Posted on 04/19/2020 8:01:27 AM PDT by Hojczyk
Breitbart News spoke to a woman who held a sign that said: “What businesses are essential — that’s our decision not yours.”
The woman made it clear when she told Breitbart News why she joined the protest, blaming DeWine and Ohio Department of Health Director Dr. Amy Acton for Ohioans’ plight.
She added the government employees make decisions for the people in the state that don’t apply to them.
“It’s not fair that they’re getting checks and we’re not,” the woman said.
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
Well we have to pay the public library employees - who will host the drag queen story hours!
“It’s not fair that they’re getting checks and we’re not,” the woman said.”
YES!
THANK YOU!
BUMP
I can think of no businesses that are more non-essential than congress.
If given the choice of laying off your congress critters or your garbage man, what would be your choice?
I find the process of determining what jobs are essential and non-essential to be fascinating.
I believe many people that have been identified as working in non-essential jobs...will believe that in the order of things, THEY are “non-essential”.
Note that it is the people that are continuing to receive paychecks that make the determination of what is essential and non-essential.
My belief is that any business that generates revenue via customers...is essential to someone. It may not be essential to you...or to the majority, but it is essential to the person that spends money on the product or service.
Dope (Pot) stores are said to be essential. I’ve never been in one, or ordered from one. They are not essential to me. Examples abound for both sides.
Last thought, that job that was called non-essential, was putting food on the table and paying bills for an employee. To that person, the job was incredibly essential.
I think there are going to be some MAJOR budget shortfalls for state and local governments with blue areas being the hardest hit. Trump should ONLY take care of red and swing states and let the blue states go down. The democrats refused to fund small businesses and people’s salaries during the pandemic, Trump should refuse to fund Blue states. Let ‘em starve. Let the riots begin.
My Long Time Barber - Dan in Westerville, Ohio never had more than 10 people in his shop. Ever! Yet he was forced to close down along with every other family owned small business.
It is obvious that Lyin’ DeWine and the other idiot Governors had no plan or strategy - just shut everything down.
I hope Dan reopens.
“...Let ‘em starve. Let the riots begin.....”
Maybe they’ll string up their communist dictators that brought it all down on em...but then again, they were stupid enough to elect em in the first place. One can’t fix STUPID.
Here’s one:
Debt collectors and and their organization are arguing that they must be able to continue to harass consumers, evict people, repossess cars, garnish wages and sue people during this Coronavirus crisis. They claim it’s essential.
While main stream banks, car dealerships and credit organizations have placed a moratorium on collections and late fees until it’s over, these debt collectors, which service mainly the low-income segment of the population have been more aggressive, killing cars remotely, begging for sheriffs to continue evictions, and adding thousands in late fees to pay day loans and so on.
We live in interesting times.
Forgot the link:
I guess it’s essential that they continue to destroy people’s lives already impacted by this shutdown. To what end? Slimiest business in the US, with most debt collectors working from call centers in India.
Groups with a reliable history of voting Democrat continue to get government checks - for one service rendered or another.
Lest we forget:
William H. Hallahan, “The Day the American Revolution Began:19 April 1775”
“In the early morning hours of Wednesday, April 19, 1775, British troops crossed Boston Harbor with the intention of marching to Concord, Massachusetts to seize military supplies stored in the town by Patriot militiamen. Anticipating the British actions, an alarm was raised throughout the countryside by American silversmith Paul Revere and dozens of other riders who warned the colonial militia and minutemen that the regulars were on the road to Concord. By 5 am, the simmering tensions between the American colonists and the British government would reach their breaking point. The events of April 19 would change the world forever.
Captain Parker ordered the drummer to beat a call to arms. Then he assembled his militia unit-now seventy-seven strong-and lined it up in two ranks along the Lexington green. He was an experienced officer with combat experience who understood that the regulars would immediately take this posture as a challenge. That he meant to do battle was indicated in his instructions to the troops: ‘Don’t fire unless fired upon. But if they want a war let it begin here.’
The militiamen stood in silence in the gathering light of dawn. The stirring birds called in the trees, and the odor of fresh-turned earth and apple blossoms hung in the air. Small knots of onlookers stood about on the common. Women and children peered from the windows of the houses around the green. Dorothy Quincy continued her vigil in the second-floor bedroom of the Clarke house.
All listened for the sound of British boot soles. It was five A.M.”
Same with every town florist that I’ve ever been in. Even the clothing store where I used to be able to shop only had a few customers at a time, furniture stores, art galleries, too. The list goes in and on. So much social distancing in so many small local businesses because there aren’t that many customers at any one time. The people who are complaining about businesses reopening are the ones who’ve had steady paychecks this whole time. This was all overkill. A power play.
AMEN!!! EVERY protestor needs to say that!!
I act. Many government employees are of essential,furlough them.
The congress person would fall in the same category as the drag queen story teller in the present crisis situation.
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Ohio ‘Open Up America’ Protester: Not Fair Governor, Government Workers Get Paid, Not the People
Breitbart ^ | 18 Apr 2020 | PENNY STARR
Posted on 4/19/2020, 11:01:27 AM by Hojczyk
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