One scoop of snow at a time

Arlington County still has not gotten around to plowing the street I live on. This was as expected, because while Arlington County is great at mailing lots of pamphlets promoting recycling (which I always find ironic), telling people to not drive and use mass transit instead, or wasting money on other frivolous causes, core government services has never been its forte. So a few of us in the neighborhood shoveled out a narrow path down our street. It was a lot of work, but we can now get our cars out into the real world.

In the absence of effective government, people can organize together to take care of themselves. And if the government is unable to provide reasonable common services, it will make people stop and wonder what their excessive taxes are being used for. Hopefully this event will influence people to vote for candidates that will promote the government getting back to basics.

Of course, they are predicting another snowstorm for the area that could drop another foot or two of snow on the area. So I expect that I will again be shoveling the street, one scoop of snow at a time.