Waste

As musch as spending money we don't have put us in this situation, being wasteful also put us here. Just about everyone accuses our government of being wasteful, and as I said earlier, a government cannot be any better than the quality of its' citizens.

Very few of us don't waste electricity. Anyone here ever leave a light turned on in an empty room? A televison nobody's watching? We waste water. We waste gasoline. We waste food. Some of us our running out of places to put our garbage. If we don't want our government to be as wasteful as we are, then we have to stop being wasteful.

Now, I'm not really all that big of an environmentalist, but I do have some concerns about how running out of places to put our garbage might effect my grandchildren. People who recycle are good citizens. Some of us would like to recycle but we don't have that option. We live in apartments or small towns, places that don't have easy access to recycling bins. I do hope President Obama considers spending "green" money to change that. I also hope my government recycles.

Being too lazy to recycle will result in a lot of people being needed to do their community service at their local dump. Dead Beat Dads perhaps. Dealing with trash may not be a national problem right now, but do we really ever want it to be? Those of us who are over the age of 21 have fully developed human brains that should be able to reason out the consequences of our actions.


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