Government Priorities

The city leaders of St. Petersburg, Florida have decided that recycling is a luxury that need not be pursued. Although they would like their town designated a "Green City", they'd rather not have to act environmentally conscious to achieve it. Apparently, it would cost approximately $3 a home to establish curbside recycling, but they deemed that too much of a burden on local citizens. They must have thought it was against our national freedoms to enact a mandatory fee for recycling. Maybe we should also go back to the medieval ways of throwing refuse out of the closest window to avoid the unfairness of having to pay for garbage pick up.

In other ridiculous news, the U.S. Government is cracking down on the sale of European Kinder Eggs in American stores. A hollow chocolate egg, a Kinder Surprise contains a small toy in a plastic cylinder that the government has designated dangerous for children under 3. So instead of just labelling the product as unsafe for toddlers (a warning which was already on the package), they've banned the sale completely. I think my right to enjoy chocolate is being infringed, but I guess it's probably for the best, since the plastic in their eggs would just end up in the landfills around here, anyway.