Hi, it's Carol Markowitz. I'm so excited to launch my very own podcast. We'll talk to the

biggest names and politics, news and entertainment and get to the truth of the issues that affect

your family and have some fun along the way. It's the Carol Markowitz show, part of the Clay

Travis and Bucksexten podcast network. New episodes drop every Monday and Thursday on the iHeart

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Up next, the truth with Lisa Booth are the gang with 360 network.

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 have

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

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

posed lockdowns across the country in the name of fighting the pandemic. Small businesses struggled

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