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Charlotte Russe, Defying Industry Trends, Posts Excellent Sales Gain
Response to post #4: The frustrating thing beyond the hideous loss of opportunities and jobs for X & Y from exporting production is that inflation is already out of hand for clothing, etc. because of stock market expectations for quarterly report performance, etc. I really don't think that consumers save so much money from "low cost" foreign manufacturing keep B.S.ing us with, the reality is that they just keep the labor costs down and they can keep their profits up by inflating prices to meet "expectations." So we already have outrageous inflation in spite of the interest rates, and the government stats really don't reflect the degree of pain consumers are suffering by a long shot.— January 18, 2008 11:53 a.m.
"Independent" Analyst Swayed National Expert To Soften Position on Appointed Auditor
Response to post #22: You avoided my question Don, once again ***** QUESTION ***** What specific, detailed for implementation recommendations are you giving to your X & Y readers so they can recover from the screwing they got because of the profligacy of our degenerations (all generations between The Greatest Generation and Gen X)? ***** QUESTION ***** You see Don, now that the U-T has converted itself to San Diego Sporting News, and has destroyed their Business section by laying off columnists, eliminating the Sunday WSJ columns that included Jonathan Clements’ excellent financial advice column, we now need for San Diego’s best remaining Business expert to provide financial advice to your X & Y gen readers so they can escape from the indentured servitude legacy of our degerations. So if you don’t want to cut them any slack by reducing interest rates so they can keep from defaulting, bankruptcy, etc. due to outrageously usurious rates our degenerations are charging them, WHAT DO YOU RECOMMEND TO ADVISE THEM?? See ****** QUESTION ***** above.— January 18, 2008 2:11 a.m.
Charlotte Russe, Defying Industry Trends, Posts Excellent Sales Gain
Response to post #2: OK Don, so Charlotte Russe is headquartered in San Diego but they really don’t really provide manufacturing jobs to San Diego X & Y gens who buy their products. Next, since you didn’t answer my question about their using Chinese communist sweatshops, I must assume they do because that’s how "American Manufactering" is manufactured these days, and the next questions are on just how does Charlotte Russe really make their profits?: 1. Does Charlotte Russe add the usual 1000% magnitude markup to the costs of Chinese communist sweatshop manufacturing? (Remember that sweatshops and child labor exploitation are the reasons we have “Big Labor” in America, now that kind of thing is done in china where they can exclude American labor.) 2. How much of their profit comes at the expense of increased inflation in America, especially for X & Y gen customers they don’t even employ to manufacture their products? Isn’t capitalist-communism great or what, or should it be called communist-capitalism?— January 18, 2008 1:59 a.m.
Charlotte Russe, Defying Industry Trends, Posts Excellent Sales Gain
Is this good news for San Diego economically? Will this mean a lot of good jobs in San Diego? (Or are their products made in communist Chinese sweat shops?)— January 17, 2008 2:30 p.m.
Francis Says Lobbyists Control City Hall, Blasts Special Interests
It has become totally simple to identify corrupt puppeticians in San Diego, they run for City Attorney or Mayor and expose themselves as anti-Aguirre.— January 17, 2008 2:02 p.m.
Union-Tribune Lays Off 27, Says 18 More Will Go
When are they going to fire the corrupt and totally incompetent bastards on the U-T Editorial Board who screwed up the U-T and betrayed the people of San Diego?— January 17, 2008 12:35 p.m.
"Independent" Analyst Swayed National Expert To Soften Position on Appointed Auditor
I understand Don, I took grad courses in Econ. and know exactly where you are coming from. BTW, my wife gives me the same lectures you do. So let's put it another way: ***** What specific, detailed for implementation recommendations are you giving to your X & Y readers so they can recover from the screwing they got because of the profligacy of our degenerations (all generations between The Greatest Generation and Gen X)? *****— January 17, 2008 12:33 p.m.
"Independent" Analyst Swayed National Expert To Soften Position on Appointed Auditor
Response to post #16: Don, you really don't seem to have a very high opinion of generations X & Y, when it is our generation and all the generations that precede X & Y that you should be venting your anger against. It is our generation that has caused all the problems that X & Y have today, destroying their jobs and opportunities for quality of life. And we taught them all the worst possible habits as the most profligate role models in history. Our generation has no sense of responsibility and refuses to accept accountability, which is why San Diego and America are in so much trouble today, and that is not the fault of X & Y. X & Y need lower interest rates to: 1. Establish small businesses of their own to make up for the fact that the corporations run by people of our generation have exported so many opportunities and jobs we had and X & Y should have had to communist china. 2. X & Y need a chance to get out of the debts produced by the profligate legacy of our generation, and there aren’t enough decent jobs left to give them a chance to do so with existing interest rates that are the worst case government approved usury in history. 3. Ads in magazines such as The Reader, TV, etc. have been psychologically written to suck people into doing things they shouldn’t, as has been proven by the brain-dead stupidity of our generation. Clinton and Bush and their congresses are the worst presidents and politicians in American history. Washington and Wall Street are destroying the American way of life and we are arguing about interest rates after we have destroyed the future for X & Y. That really sucks. You’re right about one thing Don, X & Y must cut back in the profligate spending habits we taught them, like stopping buying things they see advertised against their best interests is a great way for them to start their fight back recovery. You might want to give X & Y some advice on How to Fight Back against the consequences of the profligate habits of our degeneration generation Don, X & Y already know that our politicians and their controlling special interests enabled by our degeneration generation are corrupt beyond redemption.— January 17, 2008 3:31 a.m.
Why the Strong Mayor Idea Won't Work with a Dishonest Mayor
You're right Don, the corrupt DNC demanded that the people of Michigan who have the highest unemployment in America do what they tell them or else, denying their states rights. An excellent reason for X & Yers to tell both the DNC and RNC to go straight to hell.— January 16, 2008 12:02 p.m.
"Independent" Analyst Swayed National Expert To Soften Position on Appointed Auditor
Well you certainly have one viewpoint from an Econ 101 textbook, but what about the Real World 101’s hideous lessons that have forced far too many X & Yers into indentured servitude because they got talked into government approved usury to buy things advertised by magazines that you might be familiar with, constant barrage of TV ads raising false expectations, U-T corrupt establishment stores, etc. screwing them into buying too much crap like all the previous generations did, making it impossible to get out of debt without having to go into default to survive. And on top of that American “Big Business” and Washington political puppets in both parties have sold out X & Y by exporting jobs and manufacturing to communist china so chinese slave labor can create more profits for American bastard corporate executives. So it’s time to return to homegrown small industry and small business to give the X & Yers a break in opportunities and jobs to achieve their own American dream. And those new opportunities need low interest rates to create more jobs and goods and services instead of buying from chinese slaves. Time to give X & Y a break Don, because all the generations before them including ours have set them up with our hell on earth legacy.— January 16, 2008 11:56 a.m.