Tuesday, March 31, 2009

Recycle this

Chesterfield board hears 70 speakers on budget druthers

So, yeah, there's budget crunch in my county. Just like every other county in this state and the country probably. To save money, $400,000 a year, the county wants to reduce recycling pick ups from twice a month to once a month.

Go for it, I say. In fact, eliminate it all together. Why should the government pick up our recycling free of charge? They don't pick up our regular trash, we pay a private company to pick up our trash each week, and I think that's the way to go.

If you feel so strongly about recycling, why not pay someone to come and get it? Or, how about this, why don't you go drop it off at the transfer station yourself? Imagine that. A novel concept.

Here are some of the things being affected by the new budget:

  • 186 jobs eliminated
  • School budget shrinks by 2.5 %
  • No pay raises

Yeah, lets not cut the recycling budget. Heavens no.

6 comments:

cthaviland said...

I guess it depends on the situation, when we lived in RI they took everything, and I meand EVERYTHING!. But in CT we have to pay for everything, and I mean exactly EVERYTHING! Even the town dump permit doesn't talk everything!....who knew!

gagknee said...

budget cuts hurt. it just bugs me that people would consider recycling to be a higher priority than a kindergarten teachers job.

Big A said...

what kind of elitest are you? you think a kindergarten teacher's job is more important than the guy who picks up your recycling? Didn't you know that EVERYBODY deserves a job to be given to them by the government?

Big A said...

what kind of elitest are you? you think a kindergarten teacher's job is more important than the guy who picks up your recycling? Didn't you know that EVERYBODY deserves a job to be given to them by the government?

Big A said...

what kind of elitest are you? you think a kindergarten teacher's job is more important than the guy who picks up your recycling? Didn't you know that EVERYBODY deserves a job to be given to them by the government?

gagknee said...

i'm an idealist. i think the government should only be doing two things: protecting us from bad guys and cleaning up after accidents and building roads.