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	<title>Comments on: Healthy reorg: a model for Councils?</title>
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		<title>By: Dexter McGhie</title>
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		<dc:creator>Dexter McGhie</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 08:15:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>As Einstein once reputedly said &quot;simplicity is the answer&quot;; well to my mind complexity leads to extra cost and waste!

Cutting local body costs means getting economies of scale and not reinventing the wheel everywhere!

In fact we could have a national data base for rates data.......and most of the administrative functions of local government, but be serious; are the people(turkeys) who currently enjoy fat salaries (and are the people who really pull the strings in the councils) going to wish a Christmas dinner for themselves?; hell no!

So how in a democracy can we get rid of this waste?

We have all seen recently how politicians, be they local or otherwise, fill their pockets to the brim with money that is not ethically theirs; give a parasite a niche and it will appear on the scene.....you can bet on that.

Then where do we acquire the drench to combat this mismanagement and corruption?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>As Einstein once reputedly said &#8220;simplicity is the answer&#8221;; well to my mind complexity leads to extra cost and waste!</p>
<p>Cutting local body costs means getting economies of scale and not reinventing the wheel everywhere!</p>
<p>In fact we could have a national data base for rates data&#8230;&#8230;.and most of the administrative functions of local government, but be serious; are the people(turkeys) who currently enjoy fat salaries (and are the people who really pull the strings in the councils) going to wish a Christmas dinner for themselves?; hell no!</p>
<p>So how in a democracy can we get rid of this waste?</p>
<p>We have all seen recently how politicians, be they local or otherwise, fill their pockets to the brim with money that is not ethically theirs; give a parasite a niche and it will appear on the scene&#8230;..you can bet on that.</p>
<p>Then where do we acquire the drench to combat this mismanagement and corruption?</p>
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		<title>By: Bernie Kelly</title>
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		<dc:creator>Bernie Kelly</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 07:01:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>At least Napier CC uses a system supplied by Napier Computer systems which is based in Tennyson st.  Any support requires a three block walk. Hastings DC uses a company based in Australia, supported in Austarlia and payed to Australia</description>
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