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Murdered Jobs on the Blue Ridge Parkway: The Shutdown in Microcosm

pisgah_innBruce O’Connell is an American job creator. All he does is grab his bootstraps, sit down at the table, and create jobs. That’s literally all he does! But thanks to the goose-stepping sturmtruppen of the National Park Service, Bruce O’Connell can’t create jobs no more.

See, Bruce O’Connell creates his jobs on federal land, by running a nearly century-old hotel on a lonely stretch of the Blue Ridge Parkway. And since the National Park Service has been deemed non-essential, O’Connell’s hotel, the Pisgah Inn (the Peak of the Parkway!), is being forced to close. This is a pain in Bruce O’Connell’s big, swingin’ American dick, because the Blue Ridge Parkway offers some of the best leaf-peeping you’ll find south of the Mason-Dixon line, and seeing as it’s October, Bruce O’Connell was hoping to get PAID, cousin. Continue reading

Elvis Costello Wants You to Buy a Louis Armstrong Record

When the music industry is failing and no one is buying CDs the solution is always to charge more money. It worked for Abercrombie and Fitch earlier this decade right?  Oh wait…

When the content creators are asking you to charge less money and willing to take the pay cut the solution is always to charge more. It’s worked really well for the airlines right?  Oh wait… Continue reading

Gap Closing a Third of all US Stores

Today Gap announced that they are closing one third of their U.S. stores to focus on international growth. Folks, you might have to get those flat front chinos somewhere else. Or maybe you already are and that’s why they have to close all these stores. Shoppers are abandoning Gap’s classic looks for stores with trendier options. The chain expects to remove nearly one million square feet from its Old Navy stores by the end of fiscal year 2013 as well. No word on whether Gap’s upscale store, Banana Republic, will be affected by store closings. Continue reading