Why area bars and restaurants go downhill and then close!

Seeing a bar or restaurant close and then reopen under another name has become old hat these days. Right here in my small town, there are two restaurants that closed with a new one re-opening in about a week! I feel that there are three forces are at work that allow for an establishment's eventually demise after a nice long slide downhill. One of them is evident to anyone who has ever been a small business owner; taxes and regulations! Piles and miles of taxes and regulations are constantly being passed at all levels of government; local, state and Federal, and have put the kibosh on many a business persons dreams and aspirations. Let's face it, when your operational margin is slim to begin with, it doesn't take much in the way of new fees to totally kill it. In the meantime, owners are doing all they can to just get by. And getting by means seeking out the cheapest labor, booze and food that's available for public consumption. So, that's number two. Marginal food served by poorly trained, incompetent men and women all in a setting that attracts the likes of the Health Department way too often.

Lastly, and perhaps the most important factor affecting the survival of many businesses, not just restaurants and bar, is the all pervasive sense of doom that seems to have settled like a cloak over the country these past five years! With millions out of work for extended periods of time, while millions more having given up looking for work entirely, the stage is being set to make failure the new success story for many Americans. Suddenly, a lot of your friends are now not only not working, but are learning how to game the system to elk out a more comfortable living off the backs of those who still pay taxes. And that number is dwindling and dwindling rapidly....

Get U.S. out of the United Nations!

It seems to me that no matter what angle you take to get good look at the United Nations; it still looks like a lot like a stinking fish. (Not only does it look like one, but it’s also beginning to stick like one too). Here’s a few choice examples (please click on the green text to go to each site):

 United Nations as a taxing authority

Take a recent maneuver to add a tax on all goods and services coming from the United States. As a matter of fact, it’s going to have the Obama regimes stamp of approval. And please understand this clearly - it will be a direct tax that is above and beyond all our other taxes or to put it more plainly, it's a tax that will begin the redistribution of American wealth to other countries in earnest!

United Nations mandated gun control back in the works

Gun control is back on the UN's agenda. Less than a day after Obama was re-elected, Gun control as dictated by the UN and not the US is back on the table. (This article is one of my absolute favs).

United Nations wants control of the Internet

And yes, boys and girls get ready for some major changes in how the internet works. (Hey! Was this also of Obama’s doing? I’ll take a wild guess and say yes he's involved somewhere and somehow).