{"id":3190,"date":"2023-01-03T06:25:30","date_gmt":"2023-01-03T12:25:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=3190"},"modified":"2023-03-15T02:15:30","modified_gmt":"2023-03-15T07:15:30","slug":"exclusive-jimmy-john-liautaud-welfare-destroys-a-mans-soul-and-americas-businesses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=3190","title":{"rendered":"<strong>Exclusive \u2013 Jimmy John Liautaud: Welfare Destroys \u2018a Man\u2019s Soul\u2019 and America\u2019s Businesses<\/strong>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jimmy John\u2019s restaurant chain founder Jimmy John Liautaud told Breitbart News that welfare destroys \u201ca man\u2019s soul\u201d and America\u2019s businesses in an exclusive interview at Turning Point USA\u2019s annual AmericaFest conference in Phoenix, Arizona.<br \/>\n\u201cThere\u2019s\u00a014 states that are giving out between $80,000 and $100,000 a year in welfare for a family of four. Well, that\u2019s just not sustainable,\u201d Liautaud told Breitbart News.<br \/>\n\u201cAnd nor is it\u00a0good for the recipients of the welfare,\u201d he continued, \u201cMaybe for a short time,\u00a0but if they\u2019re capable, you destroy a man\u2019s soul. You destroy a family. You don\u2019t want to give them a fish. You want to teach them to fish.\u201d<br \/>\n\u201cWhen the government is your biggest competitor, it makes it really, really hard to start a small business,\u201d\u00a0Liautaud said. \u201cWhen there\u2019s five or six million people that are unemployed, that are totally capable, that are earning this free money from the government.\u201d<br \/>\nThe Jimmy John\u2019s founder went on to say that \u201cthe government\u00a0works for us, and they serve us. We don\u2019t serve them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2023\/01\/02\/exclusive-jimmy-john-liautaud-welfare-destroys-mans-soul-americas-businesses\/\">Breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jimmy John\u2019s restaurant chain founder Jimmy John Liautaud told Breitbart News that welfare destroys \u201ca man\u2019s soul\u201d and America\u2019s businesses in an exclusive interview at Turning Point USA\u2019s annual AmericaFest conference in Phoenix, Arizona. \u201cThere\u2019s\u00a014 states that are giving out between $80,000 and $100,000 a year in welfare for a family of four. Well, that\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":3191,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[3328,2074,1253,1252,3326,3327,1198,2244,1387],"class_list":["post-3190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-business-america","tag-economy","tag-far","tag-inflation","tag-jimmy-johns","tag-restaurant-chains","tag-america","tag-unemployment","tag-welfare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3190"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3190\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7556,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3190\/revisions\/7556"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}