"Cowardice asks the question...is it safe? Expediency asks the question...is it politic? Vanity asks the question...is it popular? But conscience asks the question...is it right? And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular but one must take it because it is right." ~Dr. Martin Luther King

Tuesday 26 July 2011

Thought For The Day


  I received the following  in an e-mail. I could not re-produce the picture. I will take classes at the senior's centre next fall.I promise.

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Let’s not kid ourselves; this is not just an explanation of Ontario ’s crisis. It probably applies equally to just about anywhere in the world that is facing financial difficulties.
Ontario’s Financial Crisis Explained In A Single Picture_________________________________
                                         The picture shows a large excavation with one man working with a shovel.

                                          Standing around the perimeter in various poses,hands on hips,
                                          arms folded ,two sitting on upturned bins are nine others; all
                                          managers of  IT, Communications,Human Resources,Logistics,
                                          Marketing, Project.Internet Supervisor, P.R. and Product Development
                                          Manager
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                             This financial crisis is forcing the Province of Ontario and local agencies to make some tough decisions will have to be made.
If things continue for much longer, there's a real risk that we may have to lay off Jose.

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Jose  of course, is the man with the shovel. .

The Province keeps  handing out dictum that municipal services must pay for themselves by charging fees. Like water rates.  It's a  government version of privatising.

Only what private enterprise could  stay in business carrying the  load of a municipal administration?

How real  are  fees for service when that  load is factored in?

At the last meeting of the last council,  staff recommended authority for implementing dozens of unnamed policies be transferred   from council to staff . And so it was done.

I don't believe it even merited  a news story.

Of course, at the time it was done,it was fully anticipated Phyllis Morris would be returned as Mayor.
There was little doubt in my mind who would be exercising the authority behind the scenes with  a select number of councillors in on the picture.

Not only has  Council lost  authority...This Council isn't even aware of what was lost or half of what is transpiring behind the scenes now.

All quite proper according to one of the last votes cast by the last Council. 

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

gone are the days Evelyn, when you could count on an honest days work for an honest days pay , now we need one employee to remove the dead light bulb ,one to order a new one , one to pick it up , one to screw it in , one to see if it works and one to check it every day until it burns out again , its a fact !!!