(06-29-2009 03:48 PM)Eagle4life05 Wrote: (06-29-2009 03:42 PM)PirateTreasureNC Wrote: (06-29-2009 03:32 PM)usmbacker Wrote: (06-29-2009 02:13 PM)EagleRockCafe Wrote: Waldenbooks....closing 250 stores.
Rite-Aid....closing 117 stores
Pier 0ne....closing 80 stores
Starbucks....closing 600 stores
Ann Taylor....closing 163 stores
Macy's....closing 11 stores
Sears....closing 24 stores
Zales...closing 115 stores
Ruby Tuesdays...closing 70 company owned locations.
Gap....closing 100 stores
Ritz Cameras...closing 300 stores
Just a partial list. Just food for thought......
That list pales in what Obama's Health Care Plan and his idiotic Cap and Trade plan will do.
So what did Bush do FOR us? I sure didn't notice a whole lot while he was in office.
He did a lot more than some of you yahoos would like to give him credit for!
In time he will go down as one of the greatest we have ever had and that was cool as a cumcumber!!!!!
Obama and his health care plan is going to hurt many hospitals and those he the health care field a ton and why? Just so those who don't want to work can get free health care? Sad really!!!! hell I may just stay home and shoot up Herion at least i'll know I want have to worry about a docter bill
You realize that these closings are a direct result of what has happened over the last several years, right?
No one with any sort of common sense and the ability to reason can lay the blame solely on Obama, Bush, Clinton, Bush I, or Reagan. Yes, some can take more blame than the others, but at the end of the day, many of these are the result of mismanagement by the companies themselves, changing business models (Amazon has REALLY hurt Waldenbooks, for example), and yes, the poor economy. The last bit has SEVERAL peoples' hands in it going back to the 1980s, but no one really wants to talk about that because it's easy to assign one boogie man instead of actually figuring out what happened, correct the problems, and ensure that it doesn't happen again.
So here's an idea: why don't some of you start proposing alternative plans (and think of them yourselves instead of parroting some yahoo on the radio or Fox News) instead of wasting everyone's time with your juvenile (at best) and worthless comments?
I'll start. Here's an outline of my health care proposal:
I think that the most politically acceptable plan would involve having current insurers enter into a pool where they take on uninsured people in proportion to the companies' market share. So if you have 10% of the market, you take in 10% of the uninsured populace (who meet certain income criteria, etc). These people have a portion of their premium subsidized by the state and federal governments, with the rest of the cost coming out of their own pocket.
This way, the people who worship the Free Market get to keep their marketplace, and those of us who want universal coverage get what we want out of it. Additionally, the State and the Fed will have to increase regulation on the companies, but that was expected anyway.
Basically, this is similar to the auto insurance and home owners insurance pools that are already in place in several states.