TheTigerMaster
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I truly believe Horvath has hit on a winner when she says she'll carefully looks after the money of all Ontarians.
All three levels of government has "gravy" that can be cut. We all know this.
Rob Ford ran on that and won ... and with good reason.
That kind of message rightfully resonates with people like me.
I still have to laugh whenever I hear a Rob Ford supporter talking about waste at City Hall. This Ford guy is always going on about all the waste at City Hall. He promised to get rid of billions of dollars of waste all without cutting a single service. As usual people fell for the nonsense. When it came time to actually cut the waste, KPMG's report showed that the municipal government was very efficiently run. Yes, there was "waste" (as there is in any system), but the amounts were tiny. Any meaningful cuts in spending would have to come from cutting services.
There are two things I've leaned about waste in gov't over the past few years:
1. There's always waste.
2. The waste is rarely as much as people think it will be. Believe it or not, governments don't like shovelling bags of money into furnaces.
I truly believe Horvath has hit on a winner when she says she'll carefully looks after the money of all Ontarians.
I for one will never vote for a candidate that claims to find billions of wasted dollars. I'd hope that other people would have learned their lessons from the Ford bros. The only situation where I'll be voting for a "cut the waste" candidate is if they're able to outline where exactly the waste is and how much waste there is. If they can't do that then I'd say that their promise to cut waste is 99% nonsense.
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