Twix candy bar primitive a sugared posterior

[franksolich]

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Oh my.

The Twix candy bar primitive.

TwixVoy  (1000+ posts)        Tue Sep-29-09 09:25 PM
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We are a nation of candy asses

I have given many reasons why our economy has gone to hell and why the middle class will be in a death spiral for the next several years.

One of the biggest reasons I see - we are a nation of candy asses. Not everyone mind you, but the majority.

We let mega corporations continue to screw us. We let OUR TAX MONEY go to mega banks while we watched as our "representatives" in congress let our auto manufacturers (which actually provided middle class JOBS) crash and burn.

And what did you hear most americans say? "Those union workers make $20 an hour!!!!" "That is way too much money!!!" "They have good health care!!!!! HOW OUTRAGEOUS!!!" We are SO happy to cut our own throats for the top 1%. How DARE those workers demand good health care and middle class wages.

All those fools who want to watch American Idol and pretend everything will work its self out are going to be in for a huge surprise. Half this country consists of people who may as well be a frog sitting in slowly heating water. By the time they finally wake up and realize they have NOTHING (it will be a slow process) and China is the new worlds super power it will be far too late to reverse course.

And when they go out and try to blame a democrat, or a minority, or anyone else they need only look in a mirror. It is where they will see the one responsible.

Can you imagine if the founders of this country took this kind of crap with out a word? These people are so easy to manipulate and roll over, and they are too afraid to stand up for themselves because they are in massive debt living paycheck to paycheck. Right where the top 1% wants them to be. They are essentially slaves.

By the way, the Twix candy bar primitive recently threw franksolich for a loop; I had assumed the Twix candy bar primitive was a 20-something or 30-something, but the Twix candy bar primitive is apparently in her late 50s, early 60s.

The rich kid grazing primitive:

jgraz  (1000+ posts)        Tue Sep-29-09 09:27 PM
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1. In the future, we'll be known as The Lamest Generation

It's sad.

ZombieHorde  (1000+ posts)      Tue Sep-29-09 09:31 PM
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5. If God did not want us to eat each other, he would not have made our asses out of candy.

After which the nicked stoned primitive begs the Twix candy bar primitive to check out a bonfire of hers, possibly in pursuit of more rec's to counterbalance all the unrec's.

TwixVoy  (1000+ posts)        Tue Sep-29-09 09:54 PM
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15. We experienced situations like this one on that thread

We experienced situations like the one on that thread at Target. It used to never be a problem, but became worse and worse from the end of 2007 on. (I wrote about it on more than one occasion back then here on DU)

It used to be that our DCs (distribution centers) were loaded full of excess product. After 2007 though we had company wide shortages on items that were even barely "hot" all the time. Reasons were

1. The company cut back on inventory drastically for fear we would order too much product and be unable to unload it on the consumer.

2. Once we realized an item was actually selling we had to get it in to the country from (most of the time) Asia. Many people don't realize how long it takes to import mass amounts of product from abroad on short notice and fill the stores with it nation wide. Once our buyers actually put in the order we could be waiting 2-3 months at a minimum before it even started to hit the stores. (for example, early in 2009 almost EVERY store in the company was out of at least 50% of the current TV line up simply because they started to sell just slightly faster than expected... it took over 3 months before all the stores were fully replenished again)

Basically the supply chain has been all screwed up ever since 2007 simply because consumer demand is so different than it used to be. Take December 2008. The company ordered WAY too much product for the Toys department. (it was actually LESS than we ordered every typical 4th quarter, but sales were down THAT MUCH that it was still overwhelming us) The DCs were shipping it to the stores like mad to the point our stock rooms were SO FULL we could not even walk through 80% of the stock room. The company intranet was full of messages indicating other stores were in the same situation. Basically the company was in a panic and told all the stores to immediately activate clearance prices on most of it (PRIOR to Christmas which is unheard of during the Christmas season). The product still wouldn't move even at 30-50% off during the middle of the Christmas season.

Honestly I would continue to expect retail shortages as a fact of life from now on. Retailers simply can NOT risk over stocking product and then having to take huge losses on it having to clearance it out when it doesn't sell like it would have in previous years. That goes from a bottle of $2 aspirin to a $2000 TV. The time of anything that is even slightly in demand being readily available is over I am afraid....

One of the last things I remember reading at Target that has burned a place in my mind was a memo from HQ saying that they have long term (as in the next decade) plans to cut back like this because they expect consumers to be able to purchase less and less over the coming decade. I remember a line in the memo even referred to this as preparation for the "the new American consumer that can only afford to buy a few items at most".

troubledamerican (903 posts)      Wed Sep-30-09 12:00 AM
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29. 12/12/00. I waited at the Seattle Fed Bldg. No protesters showed up. Where was everybody?

Oh my.  One wonders what that was all about.

[ScubaGuy]

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31. Don't you work for TARGET? Or didn't you recently work for TARGET?
   
How does your tough talk about America being a nation of candy asses fit with your personal history of working in management for one of the corporate giants in retail?

Care to explain how that qualifies you for determining the country is a bunch of candy asses?

Same way it qualifies her to give financial advise.   

[JohnnyReb]

"....but became worse and worse from the end of 2007..." ....uh.... who was in charge then?

"That is way too much money!!!" ....and what group do we hear fussing about that the most.

 Can you imagine if the founders of this country took this kind of crap with out a word?.....I do believe the founding fathers would have shot you sorry asses.

[IassaFTots]

It said this?

All those fools who want to watch American Idol and pretend everything will work its self out are going to be in for a huge surprise. Half this country consists of people who may as well be a frog sitting in slowly heating water. By the time they finally wake up and realize they have NOTHING (it will be a slow process) and China is the new worlds super power it will be far too late to reverse course.

hmmmm....

[YupItsMe]

(903 posts)      Wed Sep-30-09 12:00 AM
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29. 12/12/00. I waited at the Seattle Fed Bldg. No protesters showed up. Where was everybody?

Oh my.  One wonders what that was all about.

I think 12/12/00 was when the rightful winner of the 2000 presidential election was finally decided. 

[Ralph Wiggum]

We let mega corporations continue to screw us.

How exactly?  Just another DU meme that goes unchallenged, like "Bush has committed hundreds of impeachable offenses".

And what did you hear most americans say? "Those union workers make $20 an hour!!!!" "That is way too much money!!!

No, it's the union workers who have collectively bargained their $50/hour no-work jobs that piss off Americans.

[The Village Idiot]

Same way it qualifies her to give financial advise.   

Sweet Rears are those people who refuse to be productive and demand someone else fund their lifestyle.

[GOBUCKS]

I think DUmmy TwixVoy is right on target with the her (?) prediction of a slow decline into
abject poverty.

That is, with respect to her own life. The decline may not be all that slow, if the alleged delay in
her (?) new alleged career as a cable guy has been derailed by that pesky drug test.

Tomorrow is October 1, the allegedly delayed starting date of that alleged job.

[AllosaursRus]

And what did you hear most americans say? "Those union workers make $20 an hour!!!!" "That is way too much money!!!" "They have good health care!!!!! HOW OUTRAGEOUS!!!" We are SO happy to cut our own throats for the top 1%. How DARE those workers demand good health care and middle class wages.

Ahem, DUmbass! Sorry, some of us feel that $20 plus another $20 worth of bennies an hour, is a little too much to pay a brain dead idiot for putting on lug nuts for 8 hours a day. Or better yet, for sittin' around playin' poker in their so called job bank.

[USA4ME]

TwixVoy

And what did you hear most americans say? "Those union workers make $20 an hour!!!!" "That is way too much money!!!" "They have good health care!!!!! HOW OUTRAGEOUS!!!" We are SO happy to cut our own throats for the top 1%. How DARE those workers demand good health care and middle class wages.

If employees can get $20/hr plus benefits then more power to them.  Their excessive wages and benefits also added an extra $1500 in cost to each new car that was sold.  When I, as an American citizen, make an independent decision to not purchase the product because of the added expense of which I don't wish to pay, you call that cutting my own throat.  But, it just doesn't work like that in the real world.  When you artifically inflate the value of a product to cover excessive expenses, then people are going to shop elsewhere.  The American auto companies lost a lot of business over the last 40 years because they priced themselves out of the market given the quality (and in many instances, non-quality) of the product.

So if they can get the high income and beenies, good for them.  Just remember it might be temporary and in the end they could just be screwing themselves.

Otherwise, your understanding of the retail market and economics overall is almost like that of a really smart 3rd grader.

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[Carl]

You have to remember that libs state one motive that sounds good and compassionate but always want a perk for themselves.

Unions they claim protect and help workers but what they wish for are "jobs" that include raises and goodies guaranteed without performance or responsibility.
A free ride is always what a DUmmy is after...ALWAYS.

[AllosaursRus]

You have to remember that libs state one motive that sounds good and compassionate but always want a perk for themselves.

Unions they claim protect and help workers but what they wish for are "jobs" that include raises and goodies guaranteed without performance or responsibility.
A free ride is always what a DUmmy is after...ALWAYS.

What's worse is the asshats that run said unions, are laughing all the way to the bank on the backs of the people their supposedly protecting!