Apparently I am behind the times on this trash business. When I was a kid, not too long ago really, you took the trash out to the curb the night before pickup, and the trash men took it. Seems easy enough. Apparently not, because now we have these city marked bins we are required to use. Not only are you required to use them, but anything that will not fit in these bins it disregarded, and left on your curb. Excuse me? Do I not pay for this service? Is it rocket science? Have the trash men become too good to swing off the back of the truck and pick up a box that wouldn't fit in the city provided trashcan?
It's possible the hanging trash man guy is no longer a part of the trash service, in which case, my city taxes should have gone down, right? The waste department should have fired about half their employees, replaced them with a mechanical arm, and now the service is cheaper. No, the government doesn't work that way. Why? Well, mainly because there is no accountability. With any other service I contract, if they don't do their job, a. I fire them, or b. I don't pay them. Not the government though. Nope. They are aloud to do a lousy job and not only get paid for it, but get raises year after year. What a great business model. I guarantee if you opened it up to the private sector to compete with the government waste management, every little piece of trash would be picked off my curb, and I wouldn't be so bitter about being forced to pay for a service that doesn't serve.
Same thing with the post office. The USPS lost 2.8 billion dollars last year. They are considering cutting a delivery day, yet the Postmaster General John Potter's salary went from $186,000 to $265,000 and he received a performance bonus of 135,000. With salary, bonuses, benefits and"other perks" that puts his salary at $850,000. FOR WHAT?! Name me one business from the private sector that gets a raise and a bonus when their business looses millions of dollars. AIG does not count, as they are no longer the private sector.
I feel if the city can't manage to pick up an extra box from my curb, how in the world are they qualified to run this county? And people want to give them health care? I can't imagine a scarier scenario. I can just see it now, "Oh, I'm sorry Sir, you filled out your form in a blue pen, we can't work on you until you find a black pen, which we are out of right now, so I guess you will have to sit there and die until they come in the mail. Except the mail on longer delivers on Thursdays, so....ummm....sorry we just closed for the day, come back tomorrow, before 3, we close early on Fridays."
It's possible the hanging trash man guy is no longer a part of the trash service, in which case, my city taxes should have gone down, right? The waste department should have fired about half their employees, replaced them with a mechanical arm, and now the service is cheaper. No, the government doesn't work that way. Why? Well, mainly because there is no accountability. With any other service I contract, if they don't do their job, a. I fire them, or b. I don't pay them. Not the government though. Nope. They are aloud to do a lousy job and not only get paid for it, but get raises year after year. What a great business model. I guarantee if you opened it up to the private sector to compete with the government waste management, every little piece of trash would be picked off my curb, and I wouldn't be so bitter about being forced to pay for a service that doesn't serve.
Same thing with the post office. The USPS lost 2.8 billion dollars last year. They are considering cutting a delivery day, yet the Postmaster General John Potter's salary went from $186,000 to $265,000 and he received a performance bonus of 135,000. With salary, bonuses, benefits and"other perks" that puts his salary at $850,000. FOR WHAT?! Name me one business from the private sector that gets a raise and a bonus when their business looses millions of dollars. AIG does not count, as they are no longer the private sector.
I feel if the city can't manage to pick up an extra box from my curb, how in the world are they qualified to run this county? And people want to give them health care? I can't imagine a scarier scenario. I can just see it now, "Oh, I'm sorry Sir, you filled out your form in a blue pen, we can't work on you until you find a black pen, which we are out of right now, so I guess you will have to sit there and die until they come in the mail. Except the mail on longer delivers on Thursdays, so....ummm....sorry we just closed for the day, come back tomorrow, before 3, we close early on Fridays."
