Winston-Salem Runs Out of Recycling Bins

City runs out of recycling bins - must be a smashing success. More than likely citizens have actually recycled the bin itself, using it for something more useful than collecting trash. According to the article, there is a waiting list of 2,000 people who are needlessly filling landfills as I write. How are these tax paying wannabee recyclers going to get their green fix if they can't pile all their crap into a plastic box and send it off with the trash? To start with they could actually do something that really saves resources. Yeah resources are measured in $$$, that's why the city doesn't want to give out any more recycle bins.

If recycling actually saved resources, and the City was able to cruise around picking up little green boxes of net resource savings I would think they could come up with 2,000 more boxes, because they would be selling the net savings to other producers. If recycling truly saved resources, there would be a problem with people coming in the night and emptying your recycling box so they could steal your resources. Unfortunately we have to pay someone to take our valuable net resource savings (they must be making out like bandits.)


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Working Not poor

I recently read an article siting a proposed tax cut for the "working poor" from the Obama campaign. First off, there is nothing wrong with cutting taxes for the rich, poor or big ugly corporations. However, who is the working poor? I guess this is focus group talk to differentiate from people who should be poor since no one wants these people getting any more handouts. I guess there are people out there that consider themselves in the working poor social class, seems like I'd rather be in the nonworking poor if I was going to be poor. If you're going to be poor why not just sit around. I'm OK with the tax cut for the working poor, but I think it should be presented with a tax hike for the nonworking poor. They could tax their medicaid and other social benefits, at least the value of these benefits would surface.