Posted on 11/09/2012 4:18:49 PM PST by GraceG
Unless you are a dead democrat voter stuck in a graveyard, you will notice an awful LOT of businesses are laying people off right for the last three days. It finally hit me, is Atlas starting to shrug or is it merely shuddering only to fall asleep again?
Is this a sign of shrugging or is it a sign of the dragon shuddering only to roll over and fall back asleep again?
I am Jane Galt....
I think it is just a sign of reality. Businesses were in a holding pattern until after the election. Now they know which direction to head.
Exactly.
This economist has a link to the layoffs site. Ugh.
Yup... many were doubtless holding out to see if Mitt would manage to cowboy out Bronco Bama. Mitt didn’t.
Two possible directions.
One is, the pols get the message and take corrective action.
Two, the collectivists respond the way Stalin and Chavez did, condemning the employers as ‘wreckers’ and nationalizing the various industries one at a time.
History favors option 2 as the course of action, because collectivists are not open to the possibility that their model is absolute stupidity.
Only problem is, there’s no money.
Hello, Zimbabwe.
GG....I truly believe this is all part of his plan. Run small biz’s out of business....and nationalize the rest. IOW.....Venezuela.
This is the US though, so you get a kinder gentler socialism.
Venezuela, except without the extra oil to export!
I know it won’t happen but just imagine what would happen if some big businesses started closing up and their owners retiring. Imagine if Gibson Guitar had given everyone a pink slip after they had their wood confiscated saying “we can’t continue to operate under these kind of policies”. A few doing that and people would really sit up and take notice. Our online business is actually growing in this recession. We will have to decide whether to hire help or remain a small mom and pop business. No one will notice if we don’t decide to hire but multiply that by thousands of small businesses and it has a big effect.
The “wreckers” rhetoric would not fly as well here... at least not for another few decades until the old guard is gone.
As long as the financial markets continue to support the Baraqqi/Bernanke/Geithner minibucks that pour out, the dance goes on.
We’re riding a wave of false “prosperity” like that family in 2007 with two leased luxury SUVs, a McMansion with negative equity, and maxxed out credit cards and helocs.
Atlas is too late to shrug, it is time to take the weight of the world and throw it towards the ground and say NO MORE!
Atlas Spiked!
Until I can come up with something catchier...
We need both actively stop participating in the economy as well as taking cloward piven and ramming it down their collective throats. This needs to be done before they take the inherent rights of free people away.
I am Jane Galt!
I don’t know if it would have any impact or not, but associations of little businesses COULD try peppering both houses of Congress and the White House with this kind of concern, preferably as physical letters.
The “wreckers” rhetoric would not fly as well here... at least not for another few decades until the old guard is gone.
Which is why the collapse needs to be hastened by reverse cloward pivening these bastards before those who once knew freedom are in their graves voting a straight socialism ticket.
Thanks for the link. It is interesting. whoever runs that site has done a lot of work. They might wish to summarize the information via charts / graphs also
Layoff numbers
| Organization | # Laid off | Running total | Sector | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Abbot Labs | 700 | 700 | Med Eq/Dev Mfg | |
| AMD | 400 | 1100 | Electronics | |
| American Coal | 54 | 1154 | Energy | |
| Ameridose | 790 | 1944 | Health | |
| Associated Milk Producers Inc | 130 | 2074 | Agriculture | |
| ATI | 172 | 2246 | Education | |
| Bartikowsky Jewelers | 25 | 2271 | Retail | Business closure |
| Boston Scientific | 1200 | 3471 | Med Eq/Dev Mfg | |
| Brake Parts LLC | 75 | 3546 | Automotive | |
| Bristol-Myers Squibb | 479 | 4025 | Health | |
| Career Education Corp | 900 | 4925 | Education | |
| Caterpillar | 100 | 5025 | Construction Eq | |
| Center for Hospice and Palliative Care | 40 | 5065 | Health | |
| Cigna | 1300 | 6365 | Health | |
| Community Newspaper Holdings Inc | 21 | 6386 | Media | |
| Covidien | 595 | 6981 | Health | |
| Crouse Hospital Syracuse | 70 | 7051 | Health | |
| CVPH | 17 | 7068 | Health | |
| Dana Holding Corp | 7 | 7075 | Automotive | |
| Energizer | 1500 | 8575 | Energy | |
| Exide | 150 | 8725 | Energy | |
| Groupon | 600 | 9325 | Consumer | |
| Hawker Beechcraft | 410 | 9735 | Aerospace | |
| Hill-Rom | 200 | 9935 | Med Eq/Dev Mfg | |
| Husqvarna | 600 | 10535 | Tools | Cuts in Sweden |
| Kinetic Concepts | 427 | 10962 | Health | |
| Lightyear Network Solutions | 14 | 10976 | Software/internet | |
| Medtronic | 500 | 11476 | Med Eq/Dev Mfg | |
| Mills Manufacturing | 68 | 11544 | Defense | |
| Momentive Performance Materials | 150 | 11694 | Chemicals | |
| Murray Energy Corporation | 48 | 11742 | Energy | |
| New Energy | 40 | 11782 | Energy | |
| OCE | 135 | 11917 | Office equip | |
| Penn Refrigeration | 30 | 11947 | ||
| Providence Journal | 23 | 11970 | Media | |
| Research in Motion | 200 | 12170 | Consumer Electronics | |
| Smith & Nephew | 770 | 12940 | Med Eq/Dev Mfg | |
| Southeastern Container | 15 | 12955 | Consumer | |
| Space X | 100 | 13055 | Defense | |
| St Jude Medical | 300 | 13355 | Health | |
| Stryker | 96 | 13451 | Med Eq/Dev Mfg | |
| TE Connectivity | 620 | 14071 | Electronics | |
| Teco Coal Corporation | 90 | 14161 | Energy | |
| TurboCare | 88 | 14249 | Energy | |
| U.S. Cellular | 980 | 15229 | Electronics | |
| Umatilla Chemical Depot | 34 | 15263 | Defense | |
| UtahAmerican Energy | 102 | 15365 | Energy | |
| Vestas | 3000 | 18365 | Energy | |
| Welch Allyn | 275 | 18640 | Med Eq Mfg | |
| West Ridge Mine | 102 | 18742 | Energy | |
| Westinghouse | 17 | 18759 | Hi Tech Services | |
| Westinghouse Anniston | 50 | 18809 | Defense | |
| Wright-Patterson | 115 | 18924 | Defense | |
| Yakima Regional Medical Center | 10 | 18934 | Health | |
Layoffs without exact number specified
| Organization | % Laid off | Sector | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Boeing Defense, Space & Security | 30 | Defense | Executive Staff | |
| Corning | 4 | Manufacturing | Executive Staff | |
| Saugerties | Government | |||
| Slidell | Government | "Will try to spread equally" | ||
| United Blood Services | 10 | Health | All staff | |
| Wilkes-Barre | Government | Firefighters | ||
Worker Reduction In Scheduled Time (to below ObamaCare threshold)
| Organization | % WRIST | # Affected | Sector | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Darden Restaurants | Food service | |||
| JANCOA Janitorial Services | Janitorial Service | |||
| Kroger | Grocery | |||
Well, we do have a big game of chicken coming up, whether we like it or not. Obamacare and the steps it will take. Once it truly dawns on people what this does, I believe that for many now in denial it will become Obamascare and will fall, not rise, in popularity. There will be bellowing and screaming as oxen are gored by it. There’s no laughing gas Washington has that could stifle the agony.
Darden operates Olive Garden among other places. A nice eatery, but who’s going to have the spare change for it pretty soon?
Atlas Shuttered?
Second-hand stores and Auction Houses are popping up everywhere.
Let me know if you want to hire! LOL!
I am told that “dollar stores” are doing pretty well too.
Wal-Mart competes with that segment, but they tend to be awkwardly large to shop if you are a dollar shopper.
Be a contractor???
Atlas has shrugged so much it needs surgery to repair the shoulder joints.
Just as Poppy promised us.
Sure!
“Let me know if you want to hire! LOL!”
You’ve got it but I don’t think it is going to happen. We were pinning all our hopes to a Romney win and that producing more confidence and certainty in the market place. Now I don’t know what will happen. I don’t think we will be hiring anyone anytime soon. Still we managed to grow our business 160% over last year.
We’ll just have to work a little harder, that’s all. Where have I heard that line before? Oh yeah, Atlas Shrugged.
One thing I have to give to Obama, he has excelled at producing uncertainty. I guess everyone is good at something.
Option two is what’s happening right now, with ‘bama using his alphabet soup agencies like a bludgeon to get things started.
I am told that “dollar stores” are doing pretty well too.
Wal-Mart competes with that segment, but they tend to be awkwardly large to shop if you are a dollar shopper.
Yes, family dollar stores, which are like a small version of Walmart are going in all over the place in our area. I have to admit they are great to have and the prices are great too. It’s 35 miles to the nearest Walmart. By the time you add in the gas it’s almost cheaper to go to the local “expensive” grocery store.
“I truly believe this is all part of his plan. Run small biz’s out of business....and nationalize the rest. IOW.....Venezuela”
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Will Bozo rename Walmart GUM. ...After all, he does have more
flexibility now... you know.
Hang in there and keep your sense of humor! :-)
The Amish are on a riot hair trigger. They are ALWAYS lookin
for an excuse.
I think if Atlas shruggs too hard or too much then we get the
SHTF scenario that we have all been discussing for the last
four years. Let it come. The sooner we can puke out this
POS POTUS the sooner we can pull this country back from the nosedive.
Resignation, impeachment, military junta... I don’t care how
he exits.. just that he does.
As long as he was an illegal alien, he would get the surgery and physical therapy. If he made the mistake of trying to claim citizenship, he wouldn’t get a thing.
Response: Screw 'em!! You can't take it, if it doesn't exist. And you vote to take my property, I'm not hiring you. Eat Obama promises and see how fat you get.
The divider in chief is creating an America with far less goodwill toward one another. Thank you Bronco Bama.
No? That’s what the “1%” rhetoric is about.
Until I can come up with something catchier...
Atlas Shuttered?
That is good, sounds more like “Atlas Shut-in”
Nice start though!
It's more like playing chicken with someone who wants you dead more than life itself, and is actively looking forward to literal fountains of milk and honey, 18 young boys like pearls and 72 virgins.
I’m not all that happy with it either.
Atlas shucked (and jived)?
Soon “dollar” stores won’t exist. There is no such thing as a dollar store in Europe.
Great post. 100 percent in agreement.
Dollar stores are weird. You can get some bargains, but other items are offered in strange little sizes to even out the price point: e.g. a box of cake mix that bakes exactly six cupcakes.
Know what you mean.
I stick to Dollar General. More of them than Post Offices around here, almost.
Name brand stuff at prices that sometimes beat Wally Whirled.
And no ways near the hassle. I pass 3 of them on a 35 mile commute to a jobsite. In and out in 5 minutes.
Remember -- Rove's message, and the GOP-e, was that the GOP was in the thrall of religious fanatics and that reaching towards the center would solve that.
So they kneecapped their way to the nomination, despite polling roughly 30% in a lot of the GOP Primaries.
And with a President as bad as Obama, and the economy the way it was?
The conservatives STILL voted for him. The moderates stayed home.
F*ck the RINOs forever.
They are dead to me -- if we're going to lose anyway (as we did under McCain (of McCain-Feingold and "you don't need to fear this man as your President) and Romney (of "I'll work with the Democrats as I did in Massachusetts to get things done") then we might as well run a true conservative.
Ryan and Palin energized the base; and the Dems had to pull out ALL the stops -- including massive election fraud in Ohio, Florida, and Philly; numerous youth and first-time uninformed voters; and parasite sluts -- to win in a squeaker where six or eight million of HIS base stayed home.
Cheers!
When the employers are walking their “former” employees out the doors, maybe they should tell them that elections have consequences. Some good, some bad.
I think we’re seeing just the beginning of what will ultimately prove to be a major slowing of the economy and an unemployment rate of well over 10%.
The democrats, liberals and progressives will own the economy and no amount of “it’s Bush’s fault”, will get them off the hook. What we conservatives need to do is find a person who is capable of doing the job, jet doesn’t want the job, but would ultimately do it for the good of the country.
Most of all, it can’t be a politician or another lawyer. I’m thinking of a man similar to Lee Iacoca, former CEO of Chrysler, or another turn around specialist from business.
Well, he’s already told the IRS to pussyfoot when the Grand Resistance comes, as it certainly will. Barack does not want the crap to concuss the choppers, at least not too soon.
DG is “deluxe dollar” i.e. they have things up to $5 and maybe more. That’s sometimes more convenient than strict dollar stores like Dollar Tree.
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