{"id":9366,"date":"2016-10-02T13:00:36","date_gmt":"2016-10-02T20:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lessgovisthebestgov.com\/blog\/?p=9366"},"modified":"2016-10-02T22:34:38","modified_gmt":"2016-10-03T05:34:38","slug":"potty-politics-when-the-government-hits-the-crapper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lessgovisthebestgov.com\/blog\/potty-politics-when-the-government-hits-the-crapper\/","title":{"rendered":"“Potty Politics” – When the Government Hits the Crapper"},"content":{"rendered":"

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What Happens when Washington Gets Inside\u00a0of Your Bathroom <\/strong><\/h1>\n

By Scott Rohter, December 2014<\/p>\n

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Recently I bought a new toilet. It wasn\u2019t\u00a0fancy\u2026 It was just a basic crapper with a 2 inch drain valve and a 2 and 1\/8 inch trap way. It barely delivered a half gallon of water to flush the contents of the toilet bowl down the drain\u2026 just a half gallon. That\u2019s because the United States government is following the\u00a0mandates of the United Nations and it wants all of us to\u00a0use a lot less water to flush our poop down the drain. Pardon my pun but our government doesn\u2019t want us to waste water on\u00a0wastewater. Not only has our telephone and internet communications fallen under government surveillance, but our poop has too. In fact both “Number One” and “Number Two” have fallen under official government guidelines. That\u2019s because we have to make room for another\u00a0seven billion people on the planet.<\/p>\n

Of course the first time I went to use my new potty it got plugged so I promptly unhooked the worthless POS and purchased the very best commode that\u00a0money can buy. The salesman told me that it was the top of the line model, and short of buying a pressure assisted toilet which sounds like a small bomb exploding in your bathroom every time you press the trip lever you can\u2019t buy a better toilet no matter how much money you spend. Since I didn\u2019t want my bathroom to sound like downtown Baghdad\u00a0during the American invasion\u00a0every time I used it I took a pass on one of those models and settled for the quieter one… and satisfied that I had done\u00a0everything I could\u00a0to make my doo doo go bye bye I took my new toilet home and installed it\u2026<\/p>\n

This\u00a0toilet comes with a big 4 inch drain valve instead of the normal 2 inch drain valve that comes standard with most toilets. I guess that means that my stool is \u201cabnormal\u201d. That feature doubles the amount of water that can be used to flush the toilet or so it claims. While it can be used\u00a0all of the water inside of the tank isn’t used… Nope. The flapper on the drain valve hits the seal\u00a0at the bottom of\u00a0the tank long before all\u00a0the water in the tank goes down the drain. This leaves a large amount of water still inside of the tank that is never used. That is because the flapper doesn\u2019t float on the water like other flappers do. They have designed it in such a way (thanks to the government)<\/em>\u00a0that you can\u2019t even use all of the water that\u2019s available in the tank. There is a large amount of water that just remains there. I bet that pleases the higher ups over at the United Nations.<\/p>\n

The model I purchased has a 2\u00a0and 3\/8 inch trapway instead of the usual 2 and 1\/8 inch trap way\u00a0which\u00a0comes standard on\u00a0most toilets. Again that implies that there must be something unusual about my poop. The extra \u00bc of an inch makes all the difference in the world though. It means the difference between having to plunge the toilet every time you use it and not having to plunge the toilet. That is\u00a0the largest trap way made in America for all of us Americans who happen to have\u00a0bigger than usual\u00a0intestines and\u00a0larger than normal bowel movements, but… and this is a very important butt… one second is all the time the United States Federal Government allows a toilet to use\u00a0its\u00a0miniscule 1.28 gallons of water to legally remove\u00a0all the contents of your toilet bowl out of your sight\u2026 and as they say \u201cOut of sight is out of mind.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

Oh how I wish we could go back to the old days when a good toilet used a full three gallons of water to flush the bowl and you didn\u2019t have to always reach for the plunger every time you used it. Now it\u2019s getting to be a very familiar routine. You conduct your business. Then you push the trip lever and immediately reach for the plunger because the government which doesn\u2019t know how to build\u00a0toilets and has never built\u00a0a single toilet\u00a0in its life\u00a0is telling those who do know how to make toilets how to make them more efficient.\u00a0 That doesn\u2019t go to improving the operations and the efficient performance of millions of American bathrooms, and it really doesn\u2019t help to conserve water either.<\/p>\n

If it takes two or three times to flush the toilet in order to clear the\u00a0bowl using 1.6 gallons of water per flush then it is actually wasting more water than the old toilets did which consumed three gallons of water per flush but accomplished the same thing with a single flush. Of course it takes a rocket scientist to figure that out which is why our government overseers don\u2019t know that.<\/p>\n

This is just another reason why we should not\u00a0send any more Democrats to Washington. I hope this is clear enough for all of you big lovers of big government. That is why it is so important for members of all three branches of government to follow the Constitution which they swore to uphold.<\/p>\n

Finally and you will love this… there is just one more thing I would like you to think about The biggest single generator of crap in the whole country is the Federal government in Washington D.C. With all of its agencies and bureaucracies they flush more poop down the toilet in a single day than anyone else, but the right way to cut down on this kind of government waste and conserve water on Capitol Hill is not to make toilets more efficient. It is to get rid of hundreds of thousands of unnecessary government jobs.<\/p>\n

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