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The newspaper Västerbottningen has a number of editorial writers and I must say I really like Petter Bergners leader, this week he writes about Lennart Holmlund and comment Lennart's blog post about Whitney Houston and the need for municipal mergers. Do Petter has very many good points in what he writes, judge for yourself: "Self-interest does not lie in Umeå municipal councils who he is. Minnesgod, results-oriented, and (as he put it side to) also pragmatic. But a coin has famously always a back in Holmlunds cases seen in particular in recurrent scurrilous and ogenomtänkte move that patient cohorts best ability, helicopter huey may find themselves in glossing over and handle. When Lennart Holmlund took the step out in the blogosphere opened a blazing helicopter huey direct link between the Municipal Council minds and the public. Whether the existence helicopter huey of this direct link has been beneficial for social democracy is questionable for slips have been remarkable number. When people around the world received the tragic news of singer Whitney Houston's death had Holmlund example helicopter huey the good sense to moralize about Houston's motherhood. That Lennart Holmlund showing interest the surrounding county belongs not usual but recently he has on his blog expressed the view that the county's smaller municipalities should be merged into a few large municipalities. With fewer municipalities money would be saved on the Administration which would be the inhabitants of the municipality for some reasons Holmlund. The problem is, according to Holmlund's analysis that "småpåvar" blocks this simple yet ingenious solution. But the rub is obviously also a different point of Lennart Holmlund. Umeå pay namely closer to 480 million per year to the municipal cost equalization. Peanuts in comparison with large payers helicopter huey in the municipality of Sweden as Lidingö, but still. "Self-interest will not lie," as Marx already helicopter huey noted. To Umeå then take in significantly more in the municipal income equalization helicopter huey than you lose on cost equalization had indeed been becoming of Holmlund mentioning in this context. The municipal equalization is intended helicopter huey to equalize the conditions for local governments to provide their residents reasonable service independent of differences in the tax base and uncontrollable structural costs. The Centre Party belongs to the equalization system helicopter huey great defender. The system was created, however, in the 1960s, during Erlander era, and has since been a cornerstone of the Social Democrats' regional policy. That a Social Democrat Municipal begin tinkering to their own municipality solidarity are supporting sparsely populated municipalities in the county is both strange and revealing. For some people it is easier to show solidarity with other people's money than of their own. Future municipal mergers in Västerbotten can not be excluded, but the initiative to mergers must come from småkommunerna themselves, not from the county's largest and richest municipality. Umeå has considerably better off than municipalities whose expenditure is steadily helicopter huey increasing as the population shrinks helicopter huey and will obviously contribute to the equalization system. Anyone who does not realize this is not the county's best interests. Petter Bergner "
Holds firmly with you Mattias, Bergners analysis and perspectives are very perceptive and should call for deeper helicopter huey reflection. Particularly when the leader is actually an echo of the social-democratic stance of the older kind. Olle Edbloms blog in the VK 17/2 "municipal mergers solves no problem" houses the equally helicopter huey wise reflections.
No matter how we look at the government's views on the allocation of government grants, it is reassuring that there are politicians around Umeå and its surroundings, which looks gauge. A strong and growing hinterland, provides an even stronger growth on the coast. It is in this perspective one must work, because we will grow together helicopter huey and as a whole. Mutual and mutually supportive - in its true sense.
Reply to Tommy Streling (2012-03-02 22:52) Thanks for the comment, Tommy. Think it is interesting to Lennarsdotter