Saturday, October 31, 2009
Laredo's only book store closing
B. Dalton Bookstore will be closing it's doors forver come December. The book sotre is Laredo's only remaning book store and is located in Mall Del Norte. Local officials and residents will be rallying behind a new major book store to open. Many say is a Barnes and Noble would do Laredo good. B. Dalton is part of the Barnes and Noble company.
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The best way to make sure you continue to have a bookstore in Laredo would be to encourage an independent bookstore to open and then to make sure the residents support it with their purchases instead of shopping at Amazon or other discount book retailers.
ReplyDeleteFrom an independent bookshop owner.
Politicians playing the saviour on this, just illustrating their own stupidity. They can't create jobs even though they think they can, nor can they make unsustainable businesses profitable even though they think they can, and notwithstanding their confiscatory taxes, which they redistribute to these sorts of boondoggles.
ReplyDeleteAs for the hacks in the educational "institutions" they obviously aren't educating Laredoans well enough to run businesses, become literate, or maintain interest in continuing their own education.
It's really not surprising since the government's two-faced suppression/aid of the narco economy creates better economic opportunities doing that than participating in the stagnant legit economy under the thumb of political parisites.
What's the message that's really being sent? "Read and you'll get ahead?" No, read and you'll either become a fat sancho panza member of the political overlord class or one of the middle class people they and the criminal gangs they front for victimize. The people down there probably believe, with some justification, that they would have more wealth and a better distribution of it if the narcos could displace the sancho panzas, so why not join the former? What kid has time to read or be bored with the typical teenage wasteland when he's got a revolution to participate in? At least that kid can see the benefits and doesn't have to put his hopes in lying losers like Henry Cuellar and Richard Raymond.