{"id":8558,"date":"2013-10-06T14:40:19","date_gmt":"2013-10-06T18:40:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/?p=8558"},"modified":"2013-10-06T17:01:25","modified_gmt":"2013-10-06T21:01:25","slug":"venture-capitalism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/?p=8558","title":{"rendered":"Venture Capitalism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Meet Ron Burkle<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ronald_Burkle\">http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ronald_Burkle<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Friend of the Clintons, Billionaire, major fundraiser and donor to the Democratic Party,  supermarket chain owner [Ralph&#8217;s, Dominick&#8217;s, Food4Less, Pathmark](wonder if he has an opinion on Food Stamps?), part owner of YMF Media, the company that took over &#8220;black radio&#8221; Inner City Broadcasting which owned WBLS in New York (revenue is up 61% in one year with white people running it)&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.freshandeasy.com\/\">Fresh &#038; Easy supermarket chain<\/a> out West has filed for bankruptcy.  It&#8217;s been losing $22 million a month<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.utsandiego.com\/news\/2013\/Oct\/01\/tp-fresh-easy-bankruptcy-sets-table-for-auction\/\">http:\/\/www.utsandiego.com\/news\/2013\/Oct\/01\/tp-fresh-easy-bankruptcy-sets-table-for-auction\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ron Burkle is going to be the &#8220;stalking horse&#8221; bidder at the auction for what is left of the company.<\/p>\n<p>The irony here is a big part of why this company failed is non-union competition from Wal-Mart.  Wal-Mart of course started to grow in Arkansas while Bill Clinton was Governor, and Hillary Clinton served on the Walmart Board of Directors.   It does make you wonder why Democrats have such hatred for Walmart, doesn&#8217;t it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meet Ron Burkle http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ronald_Burkle Friend of the Clintons, Billionaire, major fundraiser and donor to the Democratic Party, supermarket chain owner [Ralph&#8217;s, Dominick&#8217;s, Food4Less, Pathmark](wonder if he has an opinion on Food Stamps?), part owner of YMF Media, the company that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/?p=8558\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-american-politics","category-collapse-of-america"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8558","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8558"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8558\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8571,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8558\/revisions\/8571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}