Posted on 05/05/2022 4:05:02 AM PDT by MtnClimber
The pandemic became a pretext for a politically motivated campaign against small businesses and individuals to hasten the consolidation of power in Big Business, Big Tech, and Big Government.
Most people believe the coronavirus was a Black Swan, an unexpected event of large magnitude with unprecedented consequences. But Nassim Nicholas Taleb, who coined that metaphor, disagrees. Coronaviruses were well known, though the SARS-CoV-2 strain that hit humans was new. And the pandemic wasn’t unexpected. Experts had been warning of one – though not of the coronavirus per se – for some years. In 2019, the government had even conducted months-long pandemic preparation drills. Taleb’s annoyance is at the diminution of his coinage to a cliché.
There was, however, a real Black Swan event in 2020, says Carol Roth in her book The War on Small Business: How the Government Used the Pandemic to Crush the Backbone of America. It was the U.S. government’s reaction to the pandemic – with unprecedented decisions and a lockdown that forced people to stop working and doing business for months on end. The pandemic became a pretext for a politically motivated campaign against small businesses and individuals to hasten the consolidation of power in Big Business, Big Tech, and Big Government. That is the hook and weighty claim with which Roth begins her book.
A “recovering investment banker,” Roth has seen how Wall Street undermines Main Street by working with government through lobbyists and lawyers. Her book explores two big ideas. First, that the ills of capitalism – the concentration of immense wealth in a few individuals, for example – cannot be cured by central planning (or more government) because the real problem is the government. Second, the more the government has tried to protect us from “big, bad wolf-esque” corporations, the more powerful
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Will you be included in their 5-year plan or will you not?
I can’t believe the number of women-owned/run small businesses that Deep State has caused to go tatas-up the last three years.
More than I’ve ever seen in my neck of the woods, and I’m an Upstate NY lifer.
Oh, there’s a War on Women, all right.
Being waged by Deep State.
And, ladies, Deep State is winning.
Fascism: făsh′ĭz″əm
noun
A system of government marked by centralization of authority under a dictator, a capitalist economy subject to stringent governmental controls, violent suppression of the opposition, and typically a policy of belligerent nationalism and racism.
A political philosophy or movement based on or advocating such a system of government.
Not just the “Assault on small business” ... the gross over-reaction of government in general.
The majority of small business owners are Republicans. In addition, big corporations are easier to socialize in the Great Reset.
I have a friend who started a business last year and spent $30K on legal fees and state/local regulatory fees before she ever opened for business.
40 to 50% of the business’s in Los Angeles and San Francisco went out of business because the democrats picked who could stay open or not. Gov Newsom had his business stay open most of the time and still collected some $3 million in PPP money.
It took him 11 days to get the money while others took months or got nothing at all.
https://abc7news.com/plumpjack-management-group-llc-gov-newsom-winery-sba-releases-detailed-ppp-data-what-business-does-gavin-own/8653462/
His companies got a bit extra money....
From the link: Villa Encinal Partners LP is one of at least nine companies of the PlumpJack Group that received PPP loans. This particular company raised eyebrows after SBA data disclosed the company received $918,720 to retain 14 employees.
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