I pray for the day when the pendulum swings back against decades of rampant environmentalist madness.
You've got that right. The county used to spray every year but the enviro-wackos put an end to it. It is now impossible to go outside for even short periods of time without getting bug bites that will itch for at least a week. All the stuff that worked has been banned. Our 3 seasons patio enclosure is as close to the outdoors as you want to get from mid-spring to mid-fall.
For a very good article on the politics of DDT please read Life site article at http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2005/aug/050816a.html
Especially of interest to me was the section on DDT and population control.