http://www.steelbananas.com/2009/08/litter-rests-delicately-on-the-palate-as-toronto-restaurants-and-residents-discuss-the-summer-civil-strike/ that post-pomo variety show Tue, 24 Aug 2010 08:47:47 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://www.steelbananas.com/2009/08/litter-rests-delicately-on-the-palate-as-toronto-restaurants-and-residents-discuss-the-summer-civil-strike/comment-page-1/#comment-6111 big fat burrito | toronto | restaurant, retail, entertainment service review information Sat, 05 Sep 2009 16:47:21 +0000 http://www.steelbananas.com/?p=3304#comment-6111 [...] - go here for what Meghan, one of the employees at Big Fat Burrito, had to say at Steel Bananas about the [...] [...] - go here for what Meghan, one of the employees at Big Fat Burrito, had to say at Steel Bananas about the [...]

]]> http://www.steelbananas.com/2009/08/litter-rests-delicately-on-the-palate-as-toronto-restaurants-and-residents-discuss-the-summer-civil-strike/comment-page-1/#comment-5094 Patrick Grant Mon, 17 Aug 2009 14:20:50 +0000 http://www.steelbananas.com/?p=3304#comment-5094 Humm. The idea of privatizing public services sets off alarms in my head. Restaurants and other comparable businesses create a far larger amount of garbage than citizen x, so using a private service to deal with that sort of output makes sense. Residential pickup should not be privatized, though. It's generally a bad call to put public services exclusively in the hands of businesses. Maybe if rich people want a two-tiered garbage system they should be allowed to opt out of public pickup, but I can't see privatization being a rational and viable option for the general populus. That being said, it's not really cool that public assets can be held hostage for weeks and months by unions who are pissed off about their sick days. Humm. The idea of privatizing public services sets off alarms in my head. Restaurants and other comparable businesses create a far larger amount of garbage than citizen x, so using a private service to deal with that sort of output makes sense.
Residential pickup should not be privatized, though. It's generally a bad call to put public services exclusively in the hands of businesses. Maybe if rich people want a two-tiered garbage system they should be allowed to opt out of public pickup, but I can't see privatization being a rational and viable option for the general populus.
That being said, it's not really cool that public assets can be held hostage for weeks and months by unions who are pissed off about their sick days.

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