I have selected and paid for my own trash collection service nonstop since I was 19 years old. The idea of the city dictating to the citizens of Pueblo which trash service company they will use at their house is not acceptable to me.

I am perfectly happy with the current free-market economy approach of being able to select from any number of licensed trash service companies operating their businesses here. My message to the City Council is this: You are not going to impose your socialist form of local government on me and my house just because some folks are causing trash problems in some parts of town. Get it? Got it? Good.

Lee Hughes