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Business/Economics, Idaho

U.S. Job Losses & Store Closings 24 – 25 June 2014: “We did everything right! ….gave 110%…..no one had our backs!” No more Elizabeth Arden? More proof of massive housing market crash! Obama regime kills Montana deputies? Environmentalists kill lumber jobs in Washington! No more Art Institute?

Incomplete list of publicly announced layoffs & shutdowns:

Alabama: What housing market recovery?  The Associated General Contractors & Builders reports that 900 construction jobs ceased to exist between May and June!  From May 2013 to May 2014 the state lost 1400 construction jobs!  In Birmingham, Too Big to Jail Wells Fargo NA announced they’re shutting down their commercial real estate loan origination office in July, 468 jobs lost!

Arizona: In Yuma, after 24 years Barenholtz Fine Furniture shutdown.  The owner sold the building and is moving back to Missouri.

California: In Stockton, France based contracted food service and facility management company Sodexo announced more layoffs, this time 73 people will become unemployed in August.  In Oakland, Sears announced they’re shutting down their repair center in August, 75 jobs lost.  In Orange, Obama Care forced Children’s Hospital of Orange County to kill 61 healthcare jobs, with only a couple days notice.   In Chino, biomedical laboratory instruments maker Beckman Coulter shutting down in December, 63 jobs lost.   What automotive industry recovery?  In Carson, U.S. Auto Parts Network announced they’re shutting down their distribution center in August, 78 jobs lost.  San Diego based computer chip maker Entropic Communications laying off 150 employees across the U.S., by September!

Connecticut: 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.

Georgia: After 27 years upscale snooty elitist Vinings Club restaurant shutdown.  The shutdown was revealed by one of the 871 exclusive members.  40 jobs lost, it’s being blamed on financial reasons which forced the sale of the restaurant.

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

Illinois: In Oak Park, the Mac Specialist store shutdown.   The owners have been struggling ever since an investor backed out in 2013.  In Lake County, legal drugs pusher Abbott Labs laid off an undisclosed number of employees.  The lying company officials said it was necessary to “reduce costs”, but then they turned around and reported the ‘cost cutting’ action was costing them an additional $194-million USD in “charges”.  On top of that, they announced they are buying a Russian company for as much as $495-million in cash plus $136 million in debt!  And on top of that, they bought a Chilean pharmaceutical company for $2.9-billion plus $430-million of debt!  Now we see the real reason they need to “reduce costs”.

Massachusetts: In Leominster, HealthAlliance Hospital revealed that its recently announced Obama Care job cuts will affect 160 healthcare workers!

Michigan: What housing market recovery?  Washtenaw County announced 259 properties to be bundled into 75 tax auctions!  Compare that to 2013 when 186 properties were bundled for auction!

Missouri: In Kansas City,  Barton Nelson died.  The family owned printing company was only 53 years old.  The family owners left this angry message on their phone service; “…being forced to close its doors by our lenders.”

Montana: Powell County laying off two deputies, leaving an area the size of Delaware with only the Sheriff and two deputies!   County officials blame the Obama regime, because promised funding through the Secure Rural Schools Act never came through!

Nevada: Enterprise based Allegiant Air halting all but two flights to Hawaii.  The move will affect airports in Arizona, California, Idaho, Oregon and Washington.  Airline officials called it a “seasonal hiatus”.

New Mexico: In Albuquerque, two shopping centers up for auction; Four Hills Village Shopping Center and Riverside Plaza.  The commercial properties were foreclosed, despite having paying tenants.  Does it have something to do with the Albuquerque metropolitan area losing 2700 jobs from May 2013 to May 2014?!

New York: First Avon, now Elizabeth Arden.  The cosmetics maker announced massive layoffs, but refused to give exact numbers.  Arden is also shutting down their Puerto Rico ops, and canceling some perfume contracts.  Just like Avon, Arden is dealing with crashing sales.  In Queensbury, Tribune Media Services laid off about ten employees.  Last month they laid off 25 employees. The Hempstead School District killed 59 education jobs, in a secret vote.  The teachers union went to local news media to report that 47 teachers, 10 teacher assistants and two administrators had received layoff notices.  In May school officials declared many teaching positions were going to be “excessed”, which basically means there’s not enough money to cover them all.  Sterling National Bank announced they are killing 23 jobs statewide in September.  In Orangeburg, DHS Systems announced they are shutting down in September, 30 jobs lost.  The company specializes in portable hospitals.

North Carolina: What housing market recovery?  In Charlotte, Too Big to Jail Bank of America laid off 540 mortgage workers!

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.  What housing market recovery?  A realtor association in Columbus reporting an 11.3% drop in home sales from May 2013 to May 2014.  On top of that eight counties reported their April sales  dropped by 12.5%.  And this is with a reduction in the number of homes available!

Pennsylvania: British empire U.S. taxsucker BAE Systems killing more U.S. jobs, this time 35 people let go in Jessup.  The Sanatoga Kmart shutting down in August, ironically the store was advertising to hire new employees!  According to local news reports it was the property owner that shutdown the store, not Sears Holdings.  However, an unnamed store employee explained the building was owned by Sears Holdings, but the land was not.  The land owner refused to renew the lease.   Pittsburgh based Education Management Corporation (EDMC) laid off 80 HQ employees, and more are expected.  The for profit higher education system (half owned by Goldman-Sachs) operates in the U.S. and Canada through  Argosy University, The Art Institutes (200 employees laid off earlier this year!), Brown Mackie College and South University.  EMDC has been losing money for the past three years due to disappearing students (enrollment dropped almost 10% just from last year).  EMDC is also facing U.S. federal charges for paying recruiters based on student headcount, which is a violation of U.S. education laws.

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.

Texas: In Austin, Massachusetts based life sciences company Thermo Fisher Scientific laid off 115 people!  The work is being transfered to the state of California and the country of Lithuania.

Vermont: In Rutland, after 42 years the Book King shutting down in July.

Virginia: Dance costume maker Wolff Fording & Company killed 47 jobs.  Is that a big deal?  Consider this; there are now only five employees left in the factory that once employed 120!  It turns out the company was sold off earlier in June.  The new controlling owner is a California based vulture capitalist called Vert Capital.  The new owners admitted they didn’t expect to layoff so many people, but the costume maker was in deep trouble that was “not foreseeable at the time of purchase”.   Former employees are pissed: “We’re hurting!  We did everything right!  We showed up, worked hard, gave 110% and then we were kicked out on our butts with the feeling that no one had our backs!”-Shannon McCallister

Washington: British empire Canada based Interfor shutting down a sawmill in Beaver, and a planer in Forks.  90 jobs lost.  Company officials blame it on the bad economy, exacerbated by nut job environmentalist who managed to get a court order blocking the supply of wood!

West Virginia: In Wyoming County, the largest coal mine run by Cliffs Natural Resources shutting down in August, 450 jobs lost!  It’s blamed on crashing coal prices.  However, company officials said “If something happens in the next 60 days we won’t have to take this action.”  County officials are praying that “something happens”, Commissioner Silas Mullins said “We’re going to lose a great deal of money….” which could affect county jobs and cause a death spiral for the local economy.

Wisconsin: In Sheboygan, newly formed geo-imaging company Quantum Spatial laying off 68 employees in August.   Local news media report that company officials refused to explain why.

22 – 23 June 2014: “Our stores never recovered…”

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

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

Business/Economics

U.S. Job Losses & Store Closings 22 – 23 June 2014: “Our stores never recovered…” No more Avon? Confirmed, no more Motor Trend, Super Chevy or Import Tuner! More jobs going to Mexico! School study blames Obamacare for education cuts!

Incomplete list of publicly announced layoffs & shutdowns:

It has been confirmed that the publisher of many automotive magazines (Motor Trend, Hot Rod, Camaro Performers, GM Hi-Tech, Super Chevy, Import Tuner, Honda Tuning, Super Street, etc), Source Interlink, killed more than 5-thousand jobs at the end of May!  Those jobs were in California, Florida and Michigan.  The parent company, Source Home Entertainment, is now chapter 11 bankrupt busted!  Officials with the publisher-distributor blame e-books and “the continuing overhang of the economic downturn”  creating  a “difficult operating environment”.  Company officials also admitted that hundreds of each magazine issue has had to be destroyed at additional costs, because nobody is buying them!   20 years ago there were about 400 magazine wholesalers in the U.S., with the demise of Source Interlink there are now only two!

California: In Palo Alto, California Pizza Kitchen announced it will shutdown in August, 52 jobs lost.  In Universal City, NBC Universal announced they will kill 113 jobs in August!  What housing market recovery?  In Livermore, roof truss maker MiTek announced they will shutdown in September, 28 jobs lost.

Florida: In Pompano Beach, after 73 years Carl’s Furniture shutdown its last three retail outlets.  At one point Carl’s had 27 stores in Florida and California, with 600 employees: “Our stores never recovered from the 2008 recession back to a profitable level.”– Jeff Baker, owner

Kansas: In Kansas City, after 58 years Lipari Brothers Thriftway grocery store shutdown.  They blame competition from bigger grocery stores.

Massachusetts: Medical device maker Invivo Therapeutics announced they will kill about 1/3 of their jobs.

Nevada: In Las Vegas, after only four years the West Sahara Firefly Tapas and Kitchen Bar shutdown.

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!

New York: NYC based Avon Products killing 600 jobs!  That’s on top of the 1-thousand job cuts announced at the end of 2013!  It’s blamed on the steady decline in sales.  In Syracuse, TV station WCNY laid off seven employees.  The layoffs come after the PBS affiliate moved to a bigger building.  Hypocritically the management said the layoffs were their way of being “fiscally responsible”.   After spending $23-thousand dollars to find out why the Guilderland schools are losing students, the shutdown of Altamont Elementary School is now being discussed.  The study not only confirmed that students have been disappearing since 2008, but predicts the disappearance of students will continue for the next ten years.  The study blamed “Declining community population”, “Declining job market” and “underemployment”, “44% less growth in property values”, as well as blaming the federal government for “Unfunded mandates” and Obama Care for “Increasing health insurance and employee pension costs”!  New York based national retail consulting and investment banking firm, Davidowitz & Associates, said there is no gott damned recovery: “More people are not looking for jobs than have gotten jobs, and the jobs that are available are part time jobs.”-Howard Davidowitz

North Carolina: In Winston-Salem, after 24 years Erickson’s Hush Puppies shoe store shutdown.  The owners blamed it on crashing sales.

Oregon: Roseburg based Umpqua Bank announced it is shutting down 27 offices across Oregon, Washington and California!  It’s blamed on their merger with Sterling Financial.  Bank officials warned more shutdowns are planned for 2015!

Virginia: In Fredericksburg, after 32 years C.I.S. Sportswear shutdown.

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”.

20 – 21 June 2014: 9000+ newly unemployed in California! 

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

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

Business/Economics

U.S. Job Losses & Store Closings 20 – 21 June 2014: 9000+ newly unemployed in California! Local tax revenues crash! Austria kills off U.S. steel company! Another women’s clothing chain dies?

Incomplete list of publicly announced layoffs & shutdowns:

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!  They blame crashing demand for their products.

California: First Idaho’s Coldwater Creek, now the Golden State’s Juicy Couture is dead, or is it?  This women’s clothing retailer got a new owner last year, but apparently the sale doesn’t include the brick-n-mortar stores, just the right to the brand!  Unnamed employees told fashion news sources that all U.S. brick-n-mortar stores will be shutdown, thousands of jobs affected!  Reports say the new owner, Authentic Brands Group, is working deals to sell the Juicy Couture brand through other retailers such as Kohl’s (that doesn’t stop the killing of all those Juicy Couture U.S. brick-n-mortar jobs).   Apparently the 60+ foreign Juicy Couture brick-n-mortar stores will remain open.  Tulare County’s Office of Education’s Behavioral Health Services laid off 44 employees.  It’s blamed on a contract not being renewed.  120 students with emotional problems or mental illness affected!  What automotive industry recovery?  Another California Superstores car dealer shutting down, this time in Sacramento.  34 jobs lost in August.  In Seal Beach, taxsucker Boeing announced that 118 people will become unemployed in August!  What housing market recovery?  San Francisco based Too Big to Jail Wells Fargo announced they are killing an additional 249 mortgage jobs across the U.S.!  Despite the federal government claiming that new jobless claims are down, officials in California report an increase of 9,935 new jobless claims, in just one week!  Irvine based Corinthian Colleges (CCi) is in big trouble not only with state officials but federal as well.  The latest reports say the for profit college has failed to provide  federal officials with mandatory documentation.  CCi is accused of falsifying student data to get big taxpayer bucks from state and federal governments.  The U.S. Department of Education is cutting off funding as a result.  CCi officials now say they will be forced to shutdown dozens of their Everest, Heald and WyoTech campuses across the U.S.   15-thousand employees and 75-thousand students affected!

Connecticut: The city of Groton laying off nine firefighters, and not filling four vacant positions.  The city has 700-thousand taxpayer dollars less to work with this year, than they did last year!  After 29 years William W. Backus Hospital shutdown their child care center.  12 jobs lost.  They blame Obama Care for stealing $14-million USD in Medicare funding!

Florida: Valley Bank of Florida has failed.  Landmark Bank N.A. has taken over Valley Bank’s assets.  The failure cost FDIC $7.7-million.

Illinois: In Oak Park, after 37 years Competitive Foot shoe store shutting down in July.  Just days after announcing a major shutdown in Minnesota, the country’s largest printer of magazines Quad/Graphics shutting down printing ops in Woodstock, 550 jobs lost!  It’s the result of Quad/Graphics’ takeover of Brown Printing.   Valley Bank of Illinois has failed.  Great Southern Bank has taken over Valley Bank’s assets.  The failure cost FDIC $51.4-million.

Indiana: Parkview Whitley Hospital sold off a nursing home and will layoff 52 healthcare workers in September.

Louisiana: State officials approved the killing of 123 healthcare jobs at the Huey P Long Medical Center!  The hospital was shutdown.  Officials blamed Obama Care for causing “lack of funds due to a reduction in federal funding”.

Massachusetts: In Woburn, Kraft Foods announced they are shutting down a 95 years old food factory in 2016.  200 jobs will be lost!  Company officials say it’s the only way they can remain “competitive” in the global market.

Michigan: The Ferndale Public Schools warned they must eliminate 30 jobs.  It’s blamed on disappearing students.  School officials say they will go into the 2014-15 school year missing 300 students!  The Detroit Institute for Children revealed they shutdown three outpatient clinics last week!  It’s blamed on “changes in the health care industry”.  27 jobs lost and 250 special needs children affected!

Mississippi: Steel pipe maker PSL America now chapter 11 bankrupt busted.  The company is now up for sale, 70 jobs affected.  Company officials blame it on an Austrian company for selling them defective steel.  PSL America is now suing that company.  However, company officials also stated that they’ve suffered crashing sales over the past four years.

New Mexico: In Santa Fe, Bumble Bee’s Baja Grill shutdown.

New York: In Mount Vernon, grocery delivery company Peapod killing 239 jobs in September, because they’re moving to New Jersey! Big Apple based upscale snooty retailer Coach announced it is shutting down 70 stores across the U.S.  Company officials blame the bad economy.  Also in NYC, Rouge Tomate restaurant shutting down in August, 105 jobs lost!

Ohio: GMO seed company DuPont Pioneer announced a third round of layoffs.  They didn’t give numbers, but in May they laid off 50 employees.  Where’d the money go?  A court says the Bureau of Workers’ Compensation overcharged 24-thousand employers, and now those employers want their money back.  The only problem is that state officials don’t have it.  And how much do the employers claim they’re owed?  $859-million!

Oklahoma: The city of Tulsa revealed they’ve killed 150 police jobs since last year!  The city has halted hiring as well.  If taxpayer revenues don’t improve more cops could become unemployed.

Virginia: Patrick Henry Community College laid off 22 employees.  Since 2013 the college has experienced declining enrollment, lower tuition revenues, increased costs and decreases in taxpayer funding.

Wisconsin:  In Fond du Lac, Planned Parenthood shutdown.  It’s the 5th Planned Parenthood to shutdown.

18 – 19 June 2014:  More idiot politicians

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

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

Business/Economics

U.S. Job Losses & Store Closings 18 – 19 June 2014: “We’re trying to keep up” Umpa Lumpas laid off? More Christian students disappearing! More idiot politicians jacking up taxes, a sure killer of economies!

Incomplete list of publicly announced layoffs & shutdowns:

God refuses to stop 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

Arizona: In Phoenix, 13 Danny’s Family Car Wash locations seized!  Company managers have been indicted on immigration violation charges.  Besides that, the economy has been so bad that the owner had to sell off his mansion to float the company.  The car wash will now be auctioned off.  More than 900 jobs affected!

California: In Costa Mesa, S.B. Restaurant revealed they have already shutdown 16 Elephant Bar Global Grill/Wok Kitchen restaurants across the country.  The company is bankrupt and hopes somebody can buyout the rest of the restaurants soon, or they’ll all be shutdown.  What automotive industry recovery?  Yet another California Superstores car dealer shutting down, this time in San Leandro, 69 jobs will be lost in August.  Also in San Leandro, Too Big to Jail bank Wells Fargo announced they will kill 52 jobs in August.  In Brisbane, MV Transportation warned they will kill 230 jobs in September!

Florida: In Orlando, The Elephant Bar Global Grill shutdown (see California).

Illinois: In Alton, after 37 years White’s Greenhouse and Seasons Garden Center shutdown.  In Lakeview, after ten years the Pie Hole Pizza Joint shutdown.  The owner blames it on a combination of the purchase of faulty kitchen equipment and the crashing economy: “The last two years have just been really hard.”-Doug Brandt

Louisiana: In New Orleans, gelato shop La Divina Gelateria shutdown.  The owners say they are focusing on wholesale ops only.

Maryland: The city of Annapolis laying off seven employees, and raising taxes and fees!  Yes, raising taxes and fees on residents who are unemployed/under-employed, as well as businesses whose revenues continue to crash, is the answer.  NOT!

Massachusetts:  In Leominster, HealthAlliance Hospital warned it is laying off an undisclosed number of healthcare workers by the end of September.  They blame Obama Care.  Fact; at the end of March the hospital was “in the black” financially, but because of Obama Care they’re already bleeding ‘red’: “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

Michigan:  Another Family Dollar store shutdown, this time a four years old store in Spring Arbor.  The Oaklawn Hospital killed 43 jobs, blaming Obama Care for a $5-million USD loss!

Minnesota:  After more than 25 years Campus Pizza & Pasta now chapter 11 bankrupt busted.  In Beavercreek, only months after holding a “grand opening”, women’s clothing store Lane Bryant shutdown.  In Saint Cloud, Quad/Graphics shutting down printing ops in August, 280 jobs lost!  The Minnesota School of Business shutdown their Shakopee branch, blaming disappearing students: “…in the past few years the number of students taking classes at the Shakopee campus has decreased dramatically.”-note taped to door at the Shakopee branch

Mississippi: Texas based alternative fuel maker KiOR began laying off its employees.  The company turns wood into fuel.  However, it started up using hundreds of millions of dollars borrowed from banks and the Magnolia State.  So far KiOR has made timely payments on the loan from taxpayers, but warned that if it can’t get more debt financing by August it will declare bankruptcy.  Apparently a recent deal with a California vulture capitalist was only good until August.

Missouri:  In Kansas City, cell phone insurance company Asurion announced 98 layoffs for August.  Company officials claim it’s because they’ve become more efficient.  After more than 30 years boat shop Saint Louis Sail & Paddle (Saint Louis Sailing Center) shutdown.  The new owners blame crashing sales: “As all sailors know, a correction of course is often required when the wind changes. As business people, Cyril and I knew it was time to move on.”– Amy Narishkin

New Jersey:  For the second time in two years the casino Revel is now chapter 11 bankrupt busted.  Casino officials also warned their 3100 employees that they could become unemployed in August!  The casino is up for sale.   And the Pier Shops mini-mall in the Caesars casino is up for sale, at a huge loss!    Children’s clothing retailer, Kid Brands, now chapter 11 bankrupt busted.  Company officials say they are $109-million in debt, but are asking the court to allow a $49-million loan so they can stay in business.

New York: In Mount Vernon, Stop & Shop Supermarkets warned they’re shutting down their warehouse ops, 239 jobs lost in September!

North Carolina: God refused to stop the ‘Christian’ owner of Amazing Grace Locksmiths and American Locksmiths from becoming chapter 11 bankrupt busted.  This after the local Sheriff accused him of taking money from customers without completing the job, plus a safe company accuses him of stealing lock codes.  Even his own church is pissed at him!  In Robbinsville, Ashley Furniture has backed out of plans to buy Stanley Furniture‘s factory, this means 400 people will become unemployed for sure!  Apparently Ashley Furniture officials claim the factory is too small for what they need.

Ohio: In Kenwood, Sterling’s Cut Glass shutting down.  The owners say they will focus on internet sales only.  Production is also being moved, 75 jobs affected.

Pennsylvania: In Monaca, God refuses to stop Saint John the Baptist Parish from shutting down their elementary school.  It’s blamed on disappearing students.  Enrollment for the 2014-15 school year hit a new low of only 97.

Tennessee: In Chattanooga, Farley’s & Sathers candy factory laid off 95 Umpa Lumpas, I mean employees.  The Chicago based owners (Ferrara Candy) are moving production to candy factories in Illinois.  News reports say that over the past five years Ferrara Candy has killed 200 jobs at their Farley’s & Sathers candy factory!

Texas: Near Dallas, a six years old Jakes Hamburgers shutdown.  The owners blame the location, and claim most of the employees were moved to other Jakes locations.  In Fort Worth, American Airlines announced it is killing 38 flights to Venezuela.  Airline officials claim they are owned $750-million by the Venezuelan government, more specifically the tickets were paid for in bolivars when they were supposed to be paid for in U.S. dollars.

Vermont: In Burlington, Benways Taxi (Transportation) company shutting down, at least 100 jobs lost!  Company officials did not say when the shutdown would take place. Competing taxi companies are sympathetic, saying the costs of doing business (fuel, repairs, taxes, fees, insurance) are just too high.

Wisconsin: Metal stamping company Eclipse Manufacturing suddenly shutdown by its new owner.  51 employees were told by HTT World Stamping to reapply for their jobs, but were also told that not all of them would be hired!

14 – 17 June 2014:  Cops gunnin’ for your taxes!

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

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

Business/Economics

U.S. Job Losses & Store Closings 14 – 17 June 2014: “I’m tired of fighting it!” Cops gunnin’ for your taxes! No more Elephant Bar! More proof of housing market crash! Another U.S. shoe maker kicks the bucket!

Incomplete list of publicly announced layoffs & shutdowns:

The U.S. based International Monetary Fund predicts the U.S. job market won’t return to “full employment” until at least 2017.

Arizona: In Tempe, after almost 20 years Big Fish Pub shutdown. Local news reports say it is the result of years of disputes between the Pub owners and the property owners.   The Pub owners stated in a long letter to their customers that the property owners finally jacked up the rent so high, it was impossible to pay.

California:  In Costa Mesa, after several leaked reports of restaurant shutdowns across the country, upscale Elephant Bar & Restaurant chain made it official and is now chapter 11 bankrupt busted, and up for sale.  Company officials are also asking the bankruptcy court for $3.3-million USD to keep the restaurant chain going until a new owner can be found!  In Beverly Hills, after 27 years the upscale snooty Kate Mantilini restaurant shutdown.   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 more layoffs in August.  In Simi Valley, after 50 years of selling steam showers ThermaSol warned state officials of a “closure” in August, at least 21 jobs will be lost.  It might have something to do with the company’s shift to internet sales.

Connecticut: The Poquonnock Bridge Fire District warned it must layoff nine firefighters and default on its retirement plan payment due to lack of tax revenues.  Apparently that’s even with increased taxation.  Local residents and firefighters didn’t seem to understand,  perhaps they think money grows on trees?

Delaware: After 32 years Twice Nice Antiques shutdown.

Florida:  Miami-Dade County warned of layoffs for law enforcers.  According to reports, the county is $140-million in the hole and as a result 416 cops and 160 prison guards, as well as other county employees, could become unemployed!   But are the cops worth saving?  Miami-Dade has nearly 3-thousand police, yet, according to their very own Miami-Dade Police Benevolent Association their homicide “closure rate is only about 20%” (that means 80% of killings are unsolved)!   Of course police officials say the answer to their ineffectiveness is to hire even more cops (apparently cops think taxpayers can just shit the money out of their asses)!

Georgia: In Albany, after 32 years Ed Jordan Music shutdown, the owner blames the bad economy: “I’m 72 years old and I’m tired of fighting it! I think it is time to retire.”-Ed Jordan

Louisiana: University of New Orleans announced they will kill an undisclosed number of their 84 degree programs, which will result in layoffs.  The university laid off 28 people back in February.   Since 2012 more than 110 employees have been laid off, and they shutdown their child daycare.  It’s blamed on disappearing students, for example; in 2003 the university had more than 17-thousand students, in 2013 they had only 9323, an almost 50% reduction over ten years!

Massachusetts: After only 11 years, Center for Digital Imaging Arts  now chapter 7 bankrupt busted.   Chapter 7 bankruptcy indicates they are toast and will be liqudated.

Michigan:  What housing industry recovery?  Only six years after moving mortgage operations to Pittsfield Township, Too Big to Jail CitiMortgage laid off 180 people!   However, Citi has so much money that the affected employees will get 60 days of pay (and probably not be counted in the unemployment data as a result). The Detroit Land Bank Authority began taking bids on dozens of abandoned houses.  This round of auctions involve ‘new build’ homes and bidding starts at $1-thousand.  There’s one catch, you have to pay in cash only, plus you must remodel the house (apparently these ‘new’ homes are damaged).  Eaton County preps for new round of home auctions on 06 August.  The 47 properties were seized from the owners for failure to pay taxes.  There is another auction planned later in the month of August.  And as far as jobs are concerned, employment service Michigan Works is consolidating its operations resulting in 65 people becoming unemployed.

Minnesota:  In Minneapolis, after 32 years Falafel King shutdown.  The owner sold off the building because he was “tired” of playing the landlord game.

Nebraska: Italy based portable electricity generator machine maker Pramac America laid off employees.  No official reason, or exact number of layoffs were given.  Unnamed employees told local news media that the layoffs came without notice, and that only 12 employees were left on the assembly line! Company officials swear they are not shutting down.

Nevada: In Sparks, after 18 years Scolari’s Food & Drug shutdown, 50 jobs lost.  Company officials say the shutdown is meant to “keep the company….viable”.

New Hampshire: In Goffstown, after 96 years (and surviving the Great Depression) God refused to stop the shutdown of Villa Augustina School.  It’s blamed on disappearing Catholic students.  In 2008-09 the Catholic parents tried to save the school by buying it  from the Catholic church.  However, the students just wouldn’t show up (maybe they’re all in heaven now. Oh no, the rapture?).  “A community embracing Christian Values, Academic Excellence, and Loving Service consistent with the teachings of the Catholic Church and the charism of St. Claudine Thevenet.”-school mission statement

New Mexico: In Albuquerque, Maloney’s Tavern shutdown, 25 jobs lost.  Apparently the property owner wants to sell off the building.

New Jersey:  In Secacuse, Classic Party Rentals is shutting down their New Jersey warehouse and laying off 94 people.  The California based company recently emerged from bankruptcy and told state officials they had to shutdown their New Jersey ops due to “competition”.

New York:  In Brooklyn, after 151 years (and surviving the Great Depression as well as dozens of recessions) snooty upscale prep school Adelphi Academy now chapter 11 bankrupt busted.  School officials blame it on disappearing students.  Court documents show current K through 12 enrollment at only 100.  The Erie County Department of Social Services warning that 11 Child Protective Services employees could lose their jobs.  However, county officials say they are working to actually add 37 CPS jobs, the problem is finding the money (yeah, there trying to figure out how to force unemployed taxpayers to shit out more money).  For some reason Erie County has seen an “explosion” of child protection cases since 2013.  In Corning, World Kitchen warned of mass layoffs at its Pressware dinnerware factory.  The Pressware factory started in 1938 making Pyrex, there are reports that this last U.S. owned dinnerware company is being sold off.  In Rome,  after 33 years B&L Italian Bakery shutdown.  In Nanuet, after 50 years sporting goods provider Cleats ‘n Sneaks shutdown.  In Batavia,  shoe makers (yes there are still some U.S. based shoe makers) P.W. Minor and Sons announced they are shutting down in September.  Layoffs for 72 employees beginning now.  The owners blame the bad economy.

Ohio:  Ohio State University eliminated 13 jobs.  School officials said it’s either the layoffs or jacking up tuition.  A week after Fifth Third  revealed they killed one thousand jobs last year, the Too Big to Jail bank announced it is preparing to shut down, or sell off, 1-thousand offices! Bank officials said they are trying to cut  $972-million from their expenses!

Tennessee: The state Department of Human Services killed 121 jobs across 46 counties!  State officials ironically claim it’s part of their plan to make access to social services easier!

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?)

12 – 13 June 2014: School administrators caught in secret bonus deals!

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

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

Business/Economics, U.S.

Where are they going? Walgreens refuses to abandon United States! Proof elitist British-Jewish empire investors are destroying your country! Obamacare connection?

24 August 2014 (14:15 UTC-07 Tango)/27 Shawwal 1435/02 Shahrivar 1393/29 Ren-Shen 4712

For the 2nd quarter 2014 just under 600 people renounced their U.S. citizenship.  Add that to the nearly 1-thousand people in the 1st quarter, then compare that to all of 2013 and we’re more than half way to beating that record.

By the way, despite all that rhetoric from the Obama regime, many ‘U.S.’ corporations continue to move offshore, giving up their U.S. registration (citizenship for corporations, remember the courts consider corporations people too).  However, one company called Walgreens (a legal drugs pusher, aka The Walgreen Company) has refused to renounce its U.S. citizenship despite demands from its stockholders to do so.

According to former U.S. Secretary of Labor, Robert Reich, the biggest investor in Walgreens is the Jewish Goldman-Sachs.  And apparently they’re pissed!

Walgreens’ decision to remain ‘American’ resulted in the price of their stock dropping almost $20 per share the day after the announcement!  This is proof that ‘Wall Street’ investors like Goldman-Sachs don’t give a crap about not only the working class, but they don’t give a crap about the state of affairs of the country you live in.   And this is more reason why the main stream news media must stop tying the performance of the stock markets to the performance of the economy.

You see, shareholders (investors) love it when U.S. companies renounce their citizenship (such a move is officially called a tax inversion), because it means much less taxes those companies will pay which in turn means more profits that can be divided up amongst the investors.

On paper the United States is considered to have the highest corporate tax rate in the World, at an official 39.1% (of course once you factor in all those deductions and write offs the ‘effective’ tax rate is much lower, even the U.S. Government Accountability Office discovered that in a review of 2010 tax filings many big U.S. corporations actually paid ZERO taxes!), Japan comes in second.

We can’t blame it all on Jewish elites:  Realize that the majority of Foreign Direct Investments into U.S. corporations come from the British empire (Commonwealth of Nations), then maybe you can see why I consider such demands to offshore U.S. corporations an act of War!  (By the way, American Walgreens is attempting to take over  the British drugs pusher known as Boots, so don’t be surprised if Walgreens suddenly goes British)

And we must also blame our own government’s stupid rules that allow former U.S. corporations to continue making money the old fashioned way; by ripping off the taxpayer!   Robert Reich gave a hypothetical example of how former U.S. companies can still make money off your taxes under the new Obama Care: “So if Walgreen as a Swiss company continues to fill Medicaid and Medicare payments as well as, say, CVS, it’s likely that Walgreen will continue to earn almost a quarter of its $72 billion annual revenues directly from the U.S. government.”

 

Business/Economics, Idaho

Exceptional Failed State: U.S. job losses & store closings 10-12 January 2014. God can’t stop ObamaCare layoffs! Spy ballon layoffs! More government action killing local businesses! More refinery shutdowns!

Incomplete list of announced closings & layoffs.

Retail giant, Target, announced it will shutdown eight stores in Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Ohio, Nevada and Tennessee.

Turbo engineering company, Concepts NREC, laid off nine employees across several New England states.

Alabama: Bryan W. Whitfield Memorial Hospital shutdown its labor and delivery unit, directly blaming Obama Care: “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

Arizona: In Scottsdale, the owner of the Searsucker restaurant decided to shut it down, with no warning.

Arkansas:  Marketing data collections and management company, Acxiom, laid off 50 employees throughout their operations.  The company is restructuring.  In Clarksville, the Hardwicke Funeral Home shutdown, because the owner died (no joke).

California:  Sutter Health Alta Bates Medical Center continued with its drastic Obama Care layoffs.  This time 120 health care workers lost their jobs in Berkeley and Oakland!  In South gate, Brookshire Tool laid off 90 employees.  In Ontario, Covidien Distribution laid off nine employees.  In Adelanto, Maork laid off 16 employees.  In San Bernardino, Too Big to Jail Wells Fargo laid off nine employees.  In San Diego, the owner of the Gaberdine restaurant decided to shut it down, with no warning.  In San Louis Opisbo,  the quirky store Kwirkworld shutdown.  The manager blamed the suck ass economy and the landlord: “We’re not making the money we used to make, and the rents are really high here.”-Pete Ray

Florida: In Brandon, the Babies “R” Us store shutdown.

Idaho:  In Boise, the Saint Luke’s affiliated non-profit Elk’s Rehab Hospital laid off “…less than 20 positions, all licensed practical nurses within the inpatient unit…” in an effort to adjust to reduced funding caused by Obama Care.   Elk’s Rehab Hospital began in 1947 to help victims of polio.

Illinois: In DeKalb, U.S. tax sucker GE (General Electric) warned it will be shutting down the factory by 2015, 94 jobs lost.

Indiana:   The German owned U.S. tax sucking British Rolls Royce killing 400 jobs in Indianapolis!  Company officials blame decreased U.S. military spending.

Iowa: In Marengo, Quad Graphics shutting down its printing presses. 138 jobs lost!  It’s blamed on a merger.

Kentucky: The Newport Kmart shutting down in April, 81 jobs lost!

Maryland:  U.S. tax sucker spy ballon maker, TCOM, laid off an undisclosed number of employees.  It’s blamed on decreased U.S. military spending.  In Annapolis, clothing store Chico’s shutdown.

Massachusetts:  In Malden, a Stop&Shop grocery store shutdown.  Basically company officials don’t think the suck ass economy can support all their stores.

Michigan: What automotive market recovery?  Five Suski’s used car lots across two counties shutdown!

Minnesota: The Elmore Academy and the Wildcat Cafe shutdown to assess “the programmatic needs”.  In Pine Island, Pine Cheese Mart shutdown after 44 years in business.   It’s blamed on local government planners who, in 2013, decided to implement new road construction that actually made it more difficult for customers to get to the shop!

Mississippi: In Ocean Springs, reports say the Salamundi Gifts store shutdown.

Nevada:  In Reno, after 41 years Reno Mountain Sports shutdown.  A co-owner told local TV news because of the suck ass economy the end came sooner than they expected.

New Mexico: In Santa Fe, after 28 years electronics store Baillio’s shutdown.  Company officials blamed the suck ass economy: “Due to current economic conditions we regretfully announce that the time has come to close Baillio’s Santa Fe and liquidate our entire Santa Fe inventory.”

New York:  The Schenectady City School District chief, Larry Spring, warned “We’re going to have staff layoffs, we’re going to have program cuts, absolutely.”  The District is short $10-million USD!  Employees were also laid off last school year.  In Olean, Advanced Monolythic Ceramics shutdown, 65 jobs lost.  In Long Island, fashion designer Carlisle Etcetera shutting down by June, 63 jobs lost.

Ohio: In Cleveland, the Blind Pig restaurant shutdown.  Management refused to say why, but the co-owner of another restaurant blamed the suck ass economy: “People just aren’t coming to the Warehouse District in the numbers you used to have. You don’t see 5,000 people on a Friday or a Saturday and New Year’s Eve was a disaster down there because everyone was at Public Square. Places are struggling and it’s a shame to see a longtime place like the Blind Pig close.”-Hank LoConti

Pennsylvania: In West Chester live entertainment joint, The Note, shutdown.  The owner said he needed a break.

South Carolina: In Columbia, the Sears will close in April, 97 jobs lost.

South Dakota: After 74 years, nonprofit South Dakota CARES (aka South Dakota Society for Crippled Children) shutdown.  It’s blamed on lack of funding: “We stuck it out for as long as we could as a non-profit. We served a lot of great people and made a lot of amazing memories.”-Chad Miner-Ratigan

Tennessee: In Ooltewah, the Southern Burger Company shutdown.

Texas: In Sherman, Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital-WNJ laid off 18 employees.  In Round Rock, Dell computers announced it will kill 20% of its U.S. jobs, along with 30% of its global workforce.  The suck ass economy has killed Dell sales for seven straight quarters!

Washington: In Bellingham, France based Zodiac Aerospace laid off an undisclosed amount of employees.  It’s blamed on a sudden decrease in orders for airliner interior upgrades.

Wyoming: In Rock Springs, oil giant Chevron shutting down their natural gas plant.  Chevron bought out the original owners in 2008.  Chevron officials say they are not happy with the natural gas refinery.

08-09 January 2014. More massive grocery store shutdowns!

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

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

Idaho, U.S.

Exceptional Failed State: Obama on drugs? Says 100-million people now have Obama Care insurance!

19 November 2013 (15:37 UTC-07 Tango)/15 Muharram 1435/28 Aban 1392/17 Gui-Hai (10th month) 4711

There are about 314-million citizens in the United States, the Obama regime was recorded during a phone conference telling his NAZI Organizing for Action operatives that 100-million citizens now have Obama Care insurance: “In the first month alone we’ve seen more than 100 million Americans successfully enroll in the new insurance plans.”

That’s even 99.9-million more than what the Obama regime predicted!

But guess what?  Obama was including an estimated million citizens that applied but so far haven’t actually signed up, and citizens that supposedly will now qualify under expanded Medicaid.  In other words, Obama’s claim that 100-million now have insurance is a total guesstimation, it’s not fact!

I’m one of those citizens that should qualify for expanded Medicaid, except I live in one of about two dozen U.S. states that are refusing to expand Medicaid coverage!  You here that Obama?  About half of the 50 U.S. states are refusing to expand Medicaid coverage!

Even the main streamer pro-Obama regime news media says about 100-thousand people have signed up, or applied for Obama Care!  Is Obama on drugs?

Obama also told his NAZI followers that Obama Care insurance would cost less than a cable TV bill!  Guess what I can’t even afford cable or satellite TV, I use the old fashioned free TV antenna!  How the hell can I afford Obama Care?

“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

Prepare for permanent economic terrorism

Idaho’s Obama Care Christian corruption covered up

 More Obama Care job cuts!

Obama Care shuts down yet another Christian nursing home!

Hundreds more laid off due to Obama Care

Obama Care being blamed for 61 people becoming unemployed

Former mainstreamer news man gets screwed by Obama Care! 

Business/Economics, U.S.

Exceptional Failed State: Obama Care about to kill you with 20 new taxes! Violates Constitution! Prepare for permanent economic terrorism?

19 November 2013 (00:23 UTC-07 Tango)/15 Muharram 1435/28 Aban 1392/17 Gui-Hai (10th month) 4711

“….the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act violated the Origination Clause of the U.S. Constitution….”-MATTHEW SISSEL vs U.S. DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES, et al

At least 40 U.S. Congressman have joined a federal Supreme Court lawsuit that charges Obama Care with violating the Constitution.   Specifically “The Senate of the United States violated this constitutional safeguard when it ‘amended’ a House bill designed to reduce taxes by substituting the legislative substance of The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA), which was one of the largest tax increases in American history, estimated to raise $675 billion in revenue. The Origination Clause requires that such revenue raising bills originate in the House, not the Senate.”

And just how many taxes were secretly created by Obama Care?  At least 20.  U.S. Congressman Jeff Duncan, from South Carolina, has published a full list of the massive amount of taxes created by Obama Care.  There are new taxes on investments, on individuals, on businesses (I’ve been posting about those medical device makers that are shutting down or leaving the country because of a new medical device tax),  taxes on non-profit hospitals (I’ve also been posting about non-profit hospitals shutting down because of this tax), increase in Medicare tax, even taxes on the outrageously expensive health insurance you’re being forced to pay for!  Click here to see the list.

Forbes is predicting that all the new taxes will result in a new level of tax evasion/fraud.  Obama Care will actually increase corruption within the United States.

Any political scientist/economist/historian will tell you that one of the major factors in the destruction of a society/empire is the introduction of excessive taxes, especially when the economy is crashing and burning.

The following was taken from How Excessive Government Killed Ancient Rome, written by Bruce Bartlett in 1994. See how much it reads very much like what’s been going on in (and what’s coming for) the United States: “….unscrupulous emperors like Domitian (81—96 AD.) would use trumped-up charges to confiscate the assets of the wealthy. They would also invent excuses to demand tribute from the provinces and the wealthy……citizenship was greatly expanded [immigration reform] in order to bring more people into the tax net.  Taxes on the wealthy, however, were sharply increased, especially those on inheritances…..Most emperors continued the policies of debasement [currency devaluation] and increasingly heavy taxes, levied mainly on the wealthy. The war against wealth was not simply due to purely fiscal requirements, but was also part of a conscious policy of exterminating the Senatorial class…..As the private wealth of the Empire was gradually confiscated or taxed away, driven away or hidden, economic growth slowed to a virtual standstill. Moreover, once the wealthy were no longer able to pay the state’s bills, the burden inexorably fell onto the lower classes, so that average people suffered as well from the deteriorating economic conditions.  In Rostovtzeff’s words, ‘The heavier the pressure of the state on the upper classes, the more intolerable became the condition of the lower‘ (Rostovtzeff 1957: 430).   At this point, in the third century A.D., the money economy completely broke down. Yet the military demands of the state remained high…….With the collapse of the money economy, the normal system of taxation also broke down. This forced the state to directly appropriate whatever resources it needed wherever they could be found [government run armed robbery]……. The result, of course, was chaos, dubbed ‘permanent terrorism’ by Rostovtzeff (1957: 449).  Eventually, the state was forced to compel individuals to continue working and producing [government run slavery].” 

“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