BY PAT MURPHY
Sentinel Editor & Publisher
Copyright © 2007 San Francisco Sentinel
San Francisco small restaurant owners are scorned on all fronts for their federal lawsuit insisting they have the right to determine employee benefits, not the City now implementing universal health care with forced payment by restaurant owners necessary…
Our young San Francisco mayor — The Gav brooks 40 October 10 — publicly scalds restaurant owners every chance he gets for launching the lawsuit… Newsom notes threateningly he is not happy about the lawsuit…
Mandated restaurant owner payment is essential to establishing universal health care… Says The Gav…
Really, Gav honey, you should be more worried about them not being happy with you… Your performance is arrogant…
Newsom, partnered with Supervisor Tom Ammiano, imposed the employer mandate provision with very little imput from restaurant owners… It was only when owners noted they had the power to resist that they were seriously ushered to a seat…
With Ammiano, quick to go brittle, snorting he had heard owner hardship complaints for ever so long…
Further, that Ammiano did not believe hardship complaints and anyway their money is needed to benefit all San Franciscans, suck it up…
Suck this up: People don’t go into business to create jobs… Or deliver benefits…
People go into business to make money, say it out loud…
To use that money to cement their unqiue dream into expanding reality… Secondarily growing that reality with new jobs, more jobs, and newly employed San Franciscans receiving new benefits…
It is odious that in a town which works so hard to maintain neighborhood character, in a town where neighborhood character is greatly defined by world famed unique eateries, the venal attempting to tap altruist sentiment would treat our unique eateries with such pompous dismissal…
Owner after owner testified that the imposed mandate would close their doors and foreclose opening of new small restaurants…
That trend is already underway… Preponderence of new restaurant openings in San Francisco are low-cost formula food fops…
Be glad we have that judicial third branch of government, and go out and encourage owners who work 14 to 16 hours every day to keep their dream alive and your neighborhood unique…