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Linda ladeewolf

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16. Doesn't private equity

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Wed Dec 11, 2024, 10:20 AM

Dec 11

Own a lot of the housing and everything else? It seems like class warfare is on. It’s not really the way they say it is. It’s a mix of racism and classism. The wealthy use race to separate us in the same ways they always have and we have let them. They are using it on immigrants now too. It’s always been the wealthy trying to keep the rest of us poor. Now they want what the middle class has. The middle class can’t see that. They blame the poor, when it’s always been the rich. It’s that pile of cookies. The rich want the whole pile of cookies and all the rest of us can share the crumbs now. That’s where this is all heading with trump. The middle class is endangering themselves by not supporting the poor and the immigrants. They’re next.

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Walgreens considering selling company to private equity firm, according to published report [View all] BumRushDaShow Dec 11 OP

darn. We lost our local pharmacy last spring and I had to move my perscriptions to Walgreens which riversedge Dec 11 #1

How far are you DownriverDem Dec 11 #5

I'm going to check out Mark Cuban's Cost Plus company. Joinfortmill Dec 11 #9

Private equity firms are destroying so many companies. Greed, greed, greed... hlthe2b Dec 11 #2

The stomach-churning stench... GiqueCee Dec 11 #10

Private Equity is so profitable. Often they are collections of brands. bucolic_frolic Dec 11 #3

Over the next four years, we will see the gutting of the US for billionaire profits. Lonestarblue Dec 11 #4

Get ready DownriverDem Dec 11 #6

I will stop getting prescriptions filled there...which is about all the business they seem to do lately. Joinfortmill Dec 11 #7

And to think I've asked "can Walgreens get any worse." Vinca Dec 11 #8

You beat me to it. (nt) Paladin Dec 11 #11

Guess they want to go the route of Bed, Bath, and Beyond, K-Mart, and Hancock Fabrics, to sinkingfeeling Dec 11 #12

Just for raising that option, I'm done with them RainCaster Dec 11 #13

I often wonder if the Mafia owns drug stores JohnnyRingo Dec 11 #14

And the billionaires will take over . . . AverageOldGuy Dec 11 #15

Doesn't private equity Linda ladeewolf Dec 11 #16

They play accounting games to loot the companies load them up with debt harun Dec 11 #17

That's what the one that owned the Bi-Lo grocery chain did and the chain went out of business. cstanleytech Dec 11 #20

Yes, private equity firms coprolite Dec 11 #21

Private equity and LBOs are what made Mitt Romney a multi-millionaire FakeNoose Dec 11 #18

Never a good sign. cstanleytech Dec 11 #19