Just can’t let it go
Not that anyone down here is a huge Michael Brown fan, but at least he’s getting his licks in. I think any of us who have been living through the aftermath of the flood know damn well politics had/has plenty to do with what’s (not) happening down here. And I mean politics at ALL levels. ‘Nuff said about dat.
I’ll be interested to see, in the coming weeks, if the grant money being set aside for affected small businesses actually has an effect. Gov. Blanco is set to annouce details of the $100 million grant and loan program on Tuesday at 2 p.m. This’ll be at the Ashe Cultural Arts Center, 1712 Oretha Bastle Haley Blvd. As an affected small business, I’m told grant applications will be accepted from Jan. 25-Feb. 5. But y’know what?
I don’t know if I’m going to bother. Sure — I’ll go get some details and find out more about it before I make a final decision. But part of me says, well, fuck it. It’s too late. My business is toast and anything I do to revive it is gonna have to be up to me and whatever resources I can assemble. Lord knows I don’t want or need a loan. If I can get some grant money to possibly replace some of the tens of thousands of personal dollars I sank into my business trying to keep it afloat while our elected leaders were stuck in neutral, then maybe I will. But, at least for now, I don’t have a business to sink any money into. Anything I do will have to be more like starting a new venture than trying to pump life back into the old one.
I’m not the only one in this predicament either — there are hundreds or maybe thousands of us. It’s simply too late anymore.
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Every couple of months Brownie pops up with a new and different story of what happened, and it’s always some version of “somebody else’s fault”. What he’s saying may be true, but personally I’m sick of his shit. He should have said all this a long time ago; it’s nothing but self-interest for him to say it all now. It doesn’t do anybody else any good.