I recall a semi-controversy a couple years back when former CM Cherryhomes was seeking some funds to help to clean-up West Broadway. Naysayers from the cleaner, gentler wards were miffed. The argument being that people in their wards don't throw garbage all over, and why should another ward get money to fix what is essentially a behavioral problem... It's hard to convince people who don't litter to part with tax dollars to pay the slobs that do. Besides, there are already tax dollars at work paying Sentenced-to-Serve crews to do that for them. I don't understand it. In MY day (and it wasn't yesterday) my mother would have slapped me into next week if I tossed a piece of gum out the car window. Yet nearly every morning I have to pick up beer bottles, superamerica bags, candy wrappers, chip bags from the boulevard and my front yard. I'm up until 10 p.m. and it's not there then. It shows up overnight like some bad mushrooms. Doesn't anyone on the north side sleep anymore? Know how to cook? Eat a green vegetable? It's one greasy, take-out, styrofoam container after another. No wonder the young people in this country are cursed with obesity. I'm all for encouraging kids to pick up the trash -if not simply for the exercise, but paying them to do it is another story. Someone ought to hit-up Subway for $25,000 worth of lo-cal sandwiches instead; sans wrappers of course. JHarmon Cleveland
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