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Originally Posted by vid
When has the government ever successfully abolished a position and replaced it with a less skilled individual with a third of the budget?  If anything, we'll end up with 14 civil servants doing the same thing for six times as much, and they'll all get bonuses.  |
The Lieutenant-Governor isn't nominated for skills, but for political reasons. It is symbolic and we spend to much money on that symbol, especially since it is a symbol from another country. Change the title of the job for a public servant one and cut the budget and the job will still be done.