Shoplifting increasing with slow economy

[Railbird]

More consumers, workers shoplift as economy slows


Christine Dugas
USA Today
June 20, 2008
One morning last month, the manager of a Stop & Shop in Methuen, Mass., noticed a man, along with his young daughter, leave the store without paying for several bags of shrimp. When police arrived, they found something else on him, too: 20 cans of baby formula.
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Call it a sign of the times. Steadily and alarmingly, shoplifting seems to be rising at many retail chains, and experts are pointing at a prime cause: the sputtering economy.
“Wages aren’t keeping up with inflation, especially the price of food and energy,” says Diane Swonk, chief economist at Mesirow Financial. “It just leaves less money for everything else, and that breeds a lot of temptation.”
Retail and law enforcement experts agree that they’ve seen an increase in store theft during the current slowdown — and not only from customers.
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[docmercer--banned]

We are moving into a phase of exsistence where food riots on American streets is not that far away

 

[PatPatriot]

Christine Dugas
USA Today
June 20, 2008
One morning last month, the manager of a Stop & Shop in Methuen, Mass., noticed a man, along with his young daughter, leave the store without paying for several bags of shrimp. When police arrived, they found something else on him, too: 20 cans of baby formula.

Tells you all you need to know about this common criminal.
It wasn't baloney or peanut butter with a loaf of bread it was shrimp at about 8 bucks a pound.
Something tells me it wasn't this first time at the rodeo for this criminal.
Of course the pinhead writing the story dosen't even realise how stupid story is for her agenda.
This is like trying to make a point about health care cost buy using an example of how someone got caught stealing 50 bottles of oxycontin with some baby asprin.Fucking absurd.

 

[docmercer--banned]

Sounds like a "higher end" crook ...

perhaps like Cindy McCain when she stole illegal drugs?

 

[RobFunk]

hahaha. I'm not saying anything. It's just too easy. Only going to read and laugh.

 

[PatPatriot]

dumb and dumber

can you guys ever answer to a point ever?

 

[RobFunk]

O.K. just one thing. I'm sorry, I can't help it.

Of course the pinhead writing the story dosen't even realise how stupid story is for her agenda.

Was this supposed to be a sentance?! Or am I just supposed to get the meaning of it and say O.K. he is making a point. Or at least trying too.

Next time you are watching Fox and Friends and eating your big bowl of Coco Puffs think about how you can get your points across in a more intelligble manner so kids like myself can more easily pick up on what you are trying to get through to us.

 

[docmercer--banned]

Rob: Beautiful !!

Next time you are watching Fox and Friends and eating your big bowl of Coco Puffs think about how you can get your points across in a more intelligble manner so kids like myself can more easily pick up on what you are trying to get through to us.

:lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol:

 

[PatPatriot]

Of course the pinhead writing the story dosen't even realise how her stupid story is for her agenda.

Pardon me,Shakespear.
Now answer to the point.

 

[docmercer--banned]

Robfunk:

Ya got RX's Version of the Chuck Wepner the "Bayou Bleeder" on the ropes ...

One more uppercut and look for the smelling salts to make their appearance!!

 

[RobFunk]

Robfunk:

Ya got RX's Version of the Chuck Wepner the "Bayou Bleeder" on the ropes ...

One more uppercut and look for the smelling salts to make their appearance!!

Naw. I like Pat. Fellow Sox fan. I'm just a tad cranky and it's early in the morning. I actually said 'Good mourning' to a girl one time and she corrected me and said 'you are giving a greeting not having a good time at a wake' or something like that. Anyone can make a typo.

 

[Willie99]

I can only surmise Rail and some others actually believe this type of shop lifting never happened during the 26 year boom.

:lol:

One story in one newspaper means what again? A great example of how loonies extrapolate, which is to say they simply have a vivid imagination and zero basis. (some security guards say is it!)

Talk about a fucking leap hno:

 

[PatPatriot]

Willie what I like about the story is this guy ain't stealing bread and peanut butter to eat he's stealing 8 or 9 dollar a pound shrimp.,and I'm supposed to break down in tears.

Its kind of like the buffoons on CNN trying to sell the world that the looters during Katrina were stealing food to eat when the camera has a shot of a guy with a 56 inch high defintion "TV dinner" on his back.

 

[docmercer--banned]

Patriot ... you "educate" us all about the Media and Katrina

[FONT=Verdana,Arial]Hurricane Katrina and the "Two-Photo Controversy"[/FONT]​

After Hurricane Katrina struck New Orleans, two photographs published by Yahoo! News depicting residents making their way through chest-deep water caused an uproar relating to bias in media coverage. The first image, shot by photographer Dave Martin for the Associated Press, showed a young black man, who, according to the accompanying caption, “walks through chest deep flood water after looting a grocery store.” In a similar shot, taken by photographer Chris Graythen for AFP/Getty Images, a white couple was shown wading "through chest-deep water after finding bread and soda from a local grocery store.”

 

[DarrylParsons]

Hey Doc, that's the third time I've seen you post that pic but did you notice the difference in the amounts of stuff they are carrying?

Also, the girl in the pic doesn't look white to me.

 

[docmercer--banned]

The dude at the top of the picture above her sure does

A reminder to Patriot that Katrina was a royal fucking from Bush via
his efforts to implement Martial Law


Katrina is a preview of what is just around the corner ... look at the
Marines in Indianapolis this week ... practicing Martial Law exercises?


We are fucked .... the Crawford Butcher has 7 months to go and
this desperate loon is liable to hit another American city like he did
on 9-11 to create another "they hit our freedoms" bullshit agenda

 

[Seymour]

We are moving into a phase of exsistence where food riots on American streets is not that far away

And what do you propose? Obama have a plan to hand out Kobe steaks and lobsters to the people the rich society has cheated out of the American dream? I'm not shoplifting - oh yeah, but I don't own a playstation and listen to BET all day

 

[Seymour]

The dude at the top of the picture above her sure does

A reminder to Patriot that Katrina was a royal fucking from Bush via
his efforts to implement Martial Law


Katrina is a preview of what is just around the corner ... look at the
Marines in Indianapolis this week ... practicing Martial Law exercises?


We are fucked .... the Crawford Butcher has 7 months to go and
this desperate loon is liable to hit another American city like he did
on 9-11 to create another "they hit our freedoms" bullshit agenda

I tend to think Katrina was a royal fucking from mother nature - but Bush has been so bad we might as well blame him for everything

 

[docmercer--banned]

Seymour:

what do ya think the gun blasts were that you heard in NO? BLACKWATER to the rescue!!

Bush tried to Implement Martial Law and fucked around with Blanco ...

How Karl Rove played politics while people drowned

http://www.salon.com/books/excerpt/2008/06/06/rove_katrina/

Hurricane Katrina posed a huge test to Bush's administration. But instead of bailing out Louisiana, Karl Rove played Blame the Democrats.
Editor's note: This excerpt is adapted and reprinted by permission from "Machiavelli's Shadow: The Rise and Fall of Karl Rove," published this month by Modern Times



That fact was proven precisely by what Vitter had done and said at the press conference. "As soon as Vitter said he had just gotten off the phone with Rove and other Republican officials," Landrieu says, "he started in on the first talking point to come out of the ordeal. I said to myself, 'Oh my God, I can't believe the White House has already given David Vitter talking points to talk about this.' We weren't going to blame anyone. We weren't going to blame the president. I mean, is there a Republican talking point for how to get people water? But that was Karl Rove."

Instead of supplying relief to the city, Rove had devised a scheme whereby he could blame the failure of government to take action on someone besides Bush. "They looked around," Landrieu says, "and they found a Democratic governor and an African American Democratic mayor who had never held office before in his life before he was mayor of New Orleans -- someone they knew they could manipulate. Ray Nagin had never held public office and here he was the mayor of New Orleans and it was going underwater."


. Blame Blanco. Blame the levee board. Blame the corruption in New Orleans. 'The reason the city is going underwater is because the city is corrupt,' Rove was saying. 'But don't blame the Republicans or George W. Bush or David Vitter. We are the white guys in shining armor, and we are going to come in and save the city from years of corruption.' That was their story and they sold it very well."



Instead of sending help, the administration had come up with a ploy. "I was on a conference call with the White House," Adam Sharp says, "where they were saying: If you want any help, you have to turn over all control of your state to the president. We won't help until you give us control of your National Guard and your law enforcement agencies, until Louisiana becomes a federal territory. They were using this as the excuse for their delaying on the issues. They kept trying to put it on Blanco. But no governor would ever give control of her state to the president."

Finally, Bush asked to meet with Blanco alone in his office on Air Force One.
"Kathleen," Bush said in their meeting, which was attended by Joe Hagen from Bush's staff but no one from Blanco's staff -- a fact that troubled Blanco -- "I'm going to need you to sign a waiver that the Louisiana National Guard needs to be turned over to the federal government. I can't take them from you but I'm going to need you to federalize them."
Blanco had no intention of signing a waiver. She was concerned about a variety of legal ramifications that could result from her signing over her National Guard, but her main fear was that, without the leverage Blanco had as a free agent in what had now turned into a protracted negotiation with the administration, she would have no means to force Bush to provide any assistance at all. Blanco told Bush she would not sign a waiver. "You need to give General Honore some soldiers," Blanco told Bush. "Where has the federal government been for five days? If I sign this, it's going to look like I've been wrong."


Bush appeared to be confused by what Blanco was saying.

"Well, I have no intention of turning over my National Guard to you," Blanco said. "Anyway, the evacuation of the Superdome is now well underway and after that we will begin finishing the evacuation of the Convention Center." This was true. While the administration had bickered over politics, Blanco had expanded the size of her National Guard by accepting deployments of guardsmen from all of the other 49 states.


By federalizing her guardsmen, Blanco would have been admitting that it was the state that was unable to handle the disaster, not the federal government. The Bush administration could have argued that they had had to save the day for Blanco because she was not up to the task. However, if Blanco did not take the bait, the scheme was dead. Blanco wondered about Bush's confusion. Was he really confused or just trying to get her to sign the waiver?


It didn't matter. Not only did Blanco refuse to sign, she gave Bush a two-page letter detailing everything the state needed to cope with the disaster -- troops, buses, supplies, money, and more. It would not be until several days later, when Blanco's aides released the letter to the press and got frantic phone calls from Rove's aide Maggie Grant, that it became clear that Bush had taken the letter Blanco had personally handed to him -- and lost it.

 

[tiznow]

I can only surmise Rail and some others actually believe this type of shop lifting never happened during the 26 year boom.

:lol:

so you conceding that the "bush boom" is over :lolBIG: