RAISING PRICES BY 38%! WHY NOT ?? “MARKET RETAIL-HYSTERICS.”


Likely Barns just coined a new MACRO ECONOMIC TERM: MARKET RETAIL-HYSTERICS. It is his expression of an old fool’s paradigm: “If it can be, it shall be.”

There are more than enough significant and well documented economic reasons for the present economic funk. And, thus, the strong consumer reaction at the retail level engendered by those.

No need to beat on this heard of horses. They are long deceased and on their way to the glue factory: “liar loans” recipients' and their criminal lenders' driven sub-prime crisis, the extraordinary cost of our pathetic and losing global oil and foreign policies, the short term criminal perspective of some businesses, a critically arrogant banking system devoid of regulatory oversight, perilously close to being entirely controlled by Middle Easterners, and so on and on and on.

And a GDP of $14 Trillion. And growing.

But.... Here is one of the significant components of market retail-hysterics.

Barns knows one of the bigger companies in Southern California who has a lot of valet parking lot concessions mostly at restaurants. In the past two months, they have increased their rates by 38%. Why? Well, their operating expenses, including labor, have not gone up. The number of customers they service has gone down a bit. Not 38%. Why raise prices by 38%?

Why not! People expect things to be more expensive, therefore, “the market will bear the increases.” Bingo: a profit making exercise that feeds on .... MARKET RETAIL-HYSTERICS.

What is lost in all this is the self-fulfilling prophecy: the downward vortex in all segments of commerce caused by a psychographic impact on all consumers.

Things should suck. Therefore they [really] do.


HATE BUSH = 49%
LIKE McCAIN = 14%
LOVE OBAMA = 49%


Rasmussen poll this morning:

49% OF AMERICANS THINK THAT THE MEDIA GIVES OBAMA MORE POSITIVE COVERAGE THAN McCAIN.

14% OF AMERICANS THINK THAT THE MEDIA GIVES McCAIN MORE POSITIVE COVERAGE THAN OBAMA.

The whole rhapsodic, evangelical, prophet-like Obama phenomenon has press and millions of Americans hypnotized.

Voters need to evaluate if their vote is simply a VOTE AGAINST GEORGE BUSH rather than a vote for Obama.

Voters need to come to grips with the reality that they have a woefully limited choice in McCain.

Obama unscripted is only a TALENTED BEGINNER. Lots of dreams and hopes, little substance, no experience and a good measure of global naiveté. Check out his press conferences in the Middle East. And pray.

McCain unscripted used to be a "maverick." Now just a political hack.

Write in Barns for President !!

Of course, Barns is as electable as a ham sandwich........


Venezuelan President HUGO CHAVEZ SPENDS ANOTHER $2 BILLION FOR WEAPONS IN RUSSIA! Again ....


WARNING!

This moron is dangerous! Not only has he destroyed his lovely country, he wants to become the next Castro. Except, rather than starving as Castro has been for decades, this bozo has some oil and is buying a lot of weapons.

And, YES. His people are beginning to starve as well.

The moron continues to scream about the impending invasion by the U.S. Why would we ever do that?

The facts are as simple as laughable. Venezuela is DOWN to producing only 2 Million Barrels a day. We buy 1 Million Barrels a day from them. For the funny part: we refine the other 1 Million barrels a day for them AND charge them for the gasoline.

Of course, being who and what we are, we also buy some of that gasoline at retail, once we re-import it.

I propose a different arrangement: find the 1 Million barrels elsewhere. Let the guy drown in his own oil.


MAN SELLING PHONY CRACK COCAINE GETS BUSTED! TOO MANY COMPLAINTS ABOUT HIS PRODUCT!


Wilkes Barre, PA lowlife gets busted for selling "SOAP" (literally) while asserting that he was selling CRACK.

HOW DID THE POLICE KNOW TO GO AFTER HIM? Hell: they had complaints from dissatisfied customers! They had to act to protect the consuming public!

Shortly after Barns recovers from hysterical laughter, he will ponder the BIG P.C. QUESTION...

This moron will be prosecuted for "intentional possession of a controlled substance with intent to deliver." Clearly, PROCTER & GAMBLE, the makers of Safeguard Soap, are missing the BIG IDEA!!

The next wave of hysterical laughter will come when the Attorney General prosecutes this hapless ENTREPRENEUR for deceptive advertising!

If he had only used fragrance-free Ivory soap....


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IRAQ: 4,433* FUNERALS and counting.... And counting...

Neither Presidential candidate, at least as of this morning, has a real plan to end the bloodshed.

Shame on us.


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