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San Franciscans Pissed To Learn Their Liberal Policies Caused A Wave Of Restaurant Failures

Posted by $ nickursis 6 years, 6 months ago to Government
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Lets see...market manipulation and control...check...no jobs...check...no restaurants...oops. Must be those damn racists again....Venezuela bound we be....
SOURCE URL: http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-10-05/san-franciscans-pissed-their-own-liberal-policies-make-it-impossible-find-affordable

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    Posted by $ allosaur 6 years, 6 months ago
    Once again, the magic of socialism fails to make a rabbit appear from a top hat.
    That's because magicians don't really use magic and dopey ideas.
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      Posted by Dobrien 6 years, 6 months ago
      Trumps fault.(sic)
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        Posted by $ allosaur 6 years, 6 months ago
        Well, surely you cannot expect lib San Fransickos (stole that 'un from Michael Savage) to blame themselves.
        After all, they have the blame gamer "What Happened" Evil Hag as a so wonderfully dysfunctional role model to emulate.
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          Posted by Dobrien 6 years, 6 months ago
          "Be more like Hillary Clinton(evil hag)" dad says to daughter " She didn't win" was the daughters reply "but she came close, and life can be so unfair" was dialog I heard as a father consoled his daughter on a stupid drama on TV. Just so unfair.
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            Posted by $ allosaur 6 years, 6 months ago
            $hillary was entitled to her coronation~even if the Clinton Crime Cartel Foundation had not taken all those foreign bribes~oops!~donations, I mean, with 6% reportedly going to charities. Sorry, Haiti. Sometimes life just ain't fair.
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    Posted by Dobrien 6 years, 6 months ago
    Yes Nickursis just like Venezuala.
    EVERYONES standard of living improves when the free market is in charge. Wage and price controls
    hurt everyone but the masters. Result is to eliminate jobs and products and entrepreneurs (you know the job creators).
    One has to blame the public education system for eliminating reason and rationality.
    How do you think? Or How will this action effect
    The market. ? Is replaced by How do you feel about it? Our what the greater good?
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    Posted by Lucky 6 years, 6 months ago
    I did not see any mention of any restaurant owner increasing prices.
    My guess is some did and there was buyer resistance, the progressive public think wages should be higher but will not put in their own money. Is this right?
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      Posted by freedomforall 6 years, 6 months ago
      Well, you can be certain that prices did go up. 20 years ago I ate at restaurants over half the time. Today, unless it's for an unavoidable meeting I don't even consider eating at a restaurant. The food quality is lower than I get at home, the raw materials and the sanitation in restaurants are in question, and the prices in restaurants are insane. Who needs a $7 beer or $10 cocktail?
      On my recent trip to NYC the highlight meal for everyone was, without question, the dinner I prepared in my cousins' kitchen.
      I don't blame the restaurant owners. It is a very difficult business. Government is completely at fault.
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        Posted by term2 6 years, 6 months ago
        Prices are going up in restaurants all over, not just SF. Inflation caused by deficit spending and money printing is coming home to roost. It used to be there were lots of things at costco undere $10. Now there are almost ZERO things under $10. Chipotle used to cost me $8, not its $11.
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          Posted by freedomforall 6 years, 6 months ago
          That is exactly what I was referring to, term. Price increases are due to government and banking cartel actions.
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            Posted by term2 6 years, 6 months ago
            I suppose the correct way to look at it is dollar decreases, not actual acquisition cost increases. the product is the same but it takes more of our dollars to buy it.
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              Posted by freedomforall 6 years, 6 months ago
              And it is devastating to those retired on fixed incomes, doubly so with zero interest rates on their savings. Simultaneously it encourages them to invest in high risk investments that boost Wall Street profits and bonuses in order to survive.
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                Posted by term2 6 years, 6 months ago
                Tell me about it. I was doing cleaning the other day and found a $2 bill I had evidently saved from college days in the 60's. Today its worth less than 20 cents in terms of what it buys. Makes saving in US dollars kind of a stupid thing to do.
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                • Posted by freedomforall 6 years, 6 months ago
                  Yes, its stupid, but we are forced to do so to an extent in order to trade efficiently and conveniently survive. Most other alternatives are manipulated and/or taxed heavily to make the carrying costs punitive (e.g., real estate.) Goldand silver are ok today but in 2000 they had been a horrible investment for 20 years.
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                  • Posted by $ nickursis 6 years, 6 months ago
                    Well, a huge number of countries have such a huge regressive tax load, with the infamous "VAT" on everything and anything. I went to send some computer parts to a guy in England, and whether I bough it there, or shipped it paid a 25% VAT, making it 40% more expensive than the US. Social Medicine costs a lot you know...
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        Posted by Dobrien 6 years, 6 months ago
        Nothing is as good as a well prepared home made meal. Freedomforall and your better half have an open invitation for my famous spaghetti with sauce from my garden tomatoes .Mmmmm
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          Posted by $ allosaur 6 years, 6 months ago
          When I make my spaghetti, I'm frying a pound of hamburger meat, chopping up tomatoes, bell peppers and onions, tossing in a small can of cut up mushrooms and some green olives and sprinkling on some garlic.
          That mushroom can is hard to chew, though. A-huck! A-huck!
          I currently have a third serving of leftover spaghetti in the fridge.
          I never order the spaghetti at that deli I like. Looks like high school spaghetti.
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            Posted by Dobrien 6 years, 6 months ago
            You know you have an open invite but bring your own can of, Agaricus bisporus; hence the word "mushroom" is most often applied to those fungi (Basidiomycota, Agaricomycetes) that have a stem (stipe), a cap (pileus), and gills (lamellae, sing.
            I promise I won 't add a favorite of mine
            liver sausage also know as braunschweiger.
            Hehe, I like it in a sandwich
            but never spaghetti sauce.
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    Posted by Herb7734 6 years, 6 months ago
    Economics 101.
    Like all liberals, they think that what they believe, despite all evidence to the contrary, will work. If they believe the Great Lakes will dry up next Friday, they'll actually be shocked when it doesn't happen, and will find some excuse and set a new date.
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    Posted by Solver 6 years, 6 months ago
    The continuing Regressive cheer:

    We must make everything fair and equal!
    We will do anything necessary!
    Unintended consequences?
    What unintended consequences?
    Not our fault?
    (Repeat)
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    Posted by CaptainKirk 6 years, 6 months ago
    It happened (is happening) in Seattle as well.
    I was there before it happened and found some GREAT little places with wonderful food. I am sure half of them are gone now.
    The left simply don't understand we have 2 variables to work with:
    1) People
    2) Desire (for things, for profit, etc)

    The free market works by RELEASING these two items to create/fail/flourish.
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    Posted by wiggys 6 years, 6 months ago
    liberal policies will work the same for all businesses. in 10 years a barrow of money will not be as valuable as the barrow, gremany of the 1930's.
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    Posted by $ WilliamShipley 6 years, 6 months ago
    The typical liberal comment will be that if they can't afford to pay their employees "enough" as well provide healthcare and all the benefits than their business model is bad and they should close.
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    Posted by $ jdg 6 years, 6 months ago
    The most interesting thing in this article is that it's the high-end star-rated restaurants whose demise is noticed. San Francisco has (or had) a huge number of cheaper restaurants, especially those serving Chinese food. Some of them will be family run and thus exempt, but a lot of the rest will have had to raise their prices or go under.
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    Posted by floreo 6 years, 6 months ago
    San Francisco's political heartbeat is without consideration of consequence. Next casualty will probably be the flower stands at Union Square. Before WWII there were over 100, 1950-70 there were 12, there are less than 6 now. #SaveTheFlowerStands
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    Posted by LibertyBelle 6 years, 6 months ago
    And I wonder how many of those "Liberal" San Franciscans did not believe in tipping in restaurants, saying that the owners should "pay them a decent
    wage"? (I was a carhop, 1970-1972, albeit in Staunton, Va., not San Francisco, and I learned about certain types of customers who would not tip; one was the kind who asked how much I was paid [75 cents an hour]). Many people want to spend others' money , not their own.
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    Posted by Temlakos 6 years, 6 months ago
    Well, what were they seriously thinking? Then again, in their fabled New Economy, a specialty restaurateur would be able to apply for a full package of permits and subsidies to run the place with staff getting government paychecks--or other generous allowances of goods and services. Logic is beyond them.
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