Any business that can’t turn a profit should be subsidized until they make a profit. Then they should be taxed out the wahzoo until they no longer make a profit.
Gotta love scrappleface!!
LOL...I’m sure Maxine Waters and Maurice Hinchey will be on TV suggesting that the US nationalize Starbuck’s in order to save the baristas’ jobs. These two economics PHDs can point to how well the government runs Medicare and FEMA as the basis for their expertise.
The morons in Congress are going to be shocked to hell when the massive layoffs start coming their way this fall. Between the airlines, auto industry, tourism industry, and all the supporting business dry up and blow away.
Congress does not have the authority to tell businesses when they can shut down and layoff.
Very nice. As usual Scrappleface is very very close to believable.
What’s happening to Starbucks is really nothing new. I remember when TCBY was all the rage back in the 80s and they simply overexpanded.
In Starbucks case, expensive, vogue coffee was bound to have lost it’s mass market appeal sometime. That’s not to say that Starbucks will go away or doesn’t have it’s place but jeez, they had franchises EVERYWHERE, as some said, even right across the street from each other.
I’m not a coffee user, but word is that McDonalds coffee is better than Starbucks, and much cheaper.
If the focus were about a planned Congressional RAT Party led-proposal for a taxpayer funded bail out of specific Starbucks owners in districts where Dodd’s Pelosi’s Reids’ Kennedy’s, Murtha’s, Mcdermott’s, Wechler’s, Webb’s, Frank’s, Rockerfeller’s families back home get their free coffee for life, that would be even more believable.
I've read it all now.
A major economic depression is one thing....but...closing hundreds of Starbucks is unthinkable. The idea of buying coffee for a dollar instead of three dollars is just...well...un-American.
Yes indeed ... The goobermint can get warmed up, rescuing Starbucks, ‘cause GM, Ford, and Chrysler are waiting in the wings for some of that there groovy taxpayer largesse ...
PS: Yes, I know it’s Scrappleface, but be careful ... they’re giving the CongressCritters ideas.
Where will the Libs who were hanging out at those 600 stores meet now? This will be a real hardship on them now. They might have to walk a block to a different Starbucks!
Very very close!
Rep. Stephanie Herseth-Sandlin (D-SD)stated that residents of communities like Pukwanna and Buffalo, South Dakota are under served by coffee houses and have as much right to enjoy a frappacino as those living in big cities. She added that a local Starbucks could provide valuable broadband Internet access in these communities as well as boost employment.
Besides, since they already have the leases on the properties they should be forced to sell coffee even if it’s uneconomic to do so.
And that's for adults.