Posted on 06/17/2011 7:56:38 AM PDT by Morgana
A more wholesome American scene could hardly be imagined: a bunch of kids selling lemonade on a summer's day.
But local authorities in Montgomery County, Md., saw things differently. They shut down the kids' venture and ended up fining their parents $500.
The Marriott and Augustine kids had set up their stand Thursday right next to the Congressional Country Club in Bethesda, Maryland, where the US Open golf tournament has been taking place--bringing thousands of thirsty fans to the neighborhood. The kids planned to send 50 percent their profits to a charity that fights pediatric cancer. But a Montgomery County inspector said the children needed a vendors' license to run the stand, according to a report from local TV station WUSA9. And after the stand proprietors allegedly ignored a few warnings, the inspector slammed the kids' parents with a $500 fine.
"Does every kid who sells lemonade now have to register with the county?" Carrie Marriott, the mother of one of the would-be entrepreneurs, asked the inspector.
"Cute little kids making five or ten dollars is a little bit different than making hundreds," replied the inspector. "You've got coolers and coolers here."
"To raise money for pediatric cancer," Marriott replied.
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Young capitalist pigs!!!
Liberals using the power of govt to destroy charities.
The kids probably got turned-in by some PGA official. They should have paid that PGA franchise fee and given them a cut!
Just once I want to see an angry mob surround one of these petty little bureaucratic tyrants and......
A liberal is a person who thinks government makes a “profit” by fining those who do good, but disapproves when a company makes a profit by providing a product or service that people actually want.
” This is liberalism/socialism/communism, big-brother government gone amuck. “
Let’s give credit where credit is due - the voters who elected (and re-elected) the legislators/representatives who passed the laws giving these petty bureaucrats the power to oppress children....
According to Keep Talking Greece "closed professions" include beauticians, drama and dance school instructors, bakers, antiques dealers, insurance agents, insurance consultants, employment consultants, diagnostics centre staff, translators, divers, cameramen, driving school instructors, cab drivers, tourist bus drivers, newspaper stand owners, electricians, sound technicians, private school owners, tobacco sellers, gun manufacturers and sellers, hairdressers, private investigators, port workers, real estate agents, lifeguards, carpenters, financiers, opticians, auditors, movie/theatre director and even car mechanics.
Many states have prevailing wage laws and other restrictions that have nearly the same effect as the insanity in Greece. .
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2724921/posts
Are these Norm Augustine’s grandkids?
this inspector needs to get burned from this over reach....
If true as told, this inspector needs to get burned from this over reach....
Tar.
Feathers.
Bureaucrats.
**Some Assembly Required
They do that over there.
Then, when they are done with that they recreate the People's Republic of Albania.
You can find them on any day building bullet proof pillboxes from which they will defend their county from the invading Capitalist Imperialists.
The family may have been innocent of the history of their county, and then again they may have been part of it and deserve what they got.
More proof that rotten, tyrant, liberal dems and their big government machine is a jobs killer. They can go to hades where they will forever thirst for kids selling lemonade.
and THAT is the only thing that will stop this crap. The only thing that will stop this arrogant mindless abuse of freedom and attack on common sense is to make them fear for their very lives.
Montgomery County has a huge concentration of libs. It’s likely the parents of these kids repeatedly vote for these idiots. If so, I’m glad it came back to bite ‘em.
It's partly a side effect of too many government workers. Some of them get bored of standing at the side of the road holding a shovel and go off to harass, and sometimes shoot at, the productive sectors of the economy.
Looks like stasi didn’t like the location.
Right next to the Congressional country club.
Is this another perk of being a Congressman?
Good thing the kids weren’t bowing to Mecca. Might have gotten into some real trouble.
In Maryland??!?! He'll get a promotion and a raise. You can call him 'Senior Inspector', now.
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