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Drowning Government in the Pool

by: Dean Barker

Mon May 09, 2011 at 05:29:06 AM EDT
( - promoted by William Tucker)

Find some other state to live in if you want clean pools:
The House budget cut would save $139,000. Environmental Services Commissioner Thomas Burack said without the program, people would be at greater risk of gastric illnesses and lung, skin and eye infections.

New Hampshire appears to be unique in using this budget-cutting measure, and some question whether it would tarnish the state's reputation and hurt its $4 billion tourism industry.

But don't you dare question the wisdom of Bill O'Brien's budget overlords!
State Rep. William Belvin, an Amherst Republican who chaired the House subcommittee that developed Burack's budget, chafes at the suggestion that the House budget puts public safety at risk.
Pools now, schools earlier, etc... Today's episode may be a new topic, but it's the same storyline arc we've been reading since January.  $100 a year reps swept in by a wave election know better than all of you how New Hampshire works.

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The BIA is asleep. (4.00 / 1)
All it takes is one incident of a tourist getting seriously ill from a no-longer-inspected hotel pool, to crash New Hampshire's tourist industry.

Other hotels can run their own inspections; it won't matter. They rely on the state's brand. "You're going to New Hampshire? Stay out of the water."

"First they destroyed the shellfish industry, and I said nothing..."

We now have (4.00 / 1)
a legislature that doesn't understand what government does, which are those things that we can't do efficiently and effectively for ourselves.  They only understand that they don't like to get tax bills, and that's the "problem" they are trying to fix.  
add this (4.00 / 1)
to the bill that ended oversight for ski lifts and amusement rides, and eliminates the marine patrol, and the way is paved for some sort of incident that will reflect badly on our tourist industry and our state.

Combine it with the reductions in Forest Service spending and the fact that a number of parks and recreation areas are no longer cared for, and it calls into question the kind of representation the north country is getting.

Maybe we should secede.  

our summer agenda (4.00 / 1)
So, does this means that NH tourist attractions will NO LONGER be inspected by the state?  -Storyland, Six Gun City, Water Country, Santa's Village, Canobie Lake Park.  

And NH parents are OK with this??

Paula M. DiNardo
Dover NH

A Blue Hampster since 2007!


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scary (4.00 / 1)
New Hampshire inspects nearly 1,400 public pools and spas. In the last five years, the state reported 2,211 water quality violations; 313 bacterial and 725 safety, with 224 immediate closures.

If every pool is inspected once-a-year, then NH will inspect a total of 7000 pools.  Now add up how many violations there were in five years and you'll get just under 3500.  That means 50% of pools have something wrong with them.  And we're supposed to believe no one will get sick from this?  

"Buyer beware" was such a nice workable principle. It meant (0.00 / 0)
that whether it was snake oil or chicken gizzards they were selling, buyers had no recourse if the products made them sick.  There's a reason why it's called the "civil and consumer rights revolution."  Indeed, in the long run, it's our expecting government to represent the interests of the general public, rather than industry and commerce, that's going to prove to have been the more significant development.
We talk about agencies being "captured" by the enterprise they're supposed to supervise, but most were originally set up to assist enterprise in avoiding risk and making a "regular" profit by limiting territories of operation (airline routes, trucking routes, etc.)
Perhaps the greatest American myth is that enterprise ever welcomed competition and wasn't always dependent on privilege. What could be more privileged than the crowned heads of Europe making grants of land in the Americas and then sending military forces to "secure" them?  
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The myth (0.00 / 0)
of free enterprise is just that, a story.  What we have is corporate socialism.  Maybe we should start pointing that out?
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I should also say (0.00 / 0)
that my quote came from the same source linked in this blog.
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But can we bring guns into public pools? (4.00 / 1)


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Don't pistol in the pool. n/t (4.00 / 2)

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