Trash Talk Chicago

Mayor Daley, the dumbest lump of protoplasm ever to run a large U.S. city, finally agreed to trash the much criticized Blue Bag recycling program. Many of us knew years ago that the program was a joke. Finally, even the Joker Daley realized it - after more than 10 years of this nonsense. The Sun-Times writes today: The program has been a collossal [sic] flop. Only 13 percent of city residents bother to participate and an even lower percentage of their recyclables are actually diverted from the city's 1.2 million tons of trash a year. So what did the sycophants do? The Chicago Recycling Coalition applauded Mayor Daley for facing reality. The group opposed blue bag recycling from the start and called the city's about-face "vindication" for its persistent opposition. What a joke. They applauded him? They should have mocked Daley for not seeing the light years ago. And when will the failed Blue Bag program end? By the end of 2011, every one of the 600,000 Chicago households that get city garbage pick-ups will make the shift to suburban-style curbside recycling from blue carts, instead of bags. So Daley gets applause for admitting defeat, but allowing it to go on for another two and a half years. That's garbage.