Wednesday, August 12, 2020
Slow Deaths
Small businesses are the major providers of net, new jobs annually in the US (and in many other countries). Large businesses decrease jobs through automation and merger and efficiencies. They don’t replace retirees readily.
We can’t afford to kill off small businesses, yet we are. Requiring a restaurant to operate at partial capacity—in a business with razor-thin margins—is simply a slower death than immediate closure. And we can’t revive an economy by providing people with more money for staying home than they would have received at work.
At this rate, our economic deaths are going to exceed our medical deaths. And the two parties in Washington sit there throwing rocks at each other, not one member of either of them out of work or not receiving a paycheck or having to go through life savings to survive. I doubt they had any testing delays or wait time, either.
“Government of the people, by the people, and for the people….” Where is Lincoln when you need him?