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Post-Modern Fairytale of Garbage, Budget and a Wolf
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Photo by Kameliya Atanasova (Sofia Photo Agency)
by Lora Petrova
Sofia municipality draft budget for 2007 amounts to BGN 615 M, from which about BGN 98 M are allocated for cleaning.
98 millions for the cleanness and neatness of our capital city is hell lot of money, isn't it? They will be more than sufficient to take care of the garbage piles that threatened to bury Sofia just last summer. All that were in the city by that time stuffed their noses with cotton balls because they couldn't bear the horrific stench.
No doubt, there is a garbage crisis in Bulgaria's main town and we all smell, err, know it. There is also a crisis in the new car supplies of Sofia's cleaning company head.
The garbage tax we paid to see our city clean, instead of treading among plastic cups, old newspapers and everything considered litter, went for the purchase of the brand new Bugatti Veyron of Rumen Gaytanski, the master cleaner.
Gaytanski, a.k.a the Wolf, is the proud owner of one of only 300 such cars to ever be built. Meanwhile Sofia remains the one and only city, which in a 1000 years time, when archaeologists start excavations, will be totally buried under 10 metres high mountains of garbage.
Here come the questions that bother me. Is a wolf supposed to transport its four paws in this dream ride? Are we, garbage taxpayers, completely insane to live in a post-modern fairy tale full of garbage princes? Is our kingdom, Sofia city, short of brave hunters who can save us from the bad wolf and the litter? Is Sofia Mayor Boyko Borisov playing the role of the Little Red Riding Hood, who is afraid of the big bad wolf?
If all answers to these questions are negative, then why the hell we pay 98 millions for cleaning the streets? Instead, we could hire the bears for US's Yellowstone National Park to nuzzle in the city's dustbins and eat out whatever they find. It's cheaper, don't you think?
Sofia municipality draft budget for 2007 amounts to BGN 615 M, from which about BGN 98 M are allocated for cleaning.
98 millions for the cleanness and neatness of our capital city is hell lot of money, isn't it? They will be more than sufficient to take care of the garbage piles that threatened to bury Sofia just last summer. All that were in the city by that time stuffed their noses with cotton balls because they couldn't bear the horrific stench.
No doubt, there is a garbage crisis in Bulgaria's main town and we all smell, err, know it. There is also a crisis in the new car supplies of Sofia's cleaning company head.
The garbage tax we paid to see our city clean, instead of treading among plastic cups, old newspapers and everything considered litter, went for the purchase of the brand new Bugatti Veyron of Rumen Gaytanski, the master cleaner.
Gaytanski, a.k.a the Wolf, is the proud owner of one of only 300 such cars to ever be built. Meanwhile Sofia remains the one and only city, which in a 1000 years time, when archaeologists start excavations, will be totally buried under 10 metres high mountains of garbage.
Here come the questions that bother me. Is a wolf supposed to transport its four paws in this dream ride? Are we, garbage taxpayers, completely insane to live in a post-modern fairy tale full of garbage princes? Is our kingdom, Sofia city, short of brave hunters who can save us from the bad wolf and the litter? Is Sofia Mayor Boyko Borisov playing the role of the Little Red Riding Hood, who is afraid of the big bad wolf?
If all answers to these questions are negative, then why the hell we pay 98 millions for cleaning the streets? Instead, we could hire the bears for US's Yellowstone National Park to nuzzle in the city's dustbins and eat out whatever they find. It's cheaper, don't you think?
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