Isn't it funny how there were no “red air days” this year? Our good friends over at the health department and County attribute this to the lack of people driving. What a joke! Could it also be that the natural occurring conditions were just not right for trapping dirty air or particulate matter? They would like us to believe that not driving and or using wood burning stoves is what made it all better. The thing you have to realize is that these people are not about protecting us. I don't want their protection anyway. Their mission is to find ways to make more money by creating new programs and limiting our freedoms as private individuals. They don't have me fooled! I will do all I can to expose these people at the health department for what they are, a beurocratic pork project of Marxist proportions. They receive way too much Tax money and have so much power that it is scary. Sound1 said in one of the posts in this forum that they think they can just come onto your private property and spray for mosquito's. No thanks, I'll take my chances with West Nile anyway, just give me my freedom and rights.

On another note, now they have teamed up with Cache County to try to get more money out of us! These people just don't give up. We already give over half of our money in Taxes and fees as it is. It's funny, if the people throw a fit over a Tax increase, (I don't think the people throw enough fits over tax increases) the local governments around here just assess new fees or increase existing fees to make up for it. That's just what they want to do in this case. Now they want to assess an additional fee of $1.50+ when you register your car to help get a “head start” on the air quality problem. This may seem small and stupid. When they do this all the time, $1.50 this year plus next years new fees of $3.00 for a new air quality “education” center and so on and so on. It adds up fast. Soon the fee increase over time will increase to $20, $50 and up and up. Not to mention new Tax increases like the county wide 10% property Tax increase from last year. Do you get the point? I really feel they want to discourage us from driving and owning vehicles by making it so difficult. This is no hidden agenda. They make this well known. They are always trying to get people to ride the bus that most of us Tax payers don't want to fund, yet they do it anyway. They want to bring the cost of owning and driving a car to the point where the average Joe can't afford it. I believe that it is long overdue to vote all of these people out of office and elect people who will stand for true American values such as strengthening the private sector, not killing it in order to help the University, the Health Department and all the other public funded pork barrel bureaucratic garbage out there.