With all due respect, I would agree that the marketplace and business makes business decisions. But usually it's the government that has to come to the rescue of communities and workers who are displaced by virtue of either planned.... That's what I'm asking, whether or not you want to plan consolidation, because it's the government, it isn't the business, that has to worry about communities that are left out there on their own, or workers who may be 55 and older. What do you think you're going to do with those people? Who pays for those social costs? It isn't going to be you. It's going to be the government at the end of the day, all three levels of government, that will be left picking up the pieces of people's lives.
On June 15th, 2006. See this statement in context.