When you don’t care about your country to control who you let in, why should anyone else care?
What do you think would happen to your house, loved ones, and contents, if you took your front door off?
True.
People are such slobs. It’s disgusting.
We live in rural NH and the amount of garbage we have found on our property that the original owners, and we think others, have dumped on this property is absolutely disgusting. And I know we’re not alone. We clean it up as we find it, but still, it is very frustrating.
Long ago we looked at a house in the country where the owners never went to the dump. They just put their bags of trach out on the property behind the house. There was a huge pile of trash bags left that that IF we bough the property, we’d either have to leave there or deal with and neither was an option for us. It was otherwise a decent piece of property but that was the reason we did NOT buy it.
How about you have some police hanging around and fine all these litterbugs for a while? A little deterrent goes a long way.
45% of GDP spent on Government, and still volunteers are the ones who must pick up trash around one of the Southwest’s most important sources of water?
“$800,000 / year”
This is the problem with lib bureaucrats: They can’t envision - let alone support - a system that doesn’t involve government reaction to a problem they help create.
You take that $800k, offer it up as bounty in $5k chunks for each offending boat, pass a civil forfeiture/impoundment local/state law and let the citizenry start turning in videos of boaters littering.
In a matter of weeks, the problem will resolve itself AND no longer be a burden to taxpayers.
But it will never happen.
Look like the Rio Grande river after the latest wave of illegals crossed.... any illegals crossing the lake?
The boaters around middle Tennessee are terrible about allowing trash in the lakes. Several years ago, my family and I became so disgusted with the amount of trash on the banks that we spontaneously started picking it up. We cleaned an area probably less than a quarter acre in size and got 8 full trash bags.
We were always taught that if you pack it in, you pack it out. But I’m old and grew up when people believed in right and wrong.
2 miles from my house there is a very popular mountain that garners thousands of people every year to either play in the snow or the California Poppies when in bloom. These assholes leave 3 Garbage Trucks full of trash every damned weekend when they show up. I will let you guess on the racial makeup of these filthy scum.
Back in the day, many if not most kids learned to take care of the environment through Scouting—i.e. Don’t litter natural areas. If you have trash, pack it out when you go.
Never forget that the LGBTs killed scouting.
“Anything that is over 50 years old we cannot throw away. So, a Coors can someone threw the side of their boat in the ’70s, unfortunately, we are not able to remove and we see a lot of that.”
Blalock said the reason is because those items are considered historical
Not to mention all the human bones that have been found as the lake retreats...
From The Guardian:
“Sixth set of human remains found in vanishing Lake Mead”
Just look at the acres of trash left after the Dakota Access Pipeline left in North Dakota!!
The worst was the Washington Mall after Earth Day.
A lot of people are slobs wherever they go, so why not at Lake Meade too? My town has a nice beach on Lake Michigan. It gets trashed too, and people who aren’t slobs wind up picking it up. There are trash recepticles at the beach, but somehow the slobs don’t make the connection. The same is true in town. There are trash recepticles all along the main drag, but I often see trash on the ground next to the recepticles.
Let us kick some ass! How about searching every vehicle that enters Lake Mead Park? Charge the visitor for every can, bag, bottle, box, anything that could be discarded. Assume all will be left behind. Charge enough money to pay someone to clean it up. This would take an initiative on our next voting ballot. Since the park is federal, I am not sure if that works?
Nice to meet a fellow Nevadan on freerepublic!
Our country is a filthy mess under Democrats, pretty simple.
I believe it. The worst litter I have seen anywhere in the U.S. was in the San Francisco Bay Area. It was awful. You had to wade through litter in parking lots of grocery stores, shops and restaurants. And this was in decent neighborhoods.
Grocery stores and drug stores didn’t have plastic bags and charged shoppers for paper bags, but somehow, plastic bags were strewn all over the landscape as well.
“Anything that is over 50 years old we cannot throw away. So, a Coors can someone threw the side of their boat in the ’70s, unfortunately, we are not able to remove and we see a lot of that.”
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Antiquities Act in action.
Sign of the times.
Never used to be that way.