I have come to the conclusion that the main action of the left
is to make it impossible to survive financially.
Each move they make is aimed at that.
The EPA, the endless new “regulations,” new laws, new fees.
All I hear from owners of shops I know (auto repair, welding, restaurant) is how they are fighting to stay afloat financially. They seem to be in a permanent bad mood, which they were not a few years ago.
The last time I walked into the big chain grocery store near me I saw at once that prices had been raised 5-7% on almost everything since I was last there.
Your post was a very significant post.
A longtime successful restaurant owner I know turned his once thriving large restaurant into a lavanderia — a laundromat. He explained to me how he did that after careful calculation. The neighborhood had turned strongly hispanic and the wives bring their husbands construction work clothes in like clockwork.
He was getting robbed regularly by his employees, so he came up with the idea of having customers slide money into a slot in a machine in the wall to buy plastic cards to use the washing machines and dryers.
In our state they are increasing the minimum wage. His comment: “You have a budget. If paying the employees becomes too much a burden on the budget, then I will have to have only two employees working at one time instead of the three at a time I have now. The floor will be a little dirtier, but that will have to be. If the minimum wage goes up more, I may have to have only one employee working at a time. Won’t be good, but I have to do what I have to do to survive.”
He talked about the oppression on the restaurant business over the last years, with many of them going under.
“People can eat at home,” he said. “Eating out is a luxury. People can cut that out if they have to to survive. Meanwhile, many restaurants will not survive.”
In car repair, the prices of the parts and tool goes up and up and up.
The car repair guy and the welding shop owner I know have been telling me for years that they are getting less and less work because people are coming in only when they absolutely HAVE to.
The welder said the big industrial machines (dump trucks, other larger industrial equipment) he usually repairs are not coming in like they used to because they (the owners-users of the machines) are getting less and less work themselves, so their machines are not wearing out and breaking as often.
At the current rate, soon there will be no midddle class to rob from to pay for all the freebies the leftists thought appeared out of thin air from big daddy gov’t. It’s going to be one helluva a wakeup call for them and they are going to have to learn the hard way why socialism always fails for the little people (but fills the coffers of the rich). If it takes putting them through living hell to wake them up then so be it. They earned it.
Welcome to FR. Our president is nickel-and-diming us to financial death.
“I have come to the conclusion that the main action of the left
is to make it impossible to survive financially.
Each move they make is aimed at that.
The EPA, the endless new “regulations,” new laws, new fees.”
Obama MO since day one. Hide the short term pain by shoveling money into the economy, while destroying the economy in the longer term.