Sears. Craftsman, Die Hard, Adios
Sears, the 125-year-old icon, has 24 hours to survive. The employer of more than 68,000 filed for bankruptcy in October. Its last shot at survival is a $4.6 billion proposal put forward by its chai...
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Cummins12V98 wrote:fj12ryder wrote:MEXICOWANDERER wrote:For someone who is consistently taking potshots at everyone, you sure get incensed when someone shoots back.
[COLOR=] But I’m glad to see you’re spending your American money in Mexico not Beijing. LOL
WOULD YOU RATHER HAVE ME LIVING UNDER A BRIDGE? Geezo what an insensitive remark.
Maybe you have a cottage in your back yard I could rent for $150 month?
Some of you people would freakin' DIE because you couldn't overcome total disability on a social security income. Why? Under-educated and a limited ability to adapt. Try it. Try and find a place to rent with TWICE the amount of money of Social Security. Some folks are total maroons.
WELL spoken and true!
I agree wholeheartedly. And further The remark referenced was not insensitive. It was accurately pointing out the inherent hypocrisy in his own stance that he apparently cannot see.
No direct link exists between China, Chinese goods and his present unfortunate circumstances. China is just his Pinata of choice.
While I feel a degree of sympathy for the poster he is tilting at windmills. The cost of land in downtown San Francisco, or Hong Kong or anywhere else is a result of it's perceived value and the fact it SELLS. It is highly desirable real estate.
The cost of rent is where it is for much the same reasons.
Sears was the Amazon.com of the early to mid 20th Century. They could have been the Amazon.com of the 21st if they had leadership and just gotten out of their own way.
Sears demise has nothing to do with tools, China or where things are made. It has to do with the same issue we see with the poster in question...an inability to see that the world has changed in profound ways and a refusal to move with it.
