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I printed this article from the Cato site at http://www.cato.org/dailys/8-27-97.html and am sending it to school with my 5th grade grandaughter when school starts again after New Years.¹ Recycling is embedded into every course of study she has, except music, as far as I can tell.

1. Actually, we shouldn't celebrate New Years on Jan 1, because other faiths and ethnic groups don't recognize Jan 1 as the beginning of the new year, and may find our holiday offensive.

That is so right! The three "r's" are no longer reading, 'ritin and 'rithmatic. One is "recycling."

And otherwise bright kids are now adults had uncritically accept the efficacy and sanctity of recycling, i.e., all recycling=good, no recycling=all bad----without any consideration for external reality (prices of raw materials, cost of recycling, etc.)

In my preppy, yuppie burb, a multi-ton truck, staffed by two government (i.e., lifetime, non-productive) employees chugs through the hoods at 2 or 3 mph, stopping at every driveway to pick up a small container used for collecting milk cartons and soft drink cans. The cost of the gasoline for the truck alone negates any savings of the "recycling", wasting the fossil fuel so precious to the precious left, not to mention polluting the air as the truck's engine idles non-stop for 9 or 10 or more hours daily.

Like I said: recycling is a holy sacrament of the left (along with abortion and a few others we could think of.) And if a politician DARED to question the benefits of recycling (or the lack-thereof), he'd get the treatment from the envirowackos that Lott got from the poverty-pimps/race-quota/race-baiting crowd.

So, recylcing is a holy writ that not only will go unquestioned but certainly in coming years you better not ever even admit that there was a time you DIDN'T recycle! Abortion, homo marriages, recycling---things deemed unquestionable and unassailable by the elitist left.

1. Actually, we shouldn't celebrate New Years on Jan 1, because other faiths and ethnic groups don't recognize Jan 1 as the beginning of the new year, and may find our holiday offensive.

Damn! We're the calendar-imperialists, forcing our calendar on the rest of the world. And who SAYS the earth takes 365 days or so to circle the sun, huh? Some dead, white slave-owning racists? I think some mau-maus in New Guinea or somewhere believe a year is 100 days. And really, SHOULDN'T it be? Why not have a METRIC YEAR, in honor of the wonderful people of the third world who have had such great success in the societies they have built while using the metric system. Divide everything by ten. Hours in the days, days in the week, etc.