Letters From Dan

Let me provide my man-ly credentials on this subject before we begin. I’ve got a 36 day old in diapers,  a 19 month old in diapers and two older boys – and I pay taxes. Whether it’s maxi-pads or diapers – I’ve thought through the disposable arguments.  So while my original thoughts on this subject were nothing short of aghast!, I’m now thinking reusable maxi-pads is not too crazy an idea.  (Look! This lady is making a living selling them on Etsy.com). At least it’s no crazier the other environmentally friendly “Cash for Clunkers” program.

In this day and age of environmentalism gone wild – the reusable maxi-pad is almost the sanest new idea. What seems to have gone terribly wrong is the Cash for Clunkers program. Here’s a program where taxpayers as a whole are buying cars for a select few individuals who probably don’t need a new car.  These people don’t even have car payments – and they’re not the kind of people who just buy a new car every year. They’ve actually taken well enough care of their car that it has become a clunker.

And on top of that, the taxpayers are paying to destroy these cars. We’re actually creating new landfill material.  That means that the car manufacturers are now going to have to make more cars. Where’s the carbon footprint equation on that? And the people who make their living by scrap metal have just seen the rug pulled out from under them. The value of metal has gone WAY down because there’s so many crushed clunkers. What are these people going to have to do?

How many of them will have to get second jobs and start driving to another workplace?

So what’s the point of the Cash for Clunkers program, again?  If they just want to throw our money away, why don’t they just give the employees at GM $4,500? And what are the chances that the women in Obama’s administration are actually using reusable maxi-pads? While it seems crazy, it’s really not any crazier than disposable diapers – and environmentally sound at that.

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