Student loans

The Biden administration and its immature Kiddie Kollege misfits that are ruining this country have just taken care of 75000 more of their friends and relatives student loans . Without looking past rulings ,I believe that Biden tried to do this ( and has gotten away with paying an trillion $ in teacher loans ) but was stopped by the Supreme Court last year and told they had no rights in paying them off . Biden's legion of woke , reparated minorities are going ahead with it anyway .
I'm pissed along with all the other hardworking taxpayers in this country and I want this POS held accountable . I paid for all my kid college education and would never take taxpayers money to cover my debts . My kids went to top schools and excelled because they new damned well that Pop was working 70-80 hrs a week to pay for it along with mortgaging my house 3 times . My kids are my responsibility and accept no handouts and I'm not about to pay for some damned teachers , driving a Mercedes , who buys a house at 25 for $800,000 and goes on vacation every year ,college debt . Enough is enough and this communist and his little Marxist need to be taught a lesson . There will be retribution and I know I'm not the only one on a " Watch list " that's feeling this way .
Between this , illegal immigrants being taken care of before citizens and a IRS and FBI that's blacklisting any civilian that donates to a Republican or states something that offends woke freaks a bigger problem for them than a Trump win is coming .

There is no digging out of this smoking pile that Bidet, and his lord and master, Barack of Obama, have left us.

There is only State Secession. Leaving Washingtoon, the Yeast Coast, the Left Coast, and Chocolate Cities to die of their own debt and idiocy.

The Democrats and RINOs couldn't care less about who is going to pay for it, what it costs, whether it will be bad for America or whether the majority want to foot the bill for the small group of people who buy stuff they can't pay for, (like college tuition). Fairness and equality isn't their concern either. They want to push socialism, communism, chaos, anarchy and unfairness on America. They want to do away with the middle class in favor of some socialist utopia which has been tried around the world and has failed every time.

When you become a "free shitter" , you demean yourself.
You have become a socialist, or worse yet, a communist.
Whether you (they) realize it or not.

HawkTheSlayer wrote:When you become a "free shitter" , you demean yourself.
You have become a socialist, or worse yet, a communist.
Whether you (they) realize it or not.

They all justify this crap by saying " everyone else is dong it" . Everyone else isn't doing it but they make sucking off the teat of the taxpayer an OK situation because they want to believe it so they can benefit off it .
I think I told this story once before - When I was younger I ran supermarkets for a big chain and we use to cash Social Security checks as a courtesy . I had this white guy that was cashing one check every day for the first 5 days of the month . At first I thought he might be cashing his familys allotment and doing them a favor but I'm a sceptical ,suspicious bastard so I did a little checking and each check was made out to him but his name and middle initial was slightly different on all five monthly checks - i.e Jon Doe , John Doe ,John S Doe ,J Steven Doe . His parents ,or he himself , on applying for SS put in five request and he used those variations when he was employed . There were no computers when SS checks were done in those days but most people were honorable with integrity - this guy figure it out and I bet he wasn't the only one . I was Xeroxing all the transactions and brought it down to the local SS administration . That ended the weasels scam .
The theft involving government was bad but today ,with the federal employees also involved in much of it , its completely out of hand ."Everyone else is doing it "!

Daily Bread wrote:

HawkTheSlayer wrote:When you become a "free shitter" , you demean yourself.
You have become a socialist, or worse yet, a communist.
Whether you (they) realize it or not.

They all justify this crap by saying " everyone else is dong it" . Everyone else isn't doing it but they make sucking off the teat of the taxpayer an OK situation because they want to believe it so they can benefit off it .
I think I told this story once before  - When I was younger I ran supermarkets for a big chain and we use to cash Social Security checks  as a courtesy . I had this white guy that was cashing one check every day for the first 5 days of the month . At first I thought he might be cashing his familys allotment and doing them a favor but I'm a sceptical ,suspicious bastard so I did a little checking and each check was made out to him but his name and middle initial was slightly different on all five monthly checks - i.e Jon Doe , John Doe ,John S Doe ,J  Steven Doe . His parents ,or he himself , on applying for SS put in five request and he  used those variations when he was employed . There were no computers when SS checks were done in those days but most people were honorable with integrity - this guy figure it out and I bet he wasn't the only one . I was Xeroxing all the transactions and brought it down to the local SS administration . That ended the weasels scam .
The theft involving government was bad but today ,with the federal employees also involved in much of it , its completely out of hand ."Everyone else is doing it "!

I can tell you some stories.
My family was in the grocery business for 73 years!
From 1931 to 2004. Three generations, including me.

Even though we were in the leading wholesaler, Associated Grocers of Baton Rouge Co-op since the 60s things were changing.
What member stores had built since the mid 50s was changing and was being destroyed by corporatism and a hybrid form of business that was unrecognizable but yet, still enjoyed the government perks of being a co-op.

Things went from everyone paying the same price to "buying brackets" for every category from groceries, meat, etc. to surcharges for distance from the warehouse to "unload time" which pretty much required every store to purchase a forklift.

Then, the Italians ( you just knew who started the co-op) started hiring lawyers with non-italian names( still italian on the mothers side. Lol) to be CEO and President.

The co-op values were long discarded for corporate greed and in house kickbacks from brokers and companies by-in-houses buyers.

Still, it's the only way an independent grocer can compete today.

Or you can go AWG .



https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Associated_Wholesale_Grocers

Rouse's is a growing company here. They have 50-60 something slarge markets in Louisiana,  Mississippi,  Alabama,  Texas.  

In the old days, AG Baton Rouge was always in the top 3 sales category in the region with over 600 million in sales. Only behind the Turner Industries number one , and sometimes number 2.

In those days  , Rouse's only had two stores in the AGBR system. One in Houma and one in Tibadeaux.

They expanded to the point where they were purchasing about 200 million of that 600 million and wanted a better buying rate.  

I went to several stockholder meeting with my dad and was fortunate to meet old man rouse. He was a board member.

AG had a slogan they printed on everything.

"On any day, on given item , you may find a lower price.
But you cant beat the system"!

It was a double entendre. You gotta know Italians.

That old man told me and my dad that he didnt know why his sons wanted to expand in a business with such low profit. And this is true..

Rouse's started outsourcing private label .

AGBR told Mr, Rouse that the board was going to implement a new rule that you couldn't  buy more than 15% of your purchases outside the "system" .
He told them to go fuck themselves and was kicked off the board.

The rest is history at 60 stores supplied by AWG.

Which now now a state of the art warehouse (besides memphis) in Slidell and Pearl miss suppling all tnere stores in miss, la, texas , Florida,  Alabama,  and ,any more to come.

HawkTheSlayer wrote:Rouse's is a growing company here. They have 50-60 something slarge markets in Louisiana,  Mississippi,  Alabama,  Texas.  

In the old days, AG Baton Rouge was always in the top 3 sales category in the region with over 600 million in sales. Only behind the Turner Industries number one , and sometimes number 2.

In those days  , Rouse's only had two stores in the AGBR system. One in Houma and one in Tibadeaux.

They expanded to the point where they were purchasing about 200 million of that 600 million and wanted a better buying rate.  

I went to several stockholder meeting with my dad and was fortunate to meet old man rouse. He was a board member.

AG had a slogan they printed on everything.

"You may find any given item , at a lower price.
But you cant beat the system"!

It was a double entendre. You gotta know Italians.

That old man told me and my dad that he didnt know why his sons wanted to expand in a business with such low profit. And this is true..

Rouse's started outsourcing private label .

AGBR told Mr, Rouse that the board was going to implement a new rule that you couldn't  buy more than 15% of your purchases outside the "system" .
He told them to go fuck themselves and was kicked off the board.

The rest is history at 60 stores supplied by AWG.

Which now now a state of the art warehouse (besides memphis) in Slidell and Pearl miss suppling all tnere stores in miss, la, texas , Florida,  Alabama,  and ,any more to come.

I know what you mean . We had a lot of independents up here that were forced to join "the club" ,IGAs ( Independent Grocers Association) were formed to get some buying power against the big guys . There used to be one in every neighborhood ( mom and pop owned) but they still couldn't handle the volume ,rent and competition to survive . The club eventually became a way to wash money for the Mob who exercised power by taking over the warehouse and shipping . They really screwed the independents with the shipping charges while the warehouse was screwing them by sending a case of 24 cans of cat food instead of the case of 24 cans of tuna . There's no money in the store side of the operation , it's all in the distributor side because your at their mercy .

Most independents thrive here today. Like Brookshire/Super 1 foods who took over in the same location after winn-dixie abandoned it.


They do very well against the Wal-Marts , because nobody really wants to go to wal mart. .

HawkTheSlayer wrote:
I can tell you some stories.
My family was in the grocery business for 73 years!
From 1931 to 2004. Three generations, including me.

Even though we were in the leading wholesaler, Associated Grocers of Baton Rouge Co-op since the 60s things were changing.
What member stores had built since the mid 50s was changing and was being destroyed by corporatism and a hybrid form of business that was unrecognizable but yet, still enjoyed the government perks of being a co-op.

Things went from everyone paying the same price to "buying brackets" for every category from groceries,  meat, etc. to surcharges for distance from the warehouse to "unload time" which pretty much required every store to purchase a forklift.

Then, the Italians ( you just knew who started the co-op) started hiring lawyers with non-italian names( still italian on the mothers side. Lol) to be CEO and President.

The co-op values were long discarded for corporate greed and in house kickbacks from brokers and companies by-in-houses  buyers.

Still, it's the only way an independent grocer can compete today.

Or you can go AWG .



https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Associated_Wholesale_Grocers

Interesting.

And a few days ago I was trying to tell you about the profit percent in grocery retailers. My mistake...as the hedgehog said, climbing off the toilet brush.

I'm not so quick to blame the bogeyman monster, "corporatism." That's the form it's taken, but the real problem is: The current generation does not have the values the previous generation had, or the WWII generation had.

Fair deals are fools' mudholes, to them. It's all about the benjamins; how many, how fast, and we'll deal with the cost, later.

I was never close to the industry except as a sidewalk observer. But I've seen the co-ops come and go.

There was one such in Suburban Cleveland - Stop-N-Shop. About eight families joined together with independent stores, to better fight the Fisher-Fazio monolith.

Well, that fell, hard, after a couple of name changes, and conversion to the "retail food warehouse" format. Also an ill-thunk expansion to California, because the Fazios wanted to move there. Didn't work, either.

Meantime, the two most-successful familes in Stop-N-Shop, the Rini and Rego families, bought the rest of them out, and ran all the stores as one. A co-op, with all the stores owned by two families, jointly. I'm sure there was legal benefits to that, but not many to the consumer. Except that they weren't collapsing like A&P and Fazio's.

Well, the last generation, my own generation, took over...and shopped the stores around. Giant Eagle out of Pittsburgh made an offer they liked; and that was that. Giant Eagle is upscale - nice stores with prices that'll cause heart palpitations. I liked what they did with our local store, and liked that I could shop there 24 hours a day (handy when on the railroad) and get all the great deals and cold leftovers off the deli rack; but nobody talked about saving money there.

The changing values of successive generations.