Saturday, November 10, 2007

Litter

In the western states, most roads have "Adopt a highway" signs
(showing the sponsors for road trash clean-ups) dedicated as memorials
to people who had died and are missed. In the east, the signs instead
recognize the organizations or individuals that donated the money or
manpower for cleanups. But all roads, if not sponsored, are littered
with unbelievable amounts of cigarettes, beer bottles and cans, and
other redneck items, especially in the eastern US. So these cleanup
programs are effective and necessary for cleaning up the symptoms of
the problem, but they don't touch the cause of the problem: lack of
education in societal values among the redneck families that pervade
our beautiful country. How do we tackle a problem like that?

2 comments:

Unknown said...

Hey Jeremy,
Thanks for your thoughts on the effectivness of Adopt-a-highway, but man, layoff the redneck associations. I know lots of nice, good, rednecks. You might hurt someone's feelings, and that wouldn't be PC at all. Trailer trash like yourself ought to know better. ;)

Sam K.

Sandy said...

Spend money on education instead of war.