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Title: Conservative sickness: Terry Savage attacks little girls for giving away 'free' lemonade
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URL Source: http://crooksandliars.com/john-amat ... ive-sickness-terry-savage-atta
Published: Jul 8, 2010
Author: John Amato
Post Date: 2010-07-08 15:10:15 by go65
Keywords: None
Views: 2980
Comments: 3
The Tea Party/conservatives really are losing their minds.
Here's Terry Savage:
Last week, I was in a car with my brother and his fiancee, driving through their upscale neighborhood on a hot summer day. At the corner, we all noticed three little girls sitting at a homemade lemonade stand.We follow the same rules in our family, and one of them is: Always stop to buy lemonade from kids who are entrepreneurial enough to open up a little business. My brother immediately pulled over to the side of the road and asked about the choices.
The three young girls -- under the watchful eye of a nanny, sitting on the grass with them -- explained that they had regular lemonade, raspberry lemonade, and small chocolate candy bars. Then my brother asked how much each item cost.
"Oh, no," they replied in unison, "they're all free!"
I sat in the back seat in shock. Free? My brother questioned them again: "But you have to charge something? What should I pay for a lemonade? I'm really thirsty!"
His fiancee smiled and commented, "Isn't that cute. They have the spirit of giving." That really set me off, as my regular readers can imagine.
"No!" I exclaimed from the back seat. "That's not the spirit of giving. You can only really give when you give something you own. They're giving away their parents' things -- the lemonade, cups, candy. It's not theirs to give."
I pushed the button to roll down the window and stuck my head out to set them straight.
"You must charge something for the lemonade," I explained. "That's the whole point of a lemonade stand. You figure out your costs -- how much the lemonade costs, and the cups -- and then you charge a little more than what it costs you, so you can make money. Then you can buy more stuff, and make more lemonade, and sell it and make more money."
I was confident I had explained it clearly. Until my brother, breaking the tension, ordered a raspberry lemonade. As they handed it to him, he again asked: "So how much is it?"
And the girls once again replied: "It's free!" And the nanny looked on contentedly.
No wonder America is getting it all wrong when it comes to government, and taxes, and policy. We all act as if the "lemonade" or benefits we're "giving away" is free.
And so the voters demand more -- more subsidies for mortgages, more bailouts, more loan modification and longer periods of unemployment benefits...read on
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I sat in the back seat in shock. Free?
Terry should have pulled out her gun and shot the little commies.
"The ocean will take care of this on its own if it was left alone and left out there. It's natural. It's as natural as the ocean water is." - Rush Limbaugh
#2. To: go65 (#0) (Edited)
They're giving away their parents' things -- the lemonade, cups, candy. It's not theirs to give."
Nonsense. I doubt they took it without their parents permission.
The author should have jumped out of the car, grabbed the pitchers of lemonade, all of the cups, and the bowl of candy, and then complained that he needed more because he was a minority, homo, illegal alien guest worker. Then screamed "VIVA LA RAZA!", in their faces.
The kids might have learned something from that.
#3. To: Skip Intro (#1)
Terry should have pulled out her gun and shot the little commies.
Why are you such a fookin dunce?
Sneakypete, have you ever been married? Said things you later regretted?
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