Unintended consequences - Is This Any Way to Help the Homeless?
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The people they cook for love it too. But there’s a problem. It was “criminal activity.” The Fairfax County health department points out that — horrors — Mary and Ruth are actually preparing food and serving it to people! Without a license!
Hey, maybe soon they’ll make it so we have to have a license to breathe. You know, you can’t get all those minerals without having a license for it.
“Some of them take their jobs just a little too seriously,” said James. “They got nothing better to do than sit around and write legislation.”
Well, duh. What do you think we pay them for? They are put into office to write legislation. How about if we put a few of them out of office? How does one go about reducing the number of legislators?
Rev. Fender added, “They’ve set up a situation that you have to have a $40,000 kitchen to feed someone who’s going to get their food from questionable sources at best.”
Hmm, now what industry with lots of cash to bribe lobby legislators would have an interest in keeping people from serving food? Follow the money folks.
The rules are well-intended. They’re meant to make sure the public is safe. But rule-makers tend to forget that their rules have unintended consequences. And, as James pointed out, eating out of dumpsters is more dangerous than eating at a church without a three-compartment sink.