Awwes

Good lord, you see evil in the deeds of Democrats everywhere, don't you?
You are perfectly free to insist on paying the earlier, higher garbage fee.
At a time when the cost of utilities, fuel and food are going up, I think it's nice that one service went in the opposite direction, if only by a bit.
Somehow I think your remark would have been a bit different if Mr. Henry were a member of the Republican Party. Just a wild guess, of course.

I see Littlejohns sarcasm detector is on the blink again.

From an article by Marxist journalist Andrew Cockburn entitled "The Dialectics of Revolution... Uh, Recycling:"

In 1989 I did some interviews on environmentalism and socialism for Z Magazine with left economist James O'Connor. Jim described what he'd told a fellow in the newspaper recycling business: "If you set up a recycling project where your outfit helps to create the conditions to organize social relations of production that make sense, that have to do with fraternity, equality, liberty and justice, etc., etc., then I'll recycle my newspapers. Come and tell me when you have done that."

A.C.: What do you do with your old newspapers?

J.O.: Throw them in the trash. What do you do with yours?

A.C.: Throw them in the trash. Back in Ireland with my mother we leave them out for the man from St. Vincent de Paul who takes them away for some charitable purpose, thereby maintaining social relations in the sorry state they are today, imploring the poor to pray for relief from heaven. And, needless to say, the poor people of my hometown are very glad to have St. Vincent de Paul bail them out in their hour of need.

Leo - A better question than that from "small place to....." would be, "Why not apply the million dollar savings to the repayment of the bond issue "we" had to float to buy the Recycling Bins? Instead of $1.10 per month on our water bill? Wouldn't that be more logical? - but, then, we are dealing with Democrats at this time.