Delaware businesses fearful for future

Delaware State News ^ | May 18, 2002 | Jack Brighton and Hilary Corrigan

[demkicker]

Buttinsky bump!

[monkeywrench]

"It hurts me to think that this was a great country once. Does anybody remember the Boston tea party? How about prohibition? How about Rosa Parks (take that you liberals!)? Why do people just accept every edict from the government like it's the word of God?

Socialism isn't creeping anymore, it's galloping.

Fight, God dammit!"

I guess liberty maintanance is another job the American people won't do, anymore.

[Max McGarrity]

["BTW, your business is NOT private."] I disagree with you. It is a private business that invites certain members of the public to enter it. No one is required to enter the premises.

Hey, Gabz, I'm going to rush out and tell my friends who lost their businesses (3 that I know of, and one still struggling) here in this small area because of these intrusive, punitive bans that theirs were NOT private businesses, but were instead PUBLIC property! Who knew? Since they were PUBLIC property--i.e., owned by the public--then the public--i.e., taxpayers--will be required to PAY for their losses! They'll be so happy!!!

Jeez! It's unfortunate so many jerks inhabit Kookiefornia; it would be a beautiful state otherwise.

[Max McGarrity]

(Smoking bans are gooooood for business...ROFLMAO!) Idiots who can't understand economics aside, would any of your contacts in the hospitality industry know any of those in Maryland or other nearby states they could talk to? You and I DO understand economics and know you can't judge harm by statistical "evidence," particularly "evidence" gathered by rabid zealots with an axe to grind. However, you CAN judge harm by what HAS happened in a situation like the one proposed in DE (like the bingo halls or bowling alleys). To individuals, not to a statistical construct. You might have to spend some time on the phone or in the car to get the real story, but it would probably be worth it.

[Gabz]

Just because permits weren't issued doesn't mean there are "fewer RB's".

I beg to disagree. If they don't have a permit, they are not in business. less permits = less businesses. I see no skewing of numbers.

[Gabz]

AMEN!!!!!!!

[SheLion]

How did these "brown shirts" inhibit Free Republic!

[gundog]

Oregon's legislature slipped this one through in the dark of night.

[Gabz]

Hey, Max - since they're public businesses - I guess the state needs to compensate the owners for the loss of business when they changed the designation from private to public.

OOPS - that won't happen - it's a private business only insofar as they pay their taxes and but becomes a public business as soon as they don't as they are told. and if they do as they are told and lose their business - they're back to being a private business.

I love double standards - don't you?????

[Gabz]

You might have to spend some time on the phone or in the car to get the real story, but it would probably be worth it.

Believe me - it is being done!!!!! and not just by me.

[Great Dane]

You are sooooo perfect, aren't you.

[Great Dane]

#15....... Our City has quietly allowed Legions to allow smoking, as I mentioned before, they are building smoking huts for bus drivers, to me this is an admission that things are not as they seem, they are backtracking, hoping no one will notice.

[Great Dane]

BTW "FF" isn't only drive-thru, they have dining area's too.

Hardly "dining areas," steel tables and steel benches, lets call them what they are, a place to chow down, it is NOT dining.

[Clinging Bitterly]

Oregon's legislature slipped this one through in the dark of night.

Yeah but they did exempt bars & bingo halls, except here in Eugene & a copule other places where more restrictive laws were grandfathered.

This is peoples private property we are talking about. The marketplace worked just fine. There were plenty of nonsmoking restaurants & bars available (and nonsmoking places to work, if that's your complaint as it is in PeeeeeeCeeeeeee Eugene). Nothing broken, nothing needing fixed. It's just disgusting. If I were in the hospitality business, I'd say you guys that disagree can just stay out of my business - I wouldn't want you there.

Dave in Eugene

[lewislynn]

Of course, you'd rather have the nanny government take care of it for you by prohibiting some action you disagree with.

Well for now you're just the picture of health aren't you?...The muscle will turn to fat, the tan skin will become leather like (hopefuly not skin cancer) and turn grey from smoking...good luck. Oh, don't forget to bleach your teeth and clean your ash tray breath too.

I actually don't disagree with smoking. If you want to smoke go right ahead. But is there some reason, other than the fact YOUR whole life revolves around it, I have to breath it when I'm in public places?...and they are public places. When you open a business, you're inviting the public at large to enter.

As I stated earlier, if smokers were less selfish thinking only they/you had rights and showed some common courtesy maybe the govenment wouldn't have had to step in. Maybe you and people like you brought this on yourselves...

If you want to open a private club for smokers only, go ahead, see if it will fly.

[lewislynn]

Hardly "dining areas," steel tables and steel benches, lets call them what they are, a place to chow down, it is NOT dining.

Regardless of the decor, or what you want to call the act of eating, people are seated in an enclosed area just the same as any other "dining room" would be.

I understand how much control the little fags have on you though.

[gundog]

The Mayor of Medford(I think) was working on a smoking ban within 25 feet of playground equipment as well. Soon it will be the way things were in basic training... 12x12 areas designated for smoking. Don't dare find yourself smoking elsewhere. Here in Dog Bay, the cafeteria employees at one elementary school all grab milk crates ansd trundle out to the curb to smoke. If they had a break room where they could smoke the kids would never see them. As it is, they're on display. Maybe that's the idea...isolate them as second-class citizens and let them serve as bad examples.