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Old 11-10-2013, 03:50 PM
 
Location: On the Chesapeake
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You live in another state. If pittsburgh is so great then move here. You could sign up to be a vol ff.
Did that already. In PA. Forty years ago.

You are quite a piece of work.
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Old 11-10-2013, 03:55 PM
 
Location: Mid-Atlantic
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I do contribute. I provide valuable insight and an unbiased opinion to the minions on this board.

Which probably accounts for less than 1% of the Pgh Metro Area.
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Old 11-10-2013, 04:26 PM
 
Location: Beaver County
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Give me a paycheck and a pension. I am not fighting fires for free with the local drunkard that sees it as a hobby and a chance to play firefighter.
Do you even work, volunteer, participate in your community, pick up trash, trip little kids on the sidewalk...anything? Let me guess...you share stuff ..... on Facebook.
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Old 11-10-2013, 04:42 PM
 
Location: Awkward Manor
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Do you?
Still didn't answer.
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Old 11-10-2013, 05:37 PM
 
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Do you even work, volunteer, participate in your community, pick up trash, trip little kids on the sidewalk...anything? Let me guess...you share stuff ..... on Facebook.
You dont live in pittsburgh.....
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Old 11-10-2013, 05:38 PM
 
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Still didn't answer.
Im providing you with valuable insight.
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Old 11-10-2013, 05:44 PM
 
Location: Washington County, PA
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Im providing you with valuable insight.
You are an extremely dogmatic person. Seriously, I don't know your personally, but you need a reality check. You are the most tunnel visioned poster in the history of this forum.
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Old 11-10-2013, 05:53 PM
 
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If this concept actually came to fruition, it would actually increase resistance to change. I doubt that someone as liberal as Mr. Peduto could even think about being elected mayor and the costs would be outstanding to expand city services out to the county lines.

Further, ruling over a population when you just stripped local control out of the hands of 75% of them would be very difficult to say the least.

Such an idea would lend itself to a lot of chaos and a lot of expense.
You are probaby right. They will ride the duplication of government and school districts until the wheels fall off. The current setup is not business friendly nor does it give minorities or new immigrants hope for a better life or opportunity. Even though dissolving the other 129 munipalities and 41 school districts in the county, while making the other 900k people city residents would be the right yet unpopular thing to do.
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Old 11-10-2013, 06:01 PM
 
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You are an extremely dogmatic person. Seriously, I don't know your personally, but you need a reality check. You are the most tunnel visioned poster in the history of this forum.
I think i have explained my stance numerous times. You can see it however you want. I do not see the city, county or region changing much with its current setup of individual governmental kingdoms. Unless consolidation and absorption of these places into the city take place it will always be broke and segregated. Not enough money and too much time and cost to really fix the 57 square mile city.
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Old 11-10-2013, 06:13 PM
 
Location: Pittsburgh
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You are probaby right. They will ride the duplication of government and school districts until the wheels fall off. The current setup is not business friendly nor does it give minorities or new immigrants hope for a better life or opportunity. Even though dissolving the other 129 munipalities and 41 school districts in the county, while making the other 900k people city residents would be the right yet unpopular thing to do.

The Pittsburgh area has always been friendly enough to new immigrants, zman.

You never heard of the Pittsburgh Folk Festival, or the nationality rooms in the Cathedral??

Its just that our economics didn't make this a place that people wanted to migrate to in recent decades. If the area gets new industries and employment generators, you'll see plenty of folks coming in from all over.

The 130 municipalities in Allegheny County didn't hinder past economic development, I just don't see getting rid of them as helping future opportunity
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