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One Hundred Tons of Garbage Collected After Obama Inauguration
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Posted on 01/23/2009 8:01:01 AM PST by Sub-Driver
One Hundred Tons of Garbage Collected After Obama Inauguration One-hundred tons of trash were collected by city and federal sanitation workers after President Obama's Jan. 20 inauguration in Washington, D.C.
Cristina Corbin
FOXNews.com
Friday, January 23, 2009
The scene looked more like the leftovers of a massive college frat party.
Heaps of plastic bottles, food wrappers, soda cans, and newspapers, which blanketed the National Mall Wednesday morning, were a stark contrast to the stateliness and splendor of President Barack Obama's inaugural ceremony a day before.
One hundred tons of trash were collected by city and federal sanitation workers, according to Department of Public Works public information officer Linda Grant.
In comparison, 40 tons of garbage were collected in New York City's Time Square on New Year's Day 2009 -- after one million people attended the celebration -- according to the city's Department of Sanitation.
Grant said Washington's massive inaugural cleanup effort began at 6 p.m. Tuesday.
"By 5:30 a.m. Wednesday morning, we collected about 90 tons of the garbage," she said.
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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: District of Columbia
KEYWORDS: 0bama; bho2009; bhoinauguration; democrats; environment; filth; filthydemocrats; garbage; inauguration; obama; ocreepy; odirty; otrashy; trashydems
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crimes against the environment........where's that carbon tax?
To: Sub-Driver
There’s a pun in that title somewhere....
There will be lots of garbage left over after the 0’s term is up...
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posted on
01/23/2009 8:03:01 AM PST
by
G8 Diplomat
(The Middle East: We put the OIL in TURMOIL!)
Comment #3 Removed by Moderator
To: Sub-Driver
The Zero environmentalists, GIGO, garbage in, garbage out.
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posted on
01/23/2009 8:04:35 AM PST
by
Navy Patriot
(John McCain, the Manchurian Candidate, makes a Marxist President.)
To: Sub-Driver
In other news, murders and rapes were down by 2000% in the ghettos of America on the day of the inauguration.
To: Sub-Driver
Ahhh... the environmentally conscious leaving their trash all over.
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posted on
01/23/2009 8:04:40 AM PST
by
nuconvert
( Khomeini promised change too // Hail, Chairman O)
To: Sub-Driver
—that’s peanuts compared to the Sturgis , SD bike rally—except there it mostly goes into dumpsters—
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posted on
01/23/2009 8:04:40 AM PST
by
rellimpank
(--don't believe anything the MSM tells you about firearms or explosives--NRA Benefactor)
To: G8 Diplomat
There’s a better metaphor. I’m gonna have to save that one in my quotes/headlines file for later use.
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posted on
01/23/2009 8:04:40 AM PST
by
OKSooner
To: Sub-Driver
Change = Ghett-Obama. Lovely of his supporters to support the Green initiative by trashing out the National Mall.......
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posted on
01/23/2009 8:06:01 AM PST
by
o_zarkman44
(Since when is paying more, but getting less, considered Patriotic?)
To: G8 Diplomat
Just think how much more garbage they missed by not continuing up Pennsylvania Avenue.
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posted on
01/23/2009 8:06:01 AM PST
by
Steamburg
( Your wallet speaks the only language most politicians understand.)
To: Girlene
And half of it was Aretha’s hat.
There was more than 100 tons of garbage there during the inauguration.
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posted on
01/23/2009 8:07:04 AM PST
by
amishman
(0bama=the reincarnation of Jim Jones)
To: Sub-Driver
With are the homeless in that area, I am surprised there were any soda cans left. I would have picked those up. Have you seen the price for aluminum?
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posted on
01/23/2009 8:09:17 AM PST
by
DYngbld
(Aspire to inspire before you expire)
To: amishman
That works out to be about 1/4 pound of trash per person, I suppose it could have been worse.
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posted on
01/23/2009 8:12:53 AM PST
by
DYngbld
(Aspire to inspire before you expire)
To: amishman
That works out to be about 1/4 pound of trash per person, I suppose it could have been worse.
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posted on
01/23/2009 8:12:59 AM PST
by
DYngbld
(Aspire to inspire before you expire)
To: All
Ohhhhhh how that article title just BEGS for it.....
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posted on
01/23/2009 8:13:18 AM PST
by
awakened
(Remember -- There are no dead atheists.)
To: Sub-Driver
Doesn’t that come down to about 0.1 lbs per person if there were 2M people there? I guess that’s a little less than 2 oz of trash each.
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posted on
01/23/2009 8:14:32 AM PST
by
stuartcr
(If the end doesn't justify the means...why have different means?)
To: Sub-Driver
Too bad they let so much of the garbage escape.
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posted on
01/23/2009 8:17:16 AM PST
by
Eagle Eye
(Libs- If you don't have to play the rules then neither do we...THINK ABOUT IT!)
To: rellimpank
And after the equally large promise keepers rally on the mall,
it was CLEANER than before they arrived.
Yes, I’m saying our people ARE better people than theirs.
Irrefutable.
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posted on
01/23/2009 8:17:57 AM PST
by
MrB
(The 0bamanation: Marxism, Infanticide, Appeasement, Depression, Thuggery, and Censorship)
To: Steamburg
If my math is right, they could have picked up another 45-50 tons of garbage in the Capitol building...
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posted on
01/23/2009 8:18:02 AM PST
by
ZirconEncrustedTweezers
(I figure the odds be fifty-fifty I just might have somethin' to say)
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