"If you're in the market for financial services garbage collection, there's plenty to do right now".
"Should we suspend pensions, stop bus service, cancel garbage pickup and shut down the kindergartens whenever there is an election approaching, just because these efforts are popular?" he said in a written statement.
There is no running water, no postal service, no garbage collection and scant rehabilitation for a shattered town where collapsed roofs, missing walls and other scars from the continuing civil war disfigure nearly every building.
Mr. dos Santos is often accused of squandering the country's oil riches on arms and luxuries while his people languish without running water, postal service or garbage collection.
In recent years, government critics have accused Mr. dos Santos of squandering the country's oil riches on arms and luxuries while his people languish without jobs, running water, postal service or garbage collection.
As I explain in "Parking Meters and the Perils of Privatization," parking meters are not a public service like garbage collection, nor a capital asset like a toll road.
In part it stems from too much "cosmetic development" and a lack of employment and basic services, like garbage collection.
Could taxpayers afford to maintain services like garbage removal, policing, sewer pipes and miles of perpetually eroding streets?
Renewable energy has been such a boon for Tocco that it makes money from electricity production and has no local taxes or fees for services like garbage removal.
During past government shutdowns, our capital city has stopped various local services, including garbage pickup, and closed scores of buildings across Washington, D.C.
