damn_registrars's Journal: Staples to close 225 stores in 2014

I expect soon the slashdot conservative majority will tell us that this is a good thing, or that it is the fault of President Obama personally, or that it can somehow be both.

Staples to close 225 stores in US by the end of 2014.

A dead economy is a good thing?

[smittyoneeach]

How do you think conservatives would call that a good thing?

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[damn_registrars]

How do you think conservatives would call that a good thing?

Conservatives would call this a good thing because it is putting working class people out of work, naturally. When working class types interfere with profit, they need to go so the top economic echelons can bask in the glory of the free market.

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[smittyoneeach]

The only conservative way that this could be seen as a plus is if the laid-off workers started 225 new stores themselves and had some sense of accomplishment, and adding value back into the economy.
But Progressivism is about turning us all in to beggars [youtube.com].

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[damn_registrars]

The only conservative way that this could be seen as a plus is if the laid-off workers started 225 new stores themselves and had some sense of accomplishment, and adding value back into the economy.

In what alternate universe do you think that underpaid retail slaves have access to that kind of capital?

But Progressivism is about turning us all in to beggars.

So your claim then is that the 99% can only be beggars or slaves? Your economy certainly doesn't give them any reason to have hope to ever improve on their economic situation.

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[smittyoneeach]

In what alternate universe do you think that underpaid retail slaves have access to that kind of capital?

Do you have the courage to ask yourself WHY enterprising citizens cannot successfully start new business?

Your economy certainly doesn't give them any reason to have hope to ever improve on their economic situation.

MY economy? Is this another patching on your lead zeppelin argument that Obama is conservative?

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[damn_registrars]

In what alternate universe do you think that underpaid retail slaves have access to that kind of capital?

Do you have the courage to ask yourself WHY enterprising citizens cannot successfully start new business?

I'm going to guess based on that statement that you have never worked retail, or you would know how foolish that question is. Allow me to fill you in:

• The hours are erratic
• The pay is inconsistent
• After any given day:
  • Your feet hurt
  • Your knees hurt
  • You've likely had at least one customer abuse you emotionally
• And you are often the victim of decisions made by people who don't work the sales floor, who do not welcome your input.

In other words the deck is stacked heavily against the working class retail slaves

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[smittyoneeach]

Yes, YOUR economy. When your party had the white house and both chambers of congress you embraced this economy like the second coming. The policies that brought it about have not changed significantly since the changing of the POTUS. This is still YOUR economy.

I'll give you that the country remains on a Progressive course. However, the jackass in the room is the party that brought in ObamaCare, and the political targeting of American citizens by the IRS. But, again, you have a point: the Republicans who are speaking of reform, e.g. Cruz, are labeled as "extreme". We cannot be certain that a President McCain would've fared much better domestically, but that's all counter-factual.

In any case, do you have the courage to demand reform and an end to this idiotic Prog

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[damn_registrars]

So have you ever worked retail, then? Your earlier statement was based on a lot of fact-free and erroneous assumptions about retail employees, the type of assumptions that almost without fail come only from people who have never worked the floor themselves. You didn't bother to reply to that part - which is the part that more directly relates to this JE.

That said:

I'll give you that the country remains on a Progressive course

If by that you mean "progressively more economically conservative at every possible turn", then I agree with you. The horribly regressive in

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[smittyoneeach]

So have you ever worked retail, then? Your earlier statement was based on a lot of fact-free and erroneous assumptions about retail employees, the type of assumptions that almost without fail come only from people who have never worked the floor themselves. You didn't bother to reply to that part - which is the part that more directly relates to this JE.

I worked in a theater years ago, at minimum wage or thereabouts, before entering the military. I'm sure that there is some rider whereby this doesn't count.

I'll give you that the country remains on a Progressive course

If by that you mean "progressively more economically conservative at every possible turn", then I agree with you. The horribly regressive income tax brackets that were implemented by the previous CEO in chief still remain in effect, and nobody in Washington has actually done anything about the disappearance of economic opportunity for the middle and lower classes in many decades. We currently have a battle between one party that is too cowardly to actually do anything (those democrats that you so deeply openly hate) and another party that thinks the system should be restructured to guarantee that nobody has any such opportunity (your dear republican party).

The policies of the last century, Republican & Democrat, have concentrated power in DC. That you still think we have a plural number of parties is quaint.

the party that brought in ObamaCare

You guys really thought you'd be able to punk Obama on this one, didn't you? You started with a state bill that was passed by a conservative governor that didn't accomplish any of the liberal goals that Obama originally aimed for.

RomneyCare?

You then passed it through the conservative Heritage Foundation before presenting in congress as "the only bill we will sign". You then refused to sign it because you realized it just might make Obama look good if it were to find any kind of public approval. However, you realized that you also put him in a near-perfect pickle by way of the fact that if he vetoed it, he would never see another health care bill during his presidency. Well played. But don't go around fooling yourself into thinking that you can get actual liberals to actually support the health insurance industry bailout act of 2010.

Yeah, that's been debunked: http://blog.heritage.org/2012/02/06/dont-blame-heritage-for-obamacare-mandate/ [heritage.org] But you keep playing that card as you whistle past the graveyard, girl. Obama's

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[damn_registrars]

So have you ever worked retail, then? Your earlier statement was based on a lot of fact-free and erroneous assumptions about retail employees, the type of assumptions that almost without fail come only from people who have never worked the floor themselves. You didn't bother to reply to that part - which is the part that more directly relates to this JE.

I worked in a theater years ago, at minimum wage or thereabouts, before entering the military. I'm sure that there is some rider whereby this doesn't count.

The random and baseless assumptions that you displayed earlier about retail employees demonstrates that you did not work an actual retail job. Theater employees are mostly cashiers and janitors. Not that they don't have a job to do, but it is not the same as working a sales floor. This JE is about a retailer closing stores and putting retail workers out of business, and you are laughing at those employees.

That you still think we have a plural number of parties is quaint.

We have an extremely conservative group of politicians (the democrats) and a completely bonkers gr

Guess it wasn't easy

[Captain Splendid]

n/t

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[Zontar The Mindless]

Especially since EVERYBODY knows that this SURELY goes all the way back to WHITEWATER!

(So what do I win?)