Incomplete list of U.S. Christian shutdowns and layoffs 1st Quarter 2016.
California: Christian owned (Presbyterian/Agnostic Warren Buffet, numerous wealthy Mormons and other christian denominations) Coca-Cola announced they will shutdown their Odwalla juice bottling op in Dinuba, 164 jobs lost! Local news reports indicate employees are shocked, many saying they heard about a possible shutdown but, like typical sheeple employees, put it off to rumor & innuendo. Coca-Cola is consolidating bottling operations to cut costs. Presbyterian/Agnostic Warren Buffett owned Kraft-Heinz issued a shutdown WARN for their San Leandro food factory, 117 jobs lost by mid-April! In the Santa Cruz Mountains, Christian campsite in San Mateo County Parks Department’s Memorial Park shutting down. It’s due to water supply issues. The state water regulations concerning the campsite limits how many people can use the site at one time, apparently God’s minions have been overpopulating the camp. God’s minions tried to build their own water well, but failed (remember, there is a drought): “We have our last group in here now and are closing down Thursday and I’m laying off staff.”-Reverend Larry Rice
Colorado: In Lafayette, the Crossroad’s Tavern shutdown by the greedy christian landlord. The landlord is the Flatirons Community Church.
Connecticut: 89 years old (surviving The Great Depression and numerous recessions) Saint Augustine School shutting down, it’s the last Catholic elementary school in Hartford. It’s blamed on what I call Disappearing Students Syndrome (some Christians call it The Rapture). Battery maker Duracell being forced to move its Bethel HQ to Illinois due to being taken over by job killer Presbyterian/Agnostic Warren Buffett. Saint Vincent De Paul in East Haven and Saint Gabriel in Milford shutting down. The christian schools managed to survive The Great Depression and numerous recessions, but for some reason they can’t survive what I call Disappearing Students Syndrome.
Delaware: In Newark, British empire based 23 years old Salvation Army Thrift Store (in the Park N Shop plaza) shutdown. The greedy landlord demanded more in rent.
Florida: More layoffs by Christian owned (Presbyterian/Agnostic Warren Buffet, numerous wealthy Mormons and other christian denominations) Coca-Cola, this time their Brandon finance office will lose about 70 jobs. In Gulf Breeze, more than 60 years old christian WaterFront Rescue Mission shutdown their women’s shelter, consolidating men’s shelters, selling off Olive Road Career Development Center and laying off 20 paid staff. The homeless shelter funded itself mainly with recycling projects, but because of the crash in prices of recycled goods they’re now broke: “We’ve been in the business of trying to help people, so we have given away every dollar.”-Devin Simmons
Georgia: In Albany, after five years christian owned (Flint River Presbytery) non-profit Bare Bulb Coffee shop shutting down due to road construction that killed customer traffic. British empire based Salvation Army second hand Family Store shutdown in Decatur. But it’s not due to lack of sales, instead God failed to fix the heating system in the building so they’re looking for a new location.
Idaho: More proof the real ‘christian god’ is money; ‘christian’ run Saint Luke’s Health has agreed to return revenues from two hospitals to the respective tax districts. The privately funded hospital system took over management of the taxpayer funded McCall and Mountain Home hospitals over the past six years and, according to the state Attorney General, was keeping the tax revenues for themselves in violation of the law. An Idaho Statesman investigation also revealed that the two dominant ‘christian’ run hospital chains, Saint Alphonsus and Saint Luke’s, control $793-million USD worth of property that are tax-exempt, and that’s just the 1-hundred properties they own in Ada County! A christian student ripped off the Mormon Brigham Young University-Idaho of $6-thousand 2-hundred, using a university credit card. Of course that ‘christian’ student wasn’t very smart because you can trace credit card transactions, and that’s how he got caught.
Illinois: Saint Agatha Catholic Academy, Saint Peter elementary and Seton Academy shutdown. It’s blamed on The Rapture, I mean what I call Disappearing Students Syndrome. ObamaCare forced Catholic Presence Health to eliminate 7-hundred jobs through attrition and outright layoffs! CEO Michael Englehart said ObamaCare was forcing them “to get in line”. Lutheran Social Services shutting down their Chicago nursing home services, 109 job lost! In Belleville, Saint Elizabeth’s Hospital shutting down. Administrators blame ObamaCare for “increased utilization of outpatient services”. 26 non-nursing jobs eliminated, nurses will supposedly be transferred to smaller healthcare operations. Franciscan Saint James Health hospital shutdown, blaming millions of U.S. dollars in losses over several years. Archdiocese of Chicago threatens to shutdown at least 1-hundred churches (parishes) due to lack of money, lack of priests and The Rapture, I mean lack of church goers. In Streator, ObamaCare forced Saint Mary’s Hospital to layoff 1-hundred employees! Another 2-hundred employees affected as the hospital shifts to out-patient care services! Oak Park Saint Edmund Catholic School shutdown, due to crashing enrollments.
Indiana: In Anderson, Family Christian Stores shutting down. Company administrators said the only thing that would keep them from shutting down was a better lease deal or “100-thousand new customers”!
Iowa: In Granger, 87 years old (surviving The Great [deflationary] Depression and numerous recessions) Assumption Catholic School shutting down. 15 years ago there were 150 elementary students, this current school year only 62!
Kansas: In Topeka, the manager of the Simply Amish furniture store said it is shutting down as soon as the inventory is gone. The owner of the store was not answering phone calls from local news media. Perhaps they’re Simply Broke?
Maine: In Portland, non-profit Good Cause Thrift Shop being shutdown by its owner, the Catholic girls only Catherine McCauley High School, which claims it’s an economic decision. According to Maine’s employment law, if you work for God’s non-profits you do not qualify for unemployment assistance! A local news report revealed the employees were ordered by ‘christian’ leaders not to reveal the shutdown, but the employees basically said ‘bullshit on that’! (that’s why we know about it)
Massachusetts: In Spencer, after 174 years (surviving The Great Depression and numerous recessions) First United Methodist Church shutdown. The local reverend blames it on The Rapture, I mean crashing membership. Framingham based, Mitt Romney (yep, the very same Mormon guy who’s threatening to run against Donald Trump) co-founded Staples announced it is shutting down an additional 50 stores. Mitt Romney’s Staples has shutdown 242 North American stores in the past two years, and eliminated 1-thousand jobs between November 2015 and January 2016! In Agawam, after only two years the Young Men’s Christian Association shutting down by the end of May due to lack of membership. Since opening in 2014 a grand total of only 550 people signed up! A school for disabled boys was shutdown after the ‘christian’ (the school hosts the traditional Great Barrington Christmas Party) employees were arrested for abusing those students, and even threatening witnesses. Eagleton School also had a contract with the state of Vermont, which is now scrambling to find a new school. One student had his sternum broken: “Eagleton staff continue to place residents at risk by utilizing physical force and unwarranted restraint techniques to control emotionally and mentally disabled individuals.”
Michigan: In Lansing, 150 years old (surviving The Great Depression and numerous recessions) Trinity Lutheran School shutting down. Parents criticized the church leaders saying they never considered outside sources of funding and the decision to shutdown came without warning.
Minnesota: 70 years old mega-church North Heights Lutheran shutting down. Local news reports say it’s due to a “civil war” inside the church!
Nebraska: Omaha based job killer Presbyterian/Agnostic Warren Buffett says vehicle insurance rates are going up due to increased accidents. He should know, the insurance industry is his forte. Buffett got his start with GEICo, which stands for Government Employees Insurance Company, in a ’round-a-bout way making his first fortune off taxpayers.
New Hampshire: River University is so desperate for christian students they are now offering a guarantee of employment upon graduation! If the student can’t get a job after six months of graduating from a bachelors program (undergraduate) then the university will pay for their masters program (graduate)!
New Jersey: Mother Teresa Regional School in Atlantic Highlands shutting down, 24 jobs lost by the end of June. Catholic Saint Francis Life Care shutting down their Franciscan Oaks nursing home, 257 jobs lost by the end of April! It’s been for sale since 2014. Quaker Cadbury Senior Lifestyles shutting down, 255 Cherry Hill nursing home jobs lost by the end of April! 113 years old (surviving The Great Depression and numerous recessions) Our Lady of Assumption church in Bayonne shutting down.
New Mexico: Christian owned (Presbyterian/Agnostic Warren Buffet, numerous wealthy Mormons and other christian denominations) Coca-Cola shutting down its Portales bottling factory, 59 jobs lost to consolidation. Coca-Cola’s warehouse in Clovis is also being shutdown.
New York: NYC based Martha Stewart Living and Martha Stewart Weddings revealed they laid off employees but refused to say how many. The convicted fraudster and Catholic Martha Stewart reportedly gave the employees the bad news herself. The layoffs are connected to the fact that Martha Stewart no longer owns her namesake, Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia is now owned by Sequential Brands Group. Albany Roman Catholic Diocese shutting down their Saint Augustine school in Lansingburgh. Church leaders blamed the state government for refusing to give them taxpayer funding (do churches pay taxes?). Mormon Mitt Romney co-founded Staples shutting down one of its two Binghamton stores by mid-April. After 47 years, Elmira Christian Academy shutting down due to The Rapture of students (what I call Disappearing Students Syndrome). At the school’s peak there were 220 students, this year there’s only 80, but the pastor blames doesn’t blame god, he blames the parents: “It’s hard to compete with families who feel that it would be more advantageous for them to educate their kids from home.”-David Leandre
North Dakota: ObamaCare forcing Saint Alexius Health hospital to layoff 23 people and re-classify another 39. Inpatient rehab and child care services have been shutdown! They referred to ObamaCare as “Industry trends and other circumstances”.
Ohio: In Youngstown, the 106 years old Masonic Temple on Wick Avenue shutting down by the end of June. The members say the large building has become too expensive to heat during winter.
Pennsylvania: After 104 years (surviving The Great Depression and numerous recessions) SS. Cosmas and Damian Church in Conshohocken shutdown. Church administrators say it just cost too much to maintain the old building. The Diocese of Erie shutting down four grade schools; Venango Catholic high school and Saint Boniface, Saint Peter Cathedral and Our Lady of Mount Carmel elementary schools. Church leaders blame The Rapture, I mean low enrollment.
South Dakota: The Catholic Diocese of Sioux City will begin shutting down 41 churches in Summer 2017, blaming The Rapture, I mean declining membership which results in declining revenues. Some of the surviving consolidated churches won’t even operate on a weekly bases!
Tennessee: Saint Francis Hospital laying off 33 people. Administrators said ObamaCare was forcing them to do business “more efficiently.” Three LifeWay Christian Stores shutting down on Southern Baptist seminary campuses. It’s blamed on the sale of Southern Baptist Convention property and changing spending habits of Christian students.
Texas: 30 years old Central Christian Academy shutting down. Church leaders blame The Rapture, I mean declining church membership for forcing them to sell the school property (told you before, this proves money is the true god). Mormon Mitt Romney’s co-founded Bain Capital-Glencore manipulated Alcoa aluminum maker continues its factory shutdowns started back in 2012, this time Alcoa is shutting down its Point Comfort alumina factory. Along with the shutdown in Indiana, 1-thousand 270 jobs will be lost!
Utah: Wild West themed Porter’s Place shutdown its Lehi restaurant because Mormon city administrators ran the operator outta town. The city owns the building and they want to tear it down. The owner of Porter’s Place say he hopes to open a new restaurant in the city of Nephi.
Vermont: After 142 years (surviving The Great Depression and numerous recessions) Quechee Community Church shutdown and sold-off.
Virginia: Southern Baptist International Mission Board eliminated 30 jobs and shutdown their Richmond Communications Center. In Ruther Glen, donation funded ‘christian’ run Cinderella’s Closet shutdown. The operators of the charity prom dress ministry said they need to quit, and nobody else wanted to take over the operation. Dresses were given away, and anything left over went to Concord Baptist Church. After 137 years (surviving The Great Depression and numerous recessions), Belle Haven Presbyterian Church announced it will shutdown after the ‘pagan’ Ishtar inspired holiday of Easter: “It’s for sale, someone can turn it into a restaurant if they want to.”-Nancy Bunce, church treasurer
Washington: In Bellingham, bible software company Faithlife Corporation laid off 60 christians, due to declining demand for their Logo software. In Everett, Trinity Lutheran College shutdown, due to The Rapture, I mean what I call Disappearing Students Syndrome: “…the Board of Directors of Trinity Lutheran College has come to the conclusion that any efforts to increase enrollment at Trinity will no longer sustain the college.”-Kevin Bates
Wisconsin: Another Mormon Mitt Romney co-founded Staples store going down, this time the Morgan Square store in Beloit shutting down. 45 years old ‘Black owned’ North Milwaukee State Bank shutdown by state Department of Financial Institutions, assets are being turned over to First-Citizens Bank & Trust. The federally mandated, but privately run, FDIC is overseeing the transfer. Black Enterprise Wealth for Life stated that most of North Milwaukee State Bank’s customer base were christian “Church congregations…”
U.S. Christian job destruction 2015: God powerless without Money! ‘maybe it’s something called The Rapture?’
“But the root of all these evils is the love of money, and there are some who have desired it and have erred from the faith and have brought themselves many miseries.”-1 Timothy 6:10 Aramaic Bible
“And Yeshua entered the temple and drove out all those who were buying and selling in the temple, and overturned the tables of the money changers and the seats of those who were selling doves. And he said to them, It is written: ‘My house will be called the House of prayer, but you have made it a den of robbers.’ “-Matthew 21:12-13 Aramaic Bible
“Yeshua said to them, ‘Give what is Caesar’s to Caesar and what is God’s to God.’ And they marveled at him.”-Mark 12:17 Aramaic Bible
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.-1st Amendment, U.S. Constitution
WARN=Worker Adjustment & Retraining Notification
Employees of religious non-profits might not qualify for unemployment assistance: “If the non-profit organization is a church, you may or may not be entitled to unemployment. It all depends upon state regulations for church employers. In many cases, churches are allowed to set their own rules regarding unemployment benefits, meaning the church can choose whether to offer benefits to former employees.”