Bureaucrat scuffs dream of homeless shoe shiner

[jeffrey]

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...


Bureaucrat scuffs dream of homeless shoe shiner

[simpleyme]

when you run a business its always something

on the flip side I own a commercial building and have to kick people off my property all the time ,they think my busy corner lot is a great place to do business,yea so do i thats why i bought it,pay property taxes ,insurance and maintain it ,as well as all the other petty licencing and fees the city state throw at me as well.