{"id":1039689,"date":"2021-11-21T09:59:19","date_gmt":"2021-11-21T14:59:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1039689"},"modified":"2021-11-21T09:59:23","modified_gmt":"2021-11-21T14:59:23","slug":"we-are-heading-for-hard-times-goya-ceo-blasts-government-for-becoming-the-competitor-of-private-businesses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/we-are-heading-for-hard-times-goya-ceo-blasts-government-for-becoming-the-competitor-of-private-businesses\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018We Are Heading For Hard Times\u2019: Goya CEO Blasts Government For Becoming The \u2018Competitor\u2019 Of Private Businesses"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">34<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwe-are-heading-for-hard-times-goya-ceo-blasts-government-for-becoming-the-competitor-of-private-businesses%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1039689&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Goya Foods chief executive Bob Unanue blasted the federal government for stepping in as a \u201ccompetitor\u201d to private companies by \u201cincentivizing\u201d people to quit their jobs.<\/p>\n<p>During an interview with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxbusiness.com\/economy\/goya-foods-ceo-rips-big-government-for-dismantling-nation-warns-hard-times-ahead\">Fox Business<\/a> anchor Stuart Varney, Unanue said that his firm is experiencing \u201can unfair competitive disadvantage with big government from one year to the next.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLast year with COVID, we were working and we were a capitalist society,\u201d he explained. \u201cWhen the government stepped in and started printing money and giving it out and telling people, you don\u2019t need a reason to get up in the morning.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In addition to reducing the availability of labor, government stimulus has worsened inflation and contributed to the supply chain crisis. Unanue noted that Goya\u2019s wages have risen by 70%, while the cost of shipping some goods has increased more than tenfold.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are heading for hard times,\u201d Unanue said. \u201cWe are dismantling this country. We\u2019re getting soft. We have the government as our biggest competitor. Government needs to get out of the way and let us work.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In earlier comments to Fox Business, Unanue <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/goya-ceo-says-inflation-is-forcing-company-to-hike-prices\">stressed<\/a> the impact of inflation on Goya\u2019s operations. The executive said that \u201cinflation is here to stay at least for a good while and everybody has these costs.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Following the spread of COVID-19 and the lockdown-induced recession, the federal government has spent trillions on economic stimulus \u2014 including one-time checks and enhanced unemployment payouts. American voters now signal a high willingness to receive additional COVID-19 stimulus checks \u2014 with one <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/moneyforthepeople-petition-for-2000-monthly-covid-checks-nears-3-million-signatures\">petition<\/a> for $2,000 monthly handouts receiving nearly three million signatures. A January survey revealed that 78% of Americans \u2014 including 90% of Democrats and 64% of Republicans \u2014 approved of the $1,400 checks supported by President Biden at the beginning of his administration.<\/p>\n<p>A recent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/report-welfare-is-encouraging-able-bodied-men-to-stay-voluntarily-out-of-work\">analysis<\/a> from Republicans on the Joint Economic Committee argues that a significant share of the young men who receive welfare from the government are \u201cvoluntarily disconnected\u201d from work.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOnly 12 percent of inactive, prime-age, able-bodied men said they wanted a job or were open to work,\u201d the report explained. \u201cAmong men who are inactive for reasons other than disability, retirement, education, or homemaking, 41 percent personally receive government assistance.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne key piece of evidence that suggests labor force trends are driven largely by workers, not employers, is that the decline in prime-age labor force participation has been mostly voluntary, as told by the men themselves,\u201d it continued. \u201cThree out of four disconnected men<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Goya Foods chief executive Bob Unanue blasted the federal government for stepping in as a \u201ccompetitor\u201d to private companies by \u201cincentivizing\u201d people to quit their jobs.During an interview with Fox Business anchor Stuart Varney, Unanue said that his firm is experiencing \u201can unfair competitive disadvantage with big government from one year to the next.\u201d\u00a0\u201cLast year with COVID, we were working and we were a capitalist society,\u201d he explained. \u201cWhen the government stepped in and started printing money and giving it out and telling people, you don\u2019t need a reason to get up in the morning.\u201dIn addition to reducing the availability of labor, government stimulus has worsened inflation and contributed to the supply chain crisis. Unanue noted that Goya\u2019s wages have risen by 70%, while the cost of shipping some goods has increased more than tenfold.\u201cWe are heading for hard times,\u201d Unanue said. \u201cWe are dismantling this country. We\u2019re getting soft. We have the government as our biggest competitor. Government needs to get out of the way and let us work.\u201dIn earlier comments to Fox Business, Unanue stressed the impact of inflation on Goya\u2019s operations. The executive said that \u201cinflation is here to stay at least for a good while and everybody has these costs.\u201dFollowing the spread of COVID-19 and the lockdown-induced recession, the federal government has spent trillions on economic stimulus \u2014 including one-time checks and enhanced unemployment payouts. American voters now signal a high willingness to receive additional COVID-19 stimulus checks \u2014 with one petition for $2,000 monthly handouts receiving nearly three million signatures. A January survey revealed that 78% of Americans \u2014 including 90% of Democrats and 64% of Republicans \u2014 approved of the $1,400 checks supported by President Biden at the beginning of his administration.A recent analysis from Republicans on the Joint Economic Committee argues that a significant share of the young men who receive welfare from the government are \u201cvoluntarily disconnected\u201d from work.\u201cOnly 12 percent of inactive, prime-age, able-bodied men said they wanted a job or were open to work,\u201d the report explained. \u201cAmong men who are inactive for reasons other than disability, retirement, education, or homemaking, 41 percent personally receive government assistance.\u201d\u201cOne key piece of evidence that suggests labor force trends are driven largely by workers, not employers, is that the decline in prime-age labor force participation has been mostly voluntary, as told by the men themselves,\u201d it continued. \u201cThree out of four disconnected men say they do not want a job, and only 12 percent of inactive, prime-age, able-bodied men said they wanted a job or were open to it in 2014. If more men are genuinely choosing to stay home with the kids, go to school, or retire early, policymakers should not be concerned.\u201d\u201cA significant body of empirical evidence suggests that government transfers \u2014 especially those without work requirements \u2014 tend to lower employment. For example, labor force participation and earnings fall after receiving housing assistance, losing Medicaid coverage increases employment and gaining the coverage can reduce it, and the introduction of the food stamp program in the 1960s and 1970s decreased employment significantly.\u201dThe Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a member.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":99,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1039689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1039689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/99"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1039689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1039689\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1039689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1039689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1039689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}