kathylove
Pragmatic & Logical
We have a very good friend living in the San Francisco area...
He works in the business of fire safety in commercial buildings, especially (but not exclusively) restaurants. He said that during the recession his business has been great! That is because, even during the recession, the state and various local governments have been going crazy updating requirements for fire safety, requiring lots of expensive equipment and / or labor to comply. He said that the bigger restaurants and other clients just add the cost into the cost of their goods, passing it on to consumers. But some of the mom and pop businesses can't afford it, so they go out of business and their employees go on unemployment.
I don't know how many fires they are actually having now compared to before. And I don't know how many, if any, lives are actually saved because of these businesses forced out of business. I just know that reptile businesses and hobbyists are not the ONLY ones affected by the barrage of constant, new legislation. We have to decide on just how much "safety" - from pythons, fires, or whatever else - we can afford. SOMEBODY will have to pay the unemployment checks for those priced out of business. Society will have to decide where to draw the line between new laws to "protect" us from everything under the sun, and our ailing economy.
He works in the business of fire safety in commercial buildings, especially (but not exclusively) restaurants. He said that during the recession his business has been great! That is because, even during the recession, the state and various local governments have been going crazy updating requirements for fire safety, requiring lots of expensive equipment and / or labor to comply. He said that the bigger restaurants and other clients just add the cost into the cost of their goods, passing it on to consumers. But some of the mom and pop businesses can't afford it, so they go out of business and their employees go on unemployment.
I don't know how many fires they are actually having now compared to before. And I don't know how many, if any, lives are actually saved because of these businesses forced out of business. I just know that reptile businesses and hobbyists are not the ONLY ones affected by the barrage of constant, new legislation. We have to decide on just how much "safety" - from pythons, fires, or whatever else - we can afford. SOMEBODY will have to pay the unemployment checks for those priced out of business. Society will have to decide where to draw the line between new laws to "protect" us from everything under the sun, and our ailing economy.
