Where is the bank? I need some change.

Directions are the most important aspect for any planned trip.  If you know where you are going, and know how to get there, well you are all set, right? No need for a map or GPS.  You have been down that road many times, been to that place often enough.

Nonetheless, always a good idea to have a least a road map for some trips. Road construction detours, an accident up ahead, your exit no longer exists, or worse yet you missed it and realize it 20 miles down the road.  Those old maps, or even the GPS stuff can come in handy at times.

Let's face it.  How many of us have started a trip to somewhere, sure we knew how to get there, only to find out along the way we don't know where we are going.  Then to compound the matter, once we come to that realization, we spend twenty/thirty minutes convincing ourselves we can still find the way. 

Eventually you get there.  Lots of lost time.  Waste of gas.  Extra wear and tear.  But hey, you got there, all on your own, so you can tell the other riders in the vehicle I told you I could find it.

Kind of like the blind squirrel and the nut.  

Anyway ...

Change folks.  We need change.  Monetary and otherwise.  The monetary problem has limited solutions and avenues.

One potential avenue is all the garbage talk around town.  I absolutely agree with the reasons behind the process to look into and alter the process for this.  I fully support the concept.  As to the plan, well that will have to wait until we see the plan.

I have said it before, I am no die hard tree hugger.  By the same token, neither am I immune to the reality that garbage is a big problem, not just financially but as an impact to our lives.  

As far as the financial savings, well that will be the real key.  From the taxpayer's perspective, there is only a direct savings if the savings is money that stays in her or his pocket.  Come up with a plan that does that, no problem.

If you can fashion a system that will allow most taxpayers to utilize a system without paying any more, might still be a no problem scenario as long as you can show at least the indirect benefit. 

Trust me when I tell you though, there will be a whole bunch of hands out for a portion of the $500,000 "savings". 

As to the other type of change, we certainly will be discussing that soon enough, hopefully.  A whole lot of people best be getting out their route maps now, because no matter what, there is going to be definite changes in the flow of things.  Thankfully some of the traffic impediments are going to be removed from the road to ease the new flow.  Better late than never.

Shifting gears ...

Actually time to put it in park and turn off the engine.

Be safe.