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Our mayor, our unions and our whole government is a fraud.

It’s a simple system:  The people pay taxes to the government.   The government provides services.  This is a basic social contract.   And yet something has gone drastically wrong.

Man was born in a clean room but is now everywhere in filth.

The people have held up their end of the bargain.  They have no choice.  Should they refuse to pay taxes, they get in trouble with the law.  But the government is no longer providing the services that they’re paid for.  When it comes to them and their fraud, the law is nowhere to be found.  It’s vanished as fast a gangster hitting the mattresses.

Toronto is a month deep into a city strike that includes paramedics, swimming pools and, most importantly, garbage.

The same city council that, just a few months ago, banned smoking within nine meters of a children’s playground is now dumping its garbage in parks.  Then spraying that garbage with poison.  The same city council that thinks having an open bottle of wine during your picnic is a threat to health and public order is now turning those parks into dumps.  Then spraying those dumps with poison.  We are governed by a cabal of sanctimonious cunts.

Their sanctimony is only exceeded by their incompetence.

A government that finds itself unable to perform its most basic functions has no business trying to perform any other function.  It’s like an aspiring gymnast trying to learn a triple backflip on the highbeam without mastering the sommersault.  A bartender trying to be like Tom Cruise in cocktail without being able to pull a pint.  It’s ridculous and it’s a drain on time and effort better spent on the possible.   None of which would be so bad if we weren’t paying for it.

But we are.

Not only in taxes but in business.  Toronto has been a service economy for as long as I can remember.  The mayor and the unions have managed to do what the collapse of American banking could not.  They’ve set off a recession in Toronto.  This strike has cost every restaurant money in pick-up and lost tourism.  It’s plain spooked the bridge and tunnel crowd.  It’s kicked Toronto’s economy in the nuts.  Through taxes, they charge us for the privilege.

And they still have the nerve to tell us what to do?

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When exactly did our government turn into some saran-wrap clad dominatrix?  When exactly did the people become some cowering, bound creature on a dirty mattress, begging to be hit harder and told what a naughty boy they are?  It probably happened about the same time the notion of a “sin tax” took hold.

The unions are little better.  This whole thing seems to be about bankable sick days.  That is, the union wants to get paid for days they were sick.  They also want to be able to collect these days and cash them in.  It’s a ridiculous issue.  And the unions have completely failed to tie this into any other social concern that might motivate the public to support them.  From where I’m standing, union people making more money just drives up prices.   It hurts me.

(I heard the first reasonable explanation of all this yesterday.  ((From a labour lawyer via The Chairman.))  Apparently it has to do with the firemen and the cops and arbitration.  An arbitration process is based on pretending it’s a real world scenario.  They base it on the last strike.  If the garbage men give up their bankable sick days, the cops and firemen, who are not allowed to strike, will likely lose theirs during their next arbitration.  The municipality is striking on behalf of the people who cannot.  So that cops and firemen can get a better deal.  One wonders if the unions have told their members this.   One wonders why no one has informed the public.)

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We’re in the middle of a systems collapse in Toronto.  A society that can’t even pick up after itself is not really a society.   Every level of organization has failed and is charging for the failure.  The city is unable to perform its basic functions.   Our mayor is a complete prat, the unions are up to God knows what and the people are, as usual, docile.  All are in conflict with each other about bullshit and it all has to be this way.  This is clusterfuck.

Cascading clusterfuck.

And you best get used to it.  The future has more in store.