Smash and Grabs | Agencies Reloaded

Smash and Grabs

You’ve probably seen the crazy videos of groups of people banning together to rob high-end luxury and electronic stores across the country. Most notably, in California and some surrounding areas. Happening in split seconds groups of 10+ people brazenly bum-rush these places and try to take as much as they can. 

Surely this isn’t what our society has come to. People doing what they want when they want and thinking there are no consequences behind it. We as a country are better than that; we as people are better than that. 

Agencies Reloaded

It’s been over 21 months since we applied for the EIDL program with the SBA in the Covid-19 relief. We’ve been denied multiple times for reasons that didn’t match up to the previous and we’re now in our final request for reconsideration.

A program that was supposed to exist to help small business in a time of a global pandemic has failed in many ways to help thousands of people that were forced to close for good. Only time will tell if we get approved. 

With a backup of millions of tax returns, the IRS has been in a mess for quite some time. An institution that has been around for decades, one would think their systems would be able to handle the workload, but that certainly doesn’t seem to be the case. 

Finally, as the Biden Administration tries to enforce vaccine shots for all Federal workers and other sectors, it appears they are offering a safety net of sorts for those that choose not to get vaccinated for whatever reason and loose their jobs. Unemployment benefits. Could this incentivize those holding out to continue to do so knowing they’ll at least have some form of payment coming in? And for how long will it last before it’s cut off? 

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