New York celebrated the second annual "Good Riddance Day" last week. People came out in droves to shred all the bad news from 2008. People brought out their 401k statements with dropping values, bills, and even socks that mysteriously lost their mates in the washing machine. If only shredding bad news made it disappear.

Continuing the recent trend of governments that don't respect the privacy of their employees and constituents, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority threw the personal information of their employees in the trash. Workers at a Queens bus depot discovered reams of their claim forms in the dumpster.

I hate to sound like a broken record but when you leave the shredding to employees they will take the easy way out and just throw it in the dumpster and hope no one finds them. With New York being the center of freegans, this is bad bet.