State Closes 7 Year Old's Lemonade Stand. HO! Amused!

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State Closes 7 Year Old's Lemonade Stand

Nanny State-ism at its best. See the cute little girl running the lemonade stand. Where normal look at her and say "Awwww" Oregon's health inspector shut her down because she didn't have a license.


Yup. The health inspector made her cry.


Oregon Live has this absurd but true story:

It's hardly unusual to hear small-business owners gripe about licensing requirements or complain that heavy-handed regulations are driving them into the red.

So when Multnomah County shut down an enterprise last week for operating without a license, you might just sigh and say, there they go again.

Except this entrepreneur was a 7-year-old named Julie Murphy. Her business was a lemonade stand at the Last Thursday monthly art fair in Northeast Portland. The government regulation she violated? Failing to get a $120 temporary restaurant license.

Turns out that kids' lemonade stands -- those constants of summertime -- are supposed to get a permit in Oregon, particularly at big events that happen to be patrolled regularly by county health inspectors.

"I understand the reason behind what they're doing and it's a neighborhood event, and they're trying to generate revenue," said Jon Kawaguchi, environmental health supervisor for the Multnomah County Health Department. "But we still need to put the public's health first."
What is wrong with these people. Seriously?

The money quote from the news report is this one:


"Technically, any lemonade stand -- even one on your front lawn -- must be licensed under state law, said Eric Pippert, the food-borne illness prevention program manager for the state's public health division."

How does one even say something like that with a straight face.

And just remember that this had nothing to do with actual health. This was about paying a fee to get a license. That's all it was about. Money.

Big Government. Making girls cry is worth $150 at a time.
 
This is the sort of shit I do not miss about living in OR. It's unbelievably maternal.
 
Maybe CRACKER as well,

after all

Her stand didnt have wheelchair access for the GIMPS:D
 
From Oregon Live


It’s hardly unusual to hear small-business owners gripe about licensing requirements or complain that heavy-handed regulations are driving them into the red.

So when Multnomah County shut down an enterprise last week for operating without a license, you might just sigh and say, there they go again.

Except this entrepreneur was a 7-year-old named Julie Murphy. Her business was a lemonade stand at the Last Thursday monthly art fair in Northeast Portland. The government regulation she violated? Failing to get a $120 temporary restaurant license.

Turns out that kids’ lemonade stands — those constants of summertime — are supposed to get a permit in Oregon, particularly at big events that happen to be patrolled regularly by county health inspectors.

Julie had become enamored of the idea of having a stand after watching an episode of cartoon pig Olivia running one, said her mother, Maria Fife. The two live in Oregon City, but Fife knew her daughter would get few customers if she set up her stand at home.

The girl worked on a sign, coloring in the letters and decorating it with a drawing of a person saying “Yummy.” She made a list of supplies.

Then, with gallons of bottled water and packets of Kool-Aid, they drove up last Thursday with a friend and her daughter. They loaded a wheelbarrow that Julie steered to the corner of Northeast 26th and Alberta and settled into a space between a painter and a couple who sold handmade bags and kids’ clothing.

Julie was careful about making the lemonade, cleaning her hands with hand sanitizer, using a scoop for the bagged ice and keeping everything covered when it wasn’t in use, Fife said.

After 20 minutes, a “lady with a clipboard” came over and asked for their license. When Fife explained they didn’t have one, the woman told them they would need to leave or possibly face a $500 fine.

Surprised, Fife started to pack up. The people staffing the booths next to them encouraged the two to stay, telling them the inspectors had no right to kick them out of the neighborhood gathering. They also suggested that they give away the lemonade and accept donations instead and one of them made an announcement to the crowd to support the lemonade stand.

That’s when business really picked up — and two inspectors came back, Fife said. Julie started crying, while her mother packed up and others confronted the inspectors. “It was a very big scene,” Fife said.

Technically, any lemonade stand — even one on your front lawn — must be licensed under state law, said Eric Pippert, the food-borne illness prevention program manager for the state’s public health division. But county inspectors are unlikely to go after kids selling lemonade on their front lawn unless, he conceded, their front lawn happens to be on Alberta Street during Last Thursday.

“When you go to a public event and set up shop, you’re suddenly engaging in commerce,” he said. “The fact that you’re small-scale I don’t think is relevant.”

Kawaguchi, who oversees the two county inspectors involved, said they must be fair and consistent in their monitoring, no matter the age of the person. “Our role is to protect the public,” he said.

While Fife said she does see the need for some food safety regulation, she thinks the county went too far in trying to control events as unstructured as Last Thursday.

“As far as Last Thursday is concerned, people know when they are coming there that it’s more or less a free-for-all,” she said. “It’s gotten to the point where they need to be in all of our decisions. They don’t trust us to make good choices on our own.”
 
we assume when we give police and sheriffs and DAs and such that they will use their discretion intelligently.

that is dumb discretion.
 
Crax dances in the streets:D


At least the Beverage Trust diden't get there first and force her into wage slavery.

Oh, and I can write clever poams to.


Here I sit with deep-set pains,

Beside the three peice suits and chains,

If he does bad, I take the lose,

they make me bow before that cross,

I have no rights, I have no hope,

you tell me with their puppet dope,

but answer this, my right-winged freind,

when you are the one with the short end,

and you too sit outside the walls,

of the oligarchy's golden halls,

and next to me you sit and toil,

and when you're used and left to soil,

cast onto the winds of fate,

a seathing culdron of fear and hate,

where oh where is freedom then?

Just outside your little pen.
 
we assume when we give police and sheriffs and DAs and such that they will use their discretion intelligently.

that is dumb discretion.


"we assume"...

...speak for yourself, counselor - some of us aren't quite so naive.
 
No sooner was the Constitution ratified, than the oligarchs began acting tyrannically toward the American people. British agent, President George Washington (who presided over the signing of the Constitution and who was a member of the Ohio Company of Virginia, the Mississippi Company, and the Potomac Company) sent thirteen thousand armed troops to violently stamp out the so-called Whiskey Rebellion of 1794. This rebellion was against heavy taxation.
- Michael Tsarion
 
Bureauweenies Shamed Into Apologizing for Crushing Lemonade Stand


Our liberal rulers' policy of keeping a "boot on the neck" of capitalism is applied anywhere Americans still have the spirit to behave like Americans by making an honest buck — even at lemonade stands:

Oregon county officials have apologized after health inspectors told a 7-year-old girl that she can't run a lemonade stand without a $120 temporary restaurant license.


Jeff Cogen, chairman of the Multnomah County Board of Commissions, told FoxNews.com that he apologized to the mother, Maria Fife, and is now turning his attention to changing the rules.


"Our health department what they were trying to do, I understand...I just feel like we have to be able to distinguish between a 7 year old, who is selling lemonade and trying to learn about business and someone who actually has a business," Cogen said.


Julie Murphy of Oregon City opened a lemonade stand at Last Thursday, a monthly art fair in Northeast Portland, The Oregonian reported. But when Julie couldn't provide a license when asked, they were told to either leave or face a $500 fine.

At the time, the local bureaunazis were far from apologetic, as they pounded their sunken chests and waxed self-righteous on their noble duty to protect the public from under-regulated lemonade. But then Drudge picked up the story, and the publicity forced them to back down.

Switch on the light and the cockroaches scatter. Turn off the light and back they crawl
 
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