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https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/28/nyregion/plastic-bag-ban-.html
So I guess my post will sound more of a rant, but there's just no way to sugar coat it. I used to think democrats were ok, but more and more I am starting to see that this is not the case.
Please, someone tell me this. How are people supposed to live without plastic bags? I come from Soviet Union and I know what it's like to live without many of the conveniences people have in United States. (Let me give you a hint... *It's not very convenient*)
You know what we used to do in good ol' USSR? We used to carry our garbage in metal/plastic buckets outside and throw it out, all by ourselves. That's right! Down the elevator we would travel, from whatever floor we lived on, then a 10 minute walk outside to the garbage containers, and then empty those buckets, walk all the way back, and up the elevator back home. Any weather, rain or snow. Oh, and then we had to wash said buckets, otherwise they would stink like crazy. In America, we have something called "FREE plastic bags" which we use to line our garbage cans, which makes it easy and convenient to toss our garbage down the garbage compactor available in every apartment building. That's what civilized people do.
Now the dems would have us, PAY for paper bags, or live like good Soviet citizens.
And then, the groceries... Myself and my comarades back in the early 90's used to carry our groceries in these "net baggies". Literally, it's a bag, made out of a net. If it tore, you had to patch it up, or buy a new one. The dems would have me go back to that here in US. Nice!
Look. I get it. Environmental impact and all that. But then, go after those who litter. Catch these people. Fine them like crazy for littering! Arrest them if you have to. Even jail them for all I care. But it's not the bags that's the problem. It's the people who use them. I NEVER, even once in my life threw out a bag in the street, and certainly not in the ocean or at the beach.
It seems like the longer Governor Cuomo is in power, the worse life gets for New Yorkers. There's just no end in sight to this madness. Whats next? Are we going to have to give up plastic bottles because it's not "environmentally friendly"? And then what? Watch TV less because we are wasting power?
So I guess my post will sound more of a rant, but there's just no way to sugar coat it. I used to think democrats were ok, but more and more I am starting to see that this is not the case.
Please, someone tell me this. How are people supposed to live without plastic bags? I come from Soviet Union and I know what it's like to live without many of the conveniences people have in United States. (Let me give you a hint... *It's not very convenient*)
You know what we used to do in good ol' USSR? We used to carry our garbage in metal/plastic buckets outside and throw it out, all by ourselves. That's right! Down the elevator we would travel, from whatever floor we lived on, then a 10 minute walk outside to the garbage containers, and then empty those buckets, walk all the way back, and up the elevator back home. Any weather, rain or snow. Oh, and then we had to wash said buckets, otherwise they would stink like crazy. In America, we have something called "FREE plastic bags" which we use to line our garbage cans, which makes it easy and convenient to toss our garbage down the garbage compactor available in every apartment building. That's what civilized people do.
Now the dems would have us, PAY for paper bags, or live like good Soviet citizens.
And then, the groceries... Myself and my comarades back in the early 90's used to carry our groceries in these "net baggies". Literally, it's a bag, made out of a net. If it tore, you had to patch it up, or buy a new one. The dems would have me go back to that here in US. Nice!
Look. I get it. Environmental impact and all that. But then, go after those who litter. Catch these people. Fine them like crazy for littering! Arrest them if you have to. Even jail them for all I care. But it's not the bags that's the problem. It's the people who use them. I NEVER, even once in my life threw out a bag in the street, and certainly not in the ocean or at the beach.
It seems like the longer Governor Cuomo is in power, the worse life gets for New Yorkers. There's just no end in sight to this madness. Whats next? Are we going to have to give up plastic bottles because it's not "environmentally friendly"? And then what? Watch TV less because we are wasting power?





