Lawmakers Can't Seem to Get it Right!

I use google headlines to keep up on bottled water news, and unfortunately why my voice needs to be heard on this issue is because lawmakers are making news with nonsense.

Read this below: Lawmaker to make green arguments hold water By Brian LockhartStaff WriterArticle Launched: 05/14/2008 01:00:00 AM EDT

State Rep. Beth Bye was unable to persuade lawmakers to ban bottled water from the Capitol, but the West Hartford Democrat now is in charge of finding ways to conserve. House Speaker James Amann, D-Milford, asked Bye to head a new task force charged with suggesting ways state employees can consume less water, paper and electricity. "I think you have to lead by example," Amann said. "The only way we're going to make other people 'go green' is to have them see leadership starting from the state."

I think this is quite humorous. Leading by example. Hmmmm? Do I really want to follow this idiocracy? What planet am I on? Once again we have lawmakers working on the intent to ban water, ohhhhhhh and save 250 bottles of water, yeah! What are we saving bottles for? Why don't these lawmakers get a clue and just recycle? Save the hassle, save the headache and oh, here's an idea? put a recycling container there and make some money for your state. Lead by example by creating more resources, rather than just banning the beverage all together.

At the end of this article it says, Bye said she did not win a bottled-water ban (THANK GOD) but succeeded in persuading House Democrats to drink from the tap. She bought a portable water cooler with a spigot for the capitol basement and volunteered to refill it. "I had to go a couple of times a day during the session, up and down," Bye said. "People aren't used to seeing legislators with carts doing physical labor. But in two days, we saved over 250 water bottles."

Well, that sure seems like a good use of our tax paying dollars doesn't it? Once again, it just points our where the brilliance is in our government is, ABSENT! I'm sure I've stated it before but there's a 114 Million dollar fund, or at least there was last year in California and each city can utilize those funds for recycling in their own city. FREE MONEY for a BIG PROBLEM. FREE MONEY, to make the consumers the heros and not the bad guys. So if our officials are so smart, why are they wasting our money trying to find a solution, which STINKS; drinking crappy, pharmaceutical filled, large moleculed, chlorinated and florinated TAP WATER? Hmmmm. Or I can pick up a beautiful bottle of my favorite choice of water, because it's healthy for me and I love the yummy crisp clear flavor of AQUAMANTRA, but as conscious consumer I recycle it. Easy as 1-2-3. Am I missing something here? Why is this so hard? I am an AQUARIUS and a Humanitarian and a Visionary. I'm not sorry for speaking my voice. I am here to ruffle the feathers and make people think. We are not drones and we are not living in a communist society, or at least we don't think so. So why does our government think its okay to ban the beautiful elixir of life, water because its in a plastic bottle? MMMMMMMMMMM> would Coke have a problem if you banned Coke from the Federal building? Do we need to build a lobby for saving the planet to help get this message to them? Do we need to pay them to think the right way?

This is me scratching my head. I thought we were moving to the smarter aspect of our humanity.