By Bruce Sessions
Its rather amusing to watch environmentalists go about trying to save the planet only to end up trashing the very planet theyre trying to save
. I suppose one could owe it all to Liberal Think which doesnt think new ideas through to obvious conclusions. Liberal-think is usually brought on by the desire to feel good rather than do good.
Some cases in point here: Seattle, Washington, is a hotbed of liberalism and the city council came up with the idea of providing portable toilets for the homeless. The fancy toilets (costing one million dollars each) would be placed in the citys downtrodden area where the homeless live in cardboard boxes. Kinda like Los Angeles skid row.
The powers that be decided to spend five million bucks to buy five automated public toilets. 
The toilets werent pay to operate. They were to be free of charge. A gift to the destitute from the city. It made city officials feel good. At first!
Those who DID use the facilities left so much trash around, (drug needles, condoms, fecal matter, etc) the automatic floor scrubbers wouldnt work. Prostitutes, druggies and homosexuals had found immediate use for the privacy behind the locked doors. It got so bad that even the most destitute homeless refused to use the facilities, which became a definite health hazard. The city ended up selling the one million dollar apiece toilets on ebay. Opening bid? $89,000 each.
The Federal government is loaded with liberal-think, too. For the past 16 years, it has invested billions in building a fleet of 112 thousand alternative fuel vehicles, with nary an alternative fuel station around. Today, 92 percent of the vehicles in the governments alternative fuel fleet are powered by gasoline.
And remember the idea of discarding millions and millions of old tires in the ocean rather than burning them? The idea was to provide habitat for the fishies. Didnt work. The tires ended up scrubbing the ocean floor, destroying corals reefs, and scaring all the fish away. The U.S. Navy was called in to undertake a massive salvage operation to undo the cockamamie plan. I could go on.except Im outta room on this blog, but Im sure liberal-thinkers arent out of ideas. Thats the scary part.