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Government Shuts Down Little Girl's Cupcake Business
This
is a story about a tiny bit of governmental intrusion in post-Reagan
America. By these little bits, government grows exponentially.
Troy, Illinois (population 9,888), a small town in a small county east of East Saint Louis, is the hometown of 11-year-old Chloe Stirling who pursued the American dream by opening an entrepreneurial cupcake business selling to neighbors and donating to local charities. Within two years she built her sales up to $200 per month less what she spent for ingredients.
Troy, Illinois (population 9,888), a small town in a small county east of East Saint Louis, is the hometown of 11-year-old Chloe Stirling who pursued the American dream by opening an entrepreneurial cupcake business selling to neighbors and donating to local charities. Within two years she built her sales up to $200 per month less what she spent for ingredients.
Chloe's
parents gave her a little refrigerator, and her grandparents bought her
a KitchenAid mixer. Her hard work and long hours attracted the
attention of the Belleville News-Democrat which published a 1/26/14 laudatory story about Chloe's Cupcakes.
Unintended Consequence -- Crackdown! That
glowing story about the 11-year-old girl entrepreneur was read by
business-hating government bureaucrats, and they immediately shut down
her cupcake business. Well-paid bureaucrats do not live in Troy; they
all live in bigger houses in bigger cities, but when they read that story, they instinctively knew that cupcake girl must be punished and her business destroyed.
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Americans Are Losing Their Freedom by Alan Caruba
February 1st
was National Freedom Day. It commemorates Lincoln’s signing of the House and
Senate resolution that later became the 13th Amendment. Lincoln
signed the Amendment outlawing slavery on February 1, 1865.
Short of
another Civil War, Americans have reached a point verging on the loss of
their Constitutional freedoms as ever before. The issue then was slavery, but
Americans are rapidly moving toward having their Bill of Rights annulled by a
President intent on ruling as a despot, making them slaves of a regime that
rules as he wishes, ignoring the Constitution and Congress.
His
actions have been supported by the Democratic members of Congress and because Republicans
only control the House they have seen their legislative efforts to oppose the
regime blocked, often by one man, Harry Reid, the Senate Majority Leader. The
nation’s media with few exceptions have supported or ignored the President’s
actions.
Why is this happening? A brief review
of the means put forth in Saul Alinski’s “Rules for Radicals”, written
by a “community organizer”, outlines what Obama is doing as he seeks to
turn America into a socialist state. It is a process that
progressives/liberals have been pursuing since early in the last
century.
1) Healthcare – Control healthcare and you control the people.
2) Poverty – Increase the poverty level as high as possible, poor people are easier to control and will not fight back if you are providing everything for them to live.
3) Debt – Increase the debt to an unsustainable level. That way you are able to increase taxes, and this will produce more poverty.
4) Gun Control – Remove the ability to defend themselves from the Government. That way you are able to create a police state.
5) Welfare – Take control of every aspect of their lives (Food, Housing, and Income).
6) Education – Take control of what people read and listen to – take control of what children learn in school.
7) Religion – Remove the belief in God from the Government and schools.
8) Class Warfare – Divide the people into the wealthy and the poor. This will cause more discontent and it will be easier to take (tax) the wealthy with the support of the poor.
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