On Fri, 24 Jun 2016 10:14:05 -0400, Ed Pawlowski > wrote:

>On 6/24/2016 9:26 AM, wrote:
>
>>
>> I imagine all the politicos now see money falling into their bank
>> accounts, everything can be written off to the 'cost of independence'
>> - rather reminds me of when our Provincial Premier decided the City of
>> Halifax should merge with the City of Dartmouth on the other side of
>> the harbour. It was going to save millions, well starting with a new
>> council chamber with leather chairs that cost a mere $1,000 each, you
>> know that was just a beginning. Certainly hasn't been cheaper.

It has never been cheaper re Halifax/Dartmouth - to appease Dartmouth
they re-named the whole Halifax Regional Municipality, that meant all
the road signs changed, all the buses repainted, it just went on and
on, absolutely ridiculous and frustrating.
>>
>
>Here in the State of Connecticut we have 169 towns and 160 school
>districts. There has been talk of mergers, but nothing gets past
>initial conversation. There is potential huge savings in some
>consolidation, but I don't see it ever happening.


>Along the same lines, we could go from 50 states to about 30 with
>consolidation but that will never happen either. Almost as bad as
>someone in Brussels calling the shots.

I can't see states merging, mostly because each state has their own
peculiarities just like every Province here is unique, but some towns
in NS still talk of merging but cool again when they look at HRM.

Every time politicians get the bit between the teeth, tax payers get
fleeced!