Incomplete list of publicly announced layoffs & shutdowns:
Arizona: What housing market recovery? Local news reports said the Grand Canyon State lost 45-hundred construction jobs in June!
California: In Sylmar, God can’t stop Obama Care from killing 270 jobs with medical device maker Saint Jude Medical! Blame all those new medical device taxes! In El Segundo, taxsucker Raytheon announced they will kill another 24 jobs in September. In Santa Anna, ITT Cannon announced they will layoff five employees in September. In Los Angeles, the Too Big to Jail Pan American bank got a $6.3-million USD bailout, from 16 other banks! The bank has not been able to make a profit since 2005.
Colorado: Three Bella’s Markets grocery stores shutting down. There are reports of complaints from customers about the produce, but the store owner blames the landlord for forcing them to shutdown three of their eight stores. The current owner of Bella’s took over in 2006, and it sounds like he regrets it.
Connecticut: Poquonnock Bridge Fire District killed nine jobs. The fire chief said they’ve hit “bottom”. In Torrington, after eight years Bogey’s Restaurant shutdown. The restaurant owner says it is “…time to exit out.” In Sprague, Fusion Paperboard announced they’re shutting down their recycling factory in September, 140 jobs lost! Company officials say sales of finished recycled paper doesn’t cover the actual cost to recycle the paper.
Florida: JetBlue announced it is ending flights from Florida to Puerto Rico in September. In Brickell, after eight years Finnegan’s River bar being shutdown by greedy property developers. The owners of the bar sold out to a New York company for $15-million. That’s Gay! 40 years old homosexual bar Parliament House chapter 11 bankrupt busted due to $15.5-million in debt! The owners say their business crashed in 2009 and they’re still trying to recover. You know all those PSAs on TV telling people it’s wrong to say things like “That’s Gay!”? The Parliament House has a big rainbow sign that says Gay Days. Is that Gay, or is it politically unacceptable? Gay used to mean happy, now I’m sad.
Illinois: Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services dropped the state’s credit rating to ‘negative’. What automotive industry recovery? Peoria based heavy equipment maker Caterpillar reports their sales are still crashing, by 12% from March through May. It’s all part of the big mining shutdown conspiracy around the World. (and those climate change environmentalists think it’s their doing, ha, this industry shutdown been taking place for several years now and it’s all about money not climate change. Oh, are those climate change environmentalist going to feed all those unemployed mine employees?)
Indiana: Obama Care killing 150 healthcare jobs at Union Hospital in Terre Haute! The CEO said “We face numerous challenges due to changes in the healthcare environment…”
Maryland: Proof that rugged individualism (bordering on anarchy) is dead in the U.S. The eight years old John Wayne museum in Bowie in danger of shutting down. The owner says revenues aren’t enough to pay for operating the museum dedicated to the Duke. By the way, John Wayne’s real name was Marion Robert Morrison. Marion? That’s Gay!
Michigan: In Trenton, DTE Energy announced it is shutting down two coal fired electricity generating plants by 2016. They’ve already shutdown six other coal fired power generators. Company officials said it’s not worth the cost to upgrade the power plants to the new stricter federal standards. So don’t complain when you lose power!
Mississippi: In Greenville, Kroger shutting down a grocery store in August, 70 jobs lost.
New York: In NYC, Self, a magazine for women (who apparently have self esteem issues) killed eight jobs (how’s that for self esteem). Apparently the magazine publisher is having identity issues because reports say Self magazine is being “re-invented”. After 77 years the Subway Inn announced it will shutdown in August. It’s being done in by a greedy property developer, the son of the bar owner said “It is upsetting but times have changed.”
North Carolina: What housing market recovery? Internet based RoundPoint Mortgage announced it will layoff 166 employees in September! The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reports that the Tar Heel State lost 85-hundred jobs in June, wiping out all their job gains in March!
Ohio: In Columbus, God refuses to stop Christian charter school FCI Academy from killing 17 jobs. The Christian school is in the hole at least $70-thousand, due to raptured(?) students. Several years ago the grade school had 600 students, this school year they’re down to 340.
Oregon: In Portland, Bike N Hike shutdown: “Sales have been soft for three years at our Portland store…..This year, it’s been challenging. May and June weren’t kind to anyone here. By mid-June, I knew we couldn’t recover…..
….I have to wonder if we’re all slowly dying from 1-thousand paper cuts?”-Kevin Chudy, owner
Pennsylvania: In Lehigh County, Obama Care killed 11 jobs at the county funded Cedarbrook nursing home. Legal drugs pusher Merck announced it is killing 600 jobs in North Wales and Lansdale!
South Carolina: In Charleston, after six years the Vegetable Bin announced it is shutting down in August. The building failed a fire code inspection, and the owner says their sales aren’t enough to cover the cost of bringing it up to code.
Texas: In Houston, taxsucker United Space Alliance announced it will kill 500 jobs in October! In Dallas/Fort Worth, Anthem College shutting down its campus on Beltline Road, 30 jobs lost. Power distributor Valmont Newark shutting down its Mansfield facility, 90 jobs lost.
Virginia: In Charlottesville, after five years office work space provider OpenSpace shutdown. The owner admitted the concept failed to make money.
Washington: In Seattle, after 20 years the owner of Hurricane Cafe announced he is forced to shutdown in January. The restaurant owner blames the greedy property owner: “It’s not the way we wanted to go out for sure, losing a lease and getting torn down!”-Neil Scott
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 shutdown. It doesn’t count people who get a severance for being laid off.
“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