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Britain can no long
afford to pay the
extortionate cost
of the welfare state
Daily Mail [UK], by Peter Hitchens
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Posted By:MissMolly, 1/14/2013 4:42:47 AM
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| Britain cannot possibly afford its welfare state for much longer. Most people do not realise that state handouts (£207?billion a year) mop up every penny we pay in income tax (£155?billion a year). Everything else, the NHS, schools, transport, police, defence, interest on the debt (nearly £50?billion a year, by the way) must be paid for by other taxes, including the vast sums raked in by so-called ‘National Insurance’, or by more borrowing. As we are more or less bankrupt as a country, such generosity is not noble but plain idiotic. Yet we will not stop doing it. Change is politically impossible.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
Spidey, 1/14/2013 5:00:45 AM (No. 9115067)
It´s great to see Britain finally waking up to the excesses and fruitlessness of their absurd welfare state.The healthcare system is a complete abomination.Apparently they´re also pulling back on ridiculous green spending.
They also need to get out from the boot of the EU which is draining them further. It´s crazy to give up the sovereignty of your country to begin with.I´d like to see Germany get the hell out of the U also.
The EU is nothing but a workfare program for unemployed bureaucrats and busy bodies..
You had/have muslims migrating to Britain dragging some relatives kids with them to get a boost in their welfare checks.Up until several months ago they were still paying bonuses for having babies.Maybe they still are but they don´t have a population shortage like when the payments started.
The parallels between Britain and where this country is headed is startling but don´t expect Obama to learn for their disastrous policies,in fact he´s adopting them.
Obama wants a bizarre composite between Europe´s welfare state and Chinese central planning.The left thinks high taxes create a panacea for everybody but Britain has some of he highest tax rates in the world including a VAT and high gas taxes and they´re still broke and crime is rampant.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
globalwarmer, 1/14/2013 5:01:49 AM (No. 9115068)
Greece II coming right up in the UK. We´re not far behind.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Attercliffe, 1/14/2013 5:32:41 AM (No. 9115073)
#1, time to stop criticizing Britain and start on the U.S. At least the Conservative/Lib-Dem Coalition government is attempting to cut down on immigration and "entitlement" spending that Labour blew up into a crippling situation. The Democrats are copying Labour almost to the T and we shall have a far worse situation here with the Obama administration turning the faucet to full on for immigrants and force-marching everyone into "affordable" health care. Oh, except politicians, of course.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Attercliffe, 1/14/2013 5:35:04 AM (No. 9115074)
Sorry, in my haste I missed out a word in the first sentence. SHould be:
". . . and start fully on the U.S."
All efforts have to be directed at the U.S. administration now.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
RoseOfTexas, 1/14/2013 8:51:15 PM (No. 9116718)
"we are more or less bankrupt as a country"
As a citizen of "the brokest nation on earth" (Steyn) I´m jealous. More or less bankrupt would be a big improvement for us.
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Hollande’s Camel Slaughtered in Mali
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National Review Online, by Katherine Connell
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Posted By: MissMolly- 4/10/2013 7:11:22 AM
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A couple of months ago, François Hollande was presented with a baby camel by local authorities in Timbuktu in appreciation for France’s military action against Islamist militants in Mali. The animal did not come quietly. Hollande had initially hoped to have the camel vaccinated and transported to a Parisian zoo, but decided it would be easiest for the French and best for the beast if it were entrusted to a local Timbuktu family who had suffered damage to their property from French tanks. It appears that his trust was misplaced.
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Ashley Judd was easy
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Washington Post, by Jonathan Capehart
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Posted By: MissMolly- 4/10/2013 5:42:28 AM
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After listening to the latest secret recording made public by Mother Jones, there’s no question that Ashley Judd — and the Democratic Party — dodged a serious bullet when the actress decided not to run against Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.).While I agree with The Fix that the dust-up over said recording of a McConnell campaign opposition research meeting is “much ado about not much” since such research is a bipartisan ritual, there was enough oppo gold to sink a Judd candidacy. The rap sheet was long for someone the McConnell people
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King Obama Issues More Sequester
Punishment: Justin Timberlake Concerts
For Me… But No Blue Angels For Thee
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Gateway Pundit, by Mara Zebest
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Posted By: MissMolly- 4/10/2013 5:05:30 AM
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Justin Timberlake concerts for King Obama… but no Blue Angels for Americans… KomoNews reports the following: SEATTLE — The annual summer Blue Angels show over Seattle has fallen victim to federal budget cuts. Seafair spokeswoman Melissa Jurcan said the festival received official word from the Navy on Tuesday morning that the fighter jet demonstration team would not be making the trip to Seattle for 2013. Sequestration prompted the Department of Defense to prohibit military aerial demonstrations along with other cost savings measures, and the Navy said it was cancelling all remaining Blue Angels performances for the year.
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National Enquirer Heirs
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ABC News, by Russell Goldman
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It´s a story that could be ripped from the headlines of the National Enquirer. A family feud. A multimillion dollar estate. Dueling allegations of fraud. Accusations of kidnapping, theft, and stalking. Tales of lavish spending that include a private jet chartered to transport 18 dogs. And in the latest chapter, ongoing in a Florida courtroom today, a wealthy mother so fed up with allegedly being asked for handouts that she has filed a restraining order against her son. The mother is Florida socialite and philanthropist Lois Pope, 79. The son is Paul Pope, 45,
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Fashion designer Lilly Pulitzer dies at 81
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Associated Press, by Jennifer Kay
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Posted By: MissMolly- 4/7/2013 4:46:58 PM
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MIAMI -- Lilly Pulitzer hosted parties in her bare feet and wasn´t afraid to get a little messy - just as long as she looked good and had fun, too. In the late 1950s, the Palm Beach socialite had time to spare and a wealthy husband who owned citrus groves, so she opened an orange juice stand just off the island´s main shopping street. Pulitzer needed to hide all the juice stains on her clothes,though. Instead of just putting on an apron, she asked her seamstress to make some sleeveless dresses
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Still OK to withdraw welfare benefits
at ATMs in Colorado strip clubs
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Daily Caller, by Greg Campbell
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Posted By: MissMolly- 4/7/2013 5:49:05 AM
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An attempt by Colorado lawmakers to ban welfare recipients from withdrawing their benefits at ATMs located inside strip clubs was killed by Democrats Thursday night, even though the state House’s third-ranking Democratic legislator supported the measure. Democratic Rep. Dan Pabon lent his support to the Republican-led proposal, offered as an amendment during a debate on the state budget Thursday night, because it would hew to a similar federal rule, according to the Denver Post. Pabon introduced a bill on the issue two years ago, but it didn’t clear the state Senate. State welfare recipients receive their benefits
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Cruel founding fathers
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Boston Herald, by Howie Carr
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Posted By: MissMolly- 4/7/2013 5:31:24 AM
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Add the name of Michelle Lynne (ne Robert) Kosilek to the list of modern phenomena the Founding Fathers would definitely not appreciate being blamed for. Little did they know what havoc they would someday wreak by adding the Eighth Amendment to the Constitution to prohibit “cruel and unusual punishment.” Now comes Kosilek, a convicted wife murderer doing life without parole. He/she is claiming that it would be cruel and unusual punishment to deny him/her a sex-change operation — excuse me, “gender-reassignment surgery.”Not to get too graphic, but Kosilek is begging for elective amputation of a body part.
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Can We Get Hillary
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New York Times, by Maureen Dowd
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Posted By: MissMolly- 4/7/2013 5:14:24 AM
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PLEASE don’t ask me this anymore. It’s such a silly question. Of course Hillary is running. I’ve never met a man who was told he could be president who didn’t want to be president. So naturally, a woman who’s told she can be the first commandress in chief wants to be. “Running for president is like sex,” James Carville told me. “No one ever did it once and forgot about it.” Joe Biden wants the job. He’s human (very). But he’s a realist. He knows the Democratic Party has a messianic urge to finish what it started
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Doom and gloom
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New York Post, by John Crudele
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Two very bad and extremely dangerous economic developments happened yesterday — and Wall Street appeared to miss both of them. The Dow Jones industrial average fell 40.86 points to 14565.25 after the Labor Department announced that the seasonally adjusted number of new jobs created in March was just 88,000 — far below the 190,000 or so Wall Street expected. The March figure was also less than one-third the number of jobs created during February. This led to the misperception that the job market tanked in March. It didn’t.
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Duck Dynasty Must
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American Spectator, by Benjamin Brophy
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Posted By: MissMolly- 4/5/2013 6:06:07 AM
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Duck Dynasty must make liberals heads explode. It is now the most popular “non-scripted” show currently on television. Its Season 3 premiere had 8.6 million viewers and a massive 4.0 rating in the 18-49 demographic, which as you might know, is quite popular with the advertisers. At the same time, each episode ends with the entire family at the dinner table where they pray before eating. Indeed, the Robertson clan is entirely evangelical. They take their faith in Christ seriously and exert quite a bit of effort preaching the gospel. The patriarch of the family, Phil, used to live
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Obama´s Harris ´compliment´ backfires
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Politico, by Jonathan Allen
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Posted By: MissMolly- 4/5/2013 5:56:52 AM
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Ohio’s Mike DeWine, Alabama’s Luther Strange and Georgia’s Sam Olens, eat your hearts out: President Barack Obama thinks California’s Kamala Harris is the belle of the ball among the nation’s top government lawyers. “She’s brilliant and she’s dedicated, she’s tough … She also happens to be, by far, the best looking attorney general,” Obama said at a Democratic National Committee luncheon in Atherton, Calif., Thursday. “It’s true! C’mon.” Obama’s remark set the chattering class atwitter. Certainly, Obama meant no insult, but in singling out Harris for her looks, Obama joins a long list of public figures
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The murder trial of abortionist Kermit Gosnell largely is being ignored by the mainstream media, even in the face of grisly testimony, such as what we heard yesterday. Life News reports: ...a former employee described how she heard a baby scream during a live-birth abortion. Abortion clinic employee Sherry West described an incident which "really freaked (her) out" and related to the jury how she heard a child who was born alive following an abortion scream.
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Obama says he´s ´determined
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HARTFORD, Conn. -- With time running out on the chance to pass gun control legislation, President Barack Obama on Monday warned Congress not to use delaying tactics against tighter regulations and told families of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting victims that he´s "determined as ever" to honor their children with tougher laws. Obama´s gun control proposals have run into resistance on Capitol Hill, leaving their fate in doubt. Efforts by Senate Democrats to reach compromise with Republicans over expanding required federal background checks have yet to yield an agreement, and conservatives were promising to try
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White House: Planned GOP
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Washington Times, by Dave Boyer
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Posted By: Dreadnought- 4/8/2013 11:08:31 PM
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Beginning a week of high pressure on gun control, the White House on Monday accused some Republican senators of cowardice for planning to filibuster gun legislation without allowing the full Senate to vote on President Obama’s initiatives. “If they oppose this legislation, have the courage to say so on the floor and vote no,” said White House press secretary Jay Carney. “Don’t block it. Don’t hide behind a procedural action to prevent a vote. That’s the wrong thing to do, and that’s how the president clearly feels.”
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Posted By: Attercliffe- 4/10/2013 4:24:28 AM
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The sequester may have many across the country singing the blues, but for President Obama, it was all about Memphis Soul. Even with the threat of furloughs and government cuts sparked by the sequester, Obama took the time to enjoy a star-studded concert at the White House tonight. The White House celebration of Memphis Soul music in the East Room--which included special guest appearances by Queen Latifah and Justin Timberlake--is likely to rile Obama´s Republican foes. Some conservatives have called on Obama to give up golf, especially since popular public tours of the White House have been canceled because of
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Obamacare architect Rockefeller:
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Washington Examiner, by Paul Bedard
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Posted By: Drive- 4/10/2013 7:17:19 AM
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West Virginia Democratic Sen. Jay Rockefeller, one of the towering architects of Obamacare, on Tuesday openly criticized program managers for not moving quickly enough to build the system, warning that if it gets off to a bumpy start it will just get worse. Decrying the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act as way too complex, he warned the acting Medicare director that Obamacare is "so complicated and if it isn´t done right the first time, it will just simply get worse."
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Obama: Put Nation´s 4-Year-Olds
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Cybercast News Service, by Terence P. Jeffrey
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Posted By: KarenJ1- 4/10/2013 1:18:38 PM
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In the message he issued along with his budget proposal on Wednesday morning, President Barack Obama said he wants to see 4-year-old children in the United States enrolled in public schools. Obama said America needs to start enrolling 4-year-olds to make sure the children are “better prepared for the demands of the global economy” and to help parents save on "child-care costs." After saying the United States needs to “equip our citizens with the skills and training” to fill jobs in manufacturing, energy and infrastructure, Obama said, “And that has to start at the earliest possible age.”
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Obama´s Army Outmaneuvered by the NRA
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NationalJournal, by Beth Rinehard
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Posted By: FlyRight- 4/10/2013 7:18:37 AM
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Although the first votes on gun -control legislation have yet to be cast, by some measures the National Rifle Association has already won. Obama’s ambitious plans to ban assault weapons and limit magazine capacities are off the table, while the NRA suggested it could support the most likely outcome -- expanded background checks -- as recently as 1999. The NRA claims that the president’s efforts have triggered a fundraising surge and boosted its membership from 4 million to nearly 5 million.
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Poll: Obama underwater on
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Politico, by Donovan Slack
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Posted By: Dreadnought- 4/8/2013 10:17:29 PM
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A new CNN/ORC International poll found President Obama´s overall approval rating has ticked up to 51 percent but ratings have fallen on his handling of the key issues on his agenda: immigration, guns, and the deficit. On immigration, 44 percent approve of the way he is handling the issue, down from 51 percent in January. At the same time, disapproval has jumped to 50 percent, up from 43 percent in January. On guns, 45 percent approve and 52 percent disapprove, the poll found. In January, 46 percent approved and 49 percent dispproved. And on the deficit, 38 percent approve
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Outraged Liberals Say Obama Is
About To Screw Over The Very
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Business Insider, by Grace Wyler
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Posted By: Desert Fox- 4/10/2013 6:35:42 AM
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Liberals descended on Pennsylvania Avenue Tuesday to protest President Barack Obama´s decision to include entitlement cuts in his upcoming budget, delivering 2 million petitions demanding the White House back off its support for the chained CPI. As we reported this weekend, liberals have been seething over the inclusion of the chained CPI in Obama´s budget, which they see as a huge betrayal by the Democratic president. This week, progressive groups, including MoveOn, the Progressive Change Campaign Committee, and Democracy for America, have mounted "emergency" online campaigns against the proposal, accusing Obama of
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Sebelius: Implementing Obamacare
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Breitbart´s Big Government, by Tony Lee
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Posted By: Dreadnought- 4/10/2013 7:21:14 AM
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Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius conceded Monday that implementing the Affordable Care Act has been more complicated and frustrating than the Obama administration expected, largely due to Republicans who have opposed the law´s state-based exchanges and Medicaid expansion. "The politics has been relentless and that continues," Sebelius said. "There was some hope that once the Supreme Court ruled in July, and then once an election occurred there would be a sense that, ´This is the law of the land, let´s get on board, let´s make this work.´"
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AG sues florist who refused
flowers to gay wedding
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer [WA], by Joel Connelly
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Posted By: KarenJ1- 4/10/2013 2:28:46 PM
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State Attorney General Bob Ferguson on Tuesday filed a consumer protection lawsuit against Arlene’s Flowers & Gifts, a Richland florist that refused to supply flowers to the same-sex marriage of a longtime customer. Ferguson said he sent a March 28 letter to owner Barronelle Stutzman asking her to reconsider and supply flowers to customer Robert Ingersoll. Through an attorney, Stutzman declined to change her position.“As Attorney General, it is my job to enforce the laws of the state of Washington,” said Ferguson. “Under the Consumer Protection Act, it is unlawful to discriminate
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Ron Johnson’s JCPenney:
Anatomy of a Retail Failure
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Yahoo! Finance, by Jeff Macke
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Posted By: athina- 4/9/2013 9:45:34 AM
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In a stunning end to one of the most aggressively unsuccessful tenures in retail history, JCPenney (JCP) last night announced that CEO Ron Johnson would be leaving effective immediately. Myron Ullman, Johnson´s predecessor at JCPenney, takes office as CEO. When Johnson was initially wooed by JCPenney, it was to serve as CEO with Ullman as Chairman. In January 2012, Ullman was unceremoniously removed from the board. Gone with Ullman was any control the Board of Directors had over Ron Johnson and his control of JCPenney resources.
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