Not, again!

We know that most if not all major cities across the country are run and controlled by liberal politicians, politicians who enjoy tyrannically lording over their citizenry. I live in the Los Angeles area but it's the same story in New York, San Francisco, Chicago, all big cities. These Napoleon wannabees impose their political and ideological agendas on the rest of us through the pure power of their offices, be it mayor, city councils, board of supervisors, or borough presidents.

If it's one thing the Los Angeles City Council is good at, it's banning, prohibiting, regulating, and mandating everything they can think of to complicate and control the daily lives of its citizens. That's their job and boy, do they work hard at it! They must wake up each morning and think to themselves, "Now let's see, what new monkey wrench can we throw into the lives of these poor stupid idiots? So they think that living in Los Angeles is easy do they? Well, we'll show them!"

They can't fix potholes, yet they have plenty of time and money to devote to creating speed bumps, ruts, bicycle lanes, and narrowing streets all over the city. They can't figure out what to do with the thousands of drug addicted and crazy street people camping out under our freeway overpasses and on sidewalks in front of businesses and residences, but they can supply them with lovely tents, and the occasional porta-potty. Using that little house makes it so much nicer than shooting up in the open.

Years ago, they zeroed in on supermarkets and grocery stores, the places that every single person has to go to in order to eat. They put a stop to free paper bags at the grocery, forcing all stores to adopt plastic bags or charge customers a penalty for paper. That went on for a little while, but then, "Oops, we're sorry! Our environmentalist friends have informed us that plastic is no good either! But wait, we've got it now! The solution is reusable tote bags. Just make sure you wash those bags between uses because they can harbor bacteria and disease, especially during our pandemic."

Then came the "drought" so a law was passed that restaurants could no longer give its diners glasses of water unless they specifically asked for them. Next in April 2019 came the law mandating that a restaurant patron could only obtain a straw by individual request. That law bans all Los Angeles restaurants from automatically giving customers plastic straws.

Now the other plastic shoe was just dropped on November 15th. This latest city ordinance makes "disposable foodware" (their term) including all utensils and napkins in restaurants ONLY available when requested by customers. That's right, NAPKINS too!

Currently this applies to food and beverage facilities with more than 26 employees but will expand to all food and beverage facilities on April 22, 2022. The ordinance prohibits facilities from having self-service disposable foodware dispensers and from providing or OFFERING disposable foodware accessories to dine-in customers and take-out customers, except when requested. Get that? The employees can't even ASK the customer if they would like a napkin with their meal, the customer has to ask for it himself.

If a food or beverage employee does ask a customer if they'd like a plastic spoon or a napkin with their food or drink, the facility is subject to a written notice of violation. If it happens again, another written notice will be issued. After that comes fines for each and every subsequent violation. The two environmental blowhards who pushed this are councilmen Paul Koretz and Paul Krekorian. A couple of Pauls. I might call them a couple of other things, but let's keep it clean.

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"If we are to overcome the extreme climate challenges we face, we will have to alter or otherwise transform all our habits relating to fossil fuel products, including plastics, and our essential natural resources, like forests," sneered Koretz. I wonder how much useless paper Koretz's office pumps out in the course of a year. Maybe enough to make napkins with, which could be used to clean off the feces on the sidewalks around city hall.

Speaking of which, how long do you suppose it will be before the city council decides to limit the amount of toilet paper that is used in public restrooms? Consider all the restaurants, bars, stores, offices, and business establishments that have lavatories throughout the city. There must be lots of paper going to waste (no pun intended) in those restrooms, wouldn't you say? What we need is an ordinance that restricts toilet paper to only those who ask for it.

And they should ask for it in a nice way otherwise they can't have any. And maybe we should ask to see their vaccination card before they can have their paper. And, as usual, mask wearing is mandatory before wiping. That'll teach them!

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