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The_Dunedan · 12-07-2010, 07:42 PM

Under the Clinton Regime, they weren't being simultaneously hit with a mandate for cartelized, overpriced, Nanny-stated healthcare payments and taxes. They weren't faced with paying to support both their employees -and- the jackoffs down my street who can, but won't, get a job.

Matt Tiabbi's book "Griftocracy" had an insight which I liked. He said, quite rightly, that one reason the Tea Party enjoys such support from small business owners is that for us, -any- interaction with the government is bad. It always ends up costing you money, frequently money you can't really afford to lose even in a -good- economy, and draws the attention of other bureaucrats who then figure out -new- ways to cost you money. It brings an army of inspectors with checksheets for obscure retarded things: in my little University town there was a law -requiring- open drains in restaurant kitchens. The sinks had to empty down into a funnel which led into the main drainage pipe: the pipes from the sinks had to be X size and Y far away from the funnel, which had to be Z wide by A tall, with a main drain-pipe that was B wide...

...the end result was a system, near-universal in my town, which caused the drains to back up and flood kitchens and make an horrendous, unsafe, unsanitary mess. Did any of the morons down at City Hall think about this when they wrote this insane law? No. Of course not. And it cost my bosses (and therefore me), to say nothing of every other resteraunteur, waitress, and busboy in town, a lot of aggravation and productivity and money.

People wonder why there aren't any jobs? This is why. When employers have to spend all their money paying for everything imaginable, from wars to subsidies to every benefit their employees or some legislators demand to keeping up with insane and expensive and contradictory laws, they don't have enough money to stay open. Then they go out of business, and all the people who used to work there are fucked. When they anticipate a huge financial skullfucking in the near future (as a result of the aforesaid costs), they sit on their cash so they can try to weather it, and all the people they might have hired are fucked. Both are happening or beginning to happen as we speak. This is why there's no liquidity anywhere, why credit is -still- tied up (this and the approaching Commercial Mortgage time-bomb) after two years of useless "stimulus:" nobody wants to turn loose of their ready cash reserves before they have a handle on just how much this is going to hurt financially.

And business-owners who trust the establishment Republicans who still make up most of Red Washington to relieve them anytime soon are utter, damned fools. That crowd of shills will keep the most onerous regulations (like the 1099 requirement) around until at least after 2012's Elections. Those things are just -too- handy a stick to beat the Dems with, especially once the results start to become manifest. And in the meantime, a lot of people and businesses will go clean under as a result.

12-07-2010, 07:42 PM	#37 (permalink)
The_Dunedan Junkie	Under the Clinton Regime, they weren't being simultaneously hit with a mandate for cartelized, overpriced, Nanny-stated healthcare payments and taxes. They weren't faced with paying to support both their employees -and- the jackoffs down my street who can, but won't, get a job. Matt Tiabbi's book "Griftocracy" had an insight which I liked. He said, quite rightly, that one reason the Tea Party enjoys such support from small business owners is that for us, -any- interaction with the government is bad. It always ends up costing you money, frequently money you can't really afford to lose even in a -good- economy, and draws the attention of other bureaucrats who then figure out -new- ways to cost you money. It brings an army of inspectors with checksheets for obscure retarded things: in my little University town there was a law -requiring- open drains in restaurant kitchens. The sinks had to empty down into a funnel which led into the main drainage pipe: the pipes from the sinks had to be X size and Y far away from the funnel, which had to be Z wide by A tall, with a main drain-pipe that was B wide... ...the end result was a system, near-universal in my town, which caused the drains to back up and flood kitchens and make an horrendous, unsafe, unsanitary mess. Did any of the morons down at City Hall think about this when they wrote this insane law? No. Of course not. And it cost my bosses (and therefore me), to say nothing of every other resteraunteur, waitress, and busboy in town, a lot of aggravation and productivity and money. People wonder why there aren't any jobs? This is why. When employers have to spend all their money paying for everything imaginable, from wars to subsidies to every benefit their employees or some legislators demand to keeping up with insane and expensive and contradictory laws, they don't have enough money to stay open. Then they go out of business, and all the people who used to work there are fucked. When they anticipate a huge financial skullfucking in the near future (as a result of the aforesaid costs), they sit on their cash so they can try to weather it, and all the people they might have hired are fucked. Both are happening or beginning to happen as we speak. This is why there's no liquidity anywhere, why credit is -still- tied up (this and the approaching Commercial Mortgage time-bomb) after two years of useless "stimulus:" nobody wants to turn loose of their ready cash reserves before they have a handle on just how much this is going to hurt financially. And business-owners who trust the establishment Republicans who still make up most of Red Washington to relieve them anytime soon are utter, damned fools. That crowd of shills will keep the most onerous regulations (like the 1099 requirement) around until at least after 2012's Elections. Those things are just -too- handy a stick to beat the Dems with, especially once the results start to become manifest. And in the meantime, a lot of people and businesses will go clean under as a result. __________________ "I personally think that America's interests would be well served if after or at the time these clowns begin their revolting little hate crime the local police come in and cart them off on some trumped up charges or other. It is necessary in my opinion that America makes an example of them to the world." --Strange Famous, advocating the use of falsified charges in order to shut people up.