Comments on: Is canal project in jeopardy?

By: jrlo

jrlo — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 20:54:09 +0000

I agree with most of this, and certainly agree that ethics are relic of the past.

By: blackhelicoptersarecoming

blackhelicoptersarecoming — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 13:23:00 +0000

Methinks J-Lo you aren’t reading the current affairs sections of the newspapers…. activist government is here to stay, for a long long time, from people crying for bailouts of their industries, to the US government forcing the resignation of a CEO, to government insurance of mortgages and on and on. With the election of Obama, the West came to a fork in the road and chose a very different path from the one travelled the past 30 years.

Your idea of what government is supposed to do is now archaic, and has been relegated to the scrap heap of history, along with the rest of small ‘c’ conservative ideologically beliefs. Our own PM, once a dyed-in-the-wool fiscal conservative, has abandoned all principle in the pursuit of maintaining power and now runs around the world preaching the virtues of inflationary government stimulus. The US? Reagan is shuddering in his grave over the sudden remaking of that country into an interventionist pseudo-socialist state since Clinton left office.

So you call it a legacy project, we call it par for the course, and given the thirst for government action, why not a canal? Why waste money on roads and bridges and sewers and watermains? Do these get politicians re-elected? Are these sexy projects that make a community proud? How many people travel out of town and brag that “hey Windsor is pretty boring, but at least we’ve got great roads and sewers’. Nobody cares. People care about big – MEGA – solutions. Gord Henderson speaks for all Windsorites when he longs for something spectacular to happen in the Region.

In Eddie we trust.

By: jrlo

jrlo — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 13:06:19 +0000

PS: since no ethical person could ever get elected into government at any level, I suggest all public servants should first have to swear an oath similar to the physicians code that starts out: FIRST DO NO HARM

This principle must be applied in every situation/circumstance where taxpayer money is being spent, and where our glorious ‘leaders’ (professional liars, unprincipled fools, and sociopaths) don’t really know what to do. (which is almost always)

FIRST, DO NO HARM!

By: jrlo

jrlo — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 12:43:29 +0000

Are we ‘world class’ yet? No? Drat!
These egomaniacal halfwits have been daydreaming about ‘legacy’ projects ever since Djoser built the first pyramid – well, Djoser is credited with building the first pyramid, but you can be sure he personally never laid a single brick. Since that time, nothing much has changed.
Eddies moat has got to be the stupidest idea I’ve ever heard in my life.
Remember all the office jobs Candarel was going to create? Remember all the convention tourism sure to fill the Cleary?
Remember all the people who came from far and wide to see the big hole in the ground downtown?
Once upon a time Flint, Mich decided to ‘create jobs’ by building a ‘world class’ attraction called ‘AutoWorld’. Hundreds of millions were blown by local council yokels on this foolish pipe-dream, you know, to ’save the economy’ and ‘create jobs’.
Now of course, like Candarel, it’s just a sad joke, for which the taxpayers are still paying.
Government cannot CREATE JOBS.
Government cannot CREATE ANYTHING.
The job of government is simply to provide basic services and manage the tax money we give them, not play Walt Disney on hare-brained legacy projects with taxpayer money.
Oh, it’s a no-brainer all right. Blackhelicopters starts out dumping on the art gallery – I agree! It’s ALL TRUE.
Then he/she/it inexplicably goes on to support this imbecilic project – I smell vested interest.
Looks like blackhelicopters has been standing too close to the rotor blades again.

By: chrisschnurr

chrisschnurr — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 19:20:51 +0000

More on Scrip Money. Had no idea what that was.

http://peakenergy.blogspot.com/2008/10/locabucks-are-local-currencies-way-to.html