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<div>We try to keep our posts to this list limited to city and neighborhood matters and are respectful of list-members' time. </div>
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<div>I would not want to encourage others to start posting outside our agreed upon parameters. </div>
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<div>Thanks for your understanding.</div>
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<div>Steve Lopes<br>
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<div style="clear:both"><i><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">The plural for "anecdote" is not "data."</font></i><br>
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<div style="font-family:arial,helvetica;font-size:10pt;color:black">-----Original Message-----<br>
From: Richard Heckler via Electronic-lan <electronic-lan@lists.ku.edu><br>
To: electronic-lan <electronic-lan@lists.ku.edu><br>
Sent: Thu, Jan 5, 2017 6:16 pm<br>
Subject: [Electronic-lan] FYI yet pertinent<br>
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<div style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1483660529662_30848"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";mso-bidi-font-family:"Helvetica Neue"" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1483660529662_30849">The Brutal Truth Is That America Still
Has Way Too Many Places to Shop</span></div>
<div style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1483660529662_30851"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";mso-bidi-font-family:"Helvetica Neue"" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1483660529662_30852"> </span></div>
<div style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1483660529662_30854"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";mso-bidi-font-family:"Helvetica Neue"" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1483660529662_30855">Painful store closure news from Macy's
and Sears serve as a reminder of an over-stored America.
Between,Reagan,Bush,Bush,Clinton free trade deals and Romney mlllions upon
millions of jobs have outsourced to countries with dictators and the jobs and
their wages have not been replaced.</span></div>
<div style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1483660529662_30857"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";mso-bidi-font-family:"Helvetica Neue"" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1483660529662_30858"> </span></div>
<div style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1483660529662_30860"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";mso-bidi-font-family:"Helvetica Neue"" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1483660529662_30861">Look up Romney and pals using their
leveraged buy out scams to bankrupt usa corporations then move them abroad to
help dictators....... very stinky and anti american.</span></div>
<div style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1483660529662_30863"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";mso-bidi-font-family:"Helvetica Neue"" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1483660529662_30864"> </span></div>
<div style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1483660529662_30866"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";mso-bidi-font-family:"Helvetica Neue"" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1483660529662_30867">Also big banks supporting hostile
takeovers through risky bank loans thus allowing stores like Macy's ,
awful-mart, k-mart whick took over sears etc etc etc to over load the retail
market.</span></div>
<div style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1483660529662_30869"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";mso-bidi-font-family:"Helvetica Neue"" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1483660529662_30870"><a href="http://www.cnbc.com/2016/08/11/macys-finally-starts-addressing-the-overstored-retail-landscape.html" target="_blank">http://www.cnbc.com/2016/08/11/macys-finally-starts-addressing-the-overstored-retail-landscape.html</a></span></div>
<div style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1483660529662_30872"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";mso-bidi-font-family:"Helvetica Neue"" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1483660529662_30873"> </span></div>
<div style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1483660529662_30875"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";mso-bidi-font-family:"Helvetica Neue"" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1483660529662_30876">Consumers need good paying jobs 24/7 to
support over loaded retail 24/7 yet Governors, other politicians and other
white collars keep laying off the key to successful economic growth aka working
class america = dumb economics.</span></div>
<div style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1483660529662_30878"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";mso-bidi-font-family:"Helvetica Neue"" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1483660529662_30879"> </span></div>
<div style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1483660529662_30881"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";mso-bidi-font-family:"Helvetica Neue"" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1483660529662_30882">The Brutal Truth Is That America Still
Has Way Too Many Places to Shop</span></div>
<div style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1483660529662_30884"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";mso-bidi-font-family:"Helvetica Neue"" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1483660529662_30885"> </span></div>
<div style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1483660529662_30887"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";mso-bidi-font-family:"Helvetica Neue"" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1483660529662_30888">America is over stored thus promoting
economic displacement instead of economic growth.</span></div>
<div style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1483660529662_30890"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";mso-bidi-font-family:"Helvetica Neue"" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1483660529662_30891"> </span></div>
<div style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1483660529662_30893"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";mso-bidi-font-family:"Helvetica Neue"" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1483660529662_30894"><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/business/wp/2016/04/05/there-really-are-too-many-stores-just-ask-the-retailers/?utm_term=.2c1ccef7b5a8" target="_blank">https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/business/wp/2016/04/05/there-really-are-too-many-stores-just-ask-the-retailers/?utm_term=.2c1ccef7b5a8</a></span></div>
<div style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1483660529662_30896"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";mso-bidi-font-family:"Helvetica Neue"" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1483660529662_30897"> </span></div>
<div style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1483660529662_30899"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";mso-bidi-font-family:"Helvetica Neue"" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1483660529662_30900"><a href="https://news.thestreet.com/independent/story/13943055/1/the-brutal-truth-is-that-america-still-has-way-too-many-places-to-shop.html" target="_blank">https://news.thestreet.com/independent/story/13943055/1/the-brutal-truth-is-that-america-still-has-way-too-many-places-to-shop.html</a></span></div>
<div style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1483660529662_30902"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";mso-bidi-font-family:"Helvetica Neue"" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1483660529662_30903"> </span></div>
<div style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1483660529662_30905"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";mso-bidi-font-family:"Helvetica Neue"" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1483660529662_30906">Newsweek alerted the nation 8 years ago.
I alerted our local city commission more than once over the years as well.
Neither lending institutions,developers nor local politicians paid any
attention. These people simply turned a blind eye declaring it can't be
possible we must sell real estate no matter the expense = gross mismanagement.</span></div>
<div style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1483660529662_30908"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";mso-bidi-font-family:"Helvetica Neue"" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1483660529662_30909"> </span></div>
<div style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1483660529662_30911"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";mso-bidi-font-family:"Helvetica Neue"" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1483660529662_30912">GROSS: AMERICA THE OVER-STORED</span></div>
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