Econ 101. If it costs more money, this is your first clue that it is not more "green". It costs more in energy, materials, handling, something, or it wouldn't cost more.
Under Pelosi’s watch the national debt skyrocketed.
Under Pelosi’s watch Congress adjourned without passing a budget for the first time since 1974.
Under Pelosi’s watch the democRAT party was handed its biggest losses in generations.
Under Pelosi’s watch the number of women in congress was reduced to numbers reminiscent of the 1970s.
By any reasonable or measurable standard, Nancy Pelosi, as a leader, was a colossal failure.
She was great at one thing though, creating jobs for Republican lawmakers.
It should be easy to find one program per day like this that is highly wasteful, and makes the public love the GOP. Go cut stuff!
There really is no substitute for metal used in eating utensils. Except for porcelain spoons, especially the Chinese kind, which are really cool.
Silverware is better than recyclable: It’s reusable!
And that, sir, is the crux of the matter.
Now, with a GOP House and divided government, there seems to be a return to normalcy, and it's beginning with the promise of knives and forks that work.
Love it!
Compostable, cornstarch-based forks? Do they crumble when you try to use them?
See my tagline (distressingly applicable to just about every current story out of Mordor-on-the-Potomac).
You have to wonder, do any “green” programs actually save money or resources?
The law of unintended consequences is apparently no longer taught to the lawyers who populate the government. It's been replaced by the hippie bleeding-heart axiom, "if it feels good, do it".
Exactly what "green" thing were they trying to promote with replacing metal utensils? What? Less detergent going down the drain and out into the ocean and alter the ph balance of the water and not kill a couple fish or cause some infinitesimal amount of warming or cooling in the water to cause all to die from global warming? What? And no, I'm not going to research this dumb a** insanity.
This is a perfect example of what is wrong with Fed, State, and Local government bodies: Too many bureaucrats with too much time on their hands trying to justify their jobs. I have come to the conclusion that once in power they get into competition with each other to see who can write and sponsor the most legislation AND suck up to their constituents for re-election. So much for doing your duty and then returning to a civilian job, as the Founding Fathers envisioned.
Two of my Constitutional Restoration suggestions have always been: Reduced Congressional sessions and reduced bureaucracies/departments/agencies.
Number ONE on the my list has been States' Rights lawsuits and/or nullification, as a way back to our Founding Principles. Few wanted to hear or talk about it until recently. Now, it's all the rage. Maybe I should get my own Glen Beck style TV show with a blackboard...but think I'll use a white board 'cause chalk is messy...LOL!
the GOP has succeeded in short order in one critically important venture: getting rid of the "compostable" cornstarch-based knives, forks and spoons that were a universally - and bipartisanly - hated feature of the House cafeteria operation.It turns out that the composting program not only cost the House an estimated $475,000 a year (according to the House inspector general)....
Here's a money saving idea. Upon election each House Member gets a Ka-Bar, Hobo Fork/Knife/Spoon Diner Set (With Ballistic Sheath). At $14 each x 435 members that's only $6,090 And as long as they are Reps they only get that one Knife Set. If they lose it, they have to pay the $14 for a replacement.
If each Rep serves 'only' four terms that saves $3,793,910.