The Kitchen > Lighthouses declared surplus property
 
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Posted: Tuesday, June 22, 2010 at 11:31 am |
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The Department of Fisheries and Oceans has declared 976 lighthouses across Canada (including Cape Spear lighthouse in N.L. and Peggy's Cove lighthouse in N.S.) surplus property. How do you feel about this, and what do you think should happen to the lighthouses? We're looking for feedback for our August issue, which will also include a feature on lighthouses.....
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/nova-scotia/story/2010/06/08/ns-lighthouses-surplus.html#socialcomments%23ixzz0qL0KLInF
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Craig
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Posted: Wednesday, June 23, 2010 at 06:53 pm |
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What else is new about this Government? Harper still thinks that George Bush is in office. He couldn't care less about Marine Canada. If it's not Ottawa or Quebec, The Conservatives are not interested.
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Da Stinker
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Posted: Thursday, June 24, 2010 at 01:51 am |
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Lighthouses no that no longer serves the purpose they were erected for should no longer be operated at the taxpayers expense.
The government has no money of its own. Every penny comes out of the taxpayers pockets. The gigantic pile of money it takes to maintain these structures as a Walt Disney setting could be put to better use.
If the Department of Fisheries and Oceans is the ones responsible for their maintenance and finds them obsolete then get rid of them. Half of them are already out of service and there are now cheaper means of doing the work of the active ones, some of which are no longer needed.
The money saved should be taken out of The Department of Fisheries and Oceans operating budget and put into another area where there are shortcomings. Two examples I can think of are the homeless and the tens of thousands of kids going to school without breakfast. I don't buy into either of these situations 100% but I do know they exist.
Any Heritage group who wants to save a lighthouse should purchase it and maintain it at their expense. After all, don't they hit the government up for funds for all of their save this and save that projects.
If a community wants to keep their useless lighthouse (or any other building), buy it and maintain it. Most only want it because it is a tourist attraction and they can make money from it. Put some of that money back into cans of paint and white picket fences. Mow the grass and do the landscaping yourselves.
I don't get any pleasure from my tax dollars dolling up a lighthouse, or any other structure thousands of miles away, or even a few feet down the street.
There is far too much waste going on causing a lot of hardship in other areas of our society,which could use this wasted money to the benefit of all.
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