A Coupla weeks ago these guys...
Teamed up with This Guy
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...To run a business. Though Papa is not much of a businessman, one half of the Lads, at least, appears to have some business chops. Taylor and the younger kid next door, Zach, decided to put together a lemonade stand. Quaint idea, no? To my utter shock, they made more than thirty U.S. dollars in about two hours. I advanced them the supplies, and they paid me back. With their initial profit, they rode their bicycles down to Food Land and bought more sugar and powdered lemonade mix and cups. And They Made Money! The American spirit may be ill, but it ain't dead just yet.
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And as Ron White says, then you take the Lemonade and you mix it with about this much Vodka....
Awww, now that is sweet. Here in Florida, we have kids on the corner selling crack. Now THAT's being an entrepreneur.
As Ron White says, if life hands you crack... you're probably not going to work that day!
Andy and Star, the Lads are growing up quite quickly enough, thank you. I ask the Department of Juvenile Justice all the time whether the twins are in the system. So far, so good (and Star, there's plenty of crack even in the Boro. 'Course, some of it's refrigerator repair guys).
I was even more impressed when your Lad rigged the books to show unrealized earnings through contracts to a shadow corporation, borrowed against the phantom profits, used that money to leverage a buyout of the neighbor kid, outsourced beverage production to China (where more savings were achieved by replacing "sugar" with fermented rat droppings), then delivered the finished product through a Mexican port to take advantage of NAFTA tax breaks by crossing the border in El Paso and distributed the product at a discounty by employing undocumented workers and paying them under the table.
Lad gets his by pumping up stock value and selling his options on the rising market value, funneling those gains to offshore accounts before the SEC discovers irregularities in the quarterly reports, necessitating multiple earnings restatements and landing the company in bankruptcy. The original partner is indicted, and Lad moves on to franchise a new "alternative health beverage" made of green tea, sold now at over 1,100 franchises world wide.
Not bad, kid. You're getting it.
And if you'll pay me $401, you can run from here to Walterboro and the Lemonade is included.
Damn, Chase, you oughta be rich by now. Scruples a problem?
I don't know, Ange...
They used to be a problem, then I started rubbing this salve on them, and they shrunk right back down.
CABQETTIAEA (Chuckling Audibly But Quietly, Even Though There Isn't Anybody Else Around. I think LOL is overused).
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