Thoughts Over Catnip

Hello My Dear Friends! Have you heard the story of 11-year old Chloe Stirling of Troy, Illinois? Little Chloe started a cupcake business in her parents home. She would donate the cupcakes to local charities and sell some to her neighbors to offset costs. She made a staggering $200 a month. The local newspaper was so impressed with the little girl's efforts that they wrote a lovely article about her and her cupcakes! The very next day the Government stepped in to shut her down. Yup. They told Chloe's family that if she wanted to continue she would have to get a license and bring her operations "up to code". Translation; in order to continue her giving ways her family would have to shell out some $40,000! A fine lesson, don't you think? That brings me to a growing controversy surrounding businessman Kevin O'Leary. He's best known as Mr. Wonderful on the TV show Shark Tank. Mr. O'Leary, commenting on a recent report that showed that the majority of wealth created in this country goes to the top 1% of earners, said that income disparity should motivate people to work harder. WHAT!!!! How dare he suggest that people should have to work harder to make more money! He should be stripped of all of his wealth and never be allowed to work again! Work harder! How offensive! How about the 3rd grade students in Salt Lake City who had their school lunches pulled out from under them after it was determined that their lunch accounts had negative balances? Yup. It seems that the school failed to notify parents that their kid's lunch accounts were running low. Lunch is $2 a day. After the kids were given their lunch, school officials went through the lunch room and, in front of everyone, took their food away and replaced it with an orange and a carton of milk. Can't let them go hungry after all. Some of the little food scofflaws had a negative balance of as much as $4! Outraged parents said that if they had been notified about the shortage they would have corrected it. School officials said "Oops, our bad". The kicker is, because of school lunch regulations, once the food had been served it couldn't be "re-served" so, after they took the lunches away, they threw them in the trash. That is fiscal responsibility at it's finest! The school district graciously said that parents wouldn't be charged for the orange and milk.
Po