Heavy-handed bureaucrats
are killing Pa. businesses
Daily Local [Chester County PA],
by
State Sen. Dave Arnold
Original Article
Posted By: NorthernDog,
4/22/2020 1:34:48 PM
Decisions that have been made over the past month will have consequences for years to come. The haphazard manner in which these decisions are being made should concern every single citizen of Pennsylvania. The arbitrary nature in which businesses have been prohibited/allowed to operate is an exercise in miscommunication, dysfunction and ambiguity. Since March 17, 2020, businesses such as auto dealerships, real estate agencies and residential construction projects have been stalled. Given just three hours warning before the closure went into place, business owners and employees had the proverbial "rug pulled out from beneath them." No consultation, no discussion, no
Reply 1 - Posted by:
TJ54 4/22/2020 1:41:53 PM (No. 387868)
Maybe Gov. Wolf Wolf needs to be tarred and feathered. This is what happens when you put Demtards in charge of things. Getting President Trump is more important than your life and property. Remember, a party that wants power this badly should never hold it, again, ever
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
RuckusTom 4/22/2020 1:52:24 PM (No. 387881)
Golly. You mean if you declare several different businesses as "non-essential" and close them down by force, you'd have a spike in unemployed people and businesses going bankrupt? Golly. By the way, are liquor stores still open and are lottery tickets and cigarettes still being sold? Gotta keep those state income taxes coming in.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
stablemoney 4/22/2020 2:10:49 PM (No. 387908)
Another month and every business in the country will be bankrupt. Heck, why do we even need businesses? The Fed can just do an electronic deposit to our bank accounts----but what are we going to buy?
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
curious1 4/22/2020 2:19:48 PM (No. 387911)
This clearly shows why politicians and other bureaucrats need a significant amount of skin in the game, like they used to have a century plus ago. Pitchforks, tar, rope parties should always figure prominently in their calculations anytime they want to exert 'control'.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Urgent Fury 4/22/2020 2:26:20 PM (No. 387917)
What are you prepared to DO?---Officer Malone
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They're just showing you who they deem BOS.
Now, you do you see there is no such thing as an un-elected bureaucrats?
They operate under the control and authority of elected officials, and report to those very elected officials who have oversight.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Illinois Mom 4/22/2020 2:56:26 PM (No. 387936)
Remember every time that the government has been "shut down" because the EVIL Republicans were standing on principal? The news media went ballistic with stories about federal employees being starved, destroyed, and thrown into the streets after a week or so. Even though they were all reimbursed when they received back pay. Remember the countdowns as each "missed paycheck" date approached.
We lost everything in 2009. I am experiencing genuine feelings of grief for all these business owners and employees as I pass the small businesses closed by decree. Now our billionaire Governor think things will be extended until mid-May. We're not doing that great either. My husband is considered an essential worker because his company is doing Covid19 remediation. He has been going on jobs that are simple sanitizing but doesn't want to go on places that have had confirmed cases because he's 65 and a type 2 diabetic. He doesn't go...he doesn't get paid. It looks like he may get in 16 hours this week. Needless to say I'm having flash backs.
Aren't we smart enough to, all on our own, keep out of overcrowded spaces and wash our hands frequently? Dr. Fauci declared that choosing to swap spit with total strangers you "hooked up" with on Tinder was a personal decision because you chose the risk...why does getting a haircut translate into a criminal offense and means certain death? How does that work" Scientifically speaking.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Peach1 4/22/2020 2:58:29 PM (No. 387939)
Businesses all across the country NEED to just open, period. If more than 50% start opening, the rest will follow and really, what are they going to do? Like Glenn Beck says, there are way more of us than them!
I’m calling all businesses to just DO IT!!
JUST OPEN!!!
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
sydney727 4/22/2020 3:03:12 PM (No. 387943)
#2 - all liquor sold in "State Stores" in PA. Run by the state entirely. Republicans have tried to change that for years without success. (altho I did hear curb service may have just been approved.)
4 people like this.
Reply 10 - Posted by:
MickTurn 4/22/2020 3:52:29 PM (No. 387995)
IT IS the Democraps using this Real Crisis as an attempt to blame Pres. Trump and bias the election.
It's that simple.
I just wonder how long it will take for those Business leaders AND their employees to rush the offices of those in charge and drag them out for their proper 'discipline'!
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Strike3 4/22/2020 6:05:31 PM (No. 388099)
Everything Guv Wolf has done seems to be off the cuff and not backed by knowledge or common sense. He may have caused a lot of business failures and unemployment but his career is going to be over very shortly. Pennsylvanians are ignoring him by the hundreds.
4 people like this.
Reply 12 - Posted by:
cThree 4/22/2020 6:38:59 PM (No. 388123)
If you're blocked by the Daily Local as I am, the op-ed is also at Arnold's homepage:
https://senatordavearnoldpa.com/2020/04/21/op-ed-where-do-we-go-from-here/
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
NYbob 4/22/2020 8:57:45 PM (No. 388214)
PA is forgetting it's history. When Pittsburgh was a village, Hamilton sent tax collectors to skin the farmers of Southwestern PA of what little money they had by taxing Whiskey. Those farmers beat the tax collectors and then covered them with liquid tar and feathers. That wasn't a joke, the tar could kill a person and more than one tax collector died. As a result George Washington led 13,000 troops out of Philly toward Berlin, PA. More troops than he ever commanded during the Revolution. When one of the leaders was captured in Bedford, Washington returned to Philly, but ordered his officers to round up the rest. They captured some other leaders in Berlin, PA including Robert Philson, who later was a hero of 1812 and then a congressman. After being dragged out of his house, he was marched the 350 miles back to Philly on foot. The officers commanding the troops were ordered to march with swords drawn and behead Philson if he tried to escape. He was found not guilty along with the others. The Whiskey Rebellion was in 1794. In 1799 George Washington built a distillery that produced 11,000 gallons a year as the largest distillery in the new USA.
Before this is finally decided, we will see similar things happening all over the USA as power crazed slobs try and break the rest of us.
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