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Dateline, Portland, Oregon, which likes to consider itself a very

progressive place.

In a foreshadowing of just how heinous federal bureaucrats will

operate under Obamacare, officials from the Multnomah County Health

Department confirmed that they had indeed shut down 7 year old Julie

Murphy's makeshift lemonade stand last Thursday, at an art fair in

Northeast Portland.

They said that little Julie had violated a government regulation,

requiring a $120 temporary restaurant license to sell food to

the public.

Jessica Guernsey (funny that she would have a cow's name), the

Health Department Program Manager, had this to say when questioned:

"We are statutorially responsible for the public health, including

regulating food vendors. This was treated like any other vendor at

that particular event. The majority of people at this event do not

have a license."

So what! In the four decades that I have been involved in the health

business, I have never seen, or heard of anyone being harmed by a

lemonade stand. Or by someone's cookies.

The Cow went on to say that the fair can get "unruly," and isn't

equipped with proper facilities for food and drink sellers to

operate safely.

Here's more Cow wisdom: "It's a perfect storm of potential food

borne illness. You've got a lot of people, a lot of food being

produced, and there are not sufficient portable bathrooms, or food

sanitation stands."

What a crock of beeswax. This is all about revenue from licenses.

But bureaucrats like this will not be deterred and will continue to

cite regulations until Hell freezes over, under the guise of

"protecting" the public, just as Obama claims his healthcare will

"protect" the poor and the disenfranchised. (That's while Queen

Michelle needs 60 rooms in a five star hotel in Spain, at $2500 a

night, so she can unwind from all the hustle and bustle of life in

the celebrity lane. "Let them eat cake," indeed.)

Meanwhile, Barack is telling anyone stupid enough to listen that "He

knows it's tough out there," and "he and Michelle have had to make

some sacrifices." (Like what? They have another vacation lined up on

Martha's Vineyard, in a couple of weeks.) It's really hard work

"sympathizin' " with the downtrodden. And the Martha's Vineyard trip

will be the 8th vacation, this year. Do you know anybody who's had 8

vacations in, by the end of August? (I don't.)

Barack had Tim Geithner trotted out today, to tell us that because

of the new Obamacare law, Medicare will now be solvent until the

year 2027. Just how dumb do they think we are? The savings will be

achieved by screwing seniors out of care. AARP management apparently

hasn't figured this out yet, but I hope they take those yahoos' care

first. (I'm talking about the liberal suck-ups that run that

organization.)

The Portland bureaucrats are still talking about what a good thing

they did and how they weren't selective in their enforcement. A

friend of mine, with 35 years in the restaurant business, says he

never met a "clean" health inspector in the entire time he was in

business. "They always wanted something. Sometimes cash, sometimes

liquor, or food, or tickets to a big game. I got the same score on

my health inspections for 11 years in a row, when I suggested to

them they ought to change it up every now and then. While they were

"protecting the public," there were all kinds of real problems that

never got addressed. When one inspector got real greedy, we filmed

him and showed him the tape. We told him we were going to give it to

a TV station and we didn't see a health inspector for years."

I'm not saying every bureaucrat is a peckerhead, I just heed the

advice of an attorney I know very well, who rarely, if ever, lost a

case to the government, on any level. He said, "if those guys were

any good, they'd be in private practice."

Luckily, we can still purchase some of the things we need, without

interference from the nattering class. That would include my world

class formulas.

by: Dr.Bill

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