Posted on 01/13/2022 10:12:29 AM PST by george76
Of the four restaurants Rick McQuaide owns across several counties in Western Pennsylvania, one is barely making a profit, two are losing money and the fourth has been “temporarily” closed for far longer than he ever anticipated.
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White House and much of the national media .. are wildly out of touch with the struggles of the average American and small business person,” McQuaide adds. “That isn’t political, that is reality.”
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there isn’t an aspect of his business that has not been upended by inflation. Fewer people are applying for jobs, driving up wages. Then there is the price of food, grocery and fuel.
“Everything has gone up and everything has gone up extraordinarily,”
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The supply chain that delivers to us, our primary vendors, like US Foods or Sysco, are running out of things because they have a shortage of labor to deliver the food and the manufacturers that produce the food also have a shortage of labor,
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A case of premium jumbo lump crab normally cost us $100 a case; over the past few months that cost has spiked to $600 for that same case.”
It’s not the only item he has had to take off the menu.
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He says the cost of inflation “is not just killing our industry, it is hurting families as well.” McQuaide thinks it would help if Biden and other politicians got out of Washington and saw what’s happening to small-town Main Street.
“If they saw it from my perspective, if they spent a week in my shoes, or in consumers’ shoes, that might persuade them to address this issues with empathy and experience rather than dismiss the urgency of the crisis,” McQuaide said, “a crisis I don’t see ending anytime soon.”
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el gringo es loco.
Vamos Brandon!
NO. Progressive/socialist government is eating away at the heart of America’s small business.
McQuaide thinks it would help if Biden and other politicians got out of Washington and saw what’s happening to small-town Main Street.
“If they saw it from my perspective, if they spent a week in my shoes, or in consumers’ shoes, that might persuade them to address this issues with empathy and experience rather than dismiss the urgency of the crisis,”
They don’t need to see it from your perspective, peon. They’re already hurting from the mutual back-slapping bruises that have already occurred. What’s happening to you is what they want to be happening to you.
As a side note: If this small-businessman sees no end to this; it behooves him to GTFO.
Lenin , Stalin, and .. hated, then killed the middle class.. same desire today.
Many have dropped out - gone Galt.. about 100 million no longer in the labor force.
“Inflation is eating away at the heart of America’s small businesses”
That’s the plan
The Dem plan is working. 60% of small businesses are Republican owned.
You mean there’s actually small businesses left?
Within 3 years the FED will be much more worried about deflation than inflation.
Yup, definitely the plan. It’s easier to control us if we are all forced to work for woke corporations and live in favelas. Small business and private property (especially in rural America) are the enemy of the globalists.
“...Small business and private property...” are inseparable from personal autonomy at all levels and at all times, in this country!!!
For years, the global elite have been openly telling us that one day we will all own nothing, we will have no privacy, and we will be happy with our new socialist utopia.
If your money becomes worthless, you will descend into poverty and be dependent on the government.. then die
Bingo.
It’s not a bug. It’s a feature.
Government and Big Business. What could go wrong?
UN agenda 21/2030 want to kill 85% of the world population. Ted Turner and bill gates wanted to kill of 95%. The deep state is dangerous.
Big Business and its phony business front, the US Chamber of Commerce in DC, conspired with the AFL-CIO to take the presidency away from Trump. McCarthy was right to tell the Chamber and its scumbo boss, Thomas Donohue, to stay out of GOP politics, let the socialists have them. Big Business is quite content to let their small biz competitors go out of business, then they can raise their prices for scarce products skyward.
True, and our citizenship has already been invalidated with allowing (encouraging) illegals to vote!!
What are they living on?
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