Posted on 04/27/2012 5:18:36 AM PDT by suspects
When Concord’s Town Meeting voted to ban the sale of bottled water Wednesday night, one of the ban’s supporters told her fellow Condordians, “We’re not gonna solve all the problems of the world, but this is our one chance to make a really huge statement to the world.”
And she’s right, they made a huge statement: “Hello, World! If you’re looking for the dumbest voters in the United States of America, you found us!”
The town of Concord — not state, county or even city — is waging war on the evil of convenient, easily-portable water by outlawing something many of its citizens now have in their refrigerators. In fact, I’d be willing to bet that many of the dopey do-gooders have bottles of Fiji and Aquafina in the cupholders of their Priuses right now.
But like the lady said, actually doing something worthwhile isn’t the point. “Making a really huge statement” is.
And so Concord voted 403-364 to make it illegal to sell bottled water. Uh, wait. That’s not right. You can still sell bottled water, it just has to be in larger bottles.
So it’s illegal to sell drinks in bottles smaller than 1 liter. No, that’s not it, either. You can still sell Mountain Dew or mango juice in small, plastic bottles. Just not water.
So the new law boils down to...
(Excerpt) Read more at bostonherald.com ...
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Actually doing something worthwhile is a sure-fire way to get targetted by the Obama regime.
Bottled water was causing 80% of the crime in Concord.
We will be in depression when America ceases to buy bottled water.
Purchasing that which is readily available and essentially free is indicative of societal madness
They got 767 people to show up at a meeting and vote on this measure?!?
Do any of these people have jobs?!
Water... who cares?
What I want to know is the result of their vote on a local income tax. This would be in ADDITION TO the property tax. Evidently, 2 1/2 % increase (before any overrides) per year is not enough to support the union pensions and health care plans.
Oh, and what about the cat leash law? Inquiring minds want to know!!
> Do any of these people have jobs?!
They are either retired or independently wealthy.
Potable water is a luxury not all countries enjoy. People buy water for a buck and complain about gas for $4.
Obama won 71% of the vote in Concord, MA in ‘08. Big surprise.
This wouldn’t bother me, as I only ever drink Diet Coke anyway.
Liberalism at its finest - foster a system where fools pay a buck for a product that should go 10 for a penny and then bitch about the damage it does to the Earth. Then try to “fix” it with regulations that either do nothing beneficial, or causes more harm. The sad thing is that they get a way with the lunacy time and again and the great herds of sheep that now populate the fruited plains never look up from the grazing at the government’s (taxpayers) teat.
It’s worse than you can imagine. I’ve worked with advocacy groups who represent the water industry, and they continually point to the bottled water industry as justification for raising water rates to astronomically high levels. Their argument is that if people are willing to regularly pay $1.00 or more for 16 oz. of water, water companies should consider charging considerably more for their commodity.
Five’ll get you eight that Roche Brothers in Acton was behind this. Like their damn parking lot wasn’t already crowded enough.
Notice it was only 400 out of about 18,000 residents who voted for this. When the moonbats tried to close the town dump old farts in their battalions turned out to vote them down. So the Concord Town Dump continues in operation a couple hundred yards north of Walden Pond ;)
My grandson likes me to take him over to the Concord playground on weekends. (Lots of out of towners congregate there, it’s really nice, but mostly it has a critical mass of kids.) We often eat lunch at the New London Pizzeria opposite the train station, couple of blocks away. He usually likes to have a bottled water with his slice of cheese pizza. Now, it’ll have to be apple juice. Nice job saving the world, moonbats.
OK, how about this? Concord, MA Live Free Or Dry
Hey, that dihydrogen-monoxide stuff is really, really dangerous. They were just thinking of the chillun.
Only fitting it dies in its home state.
Town meetings are almost always in the evenings. All towns in New England have a town meeting form of government (that’s what makes them towns). Sort of the distinguishing feature of New England government. Cities, like Boston or Portland, ME, have mayors and city concils.
Town meetings tend to be dominated by special interests. It’s only when you infringe on something important to real people that you get much of a turn out. Like when they tried to merge the Acton and Maynard school districts, they got like 3000 people at the town meeting, or when they tried to close down the Concord Town Dump. The Concord Town dump is that scar on the southeast of the intersection of Route 2 (Concord Turnpike) and Walden Street, a musket shot away from Walden Pond. Google Map Walden Pond and zoom out.
It is the same way here in NH regarding town meetings.
What I see as a result of this is the stores in Concord lose revenue to retailers in surrounding towns. People will still buy bottled water. I always keep a case in the basement that I buy at Market Basket when it goes on sale for $2.99/case.
Was their a problem with people not recycling the bottles ?
I assume there is no deposit on water bottles in Ma like there is on soda, beer and other beverage botles and cans.
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