Ben Johnson, Floyd Reports
A new Senate report reveals the Obama administration spent nearly half-a-million dollars in stimulus funds to purchase recycling bins implanted with microchips, designed to monitor private citizens’ recycling levels.
Republican Senators Tom Coburn, R-OK, and John McCain, R-AZ, tracked 100 misuses of stimulus funds in a publication entitled “Summertime Blues,” released just weeks ago. (It is far from a comprehensive list.)
They found the administration gave $500,000 to the city of Dayton, Ohio, to assist its recycling plan. Part of the federal funds went to purchase 8,000 bins equipped with microchips that track which residents are recycling.
City and county government officials decided the Big Brother program was so worthwhile they spent a combined $60,000 of their own money to buy an additional 1,300 bins.
In February, the Dayton Daily News described the new curbside equipment:
The microchips, which use radio frequency identification technology, are installed in the bin handles. Four city waste collection trucks will be equipped to read the microchips that will be associated with specific street addresses.
All the city’s 60,000 households will be added to the program “over several years at a total cost of $1.6 million.” The full cost will be borne by the U.S. taxpayer thanks to a $1.6 million Energy Efficiency and Conservation Block Grant the federal government awarded Dayton from stimulus funds.
WHIO-TV asked city officials about the program’s inclusion in Coburn’s report. They “said only $9,000 went to the microchips and the program is actually helping to redirect bins to neighborhoods that use them the most.”
The city of Charlotte, North Carolina, began using microchip-implanted recycling bins last month. The city will store each family’s recycling history for three years. (Local talk show host Tara Servatius had the story first.)
Again, city bureaucrats dismissed privacy concerns to local media:
The city says it doesn’t plan to knock on people’s doors who aren’t recycling. Instead it says the chip will be used to monitor which neighborhoods are recycling less than others.
Neighborhoods that aren’t recycling much would then be given encouragement to recycle more. The city says this would be done either through mailings or appearances by the recycling department at community events. (Emphasis added.)
Americans are not the only ones concerned about government-tracked refuse — and what “encouragement to recycle” may entail.
At least 2.6 million homes in Great Britain — approximately 10 percent of all British households — have microchipped recycling bins. Members of the Conservative Party have protested that information obtained by the chips may be used to levy additional taxes based on the weight of weekly recycling, a plan they dubbed “Pay As You Throw.”
Gordon Brown’s Labour Party dismissed the charges as scare tactics. But many areas in England already demand trash be sorted into nine different color-coded classifications. Offenders face a maximum fine of more than $1,500 (U.S.).
Laying aside legitimate anxieties about government intrusion, Sen. Coburn found little “stimulus” from this expenditure.
The $862 billion American Recovery and Reinvestment Act was supposed to stabilize the national unemployment, but unemployment remains mired at 9.5 percent, and this week first-time jobless claims reached their highest level in nine months.
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You have got to be F!@#$%G KIDDING ME!!! I would NEVER have thought i would live to see the day when an AMERICAN CITIZEN would be subjected to some B!@#$%^T like this! You can best believe,this country is DONE!!!
George Orwell wrote "1984 " it is here and now for us if WE LET THIS GO ON
What is the worst thing you could do with this kind of information?
your joking, right?
The BEST thing I can think of pertaining this information is to fill a shoe box with human feces send to obama himself requesting he recycle it . There is too much waste in America.
Reminds me of that old song” One thing, one thing,leads to another”…………
This Radical extremist does not know the value of OUR dollars !!
Enter text right here! How about we put a microchip in this SOB so we can see where he goes?
can we use a 40 mm cannon to do the insertion ?
You might have to get Holder out of there first!
Pelosi repeats call to investigate opponents of Ground Zero mega-mosque for thoughtcrime
Continuing on a path toward criminalizing political dissent. In The Post-American Presidency, there is a good deal of evidence showing how Obama and the people around him have a disturbing tendency to favor measures leading to that. "Pelosi clarifies call for look at funding of anti-mosque critics," by Greg Sargent in the Washington Post, August 18
Ah, the joys of living in rural South Carolina. When the need arises, I gather the garbage, toss the bags in the back of my pickup and take the garbage to the local county dump.
No trash bins, no big brother, no recycling if I don't want to.
I would put absolutely nothing past this sleezy b-s-a-d. John, I am with you on the insertion. If that could happen I do believet many of our countrys porblems would be solved. I have the 1984 and will start reading it is soon as I finish "The Manchurian President" and I highly recomend it.
ENow the creeps up in Washington want another handout so they can spend on other crap. We americans are bing taken to the mill every day that Obama and the dems are in control. What happen to the so called blue dog dems? They must have change to obama's dogs. GM said its making money hand over fist, but has not paid all that they got.
What a waste of money these microchipped recycling bins.