Letters 8/18/10

Wednesday, August 18, 2010

By JH Weekly User

Trash talk
There is a rumor going around that the powers that be are discussing ways to reduce the amount of trash being disposed throughout Teton County. One of the proposals is to charge per the amount of trash each family disposes of each week. Bags of different colors denoting cost of disposing. Let’s get real!
If the community is limited as per amounts of trash it's allowed to get rid of the backlash will fall on any dumpster that is paid for by home owner's associations and by businesses.

The way to handle this situation is through the younger generation. For instance...If our schools would conduct field day trips to the Sublette County landfill and let the students observe the process that occurs in order to eliminate our daily garbage, the lesson (I believe will leave a lasting impression) and they will think before not recycling.

Maybe students should be aware how other countries handle their trash and how methane that is a by-product can be used as a source of energy. Education is the best tool in order to address this problem and should be attempted before creating some huge bureaucracy.

In fact, it wouldn’t be a bad idea for the members of the Town Council and the County Commission to take their own field trip to the land fill to understand the scope of the problem so they won't continue to come up with ideas that really stink.
– Butch Krichmar, Jackson
bkrichmar@msn.com

A President’s promise
There are those whom may scoff at President Obama's recent oration regarding his defense and support of the planned erection of a mosque in the vicinity of "ground zero" in lower Manhattan.

Opinion of this issue has a pendulum effect between the facts that the first amendment in the Bill Of Rights legally permits such an act to take place, yet as the pendulum swings, it is of reputable knowledge that mosques have often been known to be covert headquarters for the planning and execution of illicit acts of terror.

I personally am of the mind that despite the presumed innocence of intent in this such said mosque construction it is in poor taste of those that have chosen such a location of sensitivity. Similarly, although it has been 69 years since, it may yet be an insensitive insult to some were a pagoda to be erected on the shore adjacent to the U.S.S. Arizona Memorial in Pearl Harbor.

On a cold January day in 2009, Barack Obama was sworn into the office of Presidency promising to defend and protect the Constitution of the United States. Being that the aforesaid first amendment is a part of this said Constitution, in supporting this mosque, the President is simply fulfilling that oath.
– Patrik Troiani, Jackson
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