"Hostess Brands Inc. is asking for a judge's approval to give its top executives bonuses totaling up to $1.8 million as part of its wind-down plans.

The maker of Twinkies, Ding Dongs and Ho Hos says the incentive pay is needed to retain the 19 corporate officers and "high-level managers" during the liquidation process, which could take about a year. Two of those executives would be eligible for additional rewards depending on how efficiently they carry out the liquidation. The bonuses would be in addition to their regular pay.

The bonuses do not include pay for CEO Gregory Rayburn, who was brought on as a restructuring expert earlier this year. Rayburn is being paid $125,000 a month"

Wars have started for lesser reasons. High pay for FAILURE. This isn't AMERICA, it's New World Order.

JC Penney is following the Sears and K-mart lead of going out of business.

the store is empty and no one is in line at the cash registers

I'm SO GLAD that my old buddy ABS NAZI BIGOT RACIST is still alive.   I had thought his pea brain exploded at 11:18 PM EST on 11/6/12, that was when the President was declared victorious.  Oh and by the way, ABS NAZI BIGOT RACIST, did you take notice I was 3 minutes off on my prediction...I had predicted the victory declaration at 11:15 PM EST, oh well.

One final item, ABS NAZI BIGOT RACIST....did you buy the book...maybe learn a little American Presidential Election History......"THE 13 KEYS"  did ya punk!!

Oh by the way...I'm Caucasian.

Stupid Moron.

Ok, true confessions....my wife got herself in a little credit card debt some years ago.  She ran up $12,600 on the credit cards (this coming from a guy who is proud of the fact that I have never paid a dime in credit card interest).  Anyway, she had a JC Penny card, which she ran up to $3,600....but the card had a so called limit of $2,000.   Pennys let her go over, nearly double of the card limit.  You see they get even more interest doing that.  I will never buy anything from JC Penny, ever.

Almost forgot to add...I sat down and wrote checks to bail her out.  it's good to have funds in the old bank.

"WASHINGTON (AP) - An index measuring the number of Americans who signed contracts to buy homes in October jumped to nearly its highest level in almost six years. Steady job gains and record-low mortgage rates have made home buying more attractive.

The National Association of Realtors said Thursday that its seasonally adjusted pending home sales index rose 5.2 percent to 104.8 in October. Excluding a few months when the index spiked because of a home buyer tax credit, that is the highest level since March 2007."

Just YESTERDAY the figures were adjusted DOWNWARD and by quite a bit. The National Association of Realtors has been accused of manipulating figures for YEARS. Self-serving and divisive. When do we get GOVERNMENT willing to crush corruption? No New World Order and NO MORE DATA. If they are FACTS, prove it.

I figure the day we hear about a stand-off at some Library; ABS will probaly be gone for awhile..

But guess they can get computer privileges at some of the "Big Houses."

i don't shop in various stores because when walking by or even into them with my wife they look like a "chick" store.  nothing strikes my eye as a product a man would have interest in.  JC Penney, Kohls, others fit this "look" to me. 

if your store only attracts at best 50% of the population, you just cut your potential market in half. 

Jobs......... How do you create them?

There are curently 3 million jobs in the USA that are unfilled ..... most are very specific jobs manufactoring high tech things, air craft parts and some are for techs to monitor/control automated manufactoring processes.  These jobs go unfilled as they cannot find people with the right skills.  Community colleges and these companies need to get together and create programs for these jobs, and kids today need to understand that working in a factory and getting your hands a little dirty is not evil, but what the country was built on.  This isn't our dads manufactoring, not hundreds turning a screw on a line but controlling high tech equipment, seting up for new products to be made, looking to see if the process can be improved. 

We all talk about rebuilding America, they say it will take 1 trillion to redo the roads, bridges etc.  It is going to require a public/private system, like it or not.  Perhaps USA companies only? 

These ideas are a start, but this kind of discussion needs to happen, more importantly things need to start getting done!