Posted on 11/19/2021 6:21:36 PM PST by jfd1776
The Bureau of Labor Statistics estimates that four to five million Americans work in retail, with an average salary of about $27,000 per year. As careers go, retail isn't one of the most lucrative, and while there are many reasons for that, shoplifting is one of the biggest.
Like any industry, salary is a calculation of other business costs and business revenue. A store buys inventory and display cases; pays rent and utilities; pays for print ads and commercials; and sells as much as it can, pricing the goods as high as the market will bear. Whether the store managers and cashiers can be well paid or poorly paid depends on sales, costs, and "loss prevention" — the industry's gentle euphemism for the crime of shoplifting.
Shoplifting is in the news today, as well it should be, though for a surprising reason: usurper-in-chief Joe Biden has nominated a shoplifter named Saule Omarova to the coveted position of comptroller of the currency, a position supervising some 3,500 federal banking regulators in the Treasury Department.
This is a Soviet-born, Soviet-educated socialist who wrote a glowing portrait of Karl Marx as her thesis at Moscow State University, where she studied on the V.I. Lenin Personal Academic Scholarship. Yes, Gentle Reader, you read that right. We couldn't make up a thing like this.
Having a communist as a professor at Cornell Law School isn't all that odd nowadays, unfortunately. But having one as a top appointee to the department founded by the great Alexander Hamilton is disturbing, to say the least. ..
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
Any and all “Senators” who vote to confirm her need to be sent packing, ASAP.
She’s a commie, Jim....
Looks like Omorova has to supplement her paycheck from Putin. Now that she is getting them from both Biden and Putin she won’t have to shoplift anymore.
People attempting toshoplift in russia would be held, beaten and arrested, if they tried leaving with huge items theyd be shot.
Biden: Worst. President. Ever.
So who is working for the Russians again? It’s not Trump
Looking at Saule Omarova picture: unlike Kyle Rittenhouse, she is totally, absolutely guilty on all ten counts! Members of the US Senate should claim visual effects of her testimony being “cruel and unusual punishment”..
She was already working in charge of the state regulations within treasury under Bush II.
BiteMe isn’t the problem.
The people who installed him are.
Figures.
You’re right... commie thugs pulling Biden’s strings are worse.
Working under and being ‘in charge’ are very different operations... That said, I’m not a Bus fan.
Two things:
1. Biteme honeymooned in Communist Hungary. No surprise he nominated a commie for office.
2. The article states that “$50 billion per year is stolen from America’s retailers.” So it’s a just another tax on America, courtesy of Soros AGs, BLM (thank you, Gentle Giant, you dumbass shoplifter), Open Borders, etc. etc. Not that they invented shoplifting, but next time you go to Home Depot and have to rifle through half-empty packages of gizmos in order to find the one complete package that you’ll have to pay double or triple bc the others were all pilfered by Guatemalans, then say, once again, thank you, Ted Kennedy, Clinton, Bushes, Obama and now Biden.
If $50bn is stolen, then the costs to recover it are built in to prices. While I’m sure that number is retail value (i.e. after markup), the additional costs of security, protective merchandising and packaging, lawyers, employee training, have to move that number well over the markup value.
It’s really not so hard to look at the world realistically. But Leftists only deal with “yeah but” and not “then what.”
You have to wonder if there are generational moderate Democrats looking at this and wondering is this is deliberate sabotage of the party. 2022 could be 1994 all over again with this administration line-up.
At some point, some Democrats are going to have to vote in the House to save their seats and say “Stop this madness”
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