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Imagine if the Media Had as Much Sympathy for Small Business Owners as it Does for Federal Employees
Mises Institute ^ | 01/18/2019 | Ryan McMaken

Posted on 01/18/2019 1:01:00 PM PST by SeekAndFind

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1 posted on 01/18/2019 1:01:00 PM PST by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

The media is a wing of the Dem Party. They stand for BIG Government, not private enterprise.


2 posted on 01/18/2019 1:02:42 PM PST by 1Old Pro
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To: SeekAndFind

Or Americans that were devastated during the Obama administration.

Noooo, they don’t report about that. Never wanted the truth about 94+ million American people out of work under Obama.

Once in awhile, you might find something that alluded to it.


3 posted on 01/18/2019 1:06:45 PM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: SeekAndFind

How about all the companies that went bust and millions of employees who lost their jobs and or health insurance because of Obama’s anti-business, anti-industry, anti-capitalism policies?


4 posted on 01/18/2019 1:08:01 PM PST by Jim Robinson (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God!)
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To: SaveFerris

Pat answer was, “Bush’s fault” and of course there’s SanFran Nan promoting ‘Funemployment’.


5 posted on 01/18/2019 1:08:16 PM PST by griswold3 (Just another unlicensed nonconformist in a dangerous Liberal world.)
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To: SeekAndFind

And for illegals as well.


6 posted on 01/18/2019 1:12:51 PM PST by JimRed ( TERM LIMITS, NOW! Build the Wall Faster! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.)
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To: 1Old Pro

When are we going to get it through our thick heads that the “mainstream” media is really, truly, actually the propaganda arm of the Communist Party USA and their dupes in the Democratic Party?


7 posted on 01/18/2019 1:16:16 PM PST by Walrus (Homosexuality is WRONG. End of case.)
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Circa 1982 I was making serious big bucks in the oilfields as a consultant. Then came the crash. The media had zero coverage of our hardship. They did not care, as we were oilfield hands and not government workers.

Sold my house, sold my airplane and went back to school again and became a pharmacist. I blamed no one for my temporary economic hardship. It was just the way things worked in the oilfield. When times were good they paid us exceptional good money. When times were bad they laid us off.

When I was in pharmacy school there were some other oilfield hands with degrees in science such as I. One was a pipeline welder. He had former degrees in science. He became a welder because it paid so damn much money, far more than he could have been paid as a biology teacher.

We did okay.


8 posted on 01/18/2019 1:17:11 PM PST by cpdiii ( canecutter, deckhand, roughneck, geologist, pilot, pharmacist THE CONSTITUTION IS WORTH DYING FOR)
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To: SeekAndFind

Getting SPAM this afternoon from a local restaurant chain offering free meals for furloughed Federal employees.

Gag me with a greasy spoon.


9 posted on 01/18/2019 1:17:28 PM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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To: SeekAndFind

They literally can’t. Their constituency largely works for small businesses - and hates it.


10 posted on 01/18/2019 1:18:16 PM PST by Mr. Jeeves ([CTRL]-[GALT]-[DELETE])
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To: Buckeye McFrog

“Getting SPAM this afternoon from a local restaurant chain offering free meals for furloughed Federal employees.”


I hope you contacted them saying you expect the same thing from them if you or a family member ever gets laid off.

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11 posted on 01/18/2019 1:24:47 PM PST by Mears
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"as Much Sympathy for Small Business Owners"

The Media and The Left will never have any sympathy for small business because it too-closely resembles capitalism.

Many large corporations are essentially socialist enterprises, particularly because of government regulations regarding their conduct.
12 posted on 01/18/2019 1:37:32 PM PST by indthkr
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I’ll be honest. I think it did start with W.

Katrina wasn’t his fault, of course. No reasonable person could think that (so...exclude Democrats).

But his nation building debt, IMHO, brought us 2007 and 2008.

And eventually, Barack Hussein Obama.

These days, W likes to hang around Obama, said nothing bad about him for 8 years, and attacks President Trump.

Jeb! really brought out the hatred towards Mr. Trump.

But yes, to the media and Democrats, Barack can do no wrong.

Good heavens they are delusional...liars.


13 posted on 01/18/2019 1:43:39 PM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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yeah, they had NO sympathy when O put all those regulations on business after business. What a burden the regulations were and no liberal cared!


14 posted on 01/18/2019 1:44:22 PM PST by Karoo
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To: Walrus

[the “mainstream” media is really, truly, actually the propaganda arm of the Communist Party USA and their dupes in the Democratic Party?]

Yes they are. We should never expect truth from them.


15 posted on 01/18/2019 1:45:25 PM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: SeekAndFind

I don’t remember anything like this when Obama crashed the economy and the result...8 years of depression, I used all my unemployment taking jobs I should and shouldn’t have with terrible periods of government ‘support’ in between...just doing what I thought was right.
This thing today, makes me sick to my stomach.
These people , most of them are simply getting a nice paid vacation....barf.


16 posted on 01/18/2019 1:53:29 PM PST by right way right (May we remain sober over mere men, for God really is our only true hope.)
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To: Mears; Buckeye McFrog

“Getting SPAM this afternoon from a local restaurant chain offering free meals for furloughed Federal employees.”

I hope you contacted them saying you expect the same thing from them if you or a family member ever gets laid off.
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I was thinking the ‘chaos’ it would cause if ‘WE’ went around picking up ‘hungry people’ and taking them to where the ‘poor Govt workers’ were getting freebies.

The fun part is when the ‘hungry’ get turned out because they don’t have a Govt Employee ID....naturally will want plenty of pictures....

Also some Pols getting ‘face time’ being at soup kitchens helping feed the ‘govt employees’.

Why don’t the Senate and Congress open their own PRIVATE restaurants to the laid-off workers and just take the funds THEY are alloted and also maybe the Pres will give them ‘special dispensation’ to take some of the stashed campaign funds to help feed them.

Also, why aren’t the laid-off workers calling on THEIR UNIONS to help?


17 posted on 01/18/2019 1:58:58 PM PST by xrmusn (6/98"Getting rich as a Politician means doing something illegal''(trunc) HS Truman)
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“The fun part is when the ‘hungry’ get turned out because they don’t have a Govt Employee ID....naturally will want plenty of pictures....”


That is a SUPERB idea-——and videos posted on YouTube.

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18 posted on 01/18/2019 2:01:40 PM PST by Mears
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To: SeekAndFind

They sure as heck wouldn’t be democrats then! Nothing hurts small business’ and the “little guy” more than leftist rules and regulations. They are stranglehold’s on getting ahead. Small business cannot afford to stay in the game because of it.


19 posted on 01/18/2019 2:46:39 PM PST by vpintheak (Freedom is not equality; and equality is not freedom!)
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To: SeekAndFind

The hand wringing about if they can collect unemployment benefits, how they’re going broke, and all the woes about not getting paid.....

Anyone else in American would just have to find another job.

Why can’t they?


20 posted on 01/18/2019 3:09:56 PM PST by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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