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Government lockdowns decimated small businesses during the pandemic,

destroying the livelihoods of millions of Americans.

Many of these hardworking men and women still have not recovered.

And none of them are at fault. The blame lives with politicians and their bureaucratic

goons who arbitrarily deemed some workers essential and others expendable.

Today I expose the government's war in the backbone of America.

And how COVID escalated a problem that's been ongoing for years.

This is the truth with Lisa Booth.

Welcome back to the truth with Lisa Booth. I'm Lisa Booth and this week we're covering a topic

that too many Americans are familiar with. How small businesses in the middle class of

suffered under government lockdowns. Too often leaders in government believe that they have

a godlike capacity to make brilliant decisions for the stupid masses. They think they're superior to

you, to me, both morally and intellectually, even though their job is to serve us, the people.

Remember we are their boss. Now with the coronavirus, politicians and bureaucrats,

we saw them grab power in shocking and unprecedented ways. And with that power they picked winners

and they picked losers deciding which businesses they liked and which ones they disliked,

which workers were essential and which ones were expendable. And what came next was devastation.

The government and pull was locked down across the country in the name of fighting the pandemic.

Small businesses struggled to survive. And tragically many of those didn't.

Many people lost the ability to put a roof over their kids' heads or to feed their family.

And those that did, many of the businesses at state open or were able to stay open,

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