Nine year old (PHOTO, VIDEO) sells popcorn, lemonade to save Detroit. He may be just nine years old, but Joshua Smith knows that the Motor City is facing a money crisis.

“Well, I just heard that we were broke,” he says at his parents’ house just west of Highland Park. “I wanted to do something.”

“I don’t want us to be a small city…. I want it to be big.”

That’s why Joshua has spent three hours every evening this week at an outdoor table on Leslie Street, selling homemade snacks and cold beverages to raise funds for Detroit’s financial future.

His prices can’t be beat. It’s $1.50 for fruit punch or lemonade, $1 for a bottle of water, and he has three different sizes of popcorn bags — two bucks for a large. Go here for more. Go here for video.