We Scoop Poop

@Zorilla: That's the kind of job I wouldn't mind doing myself if I made enough and it allowed me some independence. I would have thought though, that councils and housing associations would have their own maintenance or cleaning staff, and just have them clean up the dog poop.

I didn't make that association between the money truck and the pooper scooper, perhaps because whenever I see one of these Garda trucks I'm always wondering why they're named after the Irish National Police. The funny thing is, most Americans have no clue what Monkey Boy has done to the value of a dollar. For instance, they think gasoline costs more because of greedy Arabs and not enough oil drilling in wildlife refuges --and I shit you not. They have no idea that their money is worth less than half as much as it was eight years ago, or that Monkey Boy and his buddies all have large off-shore accounts not denominated in dollars.

@lisa v: I won't interpret that response as something negative about the Land Down Under. Like I said to Zorilla, I was just inclined to think that places where this might be an issue would have their own employees do the clean up. I wouldn't pay someone to clean up my yard --but then, I find my dog's "duty" is biodegradable.

@étranger: I didn't make that association between the money truck and the pooper scooper, perhaps because whenever I see one of these Garda trucks I'm always wondering why they're named after the Irish National Police. The funny thing is, most Americans have no clue what Monkey Boy has done to the value of a dollar. For instance, they think gasoline costs more because of greedy Arabs and not enough oil drilling in wildlife refuges --and I shit you not. They have no idea that their money is worth less than half as much as it was eight years ago, or that Monkey Boy and his buddies all have large off-shore accounts not denominated in dollars.

I'm not sure it's so much a question of our ruling elites not understanding the consequences of their actions as it is indifference to the consequences --or, in some instances, perhaps even seeking consequences us peons would consider adverse. What I see happening, including in my own industry, is the people on the top milking the herd below them for every drop they can get, and calling it "capitalism." We can argue the merits of capitalism and free markets, but it would have to be a purely theoretical argument, since the words themselves are largely self-serving fictions the ruling class uses to mask the unpalatable reality.

@Observing: Or, perhaps, where there's money, there's muck.

@MadScientist: Well, I probably shouldn't say this, but I looked at the links, and her bio page, and wow --very attractive woman. The comments on the dog poop incident were amusing, so let me bring the conversation down yet another notch. I was in a pet store a few months a go and went to check out the puppies. I watched, stunned, while one Boston Terrier puppy pooped right into the other puppy's mouth (it was a consensual act, btw). I had a P&S with video capture in my pocket and will always chastise myself for being too stunned to use it.

@sherri: Well, we've got a Great Dane and a German Shepperd. We do have a big yard, but I'm just careful where I walk, and assume their deposits are biodegradable.

@danthro: Just think of all the cleanup possibilities for a bullshit scooper business. Just dreaming of course, since that kind of business would never be allowed.

@Persian King: I think you're wrong about that. Perhaps that would fit with the economic theory, but the reality is the Blue Bloods using the political system under the guise of capitalism to loot the middle and lower classes.