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Remember to Shop Small Biz This Christmas Weekend! · OneLegUpAlex Media

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  All right high above the overpass waiting for my lift. I'm Alex Garrett,
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  a little bit of Garrett on the go. As we are heading into Christmas
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  weekend, I gotta say, whenever I hear the conductors say tickets, tickets,
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  I do think of Tom Hanks and the Polar Express. Isn't that kind
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  of funny? And No, I'm always enjoying taking the train at this time
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  of year because of the movie that's going to be twenty eight years old next
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  year, The Polar Express. I just thought i'd make that PSA on the
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  Alex Scarett Podcast Network. I also want to say tomorrow we have a very
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  special guest here on the network. She is the chairwoman chairperson of the Libertarian
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  Party. She's the national chair of the Libertarian Party, Angela mccarto. You
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  don't want to miss that conversation, and you don't want to miss my recent
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  conversation with lou Terminello. As we hit Christmas, it's Terminella's take for this
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  Christmas weekend and that you can find that in the link below. And as
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  we hit this Christmas weekend, I have to say there's a group that should
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  be supported, not just on small business Saturday, but on all Saturday,
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  Sundays, Mondays, seven days a week. You know what your group.
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  I'm thinking of the small business community because I had found this email and I
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  found this data thanks to qrfive dot com. Apparently New York is second in
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  the United States with sixty two point seven one percent of all businesses being classified
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  as small businesses. That's right. When you support a small business, you
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  are supporting over half the state's economy here in New York. Florida has the
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  highest at sixty four percent. This coming from QR thanks to Ryan Cutler of
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  the journal Research dot org. And by the way, they pulled this data
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  from the US Census Bureau. That's right, the Census telling us that there
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  is sixty two percent of our economy, of our small businesses, of our
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  businesses being classified as small businesses. Astounding numbers for New York, three hundred
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  and thirty five nine hundred and fifty establishments had fewer than five employees, and
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  the annual payroll for all small businesses across New York was thirty three million,
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  six hundred or thirty billion, six hundred million, eight hundred and thirty seven
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  thousand, with an average of one hundred thousand per small business. So when
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  you support small business who not only are supporting the business, you're not only
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  saying screw you to the corporations, you are also saying, hey, we
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  want to support new economy SAT And these stats, which I'm going to post
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  up in the link below, are fascinating. Wyowing was third Montana, fourth
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  in Colorado fifth. Mark por Car poor Car of the QRFI dot Com CEO,
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  said, it's interesting to see the extent to which smaller businesses contribute to
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  the overall number of businesses in each state. These figures are also from the
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  end of the COVID nineteen lockdown period, which may have influenced people to start
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  their own small business whilst working from home. We need this entrepreneurial spirit back
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  here in America, I think, and this should be a great sign and
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  an encouraging one that small businesses are thriving, they're alive, they're active,
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  and not only that, by the way, they are for sure contributing.
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  So why shouldn't we contribute to small businesses and the communities that we live in,
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  Because we find out it's beyond just supporting our friends, our neighbors,
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  our family. In their small business endeavors. It's also as I walk down
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  the stairs supporting New York State and if the government's not going to help support
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  the economy, we have to and I think this holiday season, do not
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  neglect your small businesses at all. They are the lifeblood of this country.
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  It's the men and women that roll up their sleeves that start a business and
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  say we're gonna go out there and make a difference. It's why One Leg
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  Up with Alex Carrett exists because I want to talk to people. I want
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  to share stats of those who are having one leg up in this society.
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  And yes it's factual now the US Census can't hide it. Small businesses are
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  having this economy of one leg up. Small businesses have one leg up in
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  New York State. And I just thought it felt right to say this.
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  As you are out and about shopping this holiday weekend, this Christmas weekend,
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  please do not neglect the small businesses because they are the lifeblood of our state,
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  of our community, and maybe even of our families. And it's a
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  generational things. We're supporting generations of that small business heritage and lineage as well.
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  Just something to think about as the train arrives in and I've got to
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  get going here on the Alex Garrett Podcast Network. Have a great night,
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  and stay tuned tomorrow for Angela mccartal, the chairwoman of the Libertarian National part
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  Nation a party nation wide. We get into this stat as well. All
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  coming tomorrow this Christmas weekend here on the Alex Garrett Podcast Network