Yeah, even though it's LEGAL here, the cop mentality is to hassle people who have pot in their pocket.. Have I mentioned that I'm NOT fond of the gendarmes?
They are giving me back MY social security money. Now...to answer your question...The National Parks Service.
This post was edited by Element 99 at October 13, 2016 3:32 PM MDT
The maintenance of sewers is the responsibility of whoever owns the road they sit under. This is referred to as 'adopted' roadways/sewers. If 'adopted' then it's the government's responsibility to pay for it's upkeep. This usually means local councils foot the bill.
If it's 'unadopted' then the owner of the property facing the sewer has responsibility and gets to pay for maintenance.
(Strange how, since the privatisation of the water companies, more and more sewers and drains have become 'unadopted', but I don't want to rant about the follies of de-nationalisation). Dentists are contentious too, but anyway. The waterways! The only nationalised infrastructure left.
This post was edited by Benedict Arnold at October 13, 2016 11:18 PM MDT
The truly magnificent thing about privatisation is that one can often manage to privatise the profits and socialise the losses. Which means that even though the railways (for example) are 'privately' owned, they are still recipients of bundles of public cash given by government.
The Great Lie (privatisation is good for everyone) told in the '80s is still running and still costing the taxpayer money. The simple fact is that services cost money and they'll cost a private company money just the same as if they were publicly owned.
Now I want to find someone with a suit and a rosette and break their legs at the knee joint...... :(
Well, there's all the ATF (Jet A) used in Air Force II for the "First Lady" to follow Air Force One a couple of days later . . .no, that doesn't benefit the taxpayers. But then there's all the money that gets spent on Congressional perks . . . no, that has no benefit to the taxpayers. But there's all the money spent on studies like the sex habits of the aldebrian sea sponge . . . maybe that's not a good example either. So, I've got nothing . . .
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