Personally, I hate stock buybacks because of this reason. I’m a free market capitalist, so go ahead and blow all your money on buying your own stock, but go fuck yourself when it comes to taxpayer handouts.
I wonder if Comrade Clayton will complain about “corporate subsidies” upon hearing this story? I’m guessing not – since Biden is the one handing out free money.
I’ve lived here for 12 years now, but I was never a big Eve’s fan for several reasons:
#1 – I’m not huge into German food. Sauerkraut might be the worst invention on the planet – it is dog vomit. Although I do enjoy a bratwurst at the ball game once every five years or so. The schnitzel was good but that’s not something I crave very often.
#2 – the service there was always slow as shit. Eve blames that (in the Dispatch article) on everyone being too stupid to realize it takes TIME to make a good home-cooked meal! “Everyone iz on zere phones! It’s reediculous, you see!! Zeeze peeople zey are vasting zere time on ze iPhone and ze Tiktokken! Zey expect ze Doordashen and ze Uber eats! Zey are all retarded, you zee!”
Yeah, but it shouldn’t take 50 minutes for a fucking bratwurst, lady.
#3 – from what I’ve seen/heard, Eve leans pretty far to the left, politically. So I will always put those people WAY down on my list of places to spend my dollars.
Other than that, kudos to her. To keep a restaurant running for 29 years is impressive. The restaurant biz is a tough one.
But she DID kind of take massive shits all over her workers and the entire younger generation for being unqualified, inexperienced and having no work ethic. LOL. She basically said she can’t get anyone to work there – which means she just shot herself in the schwanz if she’s thinking of trying to unload that place on some new sucker or investor.
“She and her husband Steve have shouldered a heavy burden due to their inability to secure competent staff.” – Dispatch article
This is extra hilarious because the morons at the LEDC have spent 20 years and $7.3 million to build a “business park” to “create more jobs” while at the same time, the existing businesses here can’t find workers. An irony I have pointed out many, many times on these very pages. Too bad the LEDC is skipping their monthly meeting tomorrow or they could all have a good laugh about it!
Now, I agree with her in general when she does her crazy old lady rant. I’ve made the same rant repeatedly on these very pages. Today’s kids are mostly spoiled pussies who whine if they have to work more than four hours or put down their phones for 15 minutes.
On the OTHER hand, I heard from MANY former workers that Eve went out of her way to hire people who had ZERO service experience so she could train them HER way. I totally believe that story, knowing what I know about her. So maybe she brought this on herself.
I mean, there isn’t much going on anyways. It’s not like they just saw City sales tax receipts drop 5% YoY, watched Eve’s Restaurant close down after 29 years, are staring at an empty $7.3 million business park with ZERO tenants anywhere in sight, just saw the Industrial Park agreement blow up and cost the City $45,000, saw Brodie Estates violate an agreement they spent $185,000 on or have a total solar eclipse coming in less than three weeks.
Almost as lazy as our own local communist fake rancher. Bernie actually has to like, show up for votes and stuff. He managed to grift his way into a six-figure joke job called “U.S. Senator,” so he had to put in a little bit of effort somewhere along the line, even if just to curry the hippie moron vote in Vermont.
Bernie also somehow managed to find a wife and impregnate her. Must have taken a slight bit of effort.
Then again, she is one ugly mutt, so maybe it didn’t take much effort after all…
Comrade Clayton has accomplished none of that. He can sleep til noon at mom’s house any day he wants. Then he galivants out to Arizona for Farmers’ Union conventions and spends his days posting commie crap on Twitter and Facebook.
The latest data from the BLS confirms I was right once again: state and local government employees are VASTLY better compensated (wages AND benefits) than the poor schlubs who pay their salaries.
The BLS recently released its employer costs report for the 4th quarter of 2023:
Look at those benefits!!! I have harped on this for YEARS. Finley squawks about “salaries, salaries, salaries” all the time but NEVER mentions the very generous benefits. As you can see above, they are EIGHTY PERCENT HIGHER than private sector workers.
Employer Costs $ Per Hour Comparison
State and local government worker’s total compensation is $60.56 compared to $43.11 for private industry.
State and local government worker’s salary is $37.53 compared to $30.33 for private industry.
State and local government worker’s benefits are $23.03 compared to $12.77 for private industry.
Employer Costs Percentage Comparison
State and local government worker’s total compensation is 40.5 percent higher than private industry.
State and local government worker’s salary is 23.7 percent higher than private industry.
State and local government worker’s benefits are 80.3 percent higher than private industry.
Remember all this in a few months when Finley and Ryan do their annual rain dance for more money to be showered upon themselves. You will hear a lot of bullshit about “being competitive” and “salary studies” but they won’t say a single word about benefits. Nor will there be any comparisons to the suckers who work in the private sector who ultimately pay their bloated salaries.
Clayton Tucker considers himself a public figure and an “expert” on all things. A lot of gullible, moron liberals take his word as gospel. Especially senile old ladies like this:
Plight = sponging off mom at age 33.
There is no such thing as “long Covid” – you are just really old and super fat. That’s why you don’t feel good.
So it is very troubling that yesterday he went to a public forum and told everyone there that “every time you eat a bowl of cereal in the morning, you are eating RoundUp and Windex,” because all the milk sold in Texas has Windex in it.
This is demonstrably not true, but Clayton Tucker told the lie anyways to score cheap political points. In fact, this Becky idiot is already repeating the lies on HER social media. See how fast the libel can travel?
I doubt that HEB or Wal-Mart will be happy to know that the Chairman of the Lampasas Democrats and head of another 10 paper LLC organizations (as well as a “ranch owner”!) disparaged the milk supply – and thus both HEB, Wal-Mart and everyone else who sells a jug of milk in the state.
Here is my letter sent to the heads of product quality at both stores:
To whom it may concern,
I was watching a speech yesterday given by a political figure at SXSW in Austin (Clayton Tucker) in which he said a lot of bad things about milk! He claims that all milk has Windex in it, which is patently absurd. However, I thought you’d like to know that a political figure is essentially slandering HEB, Wal-Mart and every other store that provides milk to score cheap political points.
I can provide the link to the YouTube clip with the slanderous talk if you like. Thanks! I just love HEB and hate to see a wormy guy spread lies about the food supply. It could cause a panic, right?
I also sent a similar email to Danielle Nierenberg (danielle@foodtank.com) informing her of food libel laws and the ridiculous false statements made by Clayton Tucker during his appearance there.
Let’s sit back and see what happens. It’s also a shame the moderator of the panel sat there like a dunce and didn’t question Clayton’s ridiculous lies at the time. Peddling slander about the food supply sure could put the “Food Tank” non-profit corporation at risk as well.
Clayton Tucker slanders the milk supply of Texas at the 3:14:05 mark in this video.
Food libel laws, also known as food disparagement laws and informally as veggie libel laws, are laws passed in thirteen U.S. states that make it easier for food producers to sue their critics for libel. These thirteen states are the following: Alabama, Arizona, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Dakota, and Texas. Many of the food-disparagement laws establish a lower standard for civil liability and allow for punitive damages and attorney’s fees for plaintiffs alone, regardless of the case’s outcome.
These laws vary significantly from state to state, but food libel laws typically allow a food manufacturer or processor to sue a person or group who makes disparaging comments about their food products. In some states these laws also establish different standards of proof than are used in traditional American libel lawsuits, including the practice of placing the burden of proof on the party being sued.
An example of the situation is the New York Times reporting about “facts from a study showing the amounts of lead found in over-the-counter calcium supplements” being censored.
According to socialist dunce and fake rancher Clayton Tucker (SDEC-24 TX): “the number one chemical to defrost milk is Windex! So every time you eat that bowl of cereal in the morning…you are eating RoundUp and Windex!” [3:14:05 mark]
No, seriously. He said that. I don’t know where the hell he buys his milk, but mine is liquid when I get it. No defrosting needed. You’d also think a guy that has “always been a cattle family” would have a couple cows to milk out there and not need to go to HEB or Wal-Mart to buy his Windex-filled milk.
Then again, that would require getting up before 9am and doing some work to milk a cow. Socialist scumbags aren’t into actual work. They spend their time at Farmer’s Union conventions and tweeting about equity.
Let’s take a look at what’s in my milk I just took out of the fridge:
Contains: milk. No Windex.
Nope. No Windex. But it occurs to me that PUBLICLY accusing stores like HEB and Wal-Mart of selling Windex-filled milk just might be construed as slander.
I think I’ll email the department of quality control at HEB and Wal-Mart and inform them that Clayton Tucker is PUBLICLY accusing them of selling Windex-filled milk! Something tells me that slander like that could cost Clayton Tucker a LOT of money in a lawsuit.
He finished his “speech” with a ‘joke’ about the Windexmilk [3:14:35 mark]
“We have to have a NATIONAL system of NATIONAL standards and tell them, ‘hey! Don’t put Windex in my milk!” – waits for laughter. There is none. Moderator makes a weak forced laugh then quickly moves on.
The smug look you give when you think you told a zinger but then nobody laughs…..
A national system and national standards? You mean like the FDA, USDA, EPA, and a dozen other billion-dollar agencies which employ tens of thousands of morons? The FDA which has been around for over 100 years and is run by your beloved Big Federal Government? So if the food is so shitty right now and filled with Windex and RoundUp, I guess your buddies in the government aren’t doing too good of a job, are they?
“Ranching can be pretty, pretty rough.” – [03:13:30 mark] Clayton Tucker, fake rancher who lives with mother at age 33 spewing laughable nonsense to a ‘crowd’ of 13 nerds at SXSW.
Yeah, it looks rough. Look at those calloused hands, washboard abs and broad shoulders.
Well, it was totally worth sitting through about 12 minutes of nonstop buzzwords, bullshit and lies, because comrade Clayton produced copious amounts of falsehoods and contradicted many of his earlier lies in life.
As luck would have it, I had a long drive back from spring break at the exact time Comrade Clayton was “speaking” to the massive SXSW crowds!
Tight camera angle hides the fact there are only 15 people there…
The tl;dr version? Three nerds (Austin City council member Natasha Harper-Madison didn’t bother to show up) who have never created or produced anything in their lives (let alone food for the masses) sat on a stage with great smugness and pomposity to inform us that the government needs to steal a LOT more money from you and hand it to brown and black people so they can eat. Blah blah blah climate change, blah blah blah community empowerment, blah blah blah corporations, blah blah blah equity.
“It’s a family ranch and I am the THIRD generation at it.” [2:59:30 mark]
Lie.
As you all know, Comrade Clayton has been claiming to be a FIFTH generation rancher for years now. See how easily the communist lies? Like taking a breath. Changing his ‘facts’ as needed. He plastered “fifth generation rancher” all over his campaign materials when he needed to convince voters he was some salt-of-the-earth rancher.
In truth, it doesn’t really matter what ‘generation’ he claims to be because the reality is that he isn’t a rancher at all. Unless a “rancher” is any human who walks around on grandpa’s property taking selfies with goats to post for idiot liberal septuagenarians to gawk at on Facebook.
“Now we are diversifying into goats, because the climate is changing and we felt that’s a little better for arid climate.” [2:59:30 mark]
Lie.
Comrade Clayton previously stated they were raising goats because the cattle industry is SO monopolized (it’s not) that they just couldn’t make it as a small family farm.
Never mind they have been “into goats” since before 2020. Another lie.
To be clear, RX Ranch is NOT failing because a 33-year-old halfwit who just started taking ranching classes four months ago is now in charge of the operation – an operation which doesn’t even have a website. No, no, no. It’s because of climate change and Big Ag.
“I do a lot of work with international trade.” – BAHAHAHAHAHA. Lie. No you don’t.
“What would do the most good? To break up Big Ag. Break up the monopolies. They are CRUSHING small farmers and ranchers.” [3:00:45 mark]
[Note: Comrade Clayton LOVES the government-run education monopoly. He is vehemently against vouchers and school choice. But he HATES monopolies in the farming and ranching industry. Government monopoly on schools: good. Monopolies on ranching: bad. Get it? Yeah, me either – he’s a moron.]
My favorite part is when Comrade Clayton tried to talk about the evils of Round-Up and fucked up the name of the main chemical in it: glyphosate. That’s GLY-PHOS-ATE, you complete mook.
Comrade Clayton calls it something else:
“Almost every cereal has glyophates [made up word] in them...that’s RoundUp…every time you eat that bowl of cereal, you are eating RoundUp…” [3:13:58 mark]
One wonders why a big-time rancher and farmer like Clayton Tucker (RX Ranch SDEC-24 TX) has to go to Wal-Mart and buy chemical-laden cereal shitflakes for the poor when he is the (supposed) FOUNDER and OWNER of a RANCH!! Why not just bring some of your meat or crops over there to hand out? Maybe because you are a FAKE rancher…and a FAKE farmer?
Wait – in 2020, he had goats? Why did he say they just diversified into goats last year? Why did he say he’s a farmer growing crops? Because he is a piece of shit communist liar.
One also wonders why Mister “Save the Poor American Farmer” douchebag went and bought a JAPANESE tractor? Well, his parents or grandpa did, anyways. No way he has the money for that.
We = grandpa or dad. Clayton is broke and lives with mom.
We will poke WAY more fun at this entire thing because there is even more to ridicule…coming soon.
Until then…..
Two fake ranchers, Clayton and Beto, are driving down a dirt road when they come across Penny the donkey with her head stuck in the fence.
Beto says “Man I haven’t had any pussy in months!” He jumps out of the truck Prius and just starts banging the donkey like there’s no tomorrow.
Then Beto looks over at Clayton and says “Hey, do you want any of this?” Clayton replies “Sure….but do I have to put my head in the fence?”
Sadly, there are many, many grown adults out there who are incapable of taking care of themselves – be it due to laziness, stupidity or incompetence. These socialist twats want everyone else to pay for their hospital stays and college….
MANY states fell victim to these twats’ demands and expanded Medicaid – they are now getting killed for it.
10 states did not fall for the Medicaid expansion trap under Obamacare – Texas is one of them, thank Christ for that.
The rest are suffering. Private payers (you, one way or another) make up the loss.
Medicaid expansion ushered in through ObamaCare has led to program enrollment growth well beyond what was promised or projected. While proponents argue that expansion is a silver bullet to keep hospitals financially secure, this is simply not true.
Because Medicaid does not pay enough to cover the costs to hospitals to provide patient care, hospitals rely on private payers to make up for these losses.
The lower payment rate and more Medicaid enrollees—especially those forced out of private coverage—mean increased Medicaid shortfalls, contributing to lower profit margins. This increases pressure on hospitals’ bottom lines, especially for rural hospitals where fewer patients make it more difficult to make up the shortfalls. The result is hospital closures in expansion states across the country. New data from the Department of Health and Human Services shows just how dire the situation is for hospitals in expansion states.
Not every state chose to expand Medicaid when given the chance beginning in 2014. This provides a real-life demonstration with nearly a decade of data, showing how covering so many able-bodied adults is affecting hospitals. This data can be invaluable for non-expansion states, as well as states that have expanded.
Hospitals in expansion states were in better financial shape before they expanded—but this has since flipped.
The reason for this flip in financial stability in expansion states is that hospitals count on private payers to make up for the reduced payments provided by Medicaid. In non-expansion states, private payers averaged payments of 128 percent of hospital costs, whereas Medicaid averaged only 76 percent of costs.
As a higher proportion of hospital services are billed to Medicaid because of expansion, there are not enough private payments to boost back profits. This is especially true in rural areas without a large patient base to draw from. Thankfully, as non-expansion states have resisted calls to expand, they have not suffered from this shift in payers from private insurance to Medicaid as expansion states have.
Because Medicaid does not pay enough to cover hospital costs, hospitals in most states have Medicaid shortfalls. That is, the difference between hospital payments from Medicaid and the cost of providing services to patients enrolled in Medicaid.
Key Findings
Medicaid does not pay enough to cover hospitals’ costs, meaning hospitals need to make up for the shortfallby charging private payers more.
In expansion states, hospitals’ Medicaid shortfalls have reached $22.3 billion,increasing by 117 percent since 2013.
If non-expansion states were to expand, their hospitals’ Medicaid shortfalls would more than double, from $6.3 billion to $13.2 billion.
Non-expansion states should continue to say no to Medicaid expansion, and expansion states should work to roll it back.
Financial Struggles
Several hospitals,especially in rural areas, have recently closed and more are at risk of closing. Another argument made for Medicaid expansion is that it financially helps hospitals, especially rural hospitals.But the data from expansion and non-expansion states does not bear this out.
The more people that are shifted from private insurance to Medicaid, the higher the Medicaid shortfalls, and the lower hospital profits.Hospitals are learning that you cannot become solvent by providing more and more services below cost. This is a surefire way to bankruptcy, not solvency. Nobody would call offering goods or services below cost a successful long-term business plan.
Reality has born this out, with a broad range of hospitals in expansion states closing across the country.In the South, Arkansas’s Crittenden Regional Health had a nearly $7 million surplus before expansion but soon closed after profits turned to losses. In the West, California’s Colusa Regional Medical Center also saw its profits turn to losses soon after expansion and was forced to close.In the Midwest, Illinois’s Westlake Hospital managed a surplus before expansion but by 2019 was operating at a nearly $7 million loss and was forced to close its doors.
Expansion Would Double Shortfalls
Expansion would more than double the Medicaid shortfalls for hospitals in those states,the equivalent of losing nearly 100,000 hospital jobs
Bottom Line
This evidence is clear that any further expansion would only harm the bottom lines of more hospitals by doubling the Medicaid shortfall in any state that chooses to expand. States that have not expanded should continue to avoid the Medicaid trap and those that have expanded should roll it back.
This was one of the easiest “I Told You So” advance predictions in history.
Best of all, we have a decade of data to prove it thanks to ten states that resisted the trap.
Wrong – the costs went UP in the states who expanded ‘free’ medical care. There is now a mountain of evidence.Thankfully, socialist cunts like this are not in charge.
About to Get Much Worse
Thanks to mass immigration, rather the failure to stop it, things are about to get much worse. Denver provides the perfect example.
The Denver hospital system is turning away local residents because it is flooded with migrant visits.
Denver Health has treated more than 8,000 migrants who lack legal documentation in the past year, totaling about 20,000 visits, according to Steven Federico, MD, a pediatrician at the health system.
The majority of these patients are coming from Venezuela and arrive needing treatment for chronic and communicable diseases after making the difficult journey.
In 2020, the health system had about $60 million in uncompensated care costs. Last year, costs sprung to $136 million, a quarter of which came from caring for non-Denver residents.
Obama claimed Medicaid expansion would pay for itself.
Whenever you hear that claim please run.Free government handouts are never free and most often backfire completely.
Congratulations to Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kansas, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas,Wisconsin, and Wyoming for avoiding the Obamacare expansion trap.
The rest of the states need to reconsider the Faustian bargain they entered.
Thank goodness the socialist twats are not in charge here in Texas. We have fiscal conservatism to thank for that.
In other words, I’ve been told what to believe and I have no idea why I believe it.
Of course they can’t quote any examples. They are just accepting what they’ve been fed as being real even though it’s not.
Gen Z: “the most educated generation EVAH!”
Seems very typical of modern libs actually. They just KNOW that they’re oppressed as they spend the day watching TikTok on their $1,200 iPhone, but they don’t exactly know how.
This is what happens when millions of fools pay $200k to go to college and be indoctrinated by some loser with a manbun teaching “gender studies” or some such horseshit.
I remember a similar incident about 5 years ago at Putter & Gutters. There was a particularly dumb waitress serving us who said “Ooohh! Trump? How can anyone vote for him! He’s such a racist!”
At that point, I was so sick of hearing the word “racist” thrown around with no proof (kind of like ‘insurrection’ was later) I asked “What did he do or say that was so racist?”
The waitress stammered and bumbled around and said something like “well, he’s just, you know, totally racist and does racist stuff.”
I asked again to give me ONE example.
She couldn’t do it. Naturally, she wasn’t the least bit embarrassed or ashamed that she was made to look like a complete idiot unable to back up a basic statement she considered “fact.”
These are the morons who put Biden into office. Completely clueless and all their beliefs are based on CNN lies and propaganda. They literally cannot think for themselves or express a cogent argument about anything if asked.
