hey everybody how's it going I hope
you're having a lovely day so today I'd
like to read a picture from a sign that
was supposedly put in front of a bakery
in San Francisco California this is
regarding pandemic Aid dear neighbors it
is our absolute pleasure to be able to
serve you every day we are very grateful
for your continued business and support
many have written asking why we have not
replaced our door that was broken the
night after this past Christmas and I
wanted to explain we have applied to the
city's storefront vandalism relief grant
program seven times with only one
response quote your application was
reviewed and was found incomplete due to
missing proof of damage in order to be
considered you must submit a new
application this is an incorrect
statement as we have submitted the
correct proof Additionally the proof of
damage had been filmed and reported on
news outlets across the country
nonetheless we went on to submit three
more applications without responses
since the beginning of the pandemic we
have spent twenty seven thousand dollars
repairing windows at our San Francisco
locations our current door was quoted at
over eight thousand dollars to replace
we are not writing this to receive the
attention of national news I'm not a
spokesperson for what is wrong with the
city I love that my family calls home
but that said we pay some of the highest
small business taxes and fees in the
nation our elected officials promote
this grant as a solution for local small
businesses we deserve some response and
assistance from them until then this
door will remain broken and I am
sincerely sorry for this gratefully
Patrick's Caso owner La Mare Bakery
I thought this would be something
interesting to go over on this channel
there are a few things that I think are
worth mentioning here the first is that
while my heart goes out to the people
who own this business from what I read
from their ratings and reviews they
genuinely care about their customers and
they seem to make amazing quality
products and really do care about their
business there is one thing that I just
minorly disagreed with when they say I
am not a spokesperson for what is wrong
with the city I love and my family calls
home when when they say that it's one of
those things where I think they're
putting that in there it's as a preface
to their message because they're afraid
of being attacked for pointing out
reality as they know it in their
particular area if you are a taxpayer in
your particular area if you are a small
business owner in your area if if you do
anything to contribute to the well-being
of your small corner of the world then
you are a spokesperson for what you
believe to be wrong in that corner of
the world and one of the things that
I'll notice every now and then on Reddit
is I'll read comments saying he's
arrogant hey God
wow and something to understand is that
I think more people need to stop caring
so much about that when describing their
experiences and what they believe I'm
not saying that you should lie I'm not
saying that you should try and go out of
your way to deceive people nor am I
saying that you should pretend to be an
expert in a matter when you are not an
expert in the matter very often on this
channel I'll tell you in this area I
know what I'm doing in this area I am a
complete buffoon and I'll usually
preface my statements by saying that I
am an idiot I'll show you my credentials
I failed chemistry in high school and so
on and so forth but in all seriousness
if you pay taxes in an area and you have
built something in an area that provides
people with joy you have the right to
point out that your door has been broken
over and over and over again and that
you have spent five figures of your own
money in trying to fix it if you are not
qualified to be a spokesperson for your
corner of the world then who is and dare
I say it the people that tend to
volunteer to be a spokesperson for you
on your behalf are very rarely people
that have your best interests at heart
they often tend to be people that are
looking for power as a result of
expressing something that other people
feel like they can't say rather than
allow those people to rise to power and
then disagree you over again how about
you speak for yourself and your interest
in your aggravations and the struggles
that you go through as a tax paying
citizen that 100 has the right to
complain about your local government
screwing this is not something that's
going to change unless more people speak
up about it in the past I would make
mild little pokes every now and then
when it came to what bothered me about
New York City and I didn't really go
full mask off until a few years ago
after standing in front of my store the
night of June 2nd 2020 holding my
grandpa's titanium stick and just like
watching people walk by and break into
many of the businesses around my
business and luckily not mine because
maybe there was somebody there for some
of it and remembering when I finally got
tired and decided to ride my bike home
uh two feelings the first feeling that I
felt was
sphere that um you know as soon as I go
home something's going to happen here
they're going to destroy the gate and
the second feeling was guilt because as
I rode my bike home I watched other
businesses get
ransacked in nasty ways and I did
nothing about it because I believed I
did not have the power to do anything
about it I'm not the authorities this
that of the other and I just kind of
watched a lot of stuff happen and do
anything and perhaps it wasn't my place
to do something but I still remember
that feeling and it was after that that
I decided I'm just I'm done I'm not
letting you get one past me ever again
and I've gone over this in this channel
many times
whether you have a police officer in the
city that was introducing the leads
online program to all of us that
explicitly told us point blank to our
face
if you are not buying a laptop if
somebody recycles it here you don't need
to use this program and then finding out
you actually do have to use that program
and if you don't you'll get fined for it
but by the way we're not gonna have
somebody at the city that can read that
to you or we're talking about an audit
that lasted almost a year and a half
where they asked for more money than
what's actually in my bank account even
if I were to sell my entire business and
all of my assets
um
and then they figured out that oh my bad
bro you actually only owe us maybe five
thousand dollars or where they put a
lien on my business which affected my
business's credit rating for many years
and its ability to actually make money
um this this is see see here's the thing
here's the thing you have to understand
about all of this now this is a fake
lien by the way because I actually paid
those taxes as you'd find out if you
watch this entire series is that there
is no incentive structure for any of
these areas to change as long as people
preface their statements that way uh you
know again we are not writing with us to
receive the attention of national news
or to be a spokesperson for the city
that I love in my family calls home
again this is the part that is gonna hit
really hard but for a lot of people
they really need to hear this is that
they're never going to change because
there's there's no incentive structure
for them to change as long as you are
willing to live in that particular area
nothing will change because there's no
reason for them to become more competent
there is no reason for them to have
respect for you because again what are
you going to do go to the other
government there's one government the
entire concept of government is a
monopoly on force in that particular
area
now this is something that can work if
you have people that are ready and
willing and able to move on a regular
basis when their local government goes
out of control and when the residents in
that particular area do not vote those
individuals out but if that's not going
to happen then you wind up with this you
wind up with this Stockholm syndrome
where again as this gentleman says they
are paying some of the highest taxes in
the country on their business and not
only can they not trust local government
to protect that business so that they do
not have to spend twenty seven thousand
dollars fixing the door of their Bakery
over and over and over again but they
also cannot trust them when they come
out with a basic grant program to
operate it properly and you know I would
honestly prefer that they not come out
with a grand program at all then have a
grand program that they release and then
deny People based on obvious garbage
like this and again when they say your
application was reviewed and found to be
incomplete this really does feel the
same way that I felt when I hear oh yeah
yeah I'm sorry all the yeah all those
receipts that you had all the receipts
that you had all the emails with the
customer that demonstrate that this was
a recycled device and not something you
purchased yet we don't care about that
give us money and it what allows your
local government to get away with this
is the fact that you are not willing to
leave and more people need to feel like
it's okay to be arrogant more people
need to be willing to point out the
problems in these areas more people need
to not care what other people think of
them when they say this because I again
I know why they're coaxing it this way I
know I lived in New York City long
enough we are not writers received
attention of national news I'm not a
spokesperson was wrong with blah blah
and they have to say I love and my
family calls home they were saying all
that because they're afraid of being
called the right wing grifter let's just
be rough like they're afraid that
somebody in their comments is going to
say you are a right-wing grifter you're
doing this to get views you're doing
this to get attention you're doing this
because you believe fascism has a home
here and all that that's that's what
they're doing they're doing this because
they're they're writing that because
they're afraid and that very fear is the
thing that is going to
keep these areas the way that they are
and that's something that I think
genuinely needs to change and you know
it was something that I thought about
many many years ago when I was not doing
videos about my honest experience in
these places and I'm kind of glad that
New York City went above and beyond to
again find me for [ __ ] they didn't have
an answer to take four hours on the
phone to be able to allow me to pay the
fine for the law that they couldn't tell
me how I broke or try to take over one
million dollars of money that I
literally don't have like or or place a
lien on me or place a lien on my company
for almost 10 years and caused me to
stay on the phone for hours upon hours
upon hours to get it released I'm happy
that happened because it pushed me over
the edge of not caring and it's
important that you not let these things
into your head I I know who I am I know
what my beliefs are I know who I would
vote for and wouldn't vote for and I
know who I am I don't really care what
people in my comments say I've post
stuff like that when New York does
something stupid and uh I post stuff
like this when other people do something
that's stupid and I get I don't really
care if it makes people mad I say things
as I see it and more people need to be
open to doing this I lost a good amount
of money in moving out of New York City
40 to 60 of my business used to be
walking now that's closer to like five
percent because virtually nobody walks
in here because a there is 10 of the
population in the city I moved to than
there was in New York City but more
importantly B it takes several years to
build up a walk-in following if you have
a business in an area for three or five
or ten years
you ought to go and have a following and
when you just uproot that business and
move it across the country you're not
going to have the following again
immediately so I recognize I understand
that I'm in a very privileged position
when I'm saying what I'm saying which is
that you need to be open to getting up
and moving it's easy for me to say
because I have I have a good amount of
mail in business so I recognize that
half of my staff was not going to be
willing to move but also half of my
business would be going away so that
problem is one of those things that kind
of worked itself out when I moved half
the business half the employees
it's at the end it's one of those things
where it just really did kind of neatly
work itself out and I understand that if
you are a bakery where 99 of your
business is going to be people walking
in and buying something it's very easy
for some jackass and a scratched up
armchair who's high on God knows what's
in this bottle because I can barely read
it right now is I understand that it
probably seems like a [ __ ] thing for
me to say which is you cannot have this
mindset of yes I love my home and my
family loves our home and we are going
to stay here and blah blah blah blah
trust me I understand that I'm probably
coming off like a bit of an [ __ ] but
the problem that we have is that this is
not going to get any better as long as
people are in this mindset and I'm
saying this to you I'm saying this to
you as a person who had his own audience
for like four effing years screaming at
me Louis get out of New York Lewis
they're going to mess you up financially
look this is a get out of that City
and I ignore them I ignore them because
I did not want to have to let go of
employees that couldn't move and
admittedly honest a big part of it is I
didn't want to spend you know 30 or 60
000 moving my stuff across the country I
did not want to risk having less
business when I moved I did not want to
lower my income I did not want to up my
stress having to take everything that I
have built toss it into the back of a
truck or several backs of a truck and
then rebuild it all again here
while having to deal with the fact that
all of my customers are going to expect
a seamless transition where there's no
delays or anything in any of these
repairs as all this is happening
realizing I'm going to be paying two
sets of staff that sometimes this set of
Staff in the new place or that set of
Staff in the old place may not have
anything to do there's a lot of cost
involved to something like this to
setting everything up again there's a
lot of cost involved in moving and I
don't want to pay it
now here's the thing I can tell you
here's the thing I can tell you from
experience is that the peace of mind
that you have when you walk to your
business and your door is not broken
not just not today but I mean it's just
never broken
that peace of mind is worth the
aggravation it's worth the several
months of extreme excruciating stress
because just like right now again right
now I have pain in my mouth I have
horrible pain right here in spite of the
fact that I've taken
good amount of this stuff
it's a different type of pain because
the pain that I had before was I knew it
was getting worse and worse and worse
and worse now I have a similar level of
pain but that's because somebody spent
two hours doing this trying to rip some
[ __ ] out of my mouth because it was
stubborn and admittedly its owner was
stubborn and should have had it removed
17 ft years ago so now I have the same
level of pain but I realize it's on the
way down like tomorrow it's going to be
last and the day after that'll be less
and the day after that'll be less than
the day after that'll be even less until
it's no longer there at all and that is
a better pain right now you're in the
stage over here where your pain is just
going up because again you know your
city officials do not give a [ __ ] about
you they're literally laughing at you
when they say you did not submit uh
proof of damage
again I don't I don't live in San
Francisco I don't have to live in San
Francisco I know enough from people that
do live there to know that you are
dealing with the exact same morons
running your section of the country as
the morons that run my section of the
country that well you can just listen to
this three-hour phone call if you have
any curiosity about that or this or well
any of it
They're laughing at you and they're
they're not going to stop until you
leave and when you do leave when when
you spend a year and a half arguing with
the state over what is and is not
taxable
with them trying to take a millionaire
dollars
and then you call the Texas State
comptroller and within seven minutes
somebody comes on the phone and is happy
to want a recorded line clarify for you
that something is not taxable and this
thing is taxable and is even willing to
sell it send you a certified mail letter
just so that you have it in case you get
audited
the peace of mind you will experience in
that moment is worth all the stress
leading up to it the peace of mind you
experience when you don't feel a sense
of fear
that something is going to go horribly
wrong that the city is either going to
ignore or that the city was directly
responsible for
it's worth it
that's about all I'm gonna have to say
today don't be ashamed to speak the
truth as you know it at the time don't
care whether people around you are going
to make assumptions about you your
politics whether they're going to be mad
at you or anything else speak the truth
as you know it at the time and let the
chips fall where they may when somebody
is talking about you and getting mad and
saying that is egotistical or arrogant
or this that or the other how why should
he have the right to say that what in
reality they're usually doing is they
are confessing that they lack confidence
and admittedly they lack the convictions
to actually speak what they believe to
be the truth and what they think needs
to be said in order for the World to
Change in a positive direction and
that's not your problem that's theirs
and I don't want you to allow other
people's fear or other people's lack of
confidence to affect the way that you
conduct yourself the way that you live
your life that's it for today and as
always I hope you learned something and
to the owners employees and customers of
the Marie Bakery
I wish you all the best of luck I'll see
you in the next video bye now