Marla at Zero Hedge
relays photographs of the bustling holiday shopping season at Los Angeles' tony Beverly Center and Westfield Century City.
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Beverly Center is located smack dab in the middle of Beverly Hills while WCC is a few miles west in, well, Westwood.
Let's check out the parking lot for the Beverly Center the day before Christmas: hopefully we can find a spot!
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Neat! Plenty o' spots left!
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Behold: the power of Schwarzenomics!
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You could should a pellet gun in random directions and only wound mannequins.
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Nothing spells "bargain" like a going-out-of-business sale!
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If we could only find the Beverly Center's Dollar Store, I'll bet we could spot the crowds!
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Fortunately lots more folks showed up while we were shopping!
Let's head over to Westwood's Westfield mall!
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Jam-packed with shoppers enjoying the immense value creation of the Obamaconomy!
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You can barely wedge yourself into Macy's.
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Ditto the Apple Store.
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Thank heavens the $787 billion Stimulus package kicked in when it did. We could have been suffering from a real malaise without the astute economic stewardship of Obama, Pelosi and Reid.
4 comments:
AFTER OBAMACARE TAXES GO THRU THIS PLACES WILL ALL BE JUMPIN'!
Wow.
Here's what I would do.
1. Unionize the mall staff to protect against job loss
2. Give $100 million to the mall owners to improve the infrastructure
3. Give another $100 million to LA to keep cashflow going to city workers, who will no doubt spend money at this mall
4. Create a punitive tax for Macy's and other fat cat retailers
That ought to do it.
I know most of your post is tongue-in-cheek, but I just wanted to make sure that you realized the number of people shopping went DOWN not up. The sign shows how many parking spaces are available. Just sayin'.
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