Zander
Platinum Member
Government run amok. How dare this little girl start a business!!
This kind of thing gets me fighting mad! GRRR!!!!! I had a lemonade stand when I was 10 years old. I saved the money I *earned* to buy a new Baseball Glove. I think back on those days- it was so exciting to be taking action towards achieving a goal! and that wonderful feeling of accomplishment I felt after I'd collected enough (about $20) to buy the new glove ...it honestly motivated me for the rest of my life. It motivates me today!
We should all be disgusted by this.
*Of course, the lemons and sugar were generously "donated" by my mom...
The local health department read a newspaper story about an 11 year old girl's cupcake business and decided to take the bitch down!! How dare she run a cupcake business without a SEPARATE KITCHEN!!!
The government has pulled the plug on an 11-year-old Illinois bakers oven.
A day after a local newspaper ran a story about the young and ambitious Chloe Stirling, who operated a cupcake business out of her parents kitchen, the local health department came calling.
They called and said they were shutting us down, Heather Stirling, Chloes mother, told the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
Officials told Stirling Chloe could continue selling cupcakes on the condition that the family buy a bakery or build her a kitchen separate from the one we have.
Obviously, we cant do that, Heather Stirling told reporters. Weve already given her a little refrigerator to keep her things in, and her grandparents bought her a stand mixer.
The elder Stirling said that she was willing to get her daughter any necessary licenses or permits to operate a business, but could not meet the health departments other demands.
But a separate kitchen? Who can do that? asked an astonished Stirling.
Government shuts down 11-year-old's cupcake business | The Daily Caller
This kind of thing gets me fighting mad! GRRR!!!!! I had a lemonade stand when I was 10 years old. I saved the money I *earned* to buy a new Baseball Glove. I think back on those days- it was so exciting to be taking action towards achieving a goal! and that wonderful feeling of accomplishment I felt after I'd collected enough (about $20) to buy the new glove ...it honestly motivated me for the rest of my life. It motivates me today!
We should all be disgusted by this.
*Of course, the lemons and sugar were generously "donated" by my mom...