Socialists Take Over Toronto

[Craig Read]

Miller, another lawyer [big surprise] is now the official NDP chief of Toronto.

Toronto has the following major issues to resolve and deal with - here is the top 10 - note how the Lefties and chubby cheeks Miller, will IGNORE ALL of them:

1. Infrastructure investment in roads and rail DESPERATELY needed

2. $2.5 Billion in debt that needs to be paid down, and a $6 billion yearly budget that needs drastic downsizing to help us reduce taxes, including reducing Property taxes - the HIGHEST in North America

3. Firms moving to the hinterland to avoid the high taxes

4. Exportation of $25 billion per annum to the rest of Canada that needs to stop so we can rebuild our infrastructure

5. A subway system that is a pathetic joke [so small if you blink you miss it] and needs to be built [using private $] including a rail connection between downtown and the airport [name me one other major US city we compete with that has that problem]

6. Political reform - all councillors must run under party flags so we at least have a clue who they are [in the last election only 1 of 6 candidates for councillor in my area had a web site ! and there were no debates !!]

7. Homeless and Vagabonds all over downtown and rising crime rates in every area - a no tolerance policy is needed.

8 Skilled people leaving and going to the US crushed by low wages and high taxes and poor infrastructure here.

9. 100.000 Immigrants pouring in year and after and the City has no budget from Ottawa, nor any control over the flow

10. $13 Billion Waterfront project - paid by - you guessed it - Mr. and Mrs. Canadian taxpayer. No financials on this project are yet public and a closed 3 man commission headed by Chretien fundraiser Robert Fung is controlling the process.

So what does Miller do?

Kills off 3.000 jobs by cancelling a bridge to the Island and forestalling signed contracts from being honoured. It will cost us millions in penalties to stop this construction.

Did the Island Bridge make the top 10 'to do list' for Toronto ?

No - but the lefties love to ignore reality, love to do what is not necessary to do, and love to kill jobs.

Toronto is going to sink further under Miller and his left wing pals. This is bad news for the rest of Canada since Toronto pays a lot of the bills for the country.

How can a city elect the NDP ???????????????????????

Mind boggling.

[daniel]

So you still think everything was fine under Harris/Eves/Lastman?

Most of those you listed were direct results of the Common Sense Revolution. Others ongoing for decades and decades.

And after eight years of Common Sense and good-news budgets are we any better off?

Meanwhile the neo-cons continue to ignore reality. Mind boggling.

[Craig Read]

What are you talking about ? The CSR was a 'revolution' in name only.

Debt went up, so did overall taxation.

Some reforms went through,not nearly enough.

Lastman was filibustered by the left wing council on any significant issue. He had no chance to pass meaningful reform given that the majority of council members are bought off by Unions and left wing groups.

The nexus of the left wing movement is the execrable Olivia Chow, wife of well known social crusader and moral coward, Jack Layton. She gets an obscene amount of press and airtime, to stutter in her broken english, the usual socialist litany of feel good politics and spending programs.

Toronto is in need of serious serious reforms. The sooner the councillors are forced to run under party flags the better. Currently the NDP and Unions control the city and nary a voter concern is expressed since the councillors and their vested interestes are hidden from public view.

The 10 issues i presented are THE pressing issues, not closing down a bridge to the Island, which is a contractual obligation and will cost legal fees to get out of. This is NOT a priority.

Unless you are a left wing nitwit that refuses to face reality of course.

Sounds like you fall into that camp.

[daniel]

Hindsight is 20/20. Here come the denials, the distancing of ever having said, claimed, or supported this and that.

For example:

What are you talking about ? The CSR was a 'revolution' in name only.

Lastman was filibustered by the left wing council on any significant issue. He had no chance to pass meaningful reform given that the majority of council members are bought off by Unions and left wing groups.

MFP, Island Bridge, Olympic bid - Left wing agenda or Lastman arm twisting with backroom deals?

Toronto is in need of serious serious reforms.

Where were you when the CSR forced amalgamation? Oh, as long as city hall is run by rightwing corruption everything is fine. But when the city is shifting to the left, reform is in need again. Sounds like you want a one-party system.

Unless you are a left wing nitwit that refuses to face reality of course.

The ultimate fallback argument.

I guess you are happy with the $5.6 or $4.7 or $1.2 (or whatever the number is this time) billion provincial deficit that was supposed to come a cross a balance budget.

Mind boggling.

[Craig Read]

You are obviously foolishly misled and blinded by your ideological nonsense.

Toronto needs the 10 reforms i listed. If you believe that the left wing nimbobs at City Hall can do it, then list in DETAIL, how they will do it. The rest of your crying philippic does not address one single issue i raised.

There has not been one significant policy reform in Toronto at City Hall - a government dominated now for decades by left wing clowns - capering and dancing on the taxpayer accounts and claiming that all sundry programs MUST be funded and provided.

The most basic reform is keeping tax dollars in the city and reforming the political process. This will NEVER happen with a left wing union supported council.

If you analyse the Toronto Budget about 40 % of it, is completely unnecessary spend. The TTC for instance survives off of debt and bond issuances and could use the funds eaten up by other nonsensical programs [arts, minorities, social services, special programs, various gov't projects and building, debt interest etc.]. The City is not allowed legally to run deficits - but it does - through accounting legerdemain - and hiding numbers off the balance sheet [oh but that is illegal for the private sector isn't it ?]. The City's credit has been marked down last year and rates are now higher. Its credit worthiness is under review and its finances extremely weak - based primarily upon obscene property tax rates. Without keep tax dollars in the city, the city will never be able to rebuild its poor infrastructure including its pathetic little subway system.

The Gross debt has increased by 2.5 x in the past 10 years and now the left wing lunatics want the Cdn taxpayer - from coast to coast - to fund the Waterfront redevelopment project - a $13 billion [it will be far higher once the usual govt overruns in time and money and FRAUD occur], publicly funded exercise with NO accountability, no financial ROI and no public vetting of the funding or benefits.

The City spent millions in parading around power point slides with pretty pictures on the Waterfront project. I went to these 'hearings'. The old gray hairs went ooh and ahh over the pretty powerpoint slides since they can take their dogs and cats down the parks and let them piss on flowers and bushes, but when i asked the Board directly at these meetings about the finances and ROI, I was told by Fung and group that the #'s are not important and not to be discussed. They refused to answer a simple question on the ROI !

This is the way gov't runs - assume people are stupid, tell them what to think, and make pretty marketing pictures. Big deal. Meanwhile back in the real world, developers, lawyers, engineers and friends of politicians are gleefully stuffing their bank accounts full of tax payer money.

Welcome to Toronto, - a city that expects 1 million immigrants in the next 20 years but has NO plans on renovating its infrastructure to handle the influx.