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.
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.
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!!
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?
yeah, and soon, the IRS is lined up right behind them with their filthy hands out.