Posted on 07/07/2010 8:53:34 AM PDT by Mobile Vulgus
Chicago Sun-Times financial reporter Terry Savage wrote a little opinion piece this week about a kid's lemonade stand she came across in a ritzy, liberal northern suburb of Chicago. The kiddie enterprise violated one of our most sacred American principles and Savage was incensed by the whole incident.
Savage stopped to buy some lemonade from the two little girls and when she asked how much, she was told that it was free! As the girls happily gave their parent's food away, their nanny stood beside them smiling approvingly.
Savage was unhappy with the girl's faux generosity. "That's not the spirit of giving. You can only really give when you give something you own." Savage wrote, "They're giving away their parents' things -- the lemonade, cups, candy. It's not theirs to give."
Then Savage warmed to her main point...
Read the rest at Publiusforum.com...
My favorite Curtis Sliwa action was when he urged his listeners to buy pirated copies of Fahrenheit 911.
What a ridiculous analogy. Perhaps the parents are trying to teach about giving. Taking care of yourself lessons may come later.
If that comment were merely posted to inflame responses, it worked. What's wrong here, IMO, is to refer to kids as "idiots". Also, to make a wholly unsupportable statement about the nanny's nationality (later admitted to as being unknown).
Do we really have to lower our discourse in such a way?. That's what's wrong about this.
Why assume the parents didn't give it to them to give it away? In any case it certainly isn't Terry Savage's.
MYOB.
Oh good grief! Much ado about nothing!
Yes, “much ado about nothing.” For all those that have no principle, EVERYTHING is “much ado about nothing.”
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