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<http://fellowshipofminds.files.wordpress.com/2011/09/lemonade_stand.jpg>Over
the weekend I was kicking around the idea of posting something on the recent
spate of out-of-control, tyrannical local governments going after America's
entrepreneurial youths and shutting down their lemonade stands and such.
In the course of researching it, I ran across a piece that covers it
perfectly.
It ran in American Thinker <http://www.americanthinker.com/> last week, and
was written by Anthony W. Hager<http://www.americanthinker.com/anthony_w_hager/>
:
The United States is a nation of cultural icons. Some places, symbols, and
activities shout "America" with the voice of three hundred million citizens:
the Statue of Liberty, Yankee Stadium, an Independence Day cookout. High on
the list of those iconic symbols is the front yard lemonade stand. It
represents the essence of budding entrepreneurialism and self-reliance.
Only the heartless can deny the joy of buying a lukewarm glass of "ice-cold"
lemonade from an enterprising youth. The lemonade stand, and similar
entrepreneurial adolescent pursuits, is the stuff of Americana, pure Norman
Rockwell. Not only are the young shopkeepers cute, but they're participating
in an activity as old as mankind. The lemonade stand proprietor has entered
the world of capitalism, where merchant and customer voluntarily exchange
items of value. Tragically, the child's lemonade stand, like capitalism,
finds itself increasingly in the State's regulatory crosshairs.
Governments are targeting neighborhood lemonade stands throughout the land
of the free. The reasons behind these "lemonade raids" are similar no matter
their location. Young businessmen and businesswomen, like their mature
counterparts, are running afoul of local codes and health ordinances,
lacking required permits and licenses, or tripping over bureaucratic red
tape. When even the childhood entrepreneur can't escape the overbearing and
burdensome tentacles of government's regulatory octopus, what chance has the
adult?
You can read the entire excellent piece
here<http://www.americanthinker.com/2011/09/lemonade_wars_the_state_battles_entrepreneurialism.html>
.
For many years now, I have had the sense that we were slowly losing the
America we were all born into and brought up in. In recent years, it seems
that process has only accelerated. Now it seems things are deteriorating
exponentially.
What I find so maddeningly frustrating is just how many of my fellow
citizens are apparently oblivious to what is happening to their very own
country. It has gotten to the point where I literally dread the 4th of July
rolling around. The very sight of the American Idol-watching, People
Magazine-reading dumbMasses coming out, waving their little American flags,
and slapping each other on the back while talking about how *free* we are
makes me want to puke.
I find myself having to resist the urge to drive down Main Street just ahead
of the parade and scream, *"WAKE UP, YOU FOOLS!"* out the window. I also
want to do the same thing at fireworks shows - in the places that haven't
yet outlawed them.
If the people of this country do not soon pull their heads out of their
bums, start paying attention and resist what over-reaching governments are
now doing all over America, we are going to all wake up one morning in a
country we are not going to recognize.
By then it will be too late.
*-Dave *
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