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Originally Posted by WSOX47
I too enjoyed reading this again. But now I wonder if there is sequel that goes something like this:
The Bar Keeper, and his wife start enjoying more and more vacations, celebrating the fact that they can charge $100 (now discounting the trade to $80) for $20 of beer, with overhead of another $25. However, their desire for the finer things soon outstrips their Cash Flow, and so they ask a Rich Uncle' Caretaker for advice. And that Caretaker says that everyone, even those without income but having some small nest egg for the future should unconditiionally and unquestioning "bail them out" by asking for $70 from those savings and serving no beer when that is collected. The Caretaker says that some stale popocrn from the bar could be somehow distrubuted to those that never saved for a popcorn maker. Another Caretaker asks that he take the arrows from the Cigar Storm Indian figure in the Bar to gove to some friends that are Martini drinkers.
I'm not sure where the story goes after this as everyone's avlue goes down, except for those that start colelctingthe Bar's Beer Mugs that are now unused somewhat dirty and pershpas some are chipped.
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The only problem with the sequel is that if you have no income you shouldn't have been drinking beer in the first place.
There is no RIGHT in life to expect that the middle and higher income people in the bar should have to buy you beer.
The bar owner has the right to enjoy the rewards on the investment and hours that he has put into building his clientele.
It was the Government that made the bartender provide beer to the poor people, because they otherwise would not have been able to drink beer.
The bartender got into financial trouble Trying to support the lifestyle he had earned with his hard work.
The bartender asked the Government to pay for all the beer money that the bar owner was asked to give away.
Now the low and middle income consumers whine because they have had to pay for all the beer that they drank, knowing they couldn't afford to pay for it.
The bartender was going to loose his bar because nobody was paying for their beer after the rich guy left.
The Government spent some of the poor and middle class's tax money to bail out the mess they created, and now everybody is paying for the beer.
The next time, do not ask the Government, to to have the bartender make beer available to the poor people, which entices the middle people to say I'll have some of that subsidized beer, running up huge debt to the bartender, who asked to get payed before he is forced out of business.