Posted on 09/11/2013 10:18:50 AM PDT by IL Republican
The City of Bloomington, which thinks it knows how to run taxi cabs and when you should mow your lawn, now knows better than you how big your trash can should be.
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/09/11/illinois-nanny-city-now-requiring-50-trash-cans/?test=latestnews#ixzz2ebbrWW8V
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I don’t know if you’ve ever been to Bloomington, Illinois. I have. I have family there and can say pretty definitively that the mafia is not a factor there.
Hmmm, so municiple trash collection always means the Mafia is involved?
You MUST live in a Blue state.....
Usually mob involvement in trash collection comes from their control of private companies getting contracts, and not from government agencies doing their own collecting.
I disagree. Private companies can do this just fine, if one chooses, and burning works quite well also for those not in democratic hell holes (e.g. urban areas). I live in a very rural area, on eleven acres, and have not had trash collection for years and get along just fine with a large masonary burn pit made from chiseled field stones that I made myself. I do not need nanny staters imposing their life choices and "necessary" government functions on me.
The purpose of Govt is not to provide make-work jobs for garbage men. A Garbage truck with just one driver and an automated arm to grab the trash can is a much cheaper solution to garbage pick-up than having a driver with several guys hanging off the back of the truck doing it by hand.
??? I got my roll-up trash bins for free. Why should I pay for them?
Public sanitation including trash collection is one legitimate area of government--not constituting a "nanny state."
Again, why?
I pay $42 a quarter (hasn't gone up in 11 years, what else can you say that about?) for once-weekly trash pick-up; they take whatever's in the bin and whatever else I can stack neatly next to it. Also get a roll-up recycling bin.
If I don't get the cans to the curb early enough, they will come back by if their route still has them in the area; they've done it more than once.
And the bin is more likely to be damaged in the process of emptying than by anything the homeowners is likely to do. In fact, ours was once, and all it took was a phone call and a new bin was delivered a day or two later. The old broken one was taken away.
I'd rather deal with the Mob.
Those receptacles may be more efficient and cost effective, but the savings are not realized in the form or lower taxes. In addition, whenever the government “buys something for you”, the consumer is less concerned about the actual cost. Which is why medicaid freeloaders use ambulances for taxis. It’s “free”.
What this article doesn’t mention is that Bloomington’s garbage crew labor force will eventually be reduced by over 60% by going with the automatic collection method. Many of these workers are in the $90,000+ annual wage/salary range. Quite a savings going from a three man crew to just one on each truck.
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