for the job of taking back the City of Toronto from lunatics. If that happens, Torontonians should seriously consider this man to replace the blonde wonder you keep seeing on the idiot box. Just the few paragraphs below tell me that he is far above the slimy George Smitherman or the other windbags trying to craftily lay another stranglehold on the city's vulnerable neck. (emphasis mine)
Last Wednesday at one of the few meetings they’ll hold to review this year’s $9.2-billion operating budget, councillors spent a mere four minutes dealing with the costs to manage the city’s homeless files.
In fact, none of the left-wingers on David Miller’s hand-picked budget committee asked a single question about the homeless budget — which tops $161 million this year.
That $161 million — which includes $14.7 million for the Streets to Homes program with its battalion of 70 social workers — does not include the tens of millions of dollars that will go into affordable housing projects.
I didn’t expect for a minute that any of the socialists would question the expenditures on the homeless file seeing as they’ve been responsible for ensuring it truly has become an industry at City Hall.
But — other than Coun. Doug Holyday — not a single councillor representing the right was there to poke holes in this, or any other budget, making me wonder whether members of council’s Responsible Government Group have decided they no longer intend to be responsible for keeping their NDP compatriots’ fiscal feet to the fire.
It’s rather obscene that they care so little about how our tax dollars are spent.
They should have been questioning why if, as city officials claim, 2,800 hardcore homeless have found homes since 2005 under the mayor’s Streets to Homes program, there are still street people parked on grates all over downtown Toronto and sleeping on Nathan Phillips Square. read further
Tuesday, March 16, 2010
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