*Warning.....this is a rant*

[whopis01]

25. The owners are people as well. And it isn't about profit right now.

A friend of mine owns a restaurant. For the past couple months she has had little to no income. Meanwhile she still has to pay the rent, the loans used to finance the equipment, and other fixed costs that haven’t gone away.

She was in tears the other day because she doesn’t know how she is going to keep paying her employees. Meanwhile she has maxed out all her personal credit trying to keep things afloat.

She is not worried about profit. Break even with no profit and no personal income would be a better position than what she is in right now.

And the paycheck protection program loan system is a joke. No response for well over a month. Those funds were exhausted within a couple weeks and most small businesses received none of it.

The dismissive attitude that people like her are only thinking about profits is disgusting.