[SF Republican]

Very sad letter to the editor today:
As a first-generation San Franciscan, I am very proud to live in this city and pursue the “American Dream.” However, San Francisco leaders and voters are quickly turning my dream into a nightmare. I run a small café near downtown San Francisco. I have to work seven days a week just to make ends meet. However, after doing calculations, I will have to close my shop and move back to Korea.

This city does not promote companies doing business in The City. Half of our customers are gone. Now with sick days, health care and a minimum wage of $9.14, my business cannot survive. Not all businesses are giant corporations as perceived by the Young Workers United. There are many small shops and cafés just trying to survive. However, City Hall and Young Urban Workers are making our dreams fade away.

[Night Hides Not]

That was a sad letter, SFRep. Unfortunately, the putative Democrat nominee has made remarks in the past regarding small businesses, to wit (paraphrased):

"It's not my problem/concern that these businesses are undercapitalized".

[ark_girl]

Why don't you just move to another city somewhere else? America's a big place. There are places here that are still nice, but are probably a lot more business friendly :)

[dangus]

>> Very sad letter to the editor today:
As a first-generation San Franciscan, I am very proud to live in this city and pursue the “American Dream.” However, San Francisco leaders and voters are quickly turning my dream into a nightmare. I run a small café near downtown San Francisco. I have to work seven days a week just to make ends meet. However, after doing calculations, I will have to close my shop and move back to Korea. <<

>> This city does not promote companies doing business in The City. Half of our customers are gone. Now with sick days, health care and a minimum wage of $9.14, my business cannot survive. Not all businesses are giant corporations as perceived by the Young Workers United. There are many small shops and cafés just trying to survive. However, City Hall and Young Urban Workers are making our dreams fade away. <<

Sick days? $9.14 an hour? Health care? I'm sorry to hear that such expenses are driving you out; you're apparently the kind of immigrant we need. But please understand that in a lot of places, there are no sick days, work days as short as three hours, $5.15 an hour and no health care; total costs that are probably significantly less than a third of your costs. Anyone surviving on that little either should be studying his homework, or staying put in Mexico.

Now, if you WERE paying that little, and couldn't afford to spend $220 dollars more to staff your shop from 7 AM to 11 PM, seven days a week, I'd suggest the reason wasn't that your costs were too high, but that customers don't like workers who can't speak English. (Your English seems excellent; I'm referring to the English spoken by the sort of workers who are working at the minimum-wage differential.)

[taxed2death]

....stop whining....at least you don't have to put up with an 80% increase in your electric bill in the next 9 months like UI customers do here in ct.

I'd take your silly minimum wage increase any day....