Posted on 08/16/2009 12:20:21 PM PDT by Steelfish
I’ve said that this depression will be different in many ways from the last one. One difference is that you won’t have guys selling apples on the corner - because they can’t afford the permit.
*ouch*
One thing you can say about the Woodstock generation, they sure do like issuing those “permits.” I guess it’s a money thing.
I live in one of the most affluent counties in the country...supposedly....Montgomery County, Maryland.
Today, on a jaunt to Rockville, we noticed that on virtually every busy intersection, there are panhandlers (PLURAL) camped out or walking down the island holding their hard-luck signs looking for money from drivers sitting in the air-conditioned cars.
Some intersections have all four directions occupied with men, women and their children.
It’s sad AND disgusting. Very conflicting.
3 agents to hassle a 10 year old. there’s that ‘ole government efficiency Obama keeps talking about.
Hope and change. Gotta love it.
Yep that little girl is a threat to the social order. She’s obviously thinking about business ideas, and can’t understand how she was breaking the law. She’s going to be infected with capitalistic thinking, and we can’t have that in our young people. (sarcasm)
And to think that she lives in a place which is very very liberal. And even in a liberal place, she had these ideas.
Indeed. Lay off two of those three and you’d have more than enough money to spot permits for the few kids energetic enough to run a stand.
>>One thing you can say about the Woodstock generation, they sure do like issuing those “permits.” I guess it’s a money thing.<<
I understand a building permit in the King county area (Seattle) runs around $23,000 to $27,000 now. When we built our family’s home in 1967 our building permit cost approximately $7.50.
There is a bit more than inflation going on here. ;)
Some are legitimate....in a sense that you can see they are physically handicapped with missing limbs.
Others just claim to be veterans having hard luck.
And others just look like healthy beggars.
Very sad state...pun intended.
They go where the money is.
The real men of that generation were fighting in Vietnam. The ex hippies who run the dimocrap party have no moral authority, nor do they possess one ounce of common sense. Today, the inmates are running the asylum.
Why do folks go postal?
Let me count the ways...
$50 ticket for lemonade,
Next time I blow you aways
No one got pictures of these clown “officials?” Government thugs and bureaucrats will not be stopped until actual Americans begin to stand up and tell them to go to hell. And then provide directions!!
Obama’s America! But don’t expect the MSM to pick up on this and let the public know of the increased homelessness and desperation.
What would prevent some nutty Islamofascist supporter using his cute kid - or his neighbor's cute kid -to dispense poison to everybody in Central Park?
By the time everybody figured out the source of the poison, the kid would be long gone.
But if the kid had been required to pull a permit & at least provide some documentated identification (you know, like a long form Birth Certificate,lol!) before she could sell drinks or food to people in the park, there would at least be a place to start an investigation if people starting dropping dead.
And what if it were just an unintentional poisoning - e coli or salmonella contamination or something else, say. There'd be no way for health officials to track the source down without a permitting process which is strictly adhered to equally across the board with no favortisim for cute kids or crazed terrorists.
If we were to make it optional to pull a permit to sell food to the public in Central Park, we sumultaneously open a Pandora's Box of risk to the public.
I can't help but suspect that if we were reading here about hundreds of people becoming deathly ill from a spoiled batch of lemonade because food handling protocols had not been scrupulously followed that we'd all be screaming for public health officials heads here, no?
You make a good case but it is based on the supposition that this would be a possible way for mass murder. I am not sure that hundreds flocks to Lemonade stands.
But the whole point of course it to make sure that the enforcement commissars use common sense and reasonable discretion. They didn’t do that here. The notion that Islamofascists would use a 10-year old kid for mass poisoning is the same reason the TSA gives for a comprehensive search of grandmas in wheelchairs.
Yeah....but I’m skeptical if all of them are truly homeless.
Maybe just trying to keep the electric on and gas in the car.
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