{"id":27176,"date":"2019-04-11T09:54:37","date_gmt":"2019-04-11T14:54:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=27176"},"modified":"2019-04-11T09:56:16","modified_gmt":"2019-04-11T14:56:16","slug":"were-gonna-take-care-of-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=27176","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;We&#8217;re gonna take care of you.&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/c1.staticflickr.com\/5\/4810\/46724094492_8719587e2d_z.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve written about waste plastic recently <a href=\"http:\/\/duluthreader.com\/articles\/2019\/03\/14\/16310_putting_god_to_the_test\">in the Reader<\/a>. I&#8217;ve complained here <a href=\"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=26785\">in the blog<\/a> about the reportedly mafia owned Waste Management failing to pick up either our garbage or now our recycling. And for about the fifth time since they didn&#8217;t pick up last week&#8217;s four-week load of recycling. Its supposed to be picked up every two weeks. I&#8217;ve been putting in more calls to their call center. Its my third call of the day and it isn&#8217;t even 10 AM yet. They are five weeks overdue. And I am invariably polite and ruefully humorous taking to their call service staff who have no control of what&#8217;s happening here in Duluth. The supervisor today who answered my third call to tell them that no, the locals didn&#8217;t call to schedule a pick up told me not to worry. &#8220;We&#8217;re gonna take care of you.&#8221; Twice.<\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t help but wonder if China&#8217;s decision <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/goatsandsoda\/2019\/03\/13\/702501726\/where-will-your-plastic-trash-go-now-that-china-doesnt-want-it\">to refuse further American recyclables<\/a> a few weeks back, thanks Mr. President, isn&#8217;t partly to blame. He tells us private enterprise solves all problems. I&#8217;m beginning to have my doubts about that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve written about waste plastic recently in the Reader. I&#8217;ve complained here in the blog about the reportedly mafia owned Waste Management failing to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27176"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27176"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27176\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27179,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27176\/revisions\/27179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}