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What does the erBB brain trust have to say to this restaurant owner?
- Thread starter GromsDad
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yeah I know, but yours looked all weird with all the janky html jive talk. you just have to post the Twitter link directly and erBB does the rest
He is. The health department is expecting him to do their job for him and police city property.
The guy was clearly upset but was ultimately civil.
It’s easy for a government clerk who collects a guaranteed check every few weeks like you, and those in the video, to throw stones at someone who has working at a loss for almost a year now.
I bet hal is so insulated that he doesn't know a single business owner who has been adversely affected by this.
I know a lot of people struggling right now. Individuals and business owners. My income for 2020 was less than half of what it is in a normal year. Times are tough but I'm getting by and trying to support the service industry as much as possible. The way I see it, we're all in this together. Or at least we should be. I do see how the service industry is taking this one on the chin more than most other sectors. I see how the restrictions they've been working under to stay afloat and remain open have been a moving target and how many have spent money to accommodate ever changing restrictions. Some of these restrictions I will admit don't make sense in comparison to other things that are allowed. Nobody is saying that it's not tough and nobody is saying the state and local government response has been perfect. The real problem isn't that someone like Gavin Newsom is dining at French Laundry. The problem is that the federal government has been out to lunch for the vast majority of this pandemic and both individuals and businesses in what was once the wealthiest nation in the world have been left hanging with a one time relief bill that came and went more than 6 months ago and pales in comparison to what people and businesses are receiving in most other civilized nations we share this world with. The problem isn't that the government is squashing their business with temporary restrictions. The problem is that the government is doing this while doing nothing to offer proper relief. Thats what we should be crying about.
Do you think you would've kept your cool after eating sh!t for 9 months?
The health department cited him for not doing their job. It doesn't get anymore government clerkish than that.
How can you sit and blame the Heath dept and local governments while ignoring the fact that the federa response has been nearly non-existent? Maybe this guy wouldn’t be so desperate to have to do things like block the health inspector with his small dick machine if he had proper relief?
Tony Bowens , 31, spent nine days in a hospital in March fighting for his life against the deadly coronavirus. In many ways, he’s just grateful this Christmas to be home with his wife and two kids, even though very little is the same. As his family struggles to pay rent, he can’t believe Congress and Trump haven’t reached an agreement on aid.
“It feels like everybody is playing politics with people’s lives,” said Bowens, who lives in Chicago. “That $600 check wasn’t much, but at least it would have been disbursed just in time.”
Bowens has ongoing complications from covid: Headaches, temperatures that spike for a day, crippling leg pains and trouble breathing. He lost his IT job in March and has not been able to work since. He received $65 a week in unemployment through the Pandemic Unemployment Assistance program that Congress created this year to assist independent contractors and gig workers like him, but it will end the day after Christmas unless a relief bill gets enacted.
His family is barely getting by on his wife’s job as a state government worker in Illinois. They are behind on rent and the electric bill, and they worry about more layoffs for state workers.
Bowens said extending unemployment is “one of the most important things” in the relief package because a $600 one-time check won’t last long, “but unemployment would go for 11 weeks. I was going to be able to get that again.”
“It feels like everybody is playing politics with people’s lives,” said Bowens, who lives in Chicago. “That $600 check wasn’t much, but at least it would have been disbursed just in time.”
Bowens has ongoing complications from covid: Headaches, temperatures that spike for a day, crippling leg pains and trouble breathing. He lost his IT job in March and has not been able to work since. He received $65 a week in unemployment through the Pandemic Unemployment Assistance program that Congress created this year to assist independent contractors and gig workers like him, but it will end the day after Christmas unless a relief bill gets enacted.
His family is barely getting by on his wife’s job as a state government worker in Illinois. They are behind on rent and the electric bill, and they worry about more layoffs for state workers.
Bowens said extending unemployment is “one of the most important things” in the relief package because a $600 one-time check won’t last long, “but unemployment would go for 11 weeks. I was going to be able to get that again.”
You and several others here REALLY struggle with binary thinking. Someone can be both frustrated with local governments and the federal government at the same time. Shocker, I know.
It's the local health department who is making the rules, specifically that it is now the restaurant owners responsibility to clear people off of PUBLIC property. That should be the responsibility of the local government, not the business owner.
Agreed, there needs to be a viable alternative and path to help people like this to the other side. However that doesn't help this guy in the short term.
Look at you, empathetic little man.
Maybe their business had "only 5-10 years left anyway"?
Would that make you feel better?
Nothing the federal government did or didn't do can justify what has been done to small businesses by state and local governments. The Constitution doesn't get thrown in the garbage because of a bad flu season.......at least it didn't used to.
Americans on the brink of hunger have a Christmas plea: Help us — The Washington Post
Millions of Americans who are hours away from losing unemployment aid or the small business they have spent years building have a simple plea to President Trump and Congress: Please help us.
apple.news
I might not have kept my cool, but I would not have thrown a social media tantrum
Fair point. I also agree that it was a dickmove to block the guys car. Desperation will mess with your head, and when nobody listens to you, I can't say that I wouldn't do the same thing.
It's good to know that you poses so much empathy for restauranteur strangers.
Though it's a shame that you will soon die because empathy is cancer.
Business owners like that, who take a loss paying their employees, are the true heroes of the pandemic.