Posted on 09/06/2014 8:59:25 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Sitting at her street vending booth with products arrayed neatly on a sequined purple tablecloth, Jackie Lloyd reflects nostalgically on the days when she had a steady salary and regular hours..
That was four years ago, before the 39-year-old was laid off from her job as an elementary school cafeteria worker and mounting bills forced her to venture into self-employment.
Now the Pico-Union resident hops from location to location, selling body oils, shea butter, soap and incense. She moves when nearby businesses complain or she feels unsafe.
Some days, her sales bring in $150. Others, they don't break $20....
(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...
There was a thread yesterday which praised the current economy for producing a vast number of “freelancers”. The modern economy needs a lot of “freelancers”, and Obama’s economic policy has successfully created an environment that allows many, many people to be “freelancers”.
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Barter is next along with subsistence farming.
Example: The opportunity I’m with requires a one-time $99 investment. No building, employees, overhead to speak of, etc. OTOH, even the least expensive franchise requires many tens of thousands of dollars and more. Even a hot dog cart costs thousands and that isn’t the end of it. There’s always alternatives to what many think are the rules of the game.
And print news and internet news all controlled by lying Liberal fecal matter.
Ah, but you’re not Hispanic, I gather, so you can’t get away with that. Get real.
Sorry, 25 years in food industry leaves me with too much knowledge to put up with crap pushing crap. But just as we have seen with immigration laws just don’t apply to certain classes.
Yes a hot dog cart will cost 10K to license.
Tell me more about this $99 startup.
Rules of the game or laws, people who find alternatives to laws are usually politicians or.....................
You have a point with certain classes getting preferential protection, But from the pic I do not see this woman cutting into brick and mortar biz and she is not selling food.
Brick and mortars sell more than just food and I am not just speaking to this particular women. While I understand the need for people to try and make a living, too many do it by infringing on others. There are many around me who sell at swap meets, or get permission from businesses closed on weekends to use their lots and of course the perennial yard sales. My main gripe is with those vending food without permits and in an unsanitary manner.
The other gentleman is lower down in the article.
“It doesn’t say in the article who she voted for, but chances are, it was for Obama.”
You cannot make that extrapolation. Only 49.9% of the Los Angeles eligible voters voted in the 2012 election. Obama got 70% of the vote in Los Angeles.
Thus it is just 50/50 that she even voted.
In the bad old days, you had to drive 2 and half hours to Tijuana to buy krappy stuff in trash encrusted streets.
And I’m sure she’s properly recording her sales and paying the proper sales taxes.
Which is the real reason government would go after you or me if we tried this.
I’m just surprised to see a street vendor who is an American. Orange County, once the land of typical American suburbs, now has an army of Mexican vendors pushing small food carts along its streets. A sight you used to see only in Tijuana.
These are not Mexican-Americans, they are Mexican-Mexicans. You know, the people supposedly “hiding in the shadows” who fearlessly walk in the daylight and who will sell you a tamale off of their cart. Thanks to the Obama economy these clever imported entrepreneurs now find themselves competing with American upstarts for the street vendor dollar.
Drive through the neighborhood’s in Pacoima, and there is a makeshift restaurant andor clothing/hardware/goods/... store? every 10-15 houses. It truly is shanty town tijuana. A Democrats Dream Utopia.
For instance Kirsten Powers. Although she might not be rich, we learned last fall that she had no health insurance. That is her positions at the Daily Beast and Fox News were as a contractor rather than employee.
That tenuous arrangement is free Lancer
In Janurary or so, she became associated with USA today. I think it was a real job with insurance
Yeah,isn’t no more job lock great?
We have a Kmart kind of close to our house and I’ll go there if I need something quick. Came out one day this summer and there was a Mexican woman with a home style bbq set up in the parking lot selling hot dogs. lol
I wonder how hard they had to hunt to FIND an American street vendor, to avoid the stereotype that they are immigrants.
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