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Jimmy Pastor is a 54 year old milkman, who owns his own business and drives around a blocky 1961 milk truck. He gets up every morning to start his day, one morning he was pulling into a Chevron gas station is surprised that the gas price had gone up 15 cents over night. Everywhere in the country people are being affected by the rise in gas prices. Prices had gone up 13 cents a week from when the article was written, this has been affecting mostly people with their small businesses that depend on their cars. Some say that they blame the price of gas on their loss in profits. One business owner even claimed that it takes $70 to fill up her tank, she says it is a huge loss in profit for her business. Gas' rising prices have made wholesale prices of food and other commodities making a double loss to businesses like food trucks. "Our whole culture is based on affordable, approachable, cheap food," is what a chef of a food truck said, he lists off prices of food and how much they have risen. The price of gas has affected the price of his profit, which means a lower income. Pastor delivers about 12 to 15 truck loads from his company to many other company's and he claims that it costs his company about $12,500 in gas for one month. He decided to add two more days of work on his schedule to compensate for the losses and also added more products to his company's selection. Because of that he has brought in about 1000 more customers but, even though his clientele went up, consumers are buying less and he even had to lay off 2 workers. "Coming out of recession, small businesses do hire the vast majority of people," said Chris Christopher, senior principal economist at IHS Global Insight, but it seems like this time it is not happening. This is something that is going to cripple the economy a lot, this is what we should be our main focus because without businesses GDP doesn't rise.

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Senator Ron Paul is one that supports a limited constitutional government, low taxes, free markets and a return to sound monetary policies based on commodity-backed currency. He is known in both the House of Representatives and Congress for his record of never voting for a tax raise or a unbalanced budget or to raise the debt ceiling. Someone says that they would trust Dr. Ron Paul to fulfill his promises as a president. This man saw his father's estate being picked out by taxes from the government. They took money that he had worked so hard for when he died. A balanced budget and a goal to reduce the deficit is what Paul has always been for. He also always stands for a a simplified tax code that encourages investment and hard work rather than ridiculous spending. Paul has voted for those goals more than all the candidates and that is why he is the perfect candidate for small businesses. There have been many candidates that claim to be for small businesses but their actions say otherwise.