So wasteful government spending. We're gonna add another one to the list. Here we go. Hey gang, Kevin here, Life 22, and this morning I'm just griping. Got a couple parking tickets — whatever, I'm gonna go pay them. I'm usually pretty good about it, usually pretty good about being on top of making sure my vehicles are moved. I'm always on top of paying my tickets. I don't have any outstanding tickets. So it's one of those things — even in my work vehicles and stuff. I don't have a gripe about paying the tickets. My issue is that for all of the effort that we put into maintaining a street sweeper, paying a guy to street-sweep, taking time out of the mechanic's day who should be fixing snow plows and asphalt trucks and all this other stuff — we're fixing a giant thing that comes in and sweeps the street. If you walk a three-block radius of my house, you'll notice that every so often some jerk-off will throw a bag of garbage on the street itself. But most of the time it's on the subway and they just throw their trash wherever. Most of the trash that's picked up around my house is stuff that people throw while they're walking. Most of it doesn't make it to the street, and even then, as a homeowner, I just pick it up. I don't like that people do that. I don't like when people leave their dog shit everywhere. But the moral fabric of our society is deteriorating to the point that it's not just street trash we should worry about — we should also be worried about park trash and public-space trash, and trash building up on people's homes and all these other things. But we're really only putting money at street sweepers. And then we notice that street sweepers are very profitable. It's supposed to be a punishment to remind you to move your cars so that the very important street sweeper can come through and clean the street, because that'll make all the trash go away. That's the problem. That's like 1% of all the trash that's accumulated in the city. So you're like, okay, so we're putting all this effort into 1% of the trash. What about the other 99%? We're not addressing that, right? We have those trash cans in public parks that are overflowing. No one is re-upping a contract with the contractor to make sure that it's picked up more frequently. We know there is no enforcement for people taking their household trash and throwing it in there. There's no enforcement for a lot of different things. There's no teeth in the law to stop people from littering and throwing their trash on my yard. But they're making good money every time I come in — and that's not to say all the other people who don't pay their parking tickets. Eventually maybe you get one car that gets booted, but for the most part they don't boot anybody else. Those other cars are transients — oh my car broke down and went to the scrapyard, and now good luck, City, you're not coming after that person. You're only after that particular vehicle. So I think that the street sweeper is just a waste of time, because they're not really addressing the majority of the trash that we all notice — which is in the parks, on the sidewalks, in the subways. It's Kevin Tramp for the morning.