Achtung! Sie werden die Lichter ausschalten!! ---- ------- (Attention! You will turn off the lights!!)

Folks, when I was an elementary school student - we had two kinds of student 'enforcers'.  Some of us were Crossing Guards and wore our little Green & Silver Sam Brown belts  and ensured that other kids didn't run out in front of cars. 

Others, were deputized and served as Hall Monitors - to make sure other kids wandering through the hallways of junior academia had permission and weren't on some evil mission.

There was a third group, but their responsibilities were limited to erasing the chalkboards and standing outside slapping clouds of chalk out of the erasers at the end of the day. (An act the EPA probably doesn't allow now - in those two schools in the USA that still use chalk and chalkboards)

Speaking of the ever present EPA, those non-elected bureaucrats that seem to pervade every day and every aspect of our life --- are you aware that they are now encouraging a new youth militia in our schools. "Energy Patrols"!!

Apparently their role is to tip toe (or strut) around the school buildings and find out and report folks who leave lights on - windows open - thermostats set too high or too low - and any other green house emission evils.  

It can never happen here!

Thermostat set above 70° in the winter? Below 78° in the summer?  Aha!  Notes are being taken on the issued clipboards of these vest and ID tag wearing midget inspectors!

My grand kids are too old to qualify for such duties - but I wonder if one day soon, one of my cute great grand kids will be taking notes of my household energy use habits when they visit and reporting them to the Gob'mint and the EPA officials in the polished boots and black uniforms?

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