Editorial L.A. Needs A Smarter Street-Cleaning Program Now [City "Doesn't Have To Be Trashy"]

LATimes ^ | December 07, 2013 | Editorial Board

[jttpwalsh]

Thanks for the reply. I agree, litter seems to be a cultural thing.

Not a bad idea on the street cleaners: still need equipment operators and trucks, though. A LOT of the trash is in the form of mattresses, couches, washing machines, etc.

[kearnyirish2]

In my town the restaurants and barber shops opened by immigrants seem completely unregulated; I believe the local government has decided anything is better than an empty storefront (their concern is property taxes, and they could care less about the income tax ramifications). A friend had “replacement Americans” move next door (in a non-owner occupied rental property), and the owner was fined because they would leave their garbage cans at the curb all the time (when they brought out bags of garbage, it went directly to those cans - at curbside seven days a week).

These foreigners aren’t here to assimilate into American culture (whatever that is at this point), and they aren’t here to contribute to the common pot; they are here to live their same lifestyles with someone else footing the bill.

[kearnyirish2]

That is the “double dipping” of people working in the black market economy while taxpayers provide plenty for them as well...