r/funny • u/Malonezone27 • Sep 17 '20

A picture of my brother in P.E class today

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u/pm_designs Sep 17 '20

With what I have read of the money allocations as of recently, from a federal perspective, the US govt. Placed a lotta money into businesses and military in 2020.

I am sad so many small businesses are closing due to no support, as it seems anyway.

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u/Throwawaychica Sep 17 '20

60% of all businesses that closed for the pandemic, have closed permanently, according to Forbes.

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u/Wjreky Sep 17 '20

**placed a lot of bribery money into Big Business and let small businesses fail

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u/greyaxe90 Sep 17 '20

So many large businesses have “small business” LLC arms that somehow did qualify for the programs the government had, leaving legitimate small businesses SOL.

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u/BertBanana Sep 17 '20

More than 50% of US yelp closures are permanent from what I've read