Posted by Tina
“I’ll do whatever they want,” Moore said. “But I won’t jump through no more of those $491 hoops. Those are getting expensive.
Killing this man’s entrepreneurial spirit would be bad enough but the chance that it could also kill his human spirit in the process is even more appalling. That’s BIG government for you,,,cold, autocratic and unreasonable:
“Bureaucrat scuffs dream of homeless shoe shiner,” by .- C. W. Nevius – SF Gate
** He sleeps under a bridge, washes in a public bathroom and was panhandling for booze money 11 months ago, but now Larry Moore is the best-dressed shoeshine man in the city. When he gets up from his cardboard mattress, he puts on a coat and tie. It’s a reminder of how he has turned things around. *** In fact, until last week it looked like Moore was going to have saved enough money to rent a room and get off the street for the first time in six years. But then, in a breathtakingly clueless move, an official for the Department of Public Works told Moore that he has to fork over the money he saved for his first month’s rent to purchase a $491 sidewalk vendor permit. *** “I had $573 ready to go,” Moore said, who needs $600 for the rent. “This tore that up. But I’ve been homeless for six years. Another six weeks isn’t going to kill me.” *** The bureaucrat told Moore that she found out about his business after reading about his success in this paper. **