Who does she think she is to sell unlicensed lemonade?

Frank J. Fleming points out the hazards of just anybody selling lemonade ...

What is America coming to when a seven-year-old girl can flout the law and defy the government?

If life gives you lemons, make lemonade. At least that’s what anarchists say. And sociopathic capitalists.

In a civilized society, if you somehow legally obtain lemons, that in no way gives you a right to make lemonade. And it certainly doesn’t allow you to sell it.

I would think that’s obvious, but look at the brouhaha over a county health inspector in Oregon quite properly shutting down a seven-year-old girl’s lemonade stand. Everyone is like, “Look at the poor little girl! Why did the government make her cry? Why are those mindless bureaucrats so mean?”

Idiots.

I know you all grew up watching movies about the Wild West and think everybody can just strap a shootin’ iron to his hip and sell unlicensed lemonade willy-nilly, but this is reality. In a society facing threats like bird flu, obesity, and Glenn Beck, we can’t let people just run around doing whatever they want. This is a society of constitutional law, not ape law. And the only relevant part of the Constitution remaining clearly mentions something or other about commerce, which clearly means the government has unlimited power to regulate everything that has to do with selling goods. And for good reason.

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