This should have been the messiah's campaign symbol!
The title is a little mantra that we Conservatives like to throw around because well, it’s true! While I don’t have to explain this to our conservative readers, I thought an example might be helpful to the passing liberal. But then again, a liberal will likely drink the kool aid and state some sort of Marxist class warfare mantra rather than have an independent thought and face reality.
Anywho, here’s a story from the land of fruit, nuts, and Pelosi, that illustrates this nicely.
In fact, until last week it looked like Moore was going to have saved enough money to rent a room and get off the street for the first time in six years. But then, in a breathtakingly clueless move, an official for the Department of Public Works told Moore that he has to fork over the money he saved for his first month’s rent to purchase a $491 sidewalk vendor permit.
“I had $573 ready to go,” Moore said, who needs $600 for the rent. “This tore that up. But I’ve been homeless for six years. Another six weeks isn’t going to kill me.”
The bureaucrat told Moore that she found out about his business after reading about his success in this paper.
Alrighty then, this guy cleans himself up, starts a business, becomes successful by hard work and committment, and generates a customer base. Isn’t this what we would ask of people? To be self sufficient? To make something of themselves? NOT in the Liberal Zone, my friends! A Bureaurat discovered that there was potential success going on out on the streets and quickly moved to kill it!
Along Market Street, Moore’s supporters are indignant. Nothing happens when mentally ill men wander the street talking to themselves and drunkards pee in the alleys. Yet Moore creates a little business out of thin air, builds up a client base, and the city takes nearly every penny he’s earned.
Christine Falvey, spokeswoman for Public Works, said the department’s contact with Moore was meant to be “educational.”
“We certainly don’t want to hamper anyone’s ability to make a living,” Falvey said. “Our education efforts are actually meant to support that effort by making our streets an enjoyable place for people to visit.”
Vinny the Ice Pick: We wanted to “educate” this guy on the need to have our permission to work on our streets. “Educate,” yeah, that’s it!
“Nothing like kicking someone when they are down,” ranted attorney Loren Lopin, one of Moore’s clients who donated $100 to help him get housing. “I am pissed.”
Moore is nothing if not dutiful. He attempted to work his way through the byzantine city government channels, although he didn’t get much help.
“I guess my gripe is that when the city came by and told him to get his papers in order but couldn’t tell him how to do it,” said Travis See, who manages the Custom Shop Clothiers on the corner of Market and New Montgomery. “This lady couldn’t even tell him which building to go to so he could stand in line and waste all day.”
When Moore found the permit application, he got a money order and headed down to the appropriate department to pay. But because he didn’t have a valid ID card, they wouldn’t take his money.
What does this tell you? It tells you that no one knows where to get the freakin’ permit because no one applies for one. No one applies for one because the stinkin’ fee is so high, no one who would want to be a street vendor could afford it! This is what liberalism does. I robs initiative by imposing too many restrcitions, fees, hurdles, and so forth. I bet if this guy went back to the bottle, there’d be all kind of services for him. Services, that in many places, encourage the behavior they claim to help. This is simply the small scale version of what the messiah SPENDULUS MAXIMUS is doing on a national scale.
How ya likin’ that change?
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Well…it kinda was kinda was.
You are free to be whatever you want in this country, as long as you have the right permits!!!
Rotten son of a bitch I get tired of reading about these people that go out and work hard for a living, being honest and paying there taxes…what do they think this country is based on..Go out develop a disability..fail in business..make excuses for your lack of sucess because of your minority status..if you don’t have one by golly make on up..and spoon off the government. Man will these hard working people ever get it!
I used to tell this commie nurse I worked with the following…
“socialism doesn’t build us all up equally, it screws us DOWN equally.”
She never did have an answer for that.
Thanks for visiting Megaman. I’ll have to get over to your place. I haven’t been there in a while.