Weatherman2020
Diamond Member
The Republican priority is to always cut taxes, and they have been disinvesting in the cities since white people moved to the suburbs. In my last visit to Toronto, I was struck by how shabby it looks after 10 years of conservative governance. Infrastructure is what get's cut because it's something nobody notices, until it stops functioning.
Last fall, voters kicked the Conservatives out of City Hall and elected an NDP Mayor - Olivia Chow. Chow is the widow of the late Jack Layton - the man whose quote is my siggy.
Chow is fixing things, starting with the 3 year program to repair the raised portions of the Gardner Expressway. Chunks have been falling off the Gardner in recent years, and the Conservatives put up nets under the Gardner, to stop those chunks from falling on the cars on Lakeshore Blvd., which runs under the Gardner, in the downtown core. I wish I was kidding.
I pointed out that the money wasn't spent yet, and would be spent over a 10 year period, and that borrowing to do this much needed work is not such a bad idea. Did you pay for what you spent on your house, or did you borrow?
4/5 of the Federal Departments could disappear tonight and nobody would notice.The Republican priority is to always cut taxes
I had to stop halfway, USMB only allows 15 photos.