U.S. Recession Wipes Entire Nevada Town Off the Map
- Posted on June 15, 2011 at 3:34pm by
Billy Hallowell
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Photo credit: Tony Avelar/The Christian Science Monitor
The recession has created hardships for individuals and families across America. Businesses have shuttered, homeowners have faced foreclosures and unemployment has marred recovery efforts. Now, in what may be a first, the nation’s economic woes have led to the closure of an entire Nevada town.
As of June 20, Empire, a small mining town of about 300 people and situated about 100 miles to the northeast of Reno, will become a desolate ghost town. In fact, the community is even losing its postal code. Mail Online has more:
…the only thing remaining of the town, which was once home to the United States Gypsum Corporation, will be an eight-foot chain-link fence crowned with barbed wire sealing off the 136-acre plot and a sign saying Welcome to Nowhere - which has never proven so true.
Empire was a company town, completely built around the USG, which is the nation’s largest drywall manufacturer.
Photo credit: Tony Avelar/The Christian Science Monitor
The Christian Science Monitor explains that, since 1948, USG has been America’s largest drywall producer. But, as the economy has sunk, so has the nation’s need for building supplies. The company holds the title to the entire town of Empire, which includes only four streets:
The end of Empire began just before Christmas, when dozens of workers in steel-toed shoes and hard hats filed into the community hall for a mandatory 7:30 a.m. meeting. Mike Spihlman, the gypsum plant’s soft-spoken manager, delivered the news to a room of stunned faces: Empire was shutting down. “I had to stand in front of 92 people and say ‘Not only do you not have a job anymore, you don’t have a house anymore,’ ” Mr. Spihlman recalled.
Until January, the town was as bustling as a four-street town can be. Now, it has gone virtually silent, as the majority of workers and their families left by the end of last month. Fortunately, many of these workers have been able to find work in surrounding areas, as the state’s gold industry is healthy. Still, the quaint family unit that once existed in the town has forever been dispersed. The Christian Science Monitor’s following description provides a lens into what life in Empire once was like:
For decades, Empire was largely insulated from the troubles of the outside world. Here, you could rent a company-owned home for $250 a month, or an apartment for as little as $110. Water, cable TV, sewer, trash, and Internet service were all provided on the company dime. Workers were awarded gold-colored construction helmets when they reached 25 years of service and wore them with pride. No one bothered to lock cars or homes. Kids had the run of the neighborhood, but were still in hollering distance come dinnertime.
This newfound ghost town, which famously boasts a prophetic “welcome to nowhere” sign, is just a piece of the recession’s immensely large and complex fallout. Now it’s just in pieces.
To see more pictures from Empire, visit the Christian Science Monitor.
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Comments (214)
jim
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 4:37pmHarry Reid got re-elected in Nevada… cry me a river.
Report Post »conservativemom99
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 5:00pmMy thought exactly. As soon as I saw the election returns, I knew they had dug their own grave.
Report Post »Suzee
Posted on June 16, 2011 at 12:24amIn Northern Nevada, many of us KNOW Reid and the union boss Trumpka planned a coup and succeeded to get Reid elected, but it wasn’t legal; add La Raza to the mix and you got a Reid win…..If he had cleared in the southern part of the state we would have accepted it but in the northern part there were too many anti-Reiders. North of Reno there were over 100 people calling the Republican party complaining of machines not working, non-speaking English people allowed to vote without any ID, we filmed them in the parking lot with their cell phones and when they saw us they ran. When several people reviewed their vote on the machines, it showed they voted for Reid when they hadn’t….they asked for a redo, but once they did the machine malfunctioned and they couldn’t review their vote the second time. The monitors assured each voter that their ‘re-do’ would be right, but none had any way of knowing. The elitist Repubs in Las Vegas sold the whole state out. They wanted their candidate, not Angle, so they set out to make sure Reid won. Then there were the Union workers who moved to the state, or said they did, and their vote was counted. It was a sham, we have reported it, written letters, and get no help. Every state should have a group to make sure their votes are counted properly…..or Obama will get back in in 2012…….A group has to start NOW in every state to make sure their state’s presidential votes are actual citizens and everyone shows ID!
Report Post »packrbackr
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 4:30pmIf they could only wait alittle longer for those shovel ready jobs.
Report Post »MIBUGNU2
Posted on June 16, 2011 at 12:56am@ jim
Harry Reid got re-elected in Nevada… cry me a river.
Shows how corrupt everything has gotten, Used to go to Vegas all the
Report Post »time, ain’t going back !! Reid and unions can suck a big one !!
You guys have 20% unemployment now, its only gonna get worst..
Lotta P.O’d people out there…No money, No homes.. GAWD !!
bitter clinger
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 4:30pmObama should be able to come up with a good knee slapping joke about this town.
Report Post »jammin johnny
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 4:22pmActually northern Nevada I believe is mostly republican……Las Vegas which has the most population is blue however. And wasn‘t dingey harry’s son the county commissioner in Vegas???? ie. responsible for the vote count accuracy??? HUH??
Report Post »republapig
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 6:41pmThis was a conservative state when I moved here in the 80s. Too many Californicators here now. Half the businesses in this town of Dayton (20 miles east of the state capitol) have gone belly-up. When they widened the hiway 6 years ago, Hairy Reed brought up his pals from Lost Wages instead of hiring locals. I sure didn’t vote for that Jackass!
Report Post »NeverSurrender
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 4:16pmA whole freakin town????????????
Harry Reid has got to be proud!!!! He allowed a whole freakin town in his home state to be wiped of the map!!!!!
Report Post »nbarendt
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 4:15pmI live in Nevada and I was reading this just the other day hoping that the Glenn would find it. I have never been there but have heard of it before this.
Report Post »Riverway
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 5:34pmI lived there in the 60′s. Loved it, even though my husband came home in gypsum covered clothes ever night. Very close community then, and from what I read was the same to this day. Was the happiest years of my marriage.
Report Post »nevadamarine
Posted on June 16, 2011 at 11:31amI grew up there and lived until I set off to college in ‘99. My family still lives in the area. I was totally shocked to see this story made it anywhere. It breaks my heart to see what has happened to those I love and care about, but I’m glad the word has at least made it this far. I hope it has caught Glenn’s attention in some fashion.
Report Post »Zombee
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 4:05pmHere‘s another victim of Obama’s shovel of lies and deceit. His fundamental transformation is dividing and destroying the American dream. Obama “your fired” in 2012.
Report Post »REETZBEE
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 4:13pmIt really scares me to think what this country is going to look like in January, 2013 and all the damage Obama’s going to do before he gets voted out.
Report Post »quickstudy
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 4:00pmNot really a town in the conventional sense we all know. Completely dependent on ONE company for everything. Sorta sounds like what will happen to us all once we are all completely dependent on the GOVERNMENT and the GOVERNMENT can no longer sustain us. Don’t put all your eggs in one basket.
Report Post »13th Imam
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 5:54pmMuch like the Coal towns in WV. Barry put many of them Out Of Business.
Report Post »Anybody but Barry 2012
Moocephus
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 4:00pmRegardless of how you feel about our free market society; when washington policy constricts a market the free market principles will have this effect on small towns and eventually the country as a whole. The FREE MARKET only works when it is free. ROME IS BURNING! VOTEMOUT!
Report Post »Ghandi was a Republican
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 3:59pm“Mission accomplished”
Report Post »jollylama
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 4:23pmsad but true
Report Post »TeaPartyPatriot
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 3:58pmDid this town commit suicide by voting for dingy harry reid ?
Report Post »MsMonsoon
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 4:32pmIt would be very interesting to know just how this town voted in 2008. Very interesting!!
Report Post »SFYMP
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 8:08pmI would guarantee a 95% or better against reid. All the wallboard plants in southern nv still operate It’s northern nv and all of rural nv that is 70% republican, reid only rules in clark county where there are more democrat/liberal voters than the rest of the state combined. hard to lose with all the unions in vegas. sheep. unemployment is over 20% the rest of the state. The gold industry isn’t all roses either. Where should I move, good friends,any ideas?
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 3:58pmThey ought to rename it Obamatown. 50 years from now they can give tours and school kids will laugh about the silly people from the turn of the century that voted for the biggest failure in the history of the presidency.
Report Post »Jerbear1098
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 3:55pmAgenda 21….. Move everyone to where to transportation is.
Report Post »nomercy63
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 3:53pmWe are finished as a Nation if we do not change things now!!!!!! This election coming and the citizens involved will determine our fate as a country!
Report Post »llotus
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 10:30pmnomercy63…….I`m a hopen the people will see the light on both sides. I know whey too many people that have their heads in the sand. I have never been afraid of this country before, it is an insane situation for the American people to have to be dealing with. I have tried to disccuss the state of our country, with people my own age, and I am sure they think I am the crazy old woman that listens to Glenn Beck. Well…. thats ok with me, I`d rather know than not. I think Glenn is doing this country a great service and some havnt the sence to know it. They wait for it to come out on cable news, then its with their own special touch added to it. Enough. Lotus.
Report Post »VISITORNUMBER3
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 3:52pmWell, at least they still have government funded cowboy poetry…
Water, cable, garbage service, internet and sewer all on the COMPANY dime…NOT the government dime….doesn’t that tell anyone in government anything?
Report Post »mill
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 5:05pmdon’t understand the remark
Report Post »Dannowood
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 3:50pmRecesssion? Try depression. Harry Reid must be PROUD.
Report Post »David, the Constitutional Libertarian
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 4:12pm2010 US Federal deficit spending was 9.6% of GDP
Report Post »2010 US GDP growth was said to be 2.6%
Hence, effective GDP growth was actually a NEGATIVE 7%. 2011 is looking to be the same.
Depression is defined as a declining GDP in 4 straight quarters. Right now we are at about 9 or 10 quarters. The Great Democrat Depression.
Dannowood
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 7:50pmThanks David. I stole your post.
Report Post »CaptainSpaulding
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 3:47pmMeanwhile, Harry Reid gets richer.
Pay your taxes. :)
Report Post »rightwingheroes
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 3:46pmHope and Change
Report Post »ProbIemSoIver
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 3:44pmSpeaking of Wiped off the map. Have you checked Google Maps Lately. All of the American Southwestern Cities have been replaced with Mexican Cities. You have to zoom almost all the way into any U.S. border City to see it.
Report Post »Exrepublisheep
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 3:47pmInteresting.
Report Post »jrcess
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 3:43pmYep Obama doing a great job, How is that change working for you?
Report Post »CatB
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 4:09pmHis EVIL plan is working … we must take America back … 2012!
TEA!
Report Post »Bluebonnet
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 6:51pmJust read that Obama’s 200 largest contributors got government jobs or gov. contracts. my-my what does this say to us? Liar, liar, pants on fire. He said he would stop this, liar liar liar.
Report Post »Goldline_scam
Posted on June 16, 2011 at 5:10amLack of appropriate government regulation – in relation to Banks, specifically – leads to unbridled pursuit of profit, and toxic mortgage products sold to anyone with a pulse. This, in turn, creates a housing bubble that when it burst created a global recession – the aftermath of which is primarily responsible for the current US economic problem.
But if that’s too difficult for you to grasp, just blame the black man.
Report Post »Blackhawk1
Posted on June 16, 2011 at 10:23amGoldline_scam
Lack of appropriate government regulation – in relation to Banks, specifically – leads to unbridled pursuit of profit, and toxic mortgage products sold to anyone with a pulse. This, in turn, creates a housing bubble that when it burst created a global recession – the aftermath of which is primarily responsible for the current US economic problem.
Your partially right. Take out the “Lack of appropriate government regulation – in relation to Banks, specifically” and insert instead of banks, Fannie Mae and Frddie Mac and you are there.
Report Post »eat-more-bacon-USA
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 3:41pmThe obama-Reid plan is really coming to fruition.
Report Post »welloddyfriggindah
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 3:40pmThey moved to Texas
Report Post »1TrueOne55
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 6:48pmYou wished they did but not so fast cowboy. Read the article. They found jobs in another mining industry that is now turning white hot, GOLD. With prices sky-rocketing mining companies in the Nevada mountains are mining for more “Precious Metals” since China is buying up world supplies it is driving up the price since they will control who gets those resources.
China needs them for the growing factories where they make the worlds high tech devices at the expense of their population. China’s factories have some of the higher suicide rates of any “Developed” Industrial country, why, because they are forced to work, live and eat within the same factroy that makes your Apple devices, cell phones and Personal Computers from nearly all American Corporations. Ever since IBM sold the Communist Chinese gov’t their “ThinkPad” line of retail computers China has become more aggressive in keeping a lead in that industry.
Report Post »welloddyfriggindah
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 3:39pmComing to a county near you!!!
Report Post »theninthplanet
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 3:38pmI wonder which of its citizens regret voting for Harry Reid?
Report Post »cessna152
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 4:07pmI wonder if they regret voting for Obama…
Report Post »Dont-hate-on-me-2
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 4:20pmI watched a video earlier on the Blaze, People walking around cluless sayin they will still vote for Obamer. They are so detached from the real world in thier cocoon of soicalism and control
Report Post »MIBUGNU2
Posted on June 16, 2011 at 12:26am@ cessna152
I wonder if they regret voting for Obama
I’m guilty of voting for Obama, I have 7 close friends that did as well,
We liked what he said during his Campaign, Never realizing a person
could be so Disengenuous, everything this man has said has been a
LIE !!!!!! Suprised He has not been thrown out of Office… So the
bottom line is we have 8 votes that won’t go his way…
Report Post »NightWriter
Posted on June 16, 2011 at 12:32pmNorthern Nevadans and most of the state did NOT re-elect ‘Uncle Harry.‘ He doesn’t dare show his face up here.. A sign outside Alamo (small town, *just* north of Vegas) states – ‘Leaving Harry Reid County.’
The election was going badly for him … and then… the Unions in Vegas sent out emails threatening employees with their jobs. It was reported as it was going on, but nothing was done.
Sadly for Nevada – and the U.S. as a whole….Uncle Harry squeaked in, once more.
Report Post »Robert-CA
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 3:36pmThis is reality folks & soon to come near you .
Report Post »Exrepublisheep
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 3:43pmFree market. They couldn’t compete, out they go. Would you prefer, govt. intervention?
Report Post »oldasdirt
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 3:44pmTowns first,then cities,then states.Obama policy at work.
Report Post »The_Almighty_Creestof
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 3:45pmSomeone get ahold of Cheney at Haliburton…looks like an opportunity for a super-sized FEMA concentration camp.
Report Post »Brasil2520
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 3:48pmIt’s going to get to the point that if you want drywall, you will only get that China sulfer crap
Report Post »cheezwhiz
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 3:48pmSo the taxpayers paid for cowboy poetry festival and still it didn’t save the town ?
Report Post »silentwatcher
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 3:51pmHey, let’s call it for what it is,,,,,,it’s a DEPRESSION. Bunch of freakin’ liars…………….
Report Post »SavingtheRepublic.com
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 3:53pm^____^____^
Wait….. wait for it….
Bush and GOPs fault to be followed with a “inherited this”.
This is all BHOs I hope someone somewhere is taking detailed notes for campaign ads in ‘12. Every single month.. day the regime is providing more than enough ammo for who ever will engage BHO in ‘12. If you’re reading this you are the resistance
Report Post »David, the Constitutional Libertarian
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 3:55pmSpread this if you like, something very simple to show people the fact our economy has major problems.
2010 US Federal deficit spending was 9.6% of GDP
2010 US GDP growth was said to be 2.6%
Hence, effective GDP growth was actually a NEGATIVE 7%. 2011 is looking to be the same.
Depression is defined as a declining GDP in 4 straight quarters. Right now we are at about 9 or 10 quarters. The Great Democrat Depression.
Quite obvious is it not?
Report Post »WillyGoode
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 3:56pmSince when has China’s unfair trade policies been considered “free market”???
Report Post »cessna152
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 3:59pmExrepublisheep
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 3:43pm
Free market. They couldn’t compete, out they go. Would you prefer, govt. intervention?
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It certainly was government that caused this… coal plants, industries and other potential customers put out of business due to Stalin-like regulations. I don’t think we can survive another year of this administration… their work is just about completed.
Report Post »David, the Constitutional Libertarian
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 3:59pmAlso something to think about, is agenda 21 in play. Interesting information at this site regarding this-
Taking Liberty is a comprehensive look at the lower 48 states showing, region by region, how the Environmental Movement is rapidly abolishing Private Property in America.
Report Post »Robert-CA
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 4:00pm@ EXREPUBLISHEEP
it failed cause of your master’s Chinese friends & I never said that I wanted government intervention , the only government intervention I want is : stay out of my business & pockets .
Report Post »CatB
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 4:02pmI really think it is time to start calling this what it is .. a DEPRESSION. Where is the misery index? Time to bring it back.
TEA!
Report Post »Huguenot Descendant
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 4:05pmKeynesian economics at it’s finest. Will people ever learn that bigger government, bailouts, subsidies, and lobbying never work? All the big government and big spending will just drive the American economy into further disaster.
Report Post »CatB
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 4:09pmUpdate >>>>>
The Obama DEPRESSION
TEA!
Report Post »fastfacts
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 4:09pmDID YOU HEAR THAT THE DNC HAS NOW TAKEN RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE ECONOMY.
All indicators show that it is going to tank once more. It didn’t just come from Wasserman Schultz, but also Sen./ Durbin as well as others. ( http://tiny.cc/eslo2 ) This is no long Bush’s recession, it is now Obama‘s and the DNC’s.
If it does get better it wasn’t through their policies or lack of job growing policies. It is because of people like Rush Limbaugh, entrepreneurs that have an idea.
There policies really worked: Much like the LED business that received millions of stimulus funds and then shipped half of its jobs overseas after receiving those funds. Thanks Obama.
Report Post »grandma7
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 4:11pmWho Is John Galt???????????????????????????????
Report Post »CatB
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 4:12pmDepression … see this >>>>
http://www.moneynews.com/StreetTalk/CNBC-Housing-Crisis-Officially/2011/06/15/id/400131?s=al&promo_code=C714-1
Report Post »Dont-hate-on-me-2
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 4:14pmIm sorry Empire.
Report Post »grandmaof5
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 4:15pmI wish some lawyer, somewhere, would file a class action lawsuit against Barney Franks, Chris Dodd and whoever else denied oversight of Fannie and Freddie; include in that the ‘fat cats’ raking in millions in bonuses from Fannie and Freddie too i.e. Barney’s boyfriend, among others. They created this bubble and sat fat and happy while people lost their houses or were upside down, or whole towns shut down with the housing crisis. I just hate it that they win!
Report Post »John 1776
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 4:15pmYep, Agenda 21 is part of all this. I remember my first read of the stuff back in the 90′s. Was like some futuristic grade B si-fi movie. Now I look at the stuff and say “Holy Sh.. , a lot of this stuff is playing out!”
There is no room for independent thought, let alone independent business in this super-socialistic world as envisioned by the UN. I think it’s time to push them into the NY harbor, and tell them they have to find a new host nation. But, at as a consolation prize, they can take our current POTUS with them! He can be their “New World Order Leader” … and good luck finding the money to replace all that US funding you used to get!
Report Post »Anonymous T. Irrelevant
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 4:16pmThank you Obama, may I have another!
Report Post »Sound The Trumpet In Zion
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 4:18pmobama hope and change at work. only in this case the people was hoping that it would change that obama wouldn’t be able to guarantee that they would not only lose their jobs but their homes and even their town. Their hope and change was in vain, give thanks to obama and his cronies.
Report Post »Gas137
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 4:20pmMay we all live in interesting times.
Report Post »MsMonsoon
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 4:22pmWILLEYGOODE: Well said! If I may add, Slave Labor.
Report Post »mossbrain
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 4:26pmWhat, have none of you played Monopoly? That game shows perfectly well how winners win and losers lose in the game of life. Those people lost.
Report Post »ThatsRight
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 4:45pmThis is not the first town to disappear nor will it be the last. Sad but true…..
Report Post »RepubliCorp
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 4:45pmrename it Obamaville
Report Post »grandma7
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 4:51pmGovernment Regulations Murder US Business!!!!!!!!!!!
Businesses go to other countries!!!!
No Regulations in other countries!!!!
Emission Hell in other countries!!!
Thank You – US regulators!!!!
Who Is JOHN GALT?!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Report Post »LOOKING_BOTH_WAYS
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 5:01pmsince 1948, USG has been America’s largest drywall producer. But, as the economy has sunk, so has the nation’s need for building supplies.
Report Post »~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
There‘s a bit more to this story as far as I’m concerned, and it’s called CHINA and people like D. tRump
who admits he buy‘s his building supply’s from China. I mean if a rich guy will not buy stuff from the USA who will ? … tRump is Un-American on this issue
ManThong
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 5:06pmPut it on e-Bay.
I’ll bid.
Look’s like its got an easily defensible perimeter.
Report Post »Blackhawk1
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 5:30pmBig surprise, United States Gypsum Corporation was a UNION company!
Report Post »touch
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 5:32pmObama’s plan… The Few will control the masses!
The few Blacks, the few Muslims, the few Mexicans, and who will they control?
The stupid (White) rednecks, youth of America, and poor desperate senior citizens.
Report Post »Dustyluv
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 5:45pmExrepublisheep…What fee market? I am almost 60 and I have never seen a FREE market. Government regs strangles towns and cities and businesses like this all the time, There is no FREE market anywhere in America other than the people who break the kaw and live and work in the black market…
The Progressive a@@wipes are ruining our Nation!
Report Post »BIGDAN63
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 5:48pmwell we can see how well Harry Reid is working over his own state.
Report Post »JRook
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 5:52pmThanks Bush Cheney and Wall Street. Or is it the phantom Obama policies that people constantly state that never seem to get identified.
Report Post »GeorgieJo
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 6:05pmHARRY?
Report Post »Where ART THOU?
The FOUR Seasons in DC?
Cowboy UP You Doofus!!!!
The ME-ssiah
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 6:07pmI’m sure they all take solace that Harry Reid is still the Senate Majority Leader …
Report Post »Bum thrower
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 6:09pmWhy couldn’t they “convert” to ‘green jobs” like the anointed one suggested?
How’s that “Hope & Change” workin’ out for you?
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 6:13pmThe old paradimes have shifted and changed; we either adapt or get buried and go extinct.
Report Post »colonial10
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 6:14pmLets see here, millions of loosing jobs, millions loosing homes, millions loosing property across the country, millions on food stamps. Not one politician has lost a job or government worker, they haven’t lost value on their homes, sky rocketing profits on hedge funds, government giving billions of stimulus to foreign banks. Seems to me that our government is now a puppet government for the super rich who want to take our country away from us. Think about it. Land becomes cheap, people leave their homes and the banks own it. These people from around the world come in and purchase the land we inherited and just like that we are the serfs. It all makes sense. The only way to repay the governments debt is with our property. Why would they give up theirs? I have a funny feeling that we are going to wake up soon to an awful situation that will be uncontrollable.
Report Post »the_zazzy
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 6:18pmWhy can’t the recession wipe out D.C.?
Report Post »Shackleford
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 6:18pm@exrepublisheep said “Free market. They couldn’t compete, out they go. Would you prefer, govt. intervention?”
Yea, because that‘s all that’s going on here. You either have a company that’s successful or a company that requires government intervention in order to linger on. Of course the very idea that excessive government intervention in the economy, and not competition from superior competitors, is totally absurd, right?
Are you sure you are an EX sheep?
Report Post »Bluebonnet
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 6:26pmSorry about your town. Just wondering if the town’s people voted for Obama and Harry Reid. Looks like they helped sail you down the river. Get Smart people! This administration is killing all of us.
Report Post »markdido
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 6:32pm“Exrepublisheep
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 3:43pm
Free market. They couldn’t compete, out they go. Would you prefer, govt. intervention?”
So how’s that Chinese sheet rock working out?
Report Post »Rational Man
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 6:32pmExrepublisheep
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 3:43pm
Free market. They couldn’t compete, out they go. Would you prefer, govt. intervention?
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Government intervention is what caused the problem in the first place!!!
Report Post »Can you say, HARRY REID DEMOCRATES!!!
Bluebonnet
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 6:37pmIt’s cheaper to get the poisoned drywall from China than use pure, clean gypsum from Nevada, put into American made drywall. People have gotten sick from China drywall. yikes. folks, get with it and use American made, get rid of the Unions who stop competition and demand things that hurt competition, so……….just go to China and keep losing all our work because of Unions, and risk getting sick from more poisoned products sent to us via china. Is this what you want for your children?
Report Post »p.s. Let Boeing work in South Carolina and let those people work instead of losing the whole enchilada because of Union demands, Time to get smart and stop cutting our own throats.
Thevoice
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 6:55pmNow out side this being a drywal production facilicity. .Who can go put together a list of what I would call assets which because of both the economy and Progressive Marxists regulation are now gone. or in the processes of closing…
The list should look something like this..
Power plants
name and place of plant total yearly power out put
total loss of power production
(there are like five of these coal fire plants being shut down)
Then continue on manfactureing , and all other catagoriew…It would be intresting to see the total working assets being closed…
Report Post »A Doctors Labor Is Not My Right
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 7:01pm@Exrepublisheep,
“Free market. They couldn’t compete, out they go. Would you prefer, govt. intervention?”
We don’t have a free market Capitalist economy, but a Corporatist, Marxist, regulated economy (central planning). The Founders never intended this. You can thank the Progressives who’ve always inteded to destroy the American economy, and us Capitalists who were asleep and allowed it to happen.
You‘re right that we shouldn’t ask for more government intervention. The government needs to get out of the way.
See this video for an explanation of the difference between Capitalism and Corporatism.
How to Reach the Left | Roderick T. Long
Report Post »http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4hjO1ak4_M
PowerPC
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 7:05pmWhy not? The government has intevened in everything else for the past two and a half years. This is the result of the government’s, Obama’s…economic stimulus plans. Billions and billions spent and absolutely nothing to show for it. The only ones that benefit with this administration and economy are the unions and a few other choice friends of the administration. Yeah, Obama had a lot of shovel ready NOTHING! What a complete liar, crook and fraud. Transparent my arse!
Report Post »1crazyAmerican
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 8:39pmFree Market? Couldn’t Compete!!!!!!!!! You have no idea what you are talking about. I live in Nevada and most of you don’t know that we have resources beyond gaming (mining, storage, and yes livestock ((the real wild west)). Last year people started getting sick from the vapors being released from the drywall that came from China, bought because it was cheaper! Not cheaper from the free market but because China does not pay the taxes or import/export fees that our mining and other companies pay, period. Our companies suffer here or they relocate because we do not have fair trade with the world. These are AMERICANS that have lost their jobs, yours could be next!!!!!!
Report Post »dwh320
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 8:42pmWhat did you expect the results of Obamanomics would be? If he can the entire nation will be shut down soon.
Report Post »Celticelfyn
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 8:55pmIts cause of government interventions they can’t compete!
Report Post »Stoic one
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 8:55pmTHANK YOU obama………………………..
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Report Post »LetUsReason
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 9:06pm@ EXREPUBLISHEEP
This is not the result of free market, and government intervention is certainly not the cure like you intimate. In fact, the problem IS government intervention. We have a free market system, then the government intervenes and tries to do things it’s own way, and then when it results in failure people like you blame the free market system. Are you following me? If we had limited government and fiscal responsibility you would not have seen this happen. You’re backward in your thinking.
Report Post »llotus
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 9:48pmRrobert-ca……….the gov. owns 84.5% of Nevada. They have a choke hold on Nevada and many other states in the west. Too many. lotus.
Report Post »ReddenBlack
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 10:39pm@Grandma7
Why don’t you just google that and find out?
Report Post »MIBUGNU2
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 11:50pmThese people can’t see this from their Washington DC offices !!
The economy in DC is the best in the Country, Thanks Mr.Obama
we’ll think of you come ellection time, Thats something you havn’t
done for us..There are no words to decribe you and your Administration..
Report Post »MIBUGNU2
Posted on June 16, 2011 at 12:07am@ Anonymous T. Irrelevant
Thank you Obama, may I have another!
We may.. The liberals i have talked to, keep saying He needs another
Report Post »Term to complete what he started….Now Thats Frightening !!!!!!!
Apple Bite
Posted on June 16, 2011 at 1:21amGov’t intervened indirectly, without anyone asking them to, they had no chance in hell of surviving. Bad times for all.
Report Post »naed5048
Posted on June 16, 2011 at 1:56amNervada reelected Harry Reid, so……..who’s to blame? you reap what you sow!
Report Post »APROUDVETERAN
Posted on June 16, 2011 at 7:26amI see more and more area supermarkets are selling 50 pound bags of rice, flour, oats and various beans. grains, etc. Stores that never even carried many of these items before now carry 50 pound bags of this stuff….surely the complexion of the buying public hasn’t changed to warrant these items. These stores are located in upper middle income areas of NJ. I think that the selling of these items is not only to compete with the Costco and big box stores but to get a hedge on the rush for these items when the bottom falls out of our economy.
Glenn’s been warning us for a long time…..and I think its on its way….
Report Post »tasmanianwabbit
Posted on June 16, 2011 at 8:06amThe sign shouldn’t say “Nowhere”. It should say “Obamaville”!
Report Post »enduro
Posted on June 16, 2011 at 8:53amI have no pity on Nevada. They re-elected Harry reid. You reap what you sow !
Report Post »dcubed
Posted on June 16, 2011 at 9:10amFree market??? Yeah, they can’t compete against endless EPA regulations hindering them every step of the way. They can’t compete with high corporate taxes that chase business out of the country. They can’t compete with having a portion of their taxes going to stimulus money going to “deserving” unions. Looks like the government is already intervening way too much. I wish we did live in a Free Market society.
Report Post »TomFerrari
Posted on June 16, 2011 at 10:14amCould this be Glenn’s new home?
LOL
I couldn’t resist.
Actually, I shouldn’t joke at their expense. This is sad, indeed.
I am glad they are finding jobs in gold mining.
I know too many people in similar situations – jobless – losing homes, etc.
Report Post »cactusjoe
Posted on June 16, 2011 at 7:34pmIt’s ok they will get severance pay and a pension.No wait they were not Union so they will get zilch !!
Report Post »But hay thats the free market,Thanks for your hard work Mr 25 year man now get out !!!!
Wonder what there CEO made last year. I bet it was more then his Chinese competitor.
Unions stink Ha Ha Ha !!!