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The full story of how they suspended his license is very shady in how the governor worked these things.
I admit a month ago I would have had a different opinion, but nowadays enough is enough time to start opening up stores and businesses.
By the way I myself got a haircut recently. The smart people know how to work the system and get what they want despite all these coronavirus orders and restrictions.
But the barber, Karl Manke, told NBC News on Thursday that he has received no notice from officials about the suspension and has no plans to close his shop in Owosso, about 37 miles northeast of Lansing, the capital.
"If we wait until we're absolutely perfectly safe, we'll never have the freedoms that we had," he said.
Why in the world does someone need a license to cut hair. THAT is the problem.
So this guy has been a barber shop owner for 55 YEARS and he has no other source of Income?
No Savings from his business or Social Security either or Stimulus check?
Something doesn't sound right here.
I thought so, too. But fellow posters said it was none of my business how he lived, so sorry he has to work and zi am a dumber than dirt.
It makes absolutely no sense. Nowhere does anybody address that he leases space to a manicurist and a masseuse. Since his FB page indicates it is also a beauty shop, how may chairs does he have?
I thought so, too. But fellow posters said it was none of my business how he lived, so sorry he has to work and zi am a dumber than dirt.
It makes absolutely no sense. Nowhere does anybody address that he leases space to a manicurist and a masseuse. Since his FB page indicates it is also a beauty shop, how may chairs does he have?
He's either scamming or pizz poor manager.
It's sad no matter what - 77 and HAVING t work to live.
I thought so, too. But fellow posters said it was none of my business how he lived, so sorry he has to work and zi am a dumber than dirt.
It makes absolutely no sense. Nowhere does anybody address that he leases space to a manicurist and a masseuse. Since his FB page indicates it is also a beauty shop, how may chairs does he have?
He's either scamming or pizz poor manager.
No. They make an income but a modest one. Basically what they live on. Why doesn't Governor Whitless cut off her income by suspending her salary while she's making everyone else do without? Why is she campaigning for VP on the public purse?
What chutzpah! He wants to work. In Whitmer's paradise he shouldn't have to. Or be able to.
Apparently, the lockdown craze and the various climate accords have the same goal; to turn us into a sad, government controlled system where we do as others tell us. Everyone wearing the same masks, no human expression.
Why in the world does someone need a license to cut hair. THAT is the problem.
As you will see, licensing laws can be abused.
Virtually all states do have barber's licenses. I guess that's OK for sanitary reasons. Obviously it's a problem when it's used to cudgel obedience to other (misguided) policies. I am a lawyer and have a law license. I will admit I am careful even about certain driving offenses. Especially if passing a stopped school bus could earn one a trip to a grievance committee.
Even you remember Spiro Agnew caught flack, in October or November 1970, when attacking the news media, for mentioning their regulated and legally privileged status. While Agnew and the media richly deserved each other, threatening regulatory consequences for their views went above and beyond propriety.
Apparently, the lockdown craze and the various climate accords have the same goal; to turn us into a sad, government controlled system where we do as others tell us. Everyone wearing the same masks, no human expression.
Climate accords? Human expression? There is no mask mandate in Michigan.
This thread is almost 2 years old and you revive it for an off topic rant?
The irony is, the 77 year old was a member of the very group the lockdowns were supposed to protect - the elderly and medically high-risk.
Clearly, SS payments have not kept up with the cost of living. When can we have bi-partisan agreement on that fact?
SS was basically insurance against starving.
Of course it hasn't kept up with anything it was an unsustainable glorified ponzi scheme from the start. It started at 1 percent and people who never paid a dime into it were able to collect. Now we're at 12.4 percent. Anybody with half a brain would be far better off investing that 12.4 percent than giving it to the gov't to get some pathetic return on the money if they live long enough.
There's a pizzeria in my neighborhood that NEVER closed in 2020 not even for one day. There is a strip of probably 100 stores and all but 3 closed for at least a few months-the other 2 were small grocery stores. Even when he couldn't have people inside he served pizza through the window. The other day someone came in when I was there and asked if he needed to see their vax card(absurd NYC mandate.) He laughed at said "my friend I never closed this store for even one day in 2020 why would I care about your card now?"
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