Sunday, May 9, 2021

Last in Line!

 White restaurant owners must go to the back of the line for Covid-19 relief.  The Small Business Administration is administering nearly $10 billion in aid for restaurants, nightclubs, and other service industry businesses.  However, the SBA placed minorities and women at the front of the line.  The guidelines state:

Priority groups

  • A small business concern that is at least 51 percent owned by one or more individuals who are:
    • Women, or
    • Veterans, or
    • Socially and economically disadvantaged (see below).
  • Applicants must self-certify on the application that they meet eligibility requirements
  • Socially disadvantaged individuals are those who have been subjected to racial or ethnic prejudice or cultural bias because of their identity as a member of a group without regard to their individual qualities.
  • Economically disadvantaged individuals are those socially disadvantaged individuals whose ability to compete in the free enterprise system has been impaired due to diminished capital and credit opportunities as compared to others in the same business area who are not socially disadvantaged.

 

 

However, the guidelines probably don't apply to larger establishments:  

Set asides

  1. $5 billion is set aside for applicants with 2019 gross receipts of not more than $500,000
  2. An additional $4 billion is set-aside for applicants with 2019 gross receipts from $500,001 to $1,500,000
  3. An additional $500 million is set-aside for applicants with 2019 gross receipts of not more than $50,000

So a local coffeeship would go to the front of the line if owned by a woman, veteran, or minority but go to the back of the line if the owner is a white male.  

The aid is part of a $28.6 billion restaurant relief package.  The SBA will provide up to $5 million per location and $10 million for the entire business.  The loans are forgiven if spent by March 2023. 

 

24 comments:

Theca Jones of the Roguish Gent Podcast said...

You don't want the Veterans of our great nation to get assistance, Kingfish. I never took you for someone who was Anti-Military.

Anonymous said...

"Socially disadvantaged individuals are those who have been subjected to racial or ethnic prejudice or cultural bias because of their identity as a member of a group without regard to their individual qualities."

I note that this says "those who have been subjected," not those whose ancestors have been subjected. Seems to me this should require some sort of proof, or at least an affidavit.

Anonymous said...

From my observations, Kingfish isn't anti-military, he's anti-discrimination. He most definitely is anti-stupid but has been known to let that slide.

Anonymous said...

the great recession of 2008 was caused by the government loaning billions of dollars to people who couldn't afford to pay it back. i guess they now think we will just give them the money and there will be no negative effect on the economy.
they got the money presses rolling wide open. they just print it.

St. Alphonso's pancake breakfast said...

I see absolutely no reason why a white male food service business owner that is socially and economically mobile can't "self identify" as a person who would qualify for the front of the line. Am I wrong? Oh. Happy Birthing Person Day!

Anonymous said...

Every business both large and small have been half destroyed by this communist virus. Supporting the military vets is awesome but telling people they don’t qualify because of their skin color by the federal government is racist on a scale not seen since 1930s Germany.

I had a dream said...

It was bizarro. Let me tell you. There I was. In The Fondren. At Brent's Drugs. Jeff G., Dan B., Robert St. J., Malcolm W. and a few of their other restaurant buddies were all having a "sit in" at the counter. Mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba was outside flailing his arms and yammering endlessly, right? JPD was in full force. With DOGS! The JFD was onsite as well looking at limp fire hoses and scratching their heads. Maggie the Meek wouldn't take the job so they left the coverage up to Roz, the REAL trooper of WLBT.

And then I woke up to this?!

Anonymous said...

Nobody is telling white business owners they don’t qualify. There has been no indication that anyone will be excluded from this aid because they are a white male non veteran. Kingfish is just trying to tell his audience how hard it is to be white male, not because he believes it, but because he knows his base will eat it up. How noble!

And I thought you staunch conservatives were against “handouts” anyway.

Anonymous said...

This kind of shit is why I avoid paying taxes at every turn.

Hey! Remember when Kansas said...

"How long, to the point of no return?" Well folks, WE'RE HERE!

Anonymous said...

"You don't want the Veterans of our great nation to get assistance, Kingfish. I never took you for someone who was Anti-Military."

Haha, the last thing vets need is another handout! As a 32 year retired vet, I can say the number of non combat vets (many who did four years or less), who claim VA disability is alarming.

Anonymous said...

@2:17 PM - Yep, and probably the biggest one is PTSD. The diagnosis for PTSD is very flexible/subjective. It's not like there is a blood test for it.

Six year veteran here. No veteran disabilities.

Anonymous said...

Hopefully, Jeff Good and Robert St. John will share their opinions about this.

Anonymous said...

The last I heard there were a lot of white veteran restaurant owners and a lot of white women restaurant owners. The Republican state Mississippi used the very same procedure for the state grants some months ago by having an application window for certain groups.

Anonymous said...

"Applicants must self-certify".

There you go. If we have fluid gender, why not fluid ethnicity and race?

Anonymous said...

Clearly all these government rules that discriminate against someone because of their race or gender are unconstitutional.

Anonymous said...

When I was 12, I was attacked by a group of older boys who were of a different ethnicity and they yelled racial slurs at my while punching and kicking me... if I owned a restaurant, could I go to the front of the line because of the racial injustice I suffered?

Anonymous said...

Applicants self certify.

In the current social environment. Every one qualifies to claim this one:

Socially disadvantaged individuals are those who have been subjected to racial or ethnic prejudice or cultural bias because of their identity as a member of a group without regard to their individual qualities.

I am discriminated against every single day by racist folks who look at me and Say "Got Damn Cracker Honkey!" As a human, I find such comments very offensive and discriminating.

Anonymous said...

Ah, so most of y'all don't want those in the most need to be first.

I guess you want Ruth's Chris and similar chain's/franchises and the fine dining restaurants in Trump's hotels to be first in line.

Anonymous said...

There have been recent reports that white businesses more often than others were the recipients of PPP funds.

Let's ask Donner and Todd since they've now hit the PPP kitty twice.

Anonymous said...

Solving racism by being racist. You can't make this up. MLK is rolling around in his grave.

Anonymous said...

At what point do we quit giving these hand outs and calling it good? You can stimulate, award DBE contracts, give preferential treatment, move to the front of the line, or whatever you want to call it. At some point it has 0, zilch, nada to do with skin color, but instead the will to do better. Those that will, will. Those that wont, will still be at the back of the line. Red, yellow, black and white. At some point you've got wot want to do better instead of sitting around waiting on a handout.

Anonymous said...

Waaaay back in college, several guys - at the girls' urging, I might add - very briefly flashed the then-new consumer video camera at a toga party (this was circa 1978). I recently mentioned this at a party where there were numerous 25-35 year-olds. I may as well have announced that we had tortured kittens. Three of the guys and our wives, six of 20 or so involved, and the gals readily admitted their role in encouraging the situation, all said it was innocent fun. We were instructed by our children and their friends that: a) the guys - who had spent God-only-knowshowmuch on these same kids - were basically rapists, b) our wives - who had spent God-only-knowshowmuch on these same ungrateful little assholes - were victims, c) some babbling bullshit that no one over the age of responsibility could understand even with a Goddamned decoder ring. I love my kids with all my heart, soul, and being. I wish I had spanked them more.

So, you ask, what does this have to do with restaurants getting money? I'll tell you. Fuck it, I've paid, and paid, and paid. Apparently now, I'm socially disadvantaged because several of us, included my wife of nearly 40 years of friends (male and female) of 40-plus years all had to much Schiltz and cheap whiskey at a college party. Near as we can tell, no one present was in the least bit offended because we regularly have dinner with most of the group and all still laugh about that stuff.

I think I've been both generous and reasonable in my life and I know my wife has been. But enough is enough. I HAVE FUCKING HAD IT! I mean it. I want my check. Near as I can quickly and roughly figure, based solely on the taxes my wife and I have paid over the last 40 or years - income, property, sales tax on our "OK, boomer" buying, etc., I'm owed somewhere well north of 10 million dollars. I'll settle for a refund and I'll eat the interest.

OK boomer, my preserved-on-Batamax-for-posterity ass. Who in the fuck do you little bastards think pays for all of this feel-good horseshit?

Anonymous said...

Laughing out loud 11:57!

That was actually tame for the era.

If the little ones were "triggered" by your college stories,
they might experience spontaneous combustion if they heard ours.




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