The GREAT Economy of Obama’s, Forgets to mention…Layoffs. LOTS of Layoffs.

Nobody Wins

I was listening to the ‘great’ Obama economic growth report on the radio this afternoon while driving my car, and THEN heard the news that Monsanto, the last remaining big salary jobs corporation remaining in St. Louis, was going to lay off 2,400 workers at its St. Louis Headquarters.

What? Could it be that Europe doesn’t WANT genetically designer crops, I thought? The company says…no problem, they are still making billions, it’s just some of their patents are up. Oh. Good to know that those 2,400 people aren’t being replaced by cheap Chinese labor, don’t you think?

The next news? The United States Steel Corporation was closing their coke plant in Granite City, Illinois, laying off 176 workers.—Union jobs. It’s not the first layoff from this plant since Obama took office.

Granite City is right across the river…and the people of that small town depend on those jobs….they come over from the river and spend their money at the Cardinal ballpark here.

In the meantime, in the middle of this ‘roaring’ Obama economy, the new NFL football stadium that they want to build right down on the Arch riverfront, which so far has NO team really, and no way to figure out it’s backing, just got a bid for a name.

The National Car Stadium!

From CBS St. Louis:

National Car Rental has agreed to pay $158 million over 20 years for naming rights. There may be reason for stadium backers to sweat: Rams owner Stan Kroenke won’t return calls to local leaders trying to stop him from taking the team to Los Angeles. Some Missouri lawmakers have threatened not to appropriate money for the stadium bonds unless there’s a public vote on the plan. And a city alderman is threatening to filibuster the local stadium funding package until the mayor delivers a plan to fight crime and poverty.

So the question is…how can anyone believe that the economy is growing when so many people are still getting laid off?

If they can put more officers on the streets of downtown, (taxes)  and IF they can bribe the aldermen to go ahead and make the taxpayers fork out more money, (even though we are still paying for the old stadium) those Monsanto workers might be able to get a job in the new stadium…selling hot dogs! I bet some of those old Monsanto employees could come up with some really fantastic tasting hot dog, with cool new names like Roundup Doggie, Bovine Big Boy, or maybe even design a hot dog that has caffeine.

It’s a win/win!

Maybe some of those laid off steel workers can put together a decent football team. All those years lifting steel, I’d say they’d be more than fun to watch.

What do you think? Anything would be better than the Rams.

Nobody suggests we call this the “National Hunger Games Ram the Taxpayers Again Stadium.” If the taxpayers have to pay for this stadium, it’s only fair we get to put our two cents into the name.

What do you think? Anything would be better than the Rams. Let them go to L.A.

While Rome collapsed—they entertained the masses with games.

If ONLY we could put some of our politicians into the arena.

October 7, 2015 Posted by Joyanna Adams | Barack Obama, Globalization, Uncategorized | globalization, Monsanto, NFL | 1 Comment