the bad economy and greedy property developers: “We have done what we can. It would be too expensive to move, and with Silver Spring redevelopment happening now, we decided it was best to close our doors.”-Carol Warden

Massachusetts: In Woburn, the Sea Dog Brew Pub now chapter 7 bankrupt busted, and shutdown without notice.

Michigan: Thomas M. Cooley Law School warned of major employee and program cuts, due to disappearing students.  They reported a 40% drop in enrollment from 2010 to 2013!

Missouri: Medicare reviewer Primaris warned of massive layoffs due to Obama Care, starting in August.  Company officials say the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act caused them to loose a $5-million USD contract!

New Mexico:  Los Alamos National Laboratory contractor and U.S. taxsucker and Mormon owned Energy Solutions killed 115 jobs!  Company officials swear it has nothing to due with the explosion at the Waste Isolation Pilot Project (WIPP).    By the way, back in 2005 Energy Solutions founder and LDS member, Steve Creamer, actually lobbied the state of Utah to ban nuclear ‘B’ and ‘C’ waste storage in the Beehive State!  Is that ironic or hypocritical?

New York: What automotive industry recovery?  Manhattan Ford Lincoln announced they’re shutting down in September, 245 jobs lost!  In Albany, RiverSource Life Insurance announced they’re shutting down and moving to Minnesota, 29 jobs lost.  Company officials blame the bad economy in the Empire State.  Also, Newkirk Products announced they are moving 76 jobs out-o-state in October.  In Bronx, IAC Acoustics announced they’re shutting down in November, 101 jobs lost!  In NYC, The New York Times reports that the Wall Street Journal killed up to 40 jobs.  Eastern Niagara Hospital laying off 60 healthcare workers.  Officials blame Obama Care for forcing them to consolidate ops with another hospital: “Healthcare is undergoing a very significant change. Hospitalizations are decreasing and work is shifting to outpatient care, so we are reacting to the shifts that are occurring.”-Clair Haar, CEO

North Carolina: In Raleigh, after 47 years the city’s first Dunkin’ Donuts shutdown.  The owners said their franchise agreement expired in December 2013, and they just can’t afford to renew it.

Ohio: In Tipp City, after two years of bragging that it was about to add 500 jobs, Process Equipment actually killed 70 jobs.  Back in 2012 the fabrication company was in trouble, so one of the partner-owners spent his own money buying the company in order to save it.  He thought he had some big contracts lined up so he announced he was about to buy new property and hire hundreds of new employees, but apparently that all fell through due to the bad economy.  Now Process Equipment is shutting down its equipment, gear and robotic welding services lines.  In Dayton, the Dayton Mall and the Mall at Fairfield Commons are both up for sale.  They are the biggest malls in the city.

Oregon: Texas based Berry Family of Nurseries announced they’re shutting down their Cornelius ops in September, at least 100 jobs lost!  Company officials blame it on crashing sales to their clients Lowe’s, Home Depot and Walmart.

Pennsylvania: New Obama Care medical device taxes forcing Johnson & Johnson to kill 400 jobs with its DePuy Synthes medical device subsidiary!  The Prince Music Theater told its landlord that it will not be able to pay its rent for October.  Theater officials also said that unless they can find a lot of money fast they’re out-o-business.

Tennessee: In Nashville, the Green Wagon “sustainable” products store shutting down their brick-n-mortar ops and going mobile.  They’re shifting to a Green Wagon ‘food type’ truck and internet site. Apparently they can’t afford the rent and utilities of a old school store.

Texas:  In San Angelo, Tennessee based SITEL (Systems International TELemarketing) announced as many as 348 people will be laid off, saying “This would be a worst case scenario…”!  The company lost a major contract, officials said they could not reveal who the contract was with.

Virginia: Snack maker Prime Choice Foods now chapter 11 bankrupt busted.  Company officials say the need a new ‘partner’ willing to make a big investment in order to survive bankruptcy.  In Roanoke County, taxsucking military contractor Exelis Night Vision and Communications Solutions killed 60 jobs.  Earlier this year the company laid off an undisclosed number of employees, and in the past three years they killed at least 800 jobs!  A local news report slipped up and reported that Exelis was supplying U.S. forces inside Iran: “Demand [for] the company’s night vision goggles and other products has dropped due to a reduction of U.S. forces in Iraq and Iran.”-WTOP 103.5 FM

Washington: In Redmond, after tens years award winning video game maker Airtight Games shutdown without notice. Earlier in the year 14 employees were laid off.  Company officials did not give a reason for their surprise shutdown, but did thank their fans.  God refused to stop Seattle based Mars Hill Church from killing jobs.  Officials with the mega-church blame the bad economy for a surprise crash in tithes: “…the budget crunch caught the executive elders by surprise and was related to a dramatic decline in attendance and giving…please continue to pray for the church as we navigate through a tough season.” 

Wisconsin: In Stevens Point, Copps and Roundy’s grocery distribution center shutting down in August, 196 jobs lost!  27 Roundy’s grocery stores were sold off to SuperValu.  The first Roundy’s was opened in 1872.

01 July 2014:  “30 minutes is a long time when you’re dying!” 

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

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

U.S.

U.S. Civil War Chicago, 26 – 31 August 2014: Many “uncooperative” victims, and more stabbings!

Incomplete list:

4700 block of North Lawndale Avenue: 38 years old woman stabbed 22 times, and killed.  A witness says the attacker threatened his life if he told police. The cops called it a domestic violence case, an arrest has been made.

10900 block of South Racine Avenue: 34 years old man shot in the gut.  He was taken to a hospital where police said he was “uncooperative” with them.  Then, five hours after being shot he was declared dead!

5400 block of South Damen Avenue: Police found a 36 years old man shot to death.  Cops say they were responding to a 911 call.  Local news reports say at least 20 brass casings littered the scene of the shooting.

7400 block of North Ridge Boulevard: Two men shot.  One man died.

2600 West 65th Street: 28 years old man shot in the back and wounded.  He said the shooter stepped out of a vehicle before blasting him.

7900-block of South State Street: Conflicting reports.  A 36 years old man was stabbed in the face while riding a Chicago Transit Authority bus.  Initial news reports said two men were arguing before the knife attack.  However, later news reports say the attack was unprovoked.   Prosecutors now say the two men did not know each other.   A 55 years old man with a criminal record has been arrested for the attack.

8100 block of South Muskegon Avenue: 47 years old woman shot while she was sitting in a car.  She’s in critical condition.

4400 block of South Archer Avenue: 32 years old man shot in the arm while he was a passenger in a car.

10900 block of South Racine Avenue: 34 years old man shot and wounded, police say he won’t cooperate with them.

10000 block of South Avenue M: 26 years old man shot and wounded after people flashed gang signs and then started shooting at each other.

4600 block of West Van Buren Street: 32 years old man shot in the finger.

1800 block of South Throop Street: Two men standing on a sidewalk shot and wounded by drive-by-shooter.

9100 block of South Yates Boulevard: 23 years old man sitting on his porch when he was shot and wounded by drive-by-shooter in a black Sport Utility Vehicle.

1st block East 101st Street: 28 years old man standing on the sidewalk reported that he suddenly felt pain.  Turns out he was shot in the butt.  Apparently no ‘bang’ from any gunshot was heard.

300 block of West 66th Street: 29 years old man shot in the leg.

10000 block of South State Street: 24 years old man shot and wounded in the back and arm.

9500 block of South Oglesby Avenue: A 51 years old man shot and killed.  A 27 years old woman shot and wounded.  Police call it a domestic violence case, however, they don’t seem to know who shot the victims.  Apparently no arrests were made.

5700 block of South Keeler Avenue: 54 years old man shot in the leg.  Police suspect it was a drive-by-shooting.

1300 block of West Morse Avenue: A man and a woman shot and wounded.  They say they saw two men arguing in a park then suddenly there were gunshots, and they got hit.  The woman is in critical condition.

800 block of West 95th Street: 20 years old woman shot in the hand while she was a passenger in a car. The woman says the wimp ass male driver of the car jumped out and left her in the car, which was still driving down the street!  Police say the woman took control of the car but crashed into a bus, wounding the bus driver!

It’s interesting that the police seem to know how most shootings went down, even though they weren’t present and most victims refuse to “cooperate”. And yet, few arrests (except in the case of stabbings, there’s always arrests).

The majority of victims are male. Police continue to insist most of the gun violence is caused by gangbangers, but have made few arrests. That’s because police believe most of the victims are also gangbangers. Realize that police in metropolitan areas keep records of whose who in the local gangs, this how they know if a victim is a “documented gang member”. This also means police probably know who the assailants are. So why no arrests?

Once again, majority of shooting victims were not armed, it’s as if the shooters are deliberately targeting unarmed people. It also questions the police claims that the victims are gang members. Wouldn’t they be armed?

New anti-gun laws would not stop the shootings, because most guns used in Chicago shootings are already illegal!

Now here’s something interesting: Notice police claim most of the victims of the shootings are gangbangers, and realize that it’s the families of those victimized gangbangers demanding all out police state gun bans! Is that irony?

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

Chicago, 21 – 25 August 2014

Business/Economics, Idaho

U.S. Job Losses & Store Closings 01 July 2014: NASCAR killing jobs in favor of computers! More Obamacare killing hospitals, “30 minutes is a long time when you’re dying!”!

Incomplete list of publicly announced layoffs & shutdowns:

The United States Postal Service (USPS) announced it will shutdown 82 distribution centers beginning in January 2015, thousands of jobs lost!

The USPS Gateway Station (aka CSMPC) in Pocatello, Idaho, survived past shutdown threats but made the 2015 Phase 2 shutdown list, 50+ jobs lost.

It was leaked by insiders that National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing (NASCAR) killed 20 jobs.  NASCAR officials refused to admit to the layoffs, but did admit they want to “modernize the company’s operations with technology”.   In other words, replace humans with computers.

The troubled Family Dollar store chain announced it will shutdown 30 stores in North Carolina and South Carolina, hundreds of jobs lost!  It’s part of the company’s plans to shutdown 370 stores across the U.S.!

Generation mPower nuclear power project has killed 100 jobs across several east coast states (at one point officials said 211 people would become unemployed)!  Generation mPower is a joint nuclear power project by Bechtel and Babcock & Wilcox.  In 2011 they got some state funding, but since then have been relying on private funding, which dried up at the end of 2013.  Efforts to sell a majority stake in the nuke op failed in February.    Bechtel and Babcock & Wilcox said they need a minimum $15-million per year to keep the project running.

Arkansas: Washington Regional Medical Center laid off 27 healthcare workers, directly blaming Obama Care.  Hospital officials blame the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act for causing the hospital a loss of $8.75-million USD!

California: In Universal City, reports that movie studio DreamWorks killed as many as 50 jobs, with no warning.  In Palmdale, maker of hydraulic and fuel systems Crissair announced they’re shutting down in September, 170 jobs lost!  It’s part of their consolidations after their takeover of Canyon Engineering last year.

Colorado: Another crappy Old Navy clothing store shutting down, 75 jobs lost.  A Pueblo Jack in the Box restaurant shutdown, 50 jobs lost.  A sign said it was being replaced with a new “concept”.

Idaho: In Pocatello, the USPS Gateway Processing Center made the shutdown list for 2015, about 50 jobs lost.

Florida: In Miramar, marketing company Red Ventures shutting down in September, 255 jobs lost!  The company is consolidating ops into South Carolina.

Massachusetts:  In Foxborogh, after six years Tastings Wine Bar & Bistro now chapter 7 bankrupt and deceased.  The owners blame the suck ass economy: “The combination of a weak economy, high and persistent unemployment, and high staff turnover has led us to this difficult decision.” 

New Hampshire: Franklin Pierce University eliminated 12 positions. Earlier this year the university eliminated academic programs.

New York: In Rochester, Nick Tahou Hots restaurant shutdown.

North Carolina: In Durham,  Datrose Industries shutting down its Technical Response call center, 167 jobs lost!  They lost a major contract.  In Belhaven, Vidant Pungo Hospital shutdown without notice: “Closing this hospital means everybody takes another 30 minutes to get emergency help. 30 minutes is a long time when you’re dying!”-Adam O’Neal, mayor

Hospital officials point out they are building a new 24 hours clinic (which is more cost effective under Obama Care), and they also pointed out that city officials failed to take part in negotiations: “The Town’s recent accusations only serve to disguise the fact that it has failed to fulfill its obligations as outlined by the mediation agreement…… the lack of response made it apparent that the Town knew that it did not have a plan to take over hospital operations…….The mediation agreement clearly stated that the Town of Belhaven was required to work with Pantego Creek, LLC, for use of the hospital property. To our knowledge, the Town never contacted Pantego Creek prior to June 11.”

Texas: In Dallas (Oak Lawn), after 22 years Good Eats shutdown.  The owners blame the greedy property owner saying “our landlord has refused to renew our lease”.  In Austin, the Pour House Pub shutdown.  The property is being demolished for a big retail development.

Virginia:  Buchanan County Public School Board shutting down Russell Prater Elementary School.  It’s blamed on $2.1-million in debt.

28 – 30 June 2014: Massive auto parts store shutdown, despite massive taxpayer funding! 

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

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

Business/Economics

Economic Martial Law U.S.A.: Federal Reserve admits their efforts to save the economy makes the rich richer, and everyone else poor!

06 September 2014 (15:55 UTC-07 Tango)/11 Dhu l-Qa’da 1435/15 Shahrivar 1393/13 Gui-You 4712

“Families at the bottom of the income distribution saw continued substantial declines in average real incomes between 2010 and 2013, continuing the trend observed between the 2007 and 2010 surveys.”-2013 Survey of Consumer Finances

Every three years the privately Jewish run U.S. central bank known as Federal Reserve releases data called Survey of Consumer Finances (SCF).  Their latest survey has them admitting that all their efforts to save the U.S. economy, since 2007, has only resulted in making the rich richer and everybody else poor.

The SCF says overall ‘mean (average) income’ went up 4%, but when you look at income using the ‘median’ method it actually dropped 5%.

The Federal Reserve calls making the rich richer “income concentration”.  This means the majority of money being made is going to a small elite, specifically to the top 10% of “families”:   “…all but the highest quintile saw declines in median income between 2010 and 2013, with second and third quintiles seeing the largest declines (7 percent and 6 percent, respectively).  Median income increased 2 percent for the top income decile.  Mean income declined strongly for the bottom two quintiles and barely budged for those between the 40th and 90th percentiles, whereas the mean income of the top decile increased 10 percent between 2010 and 2013.”

“Families in the middle to uppermiddle parts (between the 40th and 90th percentiles) of the income distribution saw little change in average real incomes between 2010 and 2013 and thus have failed to recover the losses experienced between 2007 and 2010.    Only families at the very top of the income distribution saw widespread income gains between 2010 and 2013, although mean and median incomes were still below 2007 levels.”

“Overall, between 2010 and 2013 there was little movement in median and mean net worth, as the median fell a modest 2 percent and the mean increased slightly…..families at the bottom of the income distribution saw continued substantial declines in real net worth between 2010 and 2013, while those in the top half saw, on average, modest gains.  Ownership rates of housing and businesses fell substantially between 2010 and 2013.   Retirement plan participation in 2013 continued on the downward trajectory observed between the 2007 and 2010 surveys for families in the bottom half of the income distribution.  Participation rebounded slightly for upper-middle income families, but it did not move back to the levels observed in 2007……decrease in stock ownership rates was most pronounced for the bottom half of the income distribution.  The decrease in ownership rates for housing and corporate equity holdings was concentrated in the bottom and upper-middle parts of the income distribution, though the decrease in business ownership was concentrated among higher-income families.”

The Federal Reserve has noted a new trend involving education; instead of seeing a high school diploma as increasing your income, it is now seen as reducing the amount of pay you might lose, compared to somebody with no high school diploma.  Apparently having a college degree is still the best way to attain income security: “The median income of households with a high school diploma or less fell between 6 and 9 percent, whereas the mean income of those without a high school diploma fell much more than that of those who graduated from high school (a 17 percent decline versus a 2 percent decline).  The median income of those with some college decreased 11 percent, whereas the median income of those with a college degree increased 1 percent.  Mean income for those with a college degree increased 5 percent.”

Overall, the net worth of the average U.S. citizen is down: “…the median net worth of all families fell a modest 2 percent…..mean net worth was effectively unchanged….the 2010 SCF showed dramatic decreases in median and mean net worth in the 2007–10 period….driven by the boom and bust in house and other asset prices. The bust, in particular, had a disproportionate effect on families in the middle of the net worth distribution, whose wealth portfolio is dominated by housing.

….Families with higher levels of usual income reported greater levels of net worth…..Median net worth decreased between 2010 and 2013 for most usual income groups, falling between 10 and 17 percent….Those in the lowest usual income quintile saw small decreases in median net worth (12 percent,….), but they also saw the largest proportional decrease in mean net worth (21 percent,….).  Households in the second and third quintile of usual income saw large declines in median net worth (10 percent and 17 percent, respectively),….The fourth income quintile was the only group that experienced increases in both median and mean net worth: 16 percent for median net worth and 14 percent for mean net worth.

Those without a high school diploma saw no change in median net worth between 2010 and 2013, but their mean net worth fell 9 percent. Those with high school diplomas or some college both saw 14 percent declines in median net worth; the former saw a 15 percent decline in mean net worth, while those with some college had 9 percent higher mean net worth in 2013.  Median net worth increased 5 percent for those with college degrees, while their mean net worth declined 2 percent.”

International

World War 3: South West Pacific Australia now “enhanced” partner of North Atlantic! All you happy taxpayers are the real targets!

05 September 2014 (17:24 UTC-07 Tango)/10 Dhu l-Qa’da 1435/14 Shahrivar 1393/12 Gui-You 4712

“NATO need to step up and start to communicate that this is a dangerous world. There is a purpose to this alliance. It is not just a hangover from the Cold War, just a club. This alliance has a purpose for a more dangerous world.”-Robin Niblett, British empire’s Royal Institute of International Affairs

There was a time when we were all told that NATO was for countries that bordered the northern area of the Atlantic Ocean, hence North Atlantic Treaty Organization.  But now there are many countries on the other side of the World who are special members.  Today the South West Pacific country of Australia just had its special membership upgraded to “enhanced”.

This is because United States led NATO officials are pissing themselves over their loss of control of their covert insurgant group now known as Islamic State,  and the never ending Tar Baby known as Afghanistan, as well as realizing they’ve pissed-off Mother Russia by trying to abscond with Ukraine!

Australia is not the only NATO wannabe having its pseudo-membership (officially called “NATO partners”) upgraded; Finland, Georgia, Jordan and Sweden are getting upgraded as well.

Australia’s first job as an “enhanced” partner is leading a NATO conference on what to do with Afghanistan (at the current NATO summit in police state Wales, British empire).

What it sounds like to me is that NATO has got so big it is going to split into at least three regions; one to handle Europe/Russia, one to handle Afghanistan/Asia and one to handle their renegade insurgent groups in the Middle East/North Africa.

Of course, the real issue being discussed at the current NATO summit in Wales, is how to get all you happy taxpayers to pay for this new ‘enhanced’ NATO?

International

World War 3 Afghanistan, 21 – 25 August 2014: U.S. taxpayers spend $92-million on Afghan schools! Obama gives 200+ MRAPs away! Obama offers $30-million U.S. tax-dollars reward! Yet another taxpayer funded study says war is bad for you!

Helmand Province: In Greshk District, five cops were killed by a fellow cop turned Mujahideen.  The shooter got away with all their weapons and ammo.  Near Lashkargah City, a Kamikaze bomber blew up his car after police started shooting at him.  16 people wounded.

Kabul Province: In Kabul City, two explosions rock the 12th District. The first wounding three cops and one civilian, the second explosion wounded 11 Afghan National Army (ANA) troops and three civilians.  So much for all that high tech spy equipment U.S. taxpayers have been forced to pay for; the Obama regime is so frustrated that they’re now offering Afghans a $30-million USD reward for info that helps the U.S. capture Pakistani Mujahideen leaders (specifically Haqqani Network).  It’s being handled through John Kerry’s Department of failed State’s Rewards for Justice program.  The Obama regime also announced it is giving the ANA 212 MRAPs (Mine Resistant Ambushed Protected) vehicles, at U.S. taxpayer expense.  On top of all those U.S. taxpayer funded giveaways, the terrorist group known as USAID has given $92-million to the Afghan Ministry of Higher Education for the University Support and Workforce Development Program (USWDP).  A program to help stop opium growing (funded by taxpayers in other countries) has resulted in a huge jump in saffron production in Afghanistan.  The Export Promotion Agency reports that Afghanistan exported $1-million worth of saffron just in the first three months of 2014!  Here’s an update on that supposed “successful” election that won’t die; votes from 72 polling stations have been thrown out!  How’s that for your precious ‘democracy’?

Kandahar Province: In Maruf District, local officials say Pakistani government forces tried crossing into Afghan territory.  Afghan forces and local villagers stopped the incursion, killing one Pakistani soldier and wounding five others.  Prior to that Pakistan lobbed artillery rounds into the district for three hours, killing at least one person and wounding several others.  In Behsud District, a Kamikaze bomber rammed his bomb-car into a NATO convoy.  Five NATO personnel wounded.

Kunar Province: Local officials claiming 114 artillery rounds from Pakistan impacted in Dangam and Sarkano districts, at least seven people wounded.  In Dangam District, a U.S. airstrike killed at least six people.  Afghan officials claim the victims were from Pakistan.

Kunduz Province: In Khanabad District, Afghan government forces bribed locals to attack Mujahideen.  It was part of a large scale military operation.  The result was at least 25 people killed, and hundreds of people now homeless.

Paktia Province: In Gardez City, a U.S. Army Sergeant from California was killed.  U.S. officials called it “non-hostile”, but there is an investigation.

Pakistan is accusing the U.S. created Afghan National Directorate of Security (NDS) of being behind the terrorist attacks inside Pakistan.

The Mihail Kogalniceanu airbase, in the European country of Romania, is now the new Transit  Center for U.S. personnel and logistics heading to and from Afghanistan.  This comes after the Central Asian country of Kyrgyzstan was finally able to convince U.S. forces to leave their Manas airbase (aka Ganci airbase).  U.S. Air Force officials claim the new Romanian base will cost U.S. taxpayers a hard to believe 77% less than the one in Kyrgyzstan (or it could cost 100% less if we just get out of Afghanistan!).

The U.S. Veterans Affairs paid for yet another study which concluded that war is bad for you!  Time and time again, war after war after conflict after police action etc, these studies are done and they always end with the same conclusion: War is bad for you!  This time the study looked at 814 Minnesota National Guard personnel and veterans who served in the War on Terror.  The study concluded that the reason why most veterans are suffering psychological problems is because the acts of war directly oppose their moralistic upbringing as Christians, or as citizens of a country that espouses Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness!  This is what I call a No Shit Sherlock moment, however, it seems we have to constantly have senseless wars to remind us why we have such idealistic beliefs.  (Maybe humans are really inherently evil, and like the Man said in the movie A Few Good Men, “You can’t handle the truth!”)

Business/Economics

U.S. Job Losses & Store Closings 28 – 30 June 2014: Massive auto parts store shutdown, despite massive taxpayer funding! More proof the internet is not killing brick-n-mortar stores! Global mining industry continues to crash!

Incomplete list of publicly announced layoffs & shutdowns:

Arizona:  The U.S. Army is proposing to kill 2700 jobs at Fort Huachuca, due to crashing tax revenues caused by the suck ass economy!   Despite being home to a U.S. Marine Corps Air Station and a U.S. Army Proving Grounds, Yuma has the highest unemployment rate in the U.S. at 26.5%!

California:  Despite being a major agricultural center, El Centro has the second highest rate of unemployment in the U.S., at 21.1%!  In Brisbane, upscale snooty women’s clothing chain Bebe admitted they killed jobs with their stores across the U.S., but refused to say how many.  In Glendale, after 29 years Brand Bookshop shutdown.   In Mountain View, Symantec revealed they killed another 51 jobs back on 18 June.   For some reason they didn’t file their WARN until 30 June, and the state says they didn’t get it until 01 July.  In Modesto, cereal maker Post announced they’re shutting down in September, 58 jobs lost.

Florida: In Gainsville, after 56 years Central Florida Office Plus shutdown.  The owners blame local hospitals and government agencies for shifting their office supply purchases to the big box national chain stores.   After 47 years Crevasse’s Regency Florist shutdown.  After 28 years, Grandy’s restaurant announced they’re shutting down in August.

Illinois: In Quincy, after 134 years (surviving dozens of recessions and the Great Depression) Geo. Keller & Sons shutdown, 21 jobs lost.  Family owners said their sales have been crashing for too many years in a row.

Iowa: In Davenport, after years of taking over competing printing ops, and making public announcements proclaiming everything was wine-n-roses, after 40 years Brandt printing shutdown.  Reports said some employees would get lucky and be offered jobs with another company in Hiawatha.

Massachusetts: In Springfield, after 79 years (and surviving the Great Depression) The Student Prince Café & Fort Dining Room shutdown.  It was sold off.

Missouri:  Ironically the Republican controlled legislature passed a huge taxpayer funded spending bill despite the fact that tax revenues can’t support it.  Then, even more ironically, the Democrat governor vetoed the bill precisely because tax revenues are crashing!  Unfortunately (but realistically) this means massive layoffs of state government employees beginning in July.

Nevada: Gambling machine maker Bally Technologies killing 270 jobs!  Blame it on the company’s officials who spent $1.3-million USD taking over a rival gambling machine maker (International Game Technology, who also killed jobs).

New York: NYC based international internet marketing company Razorfish laid off at least 100 employees, many in Illinois and Georgia.  In Utica, after 17 years the Kniffin Center-Family Place shutting down in July.  In Batavia, after at least 69 years Flowers by Dick Burton shutdown.  The owners blame crashing sales.  Scotsman Media Group shutting down printing ops in Syracuse and Chenango Bridge, 90 jobs lost.  What housing market recovery?  REIT Management & Research announced they are shutting down some ops across New York, 28 property management jobs lost.   In New Hyde Park, the Stop & Shop Supermarket announced they’re shutting down in September, 162 jobs lost!

North Carolina: Phone service company MIG now chapter 11 bankrupt busted.  Apparently the U.S. based company doesn’t really provide cell phone service, they make their money off another company based in the Republic of Georgia (not the U.S. state of Georgia).  That company is called MagtiCom, and as a result of a legal dispute MIG has had all their expected $18.4-million in dividends from MagitCom suspended!   In Gastonia, after 40 years childcare center Belvedere Playhouse shutdown.

Oregon: In Forest Grove, Izgara Middle Eastern Cuisine shutdown.  The Jewish owners said they already bought their airline tickets to Florida.

Utah: Denmark based mining-cement engineering company FLSmidth & Co laid off 78 people in the Beehive State.  Company officials blame it on the across-the-board global crash in mining sales.

Virginia: In Natural Bridge, after 37 years the Wax Museum shutting down in September.  The area was sold to the State Parks, and they are not interested in operating the Civil War themed wax museum.   What automotive industry recovery?  Roanoke based Advanced Auto Parts announced they’re shutting down 100 stores across the U.S.!  And that’s just the beginning, officials calling it their “first round” of store closings!  Thousands of  jobs will be lost!  It’s the result of their takeover of rival Carquest-General Parts last year (company officials say there are just far too many auto parts stores in the U.S., and they need to be culled).   But wait, there’s more!  Advanced Auto was awarded $17.4-million in taxpayer incentives, if they created 600 new jobs in Virginia!  One news report said many of those ‘new’ jobs will actually be former Carquest employees simply re-hired by Advanced Auto.

26 – 27 June 2014: “…it’s time to bail out!”

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

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

International

Martial Law EU 2014: First they ban guns, then incandescent light bulbs! Now vacuums! And soon lawn mowers, hair dryers, electric kettles & smart phones?

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The European Union (EU) recently ‘banned’ vacuum cleaners that use more than 1600 watts or fail to pick up a specified amount of dirt or emit too much dust, all in the name of saving the Earth and reducing the EU’s reliance on electricity.

The EU is also considering bans on electric lawn mowers, high wattage hair dryers, electric tea kettles and even your favorite smart phones!  These ‘bans’ could be approved in 2015.

These actions are being pushed by the EU’s Energy Commission, which is currently led by Germany (France takes the led in November): “All EU countries agree that energy efficiency is the most effective method to reduce energy consumption and dependence on imports and to improve the climate. Therefore there needs to be mandatory consumption limits for small electrical appliances.”-Günther Oettinger, EU energy commissioner

British news media reported that most ‘best’ rated vacuums use more than 1600 watts, and the new ban has resulted in people buying up what is left in the stores before the ban goes into effect.  Sales at the British Tesco chain store skyrocketed 94%!

Here’s something interesting: While the EU claims they are only trying to help the environment and the people of the EU with their vacuum cleaner ban, a British consumer group called Which? says it will have little effect on individual’s electricity bills.  Which? tested the cost of using a 2200 watt vacuum against a 1600 watt vacuum, the difference in the yearly electricity cost was only about $16 USD.

But how do you enforce a ‘ban’ on vacuums?   Turn’s out this could be a paper tiger, because the ‘ban’ relies totally on the honesty of vacuum cleaner makers!  You see, it’s a “self regulating” ban.    In other words it’s on the honor of the manufacturer to ‘label’ their vacuums as being in compliance with the new EU “ecodesign and labelling regulations”.

Business/Economics

U.S. Job Losses & Store Closings 26 – 27 June 2014: “…will never recover…” “…it’s time to bail out!” 77% drop in profits kills 2100 jobs in one day! No more Five Guys? Montana business is prime example of how deep the corporate rabbit hole goes!

Incomplete list of publicly announced layoffs & shutdowns:

Alaska: The Kake Gunnuk Creek hatchery shutdown.

Arkansas: God refused to stop all powerful Obama Care from forcing Catholic owned CHI Saint Vincent (aka Saint Vincent Health) to kill 157 healthcare jobs!

California: State employment officials said for the months of April, May and June they’d received layoff and shutdown notices affecting at least 13005 people!   In Hemet, the 40 years old Kmart announced it will shutdown, 77 jobs lost.  In Oakland, Dobake Bakeries announced they will shutdown in August, 221 jobs lost!  In Los Angeles, Wolfgang Puck announced it will kill 76 jobs in July.  In Atwater, AT&T Mobility announced they will shutdown in August, at least 397 jobs lost!  In Pittsburg, United Spiral Pipe announced 44 layoffs planned for August.  In Barstow, MV Transportation announced 30 layoffs for August.  In Montebello, Katzkin Leather announced 75 layoffs for August.

Colorado: In Fort Collins, after 19 years Colorado Drum & Percussion  shutdown: “The economic downturn in 2009 really took a toll on the business, and we never fully recovered….”-Clark Bennett, owner

Florida: Click HERE to see a list of crashing and burning HMOs (no thanks to Obama Care).  What housing market recovery?  RealtyTrac says the Sunshine State has the second highest “zombie foreclosure” rate in the U.S.   Zombie foreclosure means the occupant believes the home is being foreclosed on, then moves out, but the foreclosure takes so long that sometimes it’s forgotten by the banks, or sometimes there never was a true foreclosure filed, and you end up with neighborhoods filled with vacant homes.  Speaking of foreclosure, the Old Jupiter mobile home park seized by Too Big to Jail Wells Fargo.   In Broward County the company that runs the local Five Guys burger joints, ASCI Broward, is now chapter 11 bankrupt busted, 120 jobs threatened!  It’s blamed on a lawsuit filed by investors.

Illinois:  Chicago Public Schools laid off 1150 employees!  School officials claim the layoffs are the lowest in the past five years!  The job killing is blamed on the ever increasing number of disappearing students and a new per-pupil funding formula.

Indiana: In Plainfield, document manager Novitex Enterprise Solutions (aka Pitney Bowes Management Services) announced it will shut down in September, 155 jobs lost!  Last year the same company shutdown their warehouse, killing 137 jobs!

Kansas: In Derby, the maker of industrial technologies (including those designed to replace human workers) Q Corporation now chapter 11 bankrupt busted.  71 of the 75 employees have been laid off.  Local news media also discovered the Q Corporation building is now up for sale.  Q Corporation was created in 1969, its downfall is being blamed on the owners.  In 2011, Q Corporation took advantage of state taxpayer funding to re-train about half its employees.  In 2009 a group of employees took over the company, and recently they tried selling it to some vulture capitalists in Chicago, however that deal fell through.  The bankruptcy revealed the former employees turned company owners have pushed the company into $1-million USD of debt.  God can’t stop Christian non-profit Ottawa University from laying off 18 employees.  School officials say the layoffs are “a preventive measure” against the growing number of disappearing  (raptured?) students.   The federal terrorist, I mean tax collector known as IRS placed a lean against aviation subcontractor Machining Programming Manufacturing.  The IRS claims the company never sent in the payroll taxes it collected from its employees!

Louisiana: After 55 years the Piccadilly Cafeteria in the Westmoreland Village Shopping Center shutdown.  Does it have something to do with the new Catholic owners of the shopping center, or the new New York based owners of the Piccadilly chain?

Massachusetts:  In Easton, after 60 years McMenamy’s Hamburger House shutdown.  The building was sold.  In Haverhill, Archie’s Little River Ale House shutdown.

Minnesota: There are reports that the international food giant General Mills has a secret cost cutting (job killing?) plan in the works, due to crashing sales.

Missouri: In Saint Louis, after 12 years Lemmons Bar & Club shutdown, the owner Mike Gross explained that “When all you can see is the negatives and you can’t see the positives, it’s a good indication that it’s time to bail out!”  In Neosho, after 58 years Premier Turbines Manufacturing shutting down in 2015, no reason given other than the company has been experiencing “turmoil”, 80 jobs lost.  Children’s mental-health facility, Cottonwood Residential Treatment Center in Cape Girardeau, shutting down in January due to state and federal (Obama Care) taxpayer funding cuts, 95 jobs lost.   Ozarks Community Hospital announced: “Beginning today, we are providing notice to employees that we are laying off as many as 60 employees in 60 days…….Even if Missouri expands Medicaid in the future, it will be virtually impossible for us to recapture this loss of capacity.  Hospitals cannot shrink and expand as readily as other industries.  I fear that Missouri will never recover the ground it is now losing statewide as a result of political posturing.”-Paul Taylor, CEO

Montana: More trouble for an appliance chain store originally founded in Montana.  In Bozeman Vann’s shutdown, it’s the fourth store to close since the company was sold off to Texas based McMagic Partners. This means there is only one store left!  When Vann’s was sold off it had five stores in Montana, now, according to local news reports only one remains (Hamilton, Kalispell and Missoula stores were shutdown in 2013, conveniently blamed on disagreements over rent). 150 employees affected by the shutdowns! To show you how deep corporate rabbit holes can go, the once Montana based Vann’s is now owned by Texas based McMagic Partners.  At the time of the sale of Vann’s the man responsible for the takeover, Ross Khaledi, was listed as the CEO of HK Global Trading.  Both HK Global Trading and McMagic Partners are owned by Florida based Khaledi Group Holding Company.  Khaledi Group Holding Company is described as a “family business” which owns about 38 companies, many involved in ‘duty free’ sales of appliances.    Also, in 2013 Vann’s employees sued their former CEO and CFO, alleging the executives spent company money for personal reasons, which forced the bankruptcy and sale of Vann’s in 2012.  During the 2012 bankruptcy sale here is what one of the then vice presidents of McMagic Partners said about Vann’s: “We intend to continue business and retain the employees. And rebuild the business in the marketplace.”-Alan Huxtable (proof you can’t trust any corporate official)

New Jersey: Yet another casino going down.  After 27 years the Caesars owned Showboat Atlantic City Hotel and Casino shutdown, 2100 employees out-o-work!  Union officials were upset because federal WARN law says employees are supposed to get 60 days notice.  The Showboat was making a profit, but officials with Caesars said for the first half of 2014 Showboat experienced a 77% drop in profits compared to the same time last year!  Warren based semiconductor and broadband company Anadigics announced it will kill 140 jobs across the U.S.!  It’s blamed on declining sales.

New York:  What housing market recovery? RealtyTrac says the Empire State has the highest “zombie foreclosure” rate in the U.S.   In Schenectady, Price Chopper killed 80 jobs. Company officials blamed, in part, Obama Care for creating “Skyrocketing health care costs…” for the company.   In Brooklyn, after nine years women’s boutique Pop shutdown.  The owner blames the rapidly changing socio-politico-business environment: “….it’s not the same place for a small business owner as it was even three years ago!”-Sheila Sharma

Oklahoma: In Stillwater, storage tank maker Total Energy Fabrication Corporation shutdown, 55 jobs lost.  It’s blamed on “significant operational challenges and weakening market conditions”, in other words there is no economic recovery.

Pennsylvania:  In Pottsgrove, the Kmart shutting down in September,  65 jobs lost.  Kindred Hospital’s North Side facility being sold off, 152 jobs lost!  The buyer, LifeCare Hospitals, told news media they have no intention of hiring on the Kindred employees.

Virginia:  Yet another coal mine shuts down, this time Alpha Natural Resources closed their Cherokee Mine, killing 121 jobs!

West Virginia: Patriot Coal laid off another 75 coal miners.  Back in April they laid off 100 miners!

Wisconsin: In De Pere, Wisconsin International School shutdown without notice!  Local news reports stated that teachers had not been paid!  Officials with the privately run grade school stated “The Wisconsin International School has closed due to declining enrollment and mounting financial pressures.” 

24 – 25 June 2014: “…..no one had our backs!”

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

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

Business/Economics

“…it’s not…reforming health care!”: Massive healthcare job destruction caused by Obamacare, 1st six months of 2014! California & New York lead the U.S. down the Death Spiral!

Incomplete list of healthcare  job cuts that took place, or were announced, from January to June 2014, and were directly or indirectly blamed on Obama Care:

Ireland based legal drugs pusher and medical device maker Mallinckrodt revealed they killed as many as 15% of their jobs at factories in Missouri and New York!

God refuses to stop all powerful Obama Care from forcing Catholic Mercy Health from killing 300 healthcare jobs across seven states: “Like all health care providers, Mercy is managing the impact of market changes, including reimbursement reductions from government and commercial payers, as well as lack of Medicaid expansion in most of the states we serve.”-Sonya Kullman, Mercy Springfield

Alabama:  Gadsden Etowah Emergency Medical Service now chapter 11 bankrupt busted!  Decatur Emergency Medical Service now chapter 11 bankrupt busted!  The Wiregrass Medical Center laid off 30 employees. The largest air ambulance service in the United States, Air Evac Lifeteam, shutdown Air Evac 64 operations in Wetumpka! Company officials directly blamed issues with Obama Care and the bad economy: “The reimbursement issue, along with a low demand for patient transports, made it impossible for us to sustain operations at the base. As a result of the state’s decision not to expand Medicaid, nearly a quarter of the residents we fly in Alabama are self-pay with very little means to pay medical expenses. For those patients covered by Medicaid, they currently reimburse just over $500 for the transport of an adult. The high fixed cost of air ambulance makes it impossible for us to continue to operate with no indication of improvement in sight. We’ve been taking a loss with this base for many years. This is an area where air medical services are needed and we wanted to provide this valuable resource for the people in this region. We’ve also seen a decline in commercial reimbursement rates, making Alabama the lowest state in our 15-state service area for reimbursement.” 

Bryan W. Whitfield Memorial Hospital shutdown its labor and delivery unit: “There’s a lot of good people that will lose their job due to no fault of their own……On a national level, we are dealing with the biggest change in the healthcare business since the implementation of Medicare in the 1960s!”-Mike Marshall, CEO

Alaska: Yukon-Kuskokwim Health Corporation eliminated 160 positions! It’s blame on federal funding cuts for Indian Health Service, and Obama Care.  At the end of 2013 the hospital operator laid off 50 employees.

Arkansas: The Arkansas Children’s Hospital killed five top management jobs.  God refused to stop all powerful Obama Care from forcing Catholic owned CHI Saint Vincent to kill 157 healthcare jobs!

Arizona: Once profitable Gilbert Hospital is now chapter 11 bankrupt busted.

California:  According to local news reports, and no thanks to Obama Care, California’s Medi-Cal system pays the lowest reimbursements of any state in the Union!  RAS (Radiological Associates of Sacramento) shutdown operations in dozens of cities! RAS was re-consolidated into Sutter Health. Despite news media claiming nobody would lose their jobs, state WARN says differently; I counted 519 layoff WARN notices due to “Closure”!  In South Lake Tahoe, Barton Hospital warned of massive layoffs due to Obama Care, is offering employees bribes to voluntarily quit. Already 42 employees have volunteered to quit in May.   In Corona, legal drugs pusher Actavis laid off 56 employees.  Tulare County’s Office of Education’s Behavioral Health Services laid off 44 employees. 120 students with emotional problems or mental illness affected!  In Orange, Obama Care forced Children’s Hospital of Orange County to announce another 61 healthcare jobs to be cut, that’s on top of the 28 job cuts made in May.  Also in Orange, 152 jobs lost at Saint Joseph Hospital!  In Chino, biomedical laboratory instruments maker Beckman Coulter shutting down in December, 63 jobs lost.  In Pico Rivera, Plaza de la Raza Child Development Services finally notified the state that they killed 52 jobs, back in May. In Oakland, Alta Bates Summit Medical Center warned of massive 1584 layoffs by the end of July, it’s not clear if that’s on top of the 500+ already laid off (Becker’s Hospital Review ranks Alta Bates in 4th place for job killing)!  Also in Oakland, Sutter East Bay Hospital laid off at least 12 employees.  In Napa, Queen of the Valley Medical Center warned its 1365 employees of massive layoffs, blaming Obama Care!  President and CEO Walt Mickens stated “We must transform the way we provide health care and we must act now!”, while spokeswoman Vanessa deGier explained “There are already billions of reductions in Medicare reimbursements that are programmed as part of the Affordable Care Act. Every single hospital across the county is facing these same cuts!”   In Turlock, God can’t stop the all powerful Obama Care from killing 1354 healthcare jobs as Emanual Medical Center-Brandel Manor & Cypress of Emanual shuts down!  In Sylmar, God can’t stop the all powerful Obama Care from killing 274 jobs with Saint Jude Medical!   In Bakersfield, Kern Medical Center announced they must kill 111 healthcare jobs due to Obama Care! On top of that the taxpayer funded county hospital system shutdown their home health and outpatient physical therapy operations!  Kern Medical Center officials say Obama Care has already cost them $30-million USD!  In Davis, the Davis Healthcare Center shutdown, 142 jobs lost!   In Ontario, Landmark Medical Management killing 418 jobs in July!   In San Diego, Trius Therapeutics laid off at least 27 employees.  Salix Pharmaceuticals killed 200 jobs!  Germany based pharmaceutical supplier EMD Millipore (aka Merck Millipore) shutting down, 110 jobs lost!  Legal drugs pusher Optimer Pharmaceuticals laid off 21 employees. The Riverside Dental-Doctor Group killed 162 jobs!  Redwood Regional Medical Group killed 261 healthcare jobs across the not so Golden State!  In Mountain View, El Camino Hospital laid off 48 employees.   Metropolitan Medical laid off 22 employees at two hospitals. In Milpitas, Lifescan laid off nine employees.  In Pomona, Obama Care killing 187 healthcare jobs with Pomona Valley Hospital! Obama Care forcing Shire Regenerative Medicine to kill 301 jobs!   In San Marcos, worker’s comp specialist One Call Care Management laid off 70 people. In Temecula “a global leader in cardiac and vascular care”, Abbott Vascular (Sevo Site), laid off at least 157 people!  The operator of 19 nursing homes, Country Villa Health Services, is now chapter 11 bankrupt busted, 2113 employees affected!  The Bellflower Medical Center killed 18 jobs.  In Tustin long term inpatient care center, Newport Specialty Hospital in danger of shutting down, 147 jobs affected!  In Pleasanton, ValleyCare Health System laid off 24 employees. In Lompoc, after 13 years the Zona Seca drug treatment center shutdown.  In Sunnyvale, Bayer Health Care laid off at least 41 employees.  In Irvine, Baxter Healthcare laid off 74 employees. In Hayward, Solta Medical device maker laid off 115 people! In Sacramento, Mercy General Hospital admitted they laid off employees, but refused to say how many.  In Sepestapol, Palm Drive Hospital laid off 80 people. Hospital CEO, Thomas Harlan, blames declining patients, and Obama Care for killing small hospitals saying “I don’t think any small hospital with the level of volume as low as ours will be able to survive long term…..” 

Colorado: Global Healthcare Exchange (GHX) laid off more than 130 employees!  Banner Health shutdown its bariatric clinic at the North Colorado Medical Center, 850 patients adversely affected! Company officials admitted that under Obama Care bariatric services are no longer profitable.

Connecticut:  The city of Hartford warned of the elimination of 99 jobs, plus the jacking up of property taxes, and that’s after $18.1-million in spending cuts.  That’s because Obama Care (Affordable Care Act) is causing an $18.6-million increase in retirement and health insurance costs for city employees!  After 29 years William W. Backus Hospital shutdown their child care center, 12 jobs lost. They blame Obama Care for stealing $14-million in Medicare funding!   In Stamford, legal drugs pusher and maker of evil Oxycontin (which eastern Idaho pharmacists, and law enforcers, have publicly stated turns into morphine in your body) Purdue Pharma laid off 59 people. Another 41 employees being let go across the U.S.  Hartford HealthCare announced the elimination of 350 positions! Hospital officials had to cut $200-million from their budget, blaming Obama Care for “massive reductions in government reimbursement” and creating a 25% reduction in people seeking care at hospitals.  After 30 years, God refuses to stop Saint Francis Hospital & Medical Center from drastically reducing the staff in their pediatric unit. Since October last year the hospital has been eliminating positions, by the end of June there will be only two support staffers on hand. It’s blamed on reduced customers as Obama Care insurance pushes people away from hospitals.

Florida: In Winter Haven, Medicare insurer Physicians United Plan now being liquidated. 300 jobs lost! 25-thousand Medicare recipients affected! So much for Obama Care!  Health Management Associates sold off, 400 jobs lost!  Orlando Health warned that Obama Care is forcing them to cut $58-million from their budget!

Georgia:  In Augusta, Massachusetts based inVentiv Medical Management shutting down, at least 50 jobs lost.  The Lower Oconee Community Hospital shutdown, at least 100 jobs lost! Despite Obama Care 23% of Wheeler Country residents have no health insurance. 10% are unemployed. 41% of the children live in poverty!  Karen O’Neal, the hospital’s CEO, said Obama Care “will create a Third World nation” out of rural America!  WellStar Health System eliminated 29 positions. It’s blamed on Obama Care: “The healthcare industry is going through unprecedented changes. There is uncertainty around every corner. In 2013, the U.S. government began cutting $113 billion from hospital payments over the next 10 years with $400 billion additional cuts under discussion. As a not-for-profit health system, we face an extraordinary challenge to plan for the future without knowing the payment mechanisms.”-David Anderson, VP HR

Hawaii: The Hilo Medical Center warned of Obama Care layoffs. The state run hospital says increased cost of operations plus decreased funding due to Obama Care is pushing them into the red by $48-million!  God can’t stop Obama Care from killing 110 home healthcare jobs with Saint Francis Healthcare System! The hospital system will also shutdown their hospice operation in Oahu.  Health care provider Kaiser Permanente killed 101 jobs!

Illinois: God refuses to stop all powerful Obama Care from forcing Saint John’s Hospital from laying off 43 employees.   Accretive Health warned that “restructuring” for Obama Care could kill more than 170 jobs!    It was revealed that Passages Hospice was forced to shutdown in February, 88 healthcare jobs lost.  Springfield based legal drugs pusher Walgreens announced it will shutdown 76 stores across the country! Company officials say they also need to cut expenses by $50-million by the end of 2015!  Blame it on drastically reduced government and insurance company reimbursements under Obama Care.   Cardinal Health laid off 75 employees. Harmony Health Plan killed 105 jobs!

Indiana: Parkview Whitley Hospital sold off a nursing home and will layoff 52 healthcare workers in September.   Obama Care killed 17 jobs at private Monroe Hospital.

Iowa: Genesis Health System laid off 80 employees. Company executives even cut their own pay. Yes, they blame Obama Care saying “We agree that health systems across the country are facing increasing challenges from changes in reimbursement levels…”  Mercy Medical Center laid off 29 employees. Hospital President Bob Ritz blames U.S. President Obama: “As the federal government and state payment systems continue to ratchet down on what they pay us and our costs go up, we have to look for opportunities to create cost efficiencies.”

Kentucky:  T.J. Samson Community Hospital eliminated up to 49 jobs, and reduced the pay for all their other employees.  God refuses to stop non-profit KentuckyOne Health from laying off an undisclosed number of employees. The company has 15-thousand employees across the United States. KentuckyOne Health is a conglomeration of non-profit hospitals (the primary member is Catholic Health Initiatives), they blame Obama Care for “a fundamental shift in the way health care is organized and delivered. We must change in order to sustain our purpose”.  Obama Care is forcing KentuckyOne Health to cut $218-million from their 2015 budget, and Obama Care has already caused them to lose at least $100-million in revenues!

Maine: Calais Regional Hospital announced they must kill an undisclosed number of jobs, and reduce the hours for 30% of remaining employees. They blame Obama Care for reducing the number of people going to hospitals for help.  In Portland, the non-profit Health Care for Homeless Clinic shutdown because the Obama regime cut its federal funding!

Maryland: Dimensions Healthcare System eliminated 62 positions at two hospitals. Employees say they received at least three notices from hospital officials stating that as many as 500 healthcare workers could lose their jobs by the end of the year! Hospital officials hope a partnership with University of Maryland Medical System will save them from Obama Care.  McCready Memorial Hospital began another round of layoffs. The number of jobs cut were not reported. Last year they killed dozens of healthcare jobs, and yes, it’s being blamed on Obama Care (Affordable Care Act).  MedStar Health killed 131 jobs!

Massachusetts: In Leominster, HealthAlliance Hospital announced more than160 Obama Care job cuts: “Given the dramatic and sweeping changes taking place nationally and regionally in health care, going forward, we will continue to review our staffing levels and make adjustments. We know that any workforce reduction involves real people and real jobs. These are difficult decisions…”-Deborah Weymouth, CEO

“We’re trying to keep up…with lower payment rates. We are trying to stay with it so we don’t slip into larger losses.”-Michael Cofone, former interim president of HealthAlliance

The Marlborough Hospital laid off ten employees and cut working hours for 31 others.  Medical device maker LeMaitre Vascular laid off 30 employees. ObamaCare created a new high tax on medical device makers. Medical device maker Invivo Therapeutics announced they will kill about one third of their jobs.  UMass Memorial Medical Center killed 103 jobs! This is on top of the 285 jobs killed between October and February! The hospital has to consolidate jobs in order to survive the Obama Care fiasco! On top of that the hospital will also eliminate I-V therapy, close three of its 17 operating rooms, close Memorial Campus West 1 unit, consolidate infusion services, reduce the number of beds at the Children’s Medical Center and sell off a building at 11 Shattuck Street!  Cambridge Health Alliance eliminated 30 positions.   In North Adams, after 129 years North Adams Regional Hospital now chapter 7 bankrupt busted, and shutting down, 530 jobs lost! VNA & Hospice and the Northern Berkshire Healthcare Physicians Group affected by the bankruptcy as well!  In Holyoke, the Geriatric Authority nursing home shutting down.

Michigan: The Detroit Institute for Children revealed they shutdown three outpatient clinics!  It’s blamed on “changes in the health care industry”.  27 jobs lost and 250 special needs children affected!  The Oaklawn Hospital killed 43 jobs, blaming Obama Care for a $5-million loss!  Hayes Green Beach Memorial Hospital laid off 25 employees. Hospital officials said job cuts are necessary “to position ourselves in healthcare reform”.  Mackinac Straits Health Systems eliminated 23 positions, reduced the hours for other employees, and even top managers are getting a 5% pay cut.  Lakeland Specialty Hospital Berrien Center shutdown!  The American Red Cross Detroit National Testing Lab shutdown, 118 jobs lost!  The South Haven Community Hospital shutdown its birthing unit, 19 jobs lost: “…the program [Obama Care] does not reimburse to the level where we can support the program.”-Joanne Urbanski, CEO   

Minnesota: The number one provider for in-office BPH therapy, Urologix, warned of layoffs due to Obama Care.  Urologix expects to lose $1.5-million!  The epilepsy floor of the United Hospital was shutdown, due to cuts in payments and increased costs caused by Obama Care! The operator of the hospital, Allina Health, revealed just how much Obama Care is killing the healthcare industry; in the 1st quarter of 2013 Allina Health had $22.3-million in operating income (profit after operating costs are subtracted, a little more specific than net profit). For the 1st quarter 2014 operating income crashed to just $449-thousand!  RiverView Health laid off eight employees, another eight were demoted in pay scale. This is on top of the 53 job eliminations at the end of 2013. Officials also warned that if they cannot survive the insurance cuts caused by Obama Care then the area’s only hospital will shutdown: “We have a perfect storm of declining volume…..deductibles and copayments continue to rise……our largest payers, including the federal government through Medicare, are balancing budgets through cuts in Medicare payments……recovering just 99 cents on every dollar we spend caring for a Medicare patient. That equates to a guaranteed loss of one percent for every patient who is Medicare eligible. For RiverView Health that is over one third of our business.”

Missouri: As a result of Obama Care, the largest pharmacy benefit management company in the U.S., Saint Louis based Express Scripts, killing 1890 jobs across the country, and shutting down two operations in Texas!    ‘Front end’ pharmacy operations in Florida will also lose 400 jobs!  Children’s mental-health facility, Cottonwood Residential Treatment Center in Cape Girardeau, shutting down due to state and federal (Obama Care) taxpayer funding cuts, 95 jobs lost.  Ozarks Community Hospital announced: “…we are laying off as many as 60 employees in 60 days…….Even if Missouri expands Medicaid in the future, it will be virtually impossible for us to recapture this loss of capacity. Hospitals cannot shrink and expand as readily as other industries. I fear that Missouri will never recover the ground it is now losing statewide as a result of political posturing.”-Paul Taylor, CEO

Nevada: The Southern Nevada Health District killing about 60 jobs.  God can’t stop California owned Saint Rose Dominican Hospitals from laying off 40 nurses.  Valley Health laid off 33 employees.

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

New Jersey: Obama Care medical device tax forces another medical device maker to Mexico. In Totowa, California based CareFusion announced it is killing 390 jobs and moving disposable respiratory products production to Mexico!  Gloucester Manor Rehabilitation and Care killed 130 healthcare jobs!     Kimball Medical Center laid off 73 healthcare workers.  In Plainsboro, medical diagnostics company Abbott Point of Care laid off 80 employees.  Inspira Health Network killed 47 jobs.   In Logan Twonship, McKesson Medical-Surgical healthcare service laid off 140 people!

New York:  The CEO of Kaleida Health and Great Lakes Health Systems quit his job, as other company officials warned of massive job cuts. Hospital officials said they must make drastic changes, because of Obama Care, that will affect its five hospitals and 13-thousand employees!  At the end of 2013 they killed 100 jobs!  Carthage Area Hospital laid off 90 employees, and warned more layoffs are in the works.  Interfaith Medical Center announced it will shutdown and kill 1405 jobs!   In Irving, TLC Health Network/Lake Shore Health Care Center shutdown, 438 healthcare jobs lost!  The North Country Family Health Center (aka North Country Children’s Clinic) laid off five employees.  In Bayside, Saint Mary’s Hospital For Children shutdown, 34 healthcare jobs lost.  In Ticonderoga, Inter-Lakes Health laid off 13 healthcare workers and cut 10 full time jobs to part time. Another ten positions will be eliminated through attrition.  Long Island College Hospital put up for sale, 1400 jobs affected!   Also in Long Island, legal drugs maker Forest Laboratories laying off 20% of employees.  God refused to stop all powerful Obama Care from shutting down Saint Francis Hospital and Health Centers, 1141 jobs lost!   VNS CHOICE Community Care revealed its continued nursing layoffs will make at least 775 healthcare workers unemployed this year! VNS laid off at least 600 healthcare workers last year! Company officials blame new government rules which increase workers comp (paid for by companies) by more than 55%, and on top of that Obama Care drastically cuts payments from Medicare/Medicaid and insurance companies! And what’s really surprising is how many healthcare workers, who’re getting laid off, who don’t understand the whole Obama Care fiasco and how it’s affecting their employer’s ability to pay them!   The Hortense and Louis Rubin Dialysis Centers shutdown, 122 healthcare jobs lost!    In Syracuse, Saint Joseph’s hospital laid off more healthcare workers, this time 26.   Also in Syracuse, Rosewood Heights Health Center shutting down a nursing home laying off at least 156 healthcare workers!  Healthcare contractor IPRO laying off at least 200 employees!   In Uniondale, LabCorp of America Holdings/Dianon Systems Integrated Oncology/Histology shutting down, 24 jobs lost.   In Hornell, God can’t stop all powerful Obama Care from forcing Saint James Mercy Hospital, Mercycare Facility, from shutting down their Ventilator Department, 13 jobs lost.  In Bronx, long term health care provider HHH Choices Health Plan/HHCS shutting down, 152 jobs lost!    In Long Beach, Long Beach Memorial Nursing Home being shutdown and sold off, 372 jobs lost!  The Long Beach Medical Center now chapter 11 bankrupt busted. 285 jobs threatened!  Peconic Bay Medical Center laid off 12 employees, due to declining revenue caused by Obama Care. Hospital officials explained that since the implementation of Affordable Care Act their admissions have dropped at least 8%. This is because Obama Care encourages people not to go to the hospital for care.  In Pomona, Israel based legal drugs pusher Teva Pharmaceuticals laying off 41 employees.  Schenectady Regional Orthopedic Associates shutting down, 79 jobs lost.  Also in Schenectady, Price Chopper killed 80 jobs. Company officials blamed, in part, Obama Care for creating “Skyrocketing health care costs…” for the company.  Adirondack Health killed 18 healthcare jobs, and reduced the hours of 15 others. Hospital officials blamed Obama Care for a $1.2-million drop in funding in 2013, and said it’ll be even worse in 2014!  In Brooklyn, Obama Care killing home healthcare provider 1 Prospect Park Residence, 68 jobs lost. Obama Care killing home healthcare provider Regency Home Care, 259 jobs lost!  In Medina, Baxter Healthcare laid off 91 healthcare workers.   In Gouverneur, Kinney Nursing Home shutting down, 61 jobs lost. Pissed off officials blame Obama Care for the final death blow: “Unfortunately, the harsh realities of today’s healthcare economy prevent a small nursing home like this, in a rural area like ours, from remaining viable any longer. The challenges faced by Kinney Nursing Home are like those confronting nursing homes across the country…..The payments Kinney Nursing Home receives for providing care are far below its operating costs….”-statement from board of directors

In Schenectady, health insurance company MVP Health Care killed 100 jobs! It’s blamed on Obama Care: “The health insurance industry is going through a time of unprecedented change, and we need a streamlined and nimble organization to stay ahead of the curve.”-Denise Gonick, President and CEO

North Carolina:  Triad Adult and Pediatric Medicine laid off 35 employees, including seven doctors. The Department of Health and Human Services shutdown three Children’s Developmental Services Agency operations, 170 jobs lost!  All-States Medical Supply  explained that Obama Care cuts government and insurance company reimbursements for their medical supplies by 45%! Medicare audits of their accounting have been increased by 250%!  Such audits place reimbursements in limbo, company officials say two and a half years worth of reimbursements are now on hold until the backlog of Obama Care audits are completed! CEO Marcus Suess described Obama Care as “suicide” for the medical supply industry!   In Charlotte, Massachusetts based inVentiv Medical Management shutting down, at least 50 jobs lost.     High Point Regional UNC Health Care killed 115 jobs! Hospital official, Greg Taylor, blames Obama Care for causing not just insurance reimbursement reductions, but “…admissions decrease….surgical procedures decrease, and we think that is part of where the market is headed. It’s been playing out all across the country.”   Obama Care more powerful than God, as Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center kills 1-thousand jobs, on top of the 950 killed in 2013: “At the end of the day the Affordable Care Act is just reforming payments, it’s not really reforming health care!”-John McConnell, CEO 

Ohio: God can’t stop all powerful Obama Care from killing 131 jobs with non-profit Christian health system, TriHealth (a partnership with Bethesda and Good Samaritan). The SeniorLink Program was also killed. Under Obama Care the program is considered too expensive.    Coshocton Hospital killed 25 healthcare jobs, and closed 22 open positions.  The Toledo Speech and Hearing Center shutdown. 35 employees laid off, 700 patients screwed over!  Hospice of Dayton killed 12 jobs.

Oregon:  In Beaverton, Obama Care medical device tax forcing Greatbatch/Electrochem Solutions to move to Mexcio, 170 jobs lost!  Clackamas County laid off 25 employees from three primary health clinics.

Pennsylvania: Kindred Hospital Easton shutdown, 105 jobs lost!  Kindred Hospital’s North Side facility being sold off, 152 jobs lost! The buyer, LifeCare Hospitals, told news media they have no intention of hiring on the Kindred employees.    Health insurance company, Highmark Blue Shield, killed 132 jobs!  In Exeter Township, after 43 years Surgical Specialties shutting down their medical device factory and moving to Mexico to avoid new Obama Care taxes. 265 jobs lost!  In Erie, HealthSouth Rehabilitation Hospital laid off 18 healthcare workers.  The Crozer Keystone Health System killed 250 healthcare jobs! Officials blamed ObamaCare for a $16-million loss in a seven months period!  Commonwealth Health shutdown the Wilkes-Barre General Hospital’s business office, 87 jobs lost.  In Blue Bell, managed healthcare company Aetna laid off an undisclosed number of employees. It’s part of Aetna’s plan to kill 3-thousand jobs across the U.S. by 2015!  In Nanticoke, Commonwealth Health shutting down and selling off its Special Care Hospital, 130 jobs lost!  Medical device maker Medline Industries is shutting down and moving to New York, 40 jobs lost.   Montgomery County killed 95 healthcare jobs with Abington Health. They blame Obama Care: “Like many other regional health systems, Abington Health is navigating changes in the health-care environment. These changes are numerous, the most significant being the shift in volume from inpatient care to outpatient care and declining reimbursements.”-Laurence M. Merlis, CEO

South Dakota: After 74 years, nonprofit South Dakota CARES (aka South Dakota Society for Crippled Children) shutdown.

Tennessee: The Crittenden Regional Hospital remains shutdown. The official reason is reconstruction after a fire caused massive water damage by the hospital’s anti-fire sprinkler system. However, it’s also been revealed the hospital is $23-million in debt, and Obama Care just might not make it worth rebuilding.  God can’t stop the all powerful Obama Care from killing 75 jobs at Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare: “…the current healthcare environment is presenting financial challenges for hospitals across the country….As a result, we are examining ways to reduce costs from our system. We’re finding ways to save through measures such as standardizing medical devices and not filling open positions where it makes sense. But even after making those changes, we still need to find additional ways to reduce costs.”-Gary Shorb, CEO

Texas: In Abilene, God refused to stop non-profit Sears Methodist Retirement Systems from becoming chapter 11 bankrupt busted. The medical housing and care company says it needs $600-thousand right now or it will shut down its 11 centers. 1500 old people and veterans could be affected! Christian officials blamed old people for not being able to pay for the service! (What happened to Obama Care?)  In Georgetown, health clinic operator Lone Star Circle of Care laid off 65 employees. The CEO also quit! The non-profit company provides services to underinsured people.  In El Paso, United Blood Services shutting down their call center, more than 100 jobs lost! Company officials said ObamaCare is forcing them to centralize operations.  In Dallas, Obama Care killed off the Emeritus at Vickery Towers nursing home, 120 jobs lost! Company officials said if it wasn’t for Obama Care they would’ve made needed upgrades to the nursing home.   God refused to stop Good Shepherd Health System from closing the Critical Access Hospital in Linden, as well as a clinic in Linden and a clinic in Hughes Springs. Hospital officials directly blamed Obama Care for causing them to lose $12-million!  In The Woodlands, legal drugs pusher Lexicon Pharmaceuticals laid off 115 people! Company officials say Obama care is forcing them to cut $22-million from their budget! Non-profit Baylor Medical Center at Garland laid off 47 employees.  In Sherman, Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital-WNJ laid off 18 employees.

Washington DC: Specialty Hospitals of America now chapter 11 bankrupt busted.

West Virginia: Six of the state’s 10 Aging and Disability Resource Centers shutting down! Ass-hole politicians said the old folks homes were not “efficient”.  Wetzel County Hospital laid off eight healthcare workers, cut the hours of 11 others, and will not fill vacant positions.

Wisconsin: In La Crosse, the Mayo Clinic has increased the number of medical transcriptionists to become unemployed, now 188 jobs lost!