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Clean it up

Posted 4/1/11

Is it me or is the number of people who live like pigs going up? I can understand poverty; I can sympathize with the poor and the disabled. But being poor or disabled is not license to be filthy. I …

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Clean it up

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Is it me or is the number of people who live like pigs going up? I can understand poverty; I can sympathize with the poor and the disabled. But being poor or disabled is not license to be filthy. I know plenty of very clean economically disadvantaged people. Yet it really disgusts me when I go out for drive and see garbage piled up in and around people’s houses, garages and barns. I’m not talking about junk collectors or salvage yards; I’m talking about long duration garbage piles, not someone cleaning out the attic or basements, but places with year round growing piles of crap. Wake up, people. This is stuff that needs to go to the dump. Can’t somebody who works for the town, show up and tell them to pick it up or we will? Maybe even condemn the property? I know it has got to be adversely affecting the neighboring properties value. Is there some way the local government could get the town employees to clean it up and then tag the dumping fees on the property owner’s taxes? This is also why I have always believed that garbage removal should be mandatory for all landowners, and if they cannot provide proof of it, bill them for it on their annual tax bill.