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Comment by Patricia M. McBride on January 24, 2011 at 5:07am

Lyndee, I really want the federal government to back out of those things the constitution does not give it the power to regulate or control.  I especially want this president to stop trying to legislate from the white house and if he won't, I want the congress to stop him. 

I don't know about you, but I don't know anyone who has changed a toilet out in some time who has not replaced it with a low water use toilet.  I know few people who put in new shower heads that don't use one that decreases the amount of water used. 

The thing I am most amazed at is Atlanta counting the number of toilets someone uses as a valid criteria.   It really does not matter how many toilets you have (just another method of penalizing success to me as it would mean perhaps a bigger or nicer home).  No matter how many toilets a person has, if it is 2 people or 4 people, they will only use them a certain number of times, and I don't think the number of uses changes even if they go down to 1 toilet (it just means there will be a line outside the door :).

This is off subject, but relates to you comment about well water Lyndee.  I also was appalled when they started saying they also owned the well water you used, here in Jacksonville, and they could tell you how much well water you could use............does that mean they also own the land our house sits on and the house itself, because it certainly seems to be the direction all of this is headed in.  Is the city/county/federal government planning on confiscating our property along with everything including all our rights or will they just continue this tax increase sprial until no one can afford to stay in their homes?  Right now, we also seem to have a president who thinks he knows it all and has a right to impose his wishes and beliefs on all of us.  Considering the man has never had a real job in his life and has lived wholly on the dole with special considerations for the color of his skin and his status as a foreign student (?) to freeload on the taxpayer, I am not sure he should be telling anyone what to do.  He and his wife have had a few defining learning moments and are so arrogant they believe they are the only ones who had learning experiences in their lives, and they should impose them on everyone else. 

Comment by Lyndee on January 23, 2011 at 11:06pm

I can second that, Patricia. They tried that in Atlanta. Problem was a family with 5 children (7 people) was charged a hideous surcharge for over x gallons of water per month whereas the childless couple and single person living in the same block were never subjected to it since they couldn't begin to use as much water as the large family. I think they ended up surcharging based on how many toilets you had in your house (still horribly unfair to large families as well as singles who just happened to have 2-3 toilets).  We had a well for watering the lawn so that helped. Water restrictions never, ever went away. They ended up being permanent and I see that happening here now too. (It's just too lucrative for the water police, ya know)?

Comment by Patricia M. McBride on January 22, 2011 at 3:33pm

John, right now, people on their own are putting in low use toilets, low use shower heads, low use every thing.  Why should the FEDERAL government get involved in it.  The problem as I see it, is they can take what is a really good idea and make a screaming nightmare out of it by trying to use it to do something totally different from what it should be.  They also have a habit of making problems where none exist and then, fixing them :).  Thank you but no thank you.  People are already policing themselves and making changes........... that is except for the elites and those who think they are exempt from the rules everyone else follows like the Gores, Soros etc. of this world.