(Open letter to Stephen Gallagher, financial director, Ocean Township)
Iknow I haven’t been able to come to the municipal meetings lately, mostly because I’ve been advocating for Universal Single-Payer Health Care (speaking at the invitation of Yale Medical School students who know it will save hundreds of billions of dollars for all Americans — $3.3 billion for New Jersey alone) and also vehemently opposing the now $3 trillion war(s) in (pick a location, we’ve got at least four wars going on), but now I understand that I’m supposed to put my trash in big, fat cumbersome cans?
What happened?
There is no way we can put these two big, fat cumbersome cans on our property.
We had a set plan. Nice moveable (without back or groin injury) cans on the side of our home. These big, fat cumbersome cans don’t fit there.
Not to mention these big, fat cumbersome cans were delivered just in time for the inevitable brutal winter (like last year), and we’ll have to not only dig ourselves out, but also dig a large path for these cans (i.e., more back and groin injury possibilities).
That is totally unfair.
What am I supposed to do with them? Put them in the front of my home? Haven’t property values already dropped ad nauseam?
Here are my questions since I missed the meetings:
1. Who is the manufacturer of these cans? Because I’m going to check it out, you can bet on that.
2. Who specifically advocated this ridiculous trash pickup plan?
3. What happens when there are cars parked on small streets (like mine because there are always cars parked because the houses are filled with Monmouth University kids partying all day and night long) and the big, fat trash-collecting truck with the bionic arm can’t fit down the street? I mean, will the truck give up and leave the trash?
4. What do the disabled, elderly, infirm and indisposed residents do about getting these big, fat cumbersome cans to the street during the winter months?
5. Why do the cans say “Property of Ocean Twp”? Doesn’t that mean my trash is subject to being examined? Hasn’t government already invaded our lives enough already? Do you know that anyone can put trash in them and then I’m to blame? They aren’t my cans anymore.
At this point in time, I absolutely refuse to use these cans.
I can smell that someone is making money off this one. Big time.
Lynn Petrovich Oakhurst section of
Ocean Township