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| Official apologizes for lemonade stand shutdown |
| 2010-08-06 |
| Follow up from yesterday... No need to jack up the price of a glass of lemonade. Turns out kids won't have to shell out $120 for a health permit to run their lemonade stands after all. Multnomah County's top elected official apologized Thursday for health inspectors who forced a 7-year-old girl to shut down her stand last week because she didn't have a food-safety permit. |
| Posted by:tu3031 |
| #8 Chairman Jeff Cogen also said he has directed county health department workers to use "professional discretion" in doing their jobs. Ah, yes "discretion". Hayek had a whole chapter about "discretion" in bureaucratic, totalitarian states. How you get treated depends on who you know, what you can do in return, and who is looking at the time. Rule of law, people! If this law is wrong, show some guts and change it! Otherwise, charge the kid the $120. |
| Posted by: KBK 2010-08-06 22:39 |
| #7 A century ago my great-grandmother tried to run a mini-grocery store out of her farmhouse for benefit of the Indian village she lived in. The county authorities used the same sort of crap to drive her out of business. SSDC -- C referring to century. |
| Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 2010-08-06 21:20 |
| #6 Lets put people like this agency head on a list every year and pick 10 at random at years end for execution. I bet the frequency of these outrages would drop off to nearly nil... |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2010-08-06 21:15 |
| #5 Every organization has 2 basic types of people. The first type works to carry out the purpose of the organization. The other works to increase the size and power of the organization regardless of its purpose. |
| Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 2010-08-06 20:59 |
| #4 Actually, I've found professionals in a number of government offices over the past 20 years. They're not anywhere near a majority, however. The REALLY professional ones don't stay on the government payroll very long, though. They figure out what the government is doing wrong, and open a private business to compete - or to offer suggestions (at a very steep price) that the majority of government employees ignore. |
| Posted by: Old Patriot 2010-08-06 20:34 |
| #3 That's a little broad. There are plenty of professionals at NIH. I know them personally. |
| Posted by: Steve White 2010-08-06 18:53 |
| #2 Professional and government employee don't exactly go together. There is a reason they made up the saying, "Good enough for governemnt work." The only professionals I've ever seen in the government are from the military. |
| Posted by: miscellaneous 2010-08-06 15:58 |
| #1 It's not to protect the people - it's to protect the regular food businesses - from the competition. Tell the little girl the truth, Ms Commissar. |
| Posted by: Goober Goobelopolous 2010-08-06 15:48 |