WHEEEEEE

It's as if I stopped pedalling and the bike kept careening on down,picking up speed . I stopped writing....the blog kept going.

Except I had to moderate the comments. 

The Blog is political and not impartial. I do not support re-election of the current government nor publish comments that support same. 

Last night a headline noted a new plank in the platform. To spend billions to increase Defence spending by recruiting  30,000  additional armed force members. 

When the old drill shed  was returned to the town,a DND sign on the property encouraged young people to sign up for an exciting life-style. 

 

Fourteen thousand young walking wounded veterans of current campaigns are enduring  trauma from that exciting  life style. Jobs promised  at the end of tour of duty are not forthcoming. 

If attention was paid to the succession of caskets passing under the bridge over the Highway  of Heroes and the additional  thousands of walking wounded, why would anyone volunteer for Harper's Hostiles? 

Who is likely to respond to this call to glory?   

Young people with feet already firmly planted on an alternate  career path to financial success? 

Not likely.

It will be as it always has been; unemployed youth with little in their future,others with a taste for violence and few with any sense of what is expected of them. 

Former Prime Minister Jean Chretien won his last election strictly on the  decision Canada would not join the British and American expedition in Iraq. 

The current Prime Minister has picked a side in the Russia/Ukraine dispute and is prepared to send young Canadians into harm's way so that he can look strong and mighty and pick up votes along the same way. 

For me, that's the clincher. That's the cold,cruel deception. 

The blog will not be used to promote  re-election of the current Prime Minister.

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The Culture Centre is in focus again. 

Cost is significant. Financial support, maintenance costs for the building. Money going out,nothing coming in amounts to outlay of close to a million. It amounts to 3 points in the tax rate.

That's not small potatoes . 

Council has authority to set the level of support .They have chosen to maintain the facility in the style to which it has become accustomed. 

Why should they aim for  self-sufficiency? 

It's not the message received from this or the previous administration. 

Despite initial professional advice on how to prevent the facility from becoming a burden on taxpayers, a burden is exactly what it has become. With little to show.

Unless one counts the steady procession at the podium with endless demands for hand-outs to serve this or that  special interest. Whether it's buying unneeded land ,giving away free space or relieving friends of development charge payments.,