[ April 19, 2024 ]
This is just heartbreaking. Only the tyrannical Left could run the worlds greatest city into the ground. New York City needs a Rudy Giuliani to repair the damage done by the current fascist mayor. It is the perfect time for a strong Republican candidate to take on the Left in New York City’s next mayoral election. Donald Trump Jr???
A frustrated Brooklyn business owner asks why she and her husband can’t be trusted like the big box stores can. Let’s remember how this this is impacting entrepreneurs who want to feed their families. pic.twitter.com/JRNLQvZmT1
— Tova Herskovitz (@tovaherskovitz) May 15, 2020
New York’s Small Businesses Issue Last ‘Desperate Cry’ To Save Their Livelihoods
By Daily Wire, May 21, 2020
Story continues below advertisementWith no end in sight to restrictions brought in due to the novel coronavirus pandemic, small business owners in New York demanded a change else they will be forced to close for good.
Re-Open NY, a coalition of hundreds of small businesses, held a press conference on Wednesday in a park that overlooks the Statue of Liberty in Lower Manhattan. Re-Open NY say that the conference was their last “desperate cry” to save their businesses.
“The whole idea of this press conference was just to show that we are pleading and that we cannot hold on any longer. Stores are dying every day. Just yesterday I heard that three small businesses within my own community are closed. That’s three families,” Simcha Minkowitz said, the founder of Re-Open NY.
On March 22., Cuomo signed New York Pause, an executive order which mandated that all businesses deemed to be non-essential must shut their doors. It did not specify how long the order would be in effect.
Shortly after the restrictions rolled in, Crain’s predicted that New York’s small businesses, who have been suffering for years under heavy regulations, faced an impending and “unprecedented crisis.”
New York has offered some public assistance, but Re-Open NY says they don’t want handouts, they want to work. Over two and a half months after closing, businesses owners cannot put food on the table for their families.
“People’s livelihoods are crumbling,” said Minkowitz.
Minkowitz recently put her heart and soul into opening a new store called Amore Fine Jewelry.
Now, her business is in the red.
“It’s very important that people know that you’re right, jewelry is not essential, but it is essential to me because this is what feeds our family,” she said.
Minkowitz founded Re-Open NY after a middle-aged man called her husband crying that his checks were bouncing and that he couldn’t pay his bills. After losing sleep over this story, as well as countless others she had heard, Minkowitz decided that something had to change.
“So I made a video,” she said. “The video went viral.”
A frustrated Brooklyn business owner asks why she and her husband can’t be trusted like the big box stores can. Let’s remember how this this is impacting entrepreneurs who want to feed their families. pic.twitter.com/JRNLQvZmT1
— Tova Herskovitz (@tovaherskovitz) May 15, 2020
Next thing she knew, 200 small businesses signed on to her group immediately.
“You’ll see stores closing all the time, every day I hear about more and more stores that are just calling it quits,” said Bruce Backman, the press person for Re-Open NY.
With an understanding of this dire public health crisis, Re-Open NY says that it can serve its patrons and open their stores safely by introducing reasonable measures to protect public health, such as wearing gloves, using sanitizing agents, and limiting the numbers of patrons and customers that they allow into their stores. They point out that small businesses are far more capable of limiting the foot traffic than big box stores such as Walmart, Target, and Costco.
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12 Comments
3 years ago
Large businesses give BIG campaign contributions and they don’t want the small or medium sized businesses offering them competition. Both prefer monopolies for self serving reasons. Both also know that small and medium sized stores are more innovative and where our real economic growth is. It also helps wipe out the lower and middle class by destroying them. DEMS and RINOS do not want middle class! So it all works together to have a poor and wealthy class.
3 years ago
Reply to
felix1999
You’re exactly right — the elites and their clients. The middle class is in their way. https://dailycaller.com/2017/08/01/calexit-leader-replace-middle-class-with-immigrants-video/
3 years ago
Reply to
felix1999
In Californication liquor stores never closed, because liquor stores are considered essential businesses, perhaps because the liquor industry contributes massively to the Communist, oops Dem0rat party of Californication.
3 years ago
Let these stores open DiPutzio.
3 years ago
This is what China wanted ..
3 years ago
It was never necessary to shut down all businesses. If grocery stores and other big box stores could open, businesses that can limit customer flow and practice social distancing and sanitizing things that need to be sanitized, those businesses should have been allowed to remain open. This “essential” and “non-essential” status is nothing but a joke… it is governors playing God and deciding who wins and who loses.
3 years ago
Slaves beg. Free people band together and fight.
As the Duck dynasty grandfather said, Everyone. All of y’all go to work, open your businesses. There’s not enough prisons to arrest you all.
Benjamin Franklin said, “WE MUST HANG TOGETHER OR SURELY WE SHALL HANG SEPARATELY”
3 years ago
Reply to
iprazhm
the elite
the RF
the white house
the bill gates
see the middle man as an ant
busy working busy working and dying on the job.
3 years ago
Appealing to Cuomo, De Blasio and their ilk will h no effect. In fact, it just encourages them to ravage you further. They are determined to use this faux crisis to further destroy the middle class. They don’t want anyone who is not a cog in their Commiecrat plantation. The only solution is mass disobedience. Not just stores, but private schools, beaches, playgrounds, offices, any place that has been closed. What are the wannabe tyrants going to do?
3 years ago
An aspect of leading us to the prophesied New World Order has been a many decades long abuse by regulatory agencies, instead of direct votes by lawmakers, to make it extremely hard for small businesses to function. This has been going on almost as long as I can remember in the fields of agriculture and manufacturing. Through the plandemic it appears that the powers that be will accomplish the death of most small business, offer people welfare temporarily, further destroy the purchasing power of the dollar, and have almost every person begging them for the tiny bit of food and clean water they are already planning to give you. The ensuing starvation is already planned. The good news is that Covid-19 has caused many people all over the world to awaken to how truly evil this is.
3 years ago
I’ll say it again . . .
Keep voting for Demo☭rats if this is what you want. They will take your freedoms. Your wealth. Your life.
