King Countys Publicly Employed Dumpster Divers

In a recent act of performance art, illustrating that city and county governments may truly be the
sewers of American politics, King County Washington is now sending its employees out digging
through residential garbage in the early morning hours when theyre least likely to be discovered.
Residents have found men outside their homes at 5:30 in the morning going through their
garbage with flashlights. The highly-paid King County public servants engaged in this dumpster
diving claim that its part of a government project to determine whether people dispose of their
waste as the County thinks they should. The story is here. Of course, that just begs the question:
Since when is it any of the governments business what we put in our garbage?
12/20/2016 Lawrence B. Hunt of Hunt & Associates, P.C. All rights reserved.