Richard Littlejohn of the Daily Mail compares trash pickup now to trash pickup when he was a kid in Essex.

Somehow, the things we do at the behest of environmentalists and global-warming alarmists doesn’t seem like progress. In fact, it’s the sanitation department that is, in many cases in England, causing the sanitation problems.

But here’s the money quote. It could be about Barack Obama or Bev Perdue. Take your pick:

All this is designed simply to pick our pockets and show us who’s boss, while spawning a vast public sector job creation scheme.

Read and enjoy.