Wednesday, June 22, 2011

Your tax dollars at work!

We really need to spend more money on education!

As some readers may know, we live in a rural area.  We have to drive down a two-lane road, "H Highway" which runs into our road, to get to town.  H Highway is about 3 miles long, total.    It is state-maintained, by MODOT (Missouri Department of Transportation.)  They mow the grass along the sides of the road, they plow it in the winter, they put up complimentary signs for those organizations who want to pick up trash along the road, and keep it pretty.  This is common in Missouri, and perhaps many other states as well.

So at the beginning and the end of H Highway, there are these signs.

 

I put both signs up, so you wouldn't think I just took a picture of one sign, or lied about the fact that both signs are misspelled!!!  If you can't see the problem, look at the way "highway" is spelled.  So not only did the highway department screw up, they screwed up twice!!!

As frosting on the cake, I have never seen anyone picking up trash along this road.  You can get specially colored plastic bags (generally bright blue or orange) from the highway department for such purposes as they then know to pick up the bags when they see them on the roadway.

Welcome to America! 


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