City Hall Einsteins Make Unprecedented Transit Blunder

What is this? Death Wish 2, The Sequel?

Who’s doing the political strategy down there at city hall? Sure isn’t Machiavelli. These guys think Machiavelli is a striker for AC Roma.

What genius came up with beating up the poor elderly with a 120 per cent and then says: “120 waz da make ’em crazy bid. Sixty per cent’s da real deal. You bet doze cranky old geezers will be thankful for a 60-per-center when we threw 120 at dem.”

You see the thing about this is the abject stupidity of thinking you can quiet the seniors by cutting an outrageous 120 to an unconscionable 60. Where do these guys come from?

Mussing with the poor elderly is a non-starter from the get-go. Poor elderly can’t afford 120 per cent. Poor elderly can’t afford 60 per cent. They’ll be damn lucky to afford two per cent between cans of cat food.

But they do vote. More than any other demographic. Get used to cat food, pols.

What possible upside is there to beating up the poor elderly? You can count on those seniors to be rightly furious if they can muster the energy after borderline malnutrition. But no right-thinking Ottawan (if there are any left) is likely to be satisfied with fiscally kicking the crap out of your grandmother.

You looking for money, pols? You won’t find it in the poor elderly’s pockets. Try the rich guys you so generously endow with cash.

“Yup, me and da boys are purdy smart flying a 120 past the old farts so dey’ll settle real good with da 60. Eat it up you  senile suckers. Knock yourselves out. Whaddaya use da coin for? A new walka’?” our pols with exteriors of ice and hearts of cold water were heard to laugh.

What government-wage-padded ivory tower do these thugs come from? People can do the math. This isn’t math with The Muppets’ Count. Much easier to understand. People can see through 60 per cent. It’s called usury.

The Muppets’ episode our math-challenged councillors missed.

Two bad that ivory tower wasn’t a missile that would send our intellectually challenged councillors to the planet Zatar where budgets with $36-million holes in them are accepted as the norm.

Next on Mayor Mark Suttcliffe’s schedule with his gang of enforcers Glen Gower, the always entertaining Jeff Leiper and Tim Tierney is eliminating designated parking spots for the mobility-challenged, ending baby-changing tables in washrooms and shortening walk signals to five seconds at intersections to be featured in a new reality TV series, Survival of the Fittest.

Yes, this come-down from 120 to 60 for the poor elderly is the definition of stupid. Concerned about the tenor of this post staffers and pols? You deserved worse.

The problem with balancing the transit budget isn’t with money but the people running the joint.

And, on the subject of stupid, how’s that O-Train working out, Einsteins?

Ken Gray

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