Recyling Center turns into a hidious garbage dump..

Jan.21, 2009
Palmer; It’s well known that the Mad Zoo Burro knows better than you how you should live on your own property. About a decade ago, they started prosecuting “valley trash” who had too much junk and trash on their property. In spite of constitutional restrictions prohibiting making a law retroactive, they went after auto recyclers, sloppy homeowners, and contractors with a vengeful fury seldom seen outside liberal circles. Now it appears that the Orwellian result of these regulations only apply to property owners, not to the borough itself. These photos show that government sponsored junk collectors are exempt from their own regulations and only you poor suffering taxpayers are subject to the government’s follies. This photo was taken this morning at the corner of the Palmer-Wasilla Highway and 49th State St.

The borough has a history of disregarding it’s own laws. Several years ago, they planned to give themselves an exemption to the gravel mining restrictions they had sent on private companies. The purpose was to sell government gravel to Anchorage, and had the effect of denying private industry the same customer. Courageous action legal by Charlie Fannon, the former Wasilla Police Chief, made it very embarrassing for the borough to pursue this openly, so the assembly cut off gravel mining for big companies altogether. This is in keeping with their “Zero Growth” economic policies of actively denying drilling permits for both gas and oil, denying access to timber cutting, locking up ever more land, and denying property owners the best use of their own land.

Worse than this egregious failure to follow the law, you all have paid millions to collect this trash, pack it into these bundles and set it up for your viewing pleasure. The borough assured you all that this would be “recycled”. What this means in the real world is you will pay ten times as much to dispose of trash as you would otherwise. In the real world where gravity and economic forces actually exist and real businesses and people work, it is wasteful to “recycle” when it’s more expensive than making it new. A real business or a real person doesn’t throw money away like government does here.

There might be a bright side here, though. If the borough would simply give the paper bundles away, we could burn it to heat our houses as the economy starts it’s painful slide at the hands of government intervention in business. I estimate there is enough energy here to heat 150 homes for a month. Submitted by Penny Nixon