Only as much as all the other pols and princes and pharoahs since ThutmoseII who have made the same empty promise, then broken it.Is he a magician?
But what about the elites and his promise to clean them?Only as much as all the other pols and princes and pharoahs since ThutmoseII who have made the same empty promise, then broken it.
The most spectacular of line of hypocrisy recently in this country was a still-living Conservative PM who loudly promised his government would never run a deficit, then ran up record ones every year until he was defeated, all the while 'financing' them through 'efficiencies like in Dougie's drug-dealer's spiel.
Then at the lower tier there was his late brother who promised cleaning up the waste at City Hall would pay for everything. But he was a crackhead, and not responsible for the tax-hike his pet ScarBurrow has stuck us with, in spite of having to empty the Emergency Fund and use inflated Real Estate taxes just to run the City when they should be building it. As he bailed, the City Manager predicted the coming shortfall would be approaching 7Billion. When that comes due, it'll make a $5/month car tax or 15¢ for shopping bags seem a penny-ante 'respect for taxpayers', won't it?
The hilarious thing is, the dopey half of the PCs that fall for that fairytale everytime, think they're the hard-nosed, clear-eyed realists.
No, it's stopping the swamp train.But what about the elites and his promise to clean them?
Or draining the gravy boat or whatever?
The swamp train only has one stop.No, it's stopping the swamp train.
You think he is not part of the elites?But what about the elites and his promise to clean them?
Or draining the gravy boat or whatever?
All he did was cut the City's ordinary tax revenues and increase its ordinary expenditures. The shortfalls were made good by raiding various of our civic savings accounts and funds, not doing maintenance and not doing promised upgrades and improvements that came due. And by depending more every year on what the city gets from the Real Estate Sales Tax. That was Rob, and Tory's the same, just with a more CBC-polished speaking style.You think he is not part of the elites?
Well that true, one luxury of being as dumb as a post, is you have no idea when you are telling huge lies. In fact, technically you cannot really even lie!!! You need to know the truth in order to lie, and if you are utterly clueless, then you area always speaking the gods honest truth!!!All he did was cut the City's ordinary tax revenues and increase its ordinary expenditures. The shortfalls were made good by raiding various of our civic savings accounts and funds, not doing maintenance and not doing promised upgrades and improvements that came due. And by depending more every year on what the city gets from the Real Estate Sales Tax. That was Rob, and Tory's the same, just with a more CBC-polished speaking style.
Rob's strategy was like taking a voluntary pay cut so the boss'll keep you on in spite of incompetence, then living week by week off the kid's college fund, and the account where you were saving for a new roof. Because the neighbour's paying you so he can park his new car in your driveway until he gets rid of the old one, there's just enough to get by each week. But the furnace is starting to groan …
Elites? They're just the cream of the crop. Exactly the sort of folks you want in difficult positions of responsibility. But certainly not guys who claim 'they can finance it all by efficiencies'. You know they're lying, even if they don't.
Not quite. You thought you were speaking true in your post, but you were inaccurate. A person may well be too stupid or ignorant to know what is true, but that doesn't make it truth, god's honest or any other sort. It only makes them innocent of lying.Well that true, one luxury of being as dumb as a post, is you have no idea when you are telling huge lies. In fact, technically you cannot really even lie!!! You need to know the truth in order to lie, and if you are utterly clueless, then you area always speaking the gods honest truth!!!
The truth about the truth is there is no truth, just perception of what happened.Not quite. You thought you were speaking true in your post, but you were inaccurate. A person may well be too stupid or ignorant to know what is true, but that doesn't make it truth, god's honest or any other sort. It only makes them innocent of lying.
What we call a pol like Rob or Donny, who deliberately keeps themselves truth, logic and fact-free so they can say what they want without fear of correction is a challenge no writer of this century has succeeded at yet. For now, liar will have to serve.
She did not layoff or cut....I wonder how some of the posters in this thread feel about Kathleen Wynne's repeated assertions in 2014 that she could get Ontario back to balanced budgets without any layoffs or cuts (and no mention of selling Hydro One)?
https://www.thestar.com/news/queens...n-budget-that-returns-ontario-to-deficit.html
She also hasn't balanced the books, nor will she.She did not layoff or cut....
Only if you have a plan to get the work done without the workers you don't replace.In fact, what Ford has been saying doesn't seem all that implausible. It depends on what he decides to do and over what time frame.
It's important to remember that Ontario has a huge public sector workforce that is aging and that has an incredibly generous pension plan. A number of positions could be reduced over a four-year mandate through attrition.
Add in 2% for inflation and you're looking at 6%, which isn't so easy.$6B in a total budget of $145B isn't much. Just over 4%. I don't think you need to be a magician to find those savings.
Got to get the votes from some place,... who gives a shit about the cost.Kathleen Wynne added 360,000 new government workers during her tenure.