Guest Post by Ron Paul
A video of a confrontation between Ventura County, California health officials and restaurant owner Anton Van Happen has gone viral. The health officials were ordering Mr. Van Happen to close his business because he allegedly violated California’s ban on outdoor dining. Mr. Van Happen asked the health officials if the government will pay his employees and his rent while his business is indefinitely closed.
Mr. Van Happen is hardly the only small business owner worried about how to pay bills during the lockdowns. Many small businesses operate on a narrow profit margin, so being forced to “temporarily” shut down or limit the number of customers they can serve is a virtual death sentence.
The lockdowns have already caused as many as 200,000 small businesses to permanently close. Lockdowns, by shrinking the number of employers, lead to long-term unemployment or lower wages for many workers.
While governments have terrorized small businesses, they have typically deemed the big chain stores “essential businesses” so they can remain open. The lockdowns are thus another government policy that gives big businesses a competitive advantage over their smaller competitors.
The benefits big businesses get from the lockdowns — including fewer competitors, more customers, and a job market with more workers competing for fewer jobs — may explain why many big businesses are not fighting the lockdowns. Instead, most big retail chains are requiring their workers and customers to wear masks. Many big businesses may soon deny service to those who refuse to receive a Covid vaccine.
One would think that progressives who claim to oppose policies that benefit big corporations like WalMart, Target, and Amazon would oppose the lockdowns. Sadly, even many progressives are unquestioningly parroting the Covid propaganda and demonizing those who dissent.
By slowing down the development of herd immunity among the population, the lockdowns could put those truly at risk in greater danger. Lockdowns have also had negative effects such as increases in drug and alcohol abuse and increases in domestic violence. Meanwhile, many schoolchildren are deprived of the opportunity to interact with their teachers and their peers. Instead, these children are subjected to the fraud of “virtual learning.”
Resistance to Covid tyranny is growing as more people figure out that lockdowns and mandates are both unnecessary and harmful. This resistance was largely started by small business owners faced with a choice between obeying the government or making sure they, and their employees, can feed their families. Small business owners have been leaders in recent anti-lockdown protests across America.
Eventually the resistance will grow to the point where the politicians will be forced to either double down on authoritarianism or admit the lockdowns were a mistake. Either way, those of us who know the truth must resist the Covid tyranny until government officials no longer terrorize small businesses for the crime of serving willing consumers.
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End the FED……….
The “resistance” Dr. Paul mentions might commence in earnest when some nearly- ruined, stressed-out small business owner is triggered enough to serve a Gubbermint tyranny enforcer a face full of buckshot. That would most likely turn the CoVid-19(84) virus killing-(small)-business-model around or at least pause it for a moment or two.
(Not that Auntie could ever countenance such a violent response to the tender mercies of a concerned political and civil service “leadership” who are only looking out for everyones’ best interests, health and welfare.)
Douglas Valentine wrote in CIA AS ORGANIZED CRIME that he saw the domination of nations throughout the world by the CIA and US military was being implimented within the United States. William Blum has listed some of the affected nations in KILLING HOPE; CIA AND US MILITARY INTERVENTIONS. John Perkins has exposed Wall Street as being the initiating source of IMF, WB, CIA and US military of the above actions in interviews and in CONFESSIONS OF AN ECONOMIC HIT MAN .
The posted article at https://ppjg.me/2019/11/18/the-federal-reserve-a-different-view. FEDERAL RESERVE; A DIFFERENT VIEW (and other locations) alleges Wall Street utilizes the Federal Reserve is used to transfer value –that belongs to the government — to Wall Street financial destinations. Should those transfers be investigated ?
One question that bothers me about all these “big box stores” being the last ones standing… IE wallymarts and such. If there are decreasing numbers employed, then who are these shoppers going to the last ones standing? if unemployed from your job how can you shop at there’s?
kc, that’s the purpose of MMT. All the laid-off people will get a constant flow of checks from the government so they can keep the consumer economy afloat.
That’s the beauty of MMT, you don’t worry about deficits, they truly don’t matter. The government just keeps printing the money it needs. What could possibly go wrong?
What could possibly go wrong?
HMMMM i can only think of 1 word….
Venezuela
Independent businessmen are modern day Kulaks. Get it now?
I did my bit yesterday. Left a full cart of goods at the checkout and walked. They asked me why I was not wearing a mask. Noneyabizness and left them with an hour or two of work to restock.