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    Who are the NERD fund donors Mr Snyder?

    Raise the curtain.

    Who Needs Anecdotal?


    By JGillman, Section News
    Posted on Fri Aug 10, 2012 at 11:41:08 AM EST
    Tags: Holland, FAIL, Michigan, Loss of Rights, Private Property, Zoning, Oppressive Government, Freedom, Liberty, Free Markets (all tags)

    Families destroyed, future prosperity hampered, and setting up a whole new set of government dependent souls.

    God help us from benevolent bureaucracies!

    "HOLLAND, Mich. -- Several weeks after a city zoning officer shut down his hot dog business, 13-year-old Nathan Duszynski and his parents are homeless.

    The family was hoping Nathan's hot dog cart could help them through a difficult time.  Nathan's mother, Lynette Johnson, suffers from epilepsy and his stepfather, Doug Johnson, has multiple sclerosis. Their illnesses have restricted them from finding permanent, full-time work.

    ...

    Nathan wanted to help out his family by selling hot dogs from a cart he bought with money he saved.

    ...

    The city of Holland, however, shut down the business 10 minutes after it opened, informing Nathan it was in the city's commercial district where food carts not connected to downtown brick-and-motor restaurants are prohibited. The Mackinac Center's coverage of the issue has drawn national attention."

    Unintended or otherwise, it is considered normal nowadays for government to hamper the opportunities of some, to favor others. A pretend scenario is certainly unnecessary for this family.

    Frilliant.

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    But but but... (5.00 / 1) (#1)
    by jgillmanjr on Fri Aug 10, 2012 at 12:17:51 PM EST
    THINK OF THE LOCAL BUSINESSES!!!@#@# THEY CAN'T HAVE THIS KIND OF COMPETITION2#!!!@!@

    cough

    So now what kind of money are we going to be spending on government assistance? We had a family actually trying to help themselves.

    If the Traverse City DDA did that type of thing, I'd probably bring a pack of pitbulls to Bryan Crough's house and have them take a nice steamy shit on his lawn.

    Well.... (none / 0) (#2)
    by Corinthian Scales on Fri Aug 10, 2012 at 01:35:10 PM EST

    And yet, there are still Soptic sh!tstains among us out there promoting another dose of Marxism.

    Feed the beast. (none / 0) (#3)
    by KG One on Fri Aug 10, 2012 at 03:57:38 PM EST
    Doc Thompson covered this story on this side of the state a few weeks ago before his speaking before CC.

    What's really grating is the fact that a 13-year old kid is taking the initiative to support his family, get the cart, get the supplies, get the necessary permits, and then gets shut down at the very last minute by some damned bureaucrat.

    He isn't groveling to Levin, begging at Stabenow or even pleading with Obama to pay all of his family's bills.

    Maybe that's what Mayor Dykstra and CC all want him to do?

    And Holland's mea culpa: "...success of the downtown district not be infringed upon by those who don't share in the costs of maintaining the attractiveness of that space."

    Sounds like legal/political double-speak to me.

    Are the other restaurants afraid that a 13-year old kid  is going to kick their sorry behinds and take away all of the business?

    I've seen similar operations like this at the corner home labyrinth. If the sporting good store is ran like they are here, if this kid doesn't keep his operation neat, clean & organized, the owner will bounce him faster than you can say "zoning violation".

    Personally, I don't see that happening in this circumstance.

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