We need help. That’s the bottom line. I am not good at coming up with the right terminology but I think we NEED to collectively contact our representatives. We need a voice and we need someone to help us.

Back in 2020, we had no choices. We were forced en masse to close our businesses. But small business owners don’t usually have people on retainer to rush and fill out forms so by the time we applied for PPP it was gone. Leaving us with the unwelcome choice between losing our businesses (and everything else when we went broke) or taking on EIDL loans. Not much of a choice.

Covid recovery was NOT a matter of “everything’s open again” and all is well. Working from home, schooling from home, and subsequent reduced spending and skyrocketing supply costs kept us all scrambling. Most of us still are.

Now the time has come to repay these loans we were forced to take. And the SBA can’t even have its shit together enough to send accurate information or log payments clearly made on the portal. They’re supposed to auto withdraw my payment today. Still waiting for that to happen but I did get a “you’re delinquent” call.

We have no voice right now. No one is helping us. We’re struggling and we’re scrambling and we need someone to help us. Ironic considering all that “support small business” talk during Covid.