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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am a small business owner from out of the DC area.  I do not fault those restaurants, even though I feel badly for their employees.

For around the past 3 years, the recession has hit my business and similar businesses in my area very hard.  Our customer base dropped as much as 30% from where it was prior to the recession.  We are the most successful of our type of business in our area, and I know that other, similar businesses in our area have been hit harder.

Most in our customer base (blue collar-middle class) are suffering through the recession: lost jobs, lower wages, higher gas prices/utilities/food prices, so raising prices, even a bit, to bring in more revenue is not an option.  If we raise our prices, even a bit, customers who are sacrificing to pay for our services will no longer be able to pay.  Raising prices will result in lower revenues for us, so we have to hold our prices where they are at.

I don't want to fire my employees, because they are valuable, talented employees who work hard for me and are dedicated to giving their best.  My overhead has gone up significantly (for example, my highest electric bill from this past summer was double what the highest bill was last summer, even though we have taken steps to cut back on energy usage).  The only option I have been left with is to cut my own salary.  I have been working for the past 2 years and not drawing any salary in order to help my family business of over 20 years to make it through the recession.  Fortunately, my spouse makes enough that our family is fine.

Just now, as things seem like they might be turning a corner, we have Obamacare looming.  I guarantee you that I am will not A) hire any more employees B) will consider cutting back hours/employees to avoid the extra expense  C) might consider closing down this once successful family business if A and B do not work.
  
My story is not unique.  It makes me very sad.  Business owners are not the demons many of you would like to believe.  My employees do not know that I have not drawn a salary, nor do my customers.  So please think before you disparage business owners and employers.  We have done our share of carrying the burden, and have sacrificed more than you know.[/quote]

Small businesses are different and are largely exempt from Obamacare.  Darden Restaurants is a publically traded corporation that owns and operating 2,000 restaurants.  [/quote]

Exactly.  Please learn the specifics of the law and what the actual requirements are for small business.  And, if you don't want business bearing the burden of health care, then tell the retards in the Republican Party to stop blocking single payer.  [/quote]

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