<html><head></head><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:16px"><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1483670285017_10942"><span>got it ....</span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1483670285017_10942"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1483670285017_10942">Dickie .........</div> <div class="qtdSeparateBR"><br><br></div><div class="yahoo_quoted" style="display: block;"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> <div dir="ltr"><font size="2" face="Arial"> On Thursday, January 5, 2017 9:24 PM, Steve Lopes <slopes1@aol.com> wrote:<br></font></div> <br><br> <div class="y_msg_container"><div id="yiv6541189184"><div><font color="black" size="4" face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">Dickie,
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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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From: Richard Heckler via Electronic-lan <electronic-lan@lists.ku.edu><br clear="none">
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<div class="yiv6541189184yqt1829159368" id="yiv6541189184yqt09220"><div id="yiv6541189184AOLMsgPart_1.2_3deef36c-895a-4c88-9db2-7cb66710034e">
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<div id="yiv6541189184yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1483660529662_30848" style=""><span id="yiv6541189184yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1483660529662_30849" style="font-size:16.0pt;">The Brutal Truth Is That America Still
Has Way Too Many Places to Shop</span></div>
<div id="yiv6541189184yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1483660529662_30851" style=""><span id="yiv6541189184yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1483660529662_30852" style="font-size:16.0pt;"> </span></div>
<div id="yiv6541189184yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1483660529662_30854" style=""><span id="yiv6541189184yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1483660529662_30855" style="font-size:16.0pt;">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 id="yiv6541189184yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1483660529662_30857" style=""><span id="yiv6541189184yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1483660529662_30858" style="font-size:16.0pt;"> </span></div>
<div id="yiv6541189184yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1483660529662_30860" style=""><span id="yiv6541189184yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1483660529662_30861" style="font-size:16.0pt;">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 id="yiv6541189184yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1483660529662_30863" style=""><span id="yiv6541189184yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1483660529662_30864" style="font-size:16.0pt;"> </span></div>
<div id="yiv6541189184yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1483660529662_30866" style=""><span id="yiv6541189184yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1483660529662_30867" style="font-size:16.0pt;">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 id="yiv6541189184yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1483660529662_30869" style=""><span id="yiv6541189184yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1483660529662_30870" style="font-size:16.0pt;"><a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" target="_blank" href="http://www.cnbc.com/2016/08/11/macys-finally-starts-addressing-the-overstored-retail-landscape.html">http://www.cnbc.com/2016/08/11/macys-finally-starts-addressing-the-overstored-retail-landscape.html</a></span></div>
<div id="yiv6541189184yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1483660529662_30872" style=""><span id="yiv6541189184yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1483660529662_30873" style="font-size:16.0pt;"> </span></div>
<div id="yiv6541189184yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1483660529662_30875" style=""><span id="yiv6541189184yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1483660529662_30876" style="font-size:16.0pt;">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 id="yiv6541189184yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1483660529662_30878" style=""><span id="yiv6541189184yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1483660529662_30879" style="font-size:16.0pt;"> </span></div>
<div id="yiv6541189184yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1483660529662_30881" style=""><span id="yiv6541189184yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1483660529662_30882" style="font-size:16.0pt;">The Brutal Truth Is That America Still
Has Way Too Many Places to Shop</span></div>
<div id="yiv6541189184yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1483660529662_30884" style=""><span id="yiv6541189184yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1483660529662_30885" style="font-size:16.0pt;"> </span></div>
<div id="yiv6541189184yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1483660529662_30887" style=""><span id="yiv6541189184yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1483660529662_30888" style="font-size:16.0pt;">America is over stored thus promoting
economic displacement instead of economic growth.</span></div>
<div id="yiv6541189184yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1483660529662_30890" style=""><span id="yiv6541189184yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1483660529662_30891" style="font-size:16.0pt;"> </span></div>
<div id="yiv6541189184yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1483660529662_30893" style=""><span id="yiv6541189184yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1483660529662_30894" style="font-size:16.0pt;"><a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" target="_blank" href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/business/wp/2016/04/05/there-really-are-too-many-stores-just-ask-the-retailers/?utm_term=.2c1ccef7b5a8">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 id="yiv6541189184yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1483660529662_30896" style=""><span id="yiv6541189184yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1483660529662_30897" style="font-size:16.0pt;"> </span></div>
<div id="yiv6541189184yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1483660529662_30899" style=""><span id="yiv6541189184yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1483660529662_30900" style="font-size:16.0pt;"><a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" target="_blank" href="https://news.thestreet.com/independent/story/13943055/1/the-brutal-truth-is-that-america-still-has-way-too-many-places-to-shop.html">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 id="yiv6541189184yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1483660529662_30902" style=""><span id="yiv6541189184yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1483660529662_30903" style="font-size:16.0pt;"> </span></div>
<div id="yiv6541189184yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1483660529662_30905" style=""><span id="yiv6541189184yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1483660529662_30906" style="font-size:16.0pt;">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 id="yiv6541189184yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1483660529662_30908" style=""><span id="yiv6541189184yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1483660529662_30909" style="font-size:16.0pt;"> </span></div>
<div id="yiv6541189184yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1483660529662_30911" style=""><span id="yiv6541189184yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1483660529662_30912" style="font-size:16.0pt;">GROSS: AMERICA THE OVER-STORED</span></div>
<div id="yiv6541189184yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1483660529662_30914" style=""><span id="yiv6541189184yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1483660529662_30915" style="font-size:16.0pt;"><a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" target="_blank" href="http://www.newsweek.com/gross-america-over-stored-94151">http://www.newsweek.com/gross-america-over-stored-94151</a></span></div>
<div id="yiv6541189184yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1483660529662_30917" style=""><span id="yiv6541189184yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1483660529662_30918" style="font-size:16.0pt;"> 2/16/08</span></div>
<div id="yiv6541189184yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1483660529662_30920" style=""><span id="yiv6541189184yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1483660529662_30921" style="font-size:16.0pt;"> </span></div>
<div id="yiv6541189184yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1483660529662_30923" style=""><span id="yiv6541189184yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1483660529662_30924" style="font-size:16.0pt;"> </span></div>
<div id="yiv6541189184yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1483660529662_30926" style=""><span id="yiv6541189184yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1483660529662_30927" style="font-size:16.0pt;">Respectfully,</span></div>
<div id="yiv6541189184yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1483660529662_30929" style=""><span id="yiv6541189184yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1483660529662_30930" style="font-size:16.0pt;">Dickie Heckler </span></div>
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