Americans Organize to "Save Starbucks" as the Economy Slips into Recession

[sullivan]

The dollar is crashing and the economy tanking; yet some American's are rallying to "save their Starbucks." Talk about denial.

By Max Keiser, Huffington Post

Citizen groups around the country are mobilizing to save their Starbucks after the company announced it will shut down 600 stores. These people don't realize that Starbucks will have to double or triple their prices as the dollar continues to crash and the reason Starbucks has to close stores is because Americans are too broke to buy "premium" merchandise now that their currency has become the laughing stock of Forex.

Incredibly, and Forex traders can't help but chuckle at this, these citizens are not mobilizing to restore habeas corpus, or to restore the rule of law as it applies to America's spying telephone companies, or restore the checks and balances of the Republic that would prevent the president from declaring himself sole judge and jury in any case against any American who can then be detained for any length of time for any reason — as is now the case with the recent ruling of the US Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit (not to mention the workers themselves at Starbucks that nobody seems to care about after it was revealed that Starbucks management was stealing the barista's tips).

No, these citizens are mobilizing to keep the doors open at shops that charge them $4 (soon to be $12) for drinks made from agricultural products (coffee beans) that the company has no, true legal right to exploit without adequate compensation to the indigenous populations that have farmed these products for millennia.

I digress ... my point is that Americans can't afford stuff they used to be able to afford, and they are becoming increasingly alone in this — as compared to other citizens in other countries — due to the falling U.S. dollar and the rise in the value of currencies we compete with.

As a few in the financial press in the U.S. have said (the ones who manage money for a living, not the ones who just talk about money), Americans will be shocked by their loss of purchasing power — as the dollar collapses — versus their compatriots in other countries — whose currency is rising, but by then it will be too late to do anything about it.

We are seeing this play out with Starbucks and their impoverished fans who are trying to keep it open.The plain fact is, most Americans can no longer afford Starbucks. The ingredients used to make these products are beyond the reach of Americans now, just like gas and housing. And this is just the beginning. As current trends relating to the dollar's collapse continue — Starbucks will have to double and triple their prices and close hundreds more stores.

Americans can't see what is staring them in the face.

Tell me again... I don't think I understand. Why is Starbucks closing 600 restaurants?

For several reasons, all connected to the same underlying problem of America losing its economic sovereignty and the viability of its currency.

The cost of Starbucks raw materials; sugar, coffee, milk, wheat, chocolate are all skyrocketing in price due primarily to the concomitant fall in the U.S. dollar that has forced the price of these commodities, all priced in dollars, sky high.

Additionally, Starbucks, like all fast food franchises is also a real estate operator and the same problems we see in the nation's real estate market we see in Starbucks real estate portfolio as the U.S. real estate market crashes due to a crashing dollar (the Fed keeps trying to bail out the un-bailable banks/mortgage/Fannie Mae crooks by printing more dollars that have the effect of killing the value of the ones in circulation).

Additionally, America's household budgets are getting squeezed at the gas pump. Oil, like other commodities, is also priced in dollars and is going up as the dollar crashes.

Amazingly, the fact that Americans are now being shut out from something they covet because of the irresponsible Fed policies that have wrecked the stock market, housing market and dollar never seems to cross anyone's mind.

It's as if 300 million Americans live in a sno-globe of deceit and raining down on them are trillions of fake snow flake dollars that are destroying their purchasing power, economy and sovereignty and their only thought is to make snow balls, 'have fun' and 'Save Our Starbucks.'

Starbucks is the first, but not the last example of how a falling dollar will make most items that Americans gorge on too expensive for Americans to buy with their crumbling currency.

In a few years time, it is quite possible that Americans, like the Chinese last decade, will be working to keep themselves alive manufacturing products that will be shipped overseas to China; products that they themselves will be unable to afford.

http://www.alternet.org/blogs/peek/92236/

[Anonymous]

I got this as "recommended" the other week, he made some worthwhile comments about ridiculous Starbucks (didn't watch it all).  But beware, he's heavy into the yiddish speak  Still calling us "goy" without anyone knowing how derogatory it is...  subtle hints at "Jewish" superiority as well, see if you can catch them  Like a "Where's Waldo" but in audio/video

Jacki Mason - The Ultimate Jew

[youtube:23xh132j]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1fGnIOZ1yY8[/youtube]23xh132j]

[K-Sensor]

Incredibly, and Forex traders can't help but chuckle at this, these citizens are not mobilizing to restore habeas corpus, or to restore the rule of law as it applies to America's spying telephone companies, or restore the checks and balances of the Republic that would prevent the president from declaring himself sole judge and jury in any case against any American who can then be detained for any length of time for any reason

That being the poignant point.  Not the mention StarBucks is a Jewish lead company, staffed with illegals and other questionables.

[kolnidre]

Dear Starbucks Customer,

First and foremost I want to thank you for making Starbucks the $6.4 billion global company it is today, with more than 90,000 employees, 9,700 stores, and 33 million weekly customers. Every latte and macchiato you drink at Starbucks is a contribution to the close alliance between the United States and Israel, in fact it is - as I was assured when being honored with the "Israel 50th Anniversary Friend of Zion Tribute Award" - key to Israel's long-term PR success. Your daily Chocolate Chips Frappucino helps paying for student projects in North America and Israel, presenting them with the badly needed Israeli perspective of the Intifada.

Without you, my valued customer, I wouldn't be able to raise hundreds of millions of dollars each year to protect Israeli citizens from terrorist attacks and keep reminding every Jew in America, to defend Israel at any cost. $5 billion per year from the US government are no way near enough to pay for all the weaponry, bulldozers and security fences needed to protect innocent Israeli citizens from anti-Semitic Muslim terrorism. Corporate sponsorships are essential.

If it wasn't for you, I couldn't  - through the Jerusalem Fund of Aish HaTorah, an international network of Jewish education centres - sponsor Israeli military arms fairs in an effort to strengthen the special connection between the American, European and Israeli defense industries and to showcase the newest Israeli innovations in defense.

I couldn't fight against the global rise of anti-Semitism, the reason behind the current conflict in the Middle-East, by helping Aish HaTorah sponsor the website "honestreporting.com" and produce material informing of Israel's side of the story.

Without your coffee dollars, Starbucks couldn't have donated an entire store to the US army to help in the "War on Terror". I cannot emphasize enough, how vital the "War on Terror" is for the continued viability and prospering of the Jewish State.

So next time you feel like chilling out at a Starbucks store, please remember that with every cup you drink at Starbucks you are helping with a noble cause.

Howard Schultz
Chairman & Chief Global Strategist
Starbucks Coffee Stores



[The above comes from http://www.ziopedia.org/articles/editor ... _customers]

[Anonymous]

this makes me sick, they will organize to save starbucks but they won't organize to save their arse's

[kolnidre]

this makes me sick, they will organize to save starbucks but they won't organize to save their arse's

Yeah, but are you surprised?

It's typical. People just can't be motivated to care about the real core issues.

I led a discussion on "global warming" yesterday. Everyone was mildly engaged in the topic and was able to grasp the scam and even the Hegelian Dialectic I explained. But then they said it made their brains ache to think about. They'd rather not be bothered by the big issues, and would rather expend their diminished mental capacity thinking about that big Hong Kong wedding, for instance.

If parents haven't done the job I am tired of trying to get people to care. Time to take care of myself and my closest family and friends. In a sick way, we've got an advantage over the slumbering masses.

[sullivan]

Incredibly, and Forex traders can't help but chuckle at this, these citizens are not mobilizing to restore habeas corpus, or to restore the rule of law as it applies to America's spying telephone companies, or restore the checks and balances of the Republic that would prevent the president from declaring himself sole judge and jury in any case against any American who can then be detained for any length of time for any reason

That being the poignant point.

Indeed. The irony is way off the scale.

Not the mention StarBucks is a Jewish lead company, staffed with illegals and other questionables.

Yes, its CEO is an uber-Zionist. And its coffee is overroasted, overpriced and overrated. More good reasons for not giving them any custom.