Banning Plastic Bags

School children, who haven’t been on this earth long enough to understand ANYTHING, have conned a bunch of adults into thinking those ubiquitous plastic bags you get at the grocery store are a major problem. (They're not)First, they talked about charging six cents each (which would have gone to the state, which got their attention), then moved on to a complete BAN on their use. Yes, they are ubiquitous. But they are USEFUL. I use them for many things and they don’t cost me a thing. They talk about it costing a lot of money to get rid of them, but they never talk about the cost of getting rid of the cloth bags people will be forced to BUY and carry with them when they go to the store. They never talk about the INCONVENIENCE to shoppers. I’m old enough to remember when they were first forced upon us with the “paper or plastic” question that was asked, and all the specious arguments that were used to vilify paper bags, which were the “staple” in use up to that time. Paper bags never completely disappeared, but people vastly used the plastic bags because they were easier and were useful at home where paper bags were not. I don’t think they should be BANNED at the behest of inexperienced, ignorant of the world children. (Denver Post)