LIGHT RAIL: Tax Money Is Your Money. Not The City’s Money

When you look at how tax money has been squandered on such stupidities as light rail and Lansdowne, think of that money as your money. Because it is your money and our money.

When the city spends money, think about if you would spend your money that way. Is the money spent on the right things and is it spent well? If it’s not, tell the city that. It’s our money.

And that’s what you call public policy, in a nutshell.

Few things bother your agent more than being patronized by staffers and politicians who lecture the public on how people should act. Many of the people being lectured in this hyper-educated town are smarter than the people doing the lecturing. Smart politicians and public servants take advantage of the collective expertise of the public rather than try to spin them or cover up mistakes or patronize you or pay out your money to their advantage and the advantage of their friends.

Get Ottawa’s Unsafe LRT Off The Rails

There’s nothing quite as satisfying as having simpletons tell you how to live and stuff their wrong-headed, stupid ideas down your throat.

You worked hard for that money. Put it to the best use.

Think for a moment what could have been done with the $6.4 billion being squandered on light rail. Personally, I would have spent it on light rail. I would just hope that it would be completed in a fashion that benefits the community and uses my tax money better. That project was cocked-up in the planning, in the executions and in the results, brutal as they are.

That’s our money. That’s my money. That’s your money.

The sloth, the bureaucracy, the stupidity, the arrogance, the incompetence, the petty politics and the cover-up have been absolutely appalling. I cannot find the words that express my disappointment with this project.

It’s your money. Get your money’s worth. Tell the politicians and bureaucrats at city hall who have destroyed our public transit system using your money what you think.

Tell them that the ever-flowing river of money pouring into city hall should not be used improperly. That it is your money, my money, our money. It is not to be used to fuel petty bureaucrats’ empires, or feed their egos or pay favours to friends or people who can spur their careers.

“Do you really want those old red stations, Ken? We want an award-winning light-rail project.” Award-winning for whom? And what award? The booby prize?

Our tax money is to be used for the greater good, not to be squandered on horrible government. Our politicians and bureaucrats should care about the people of this community, not fuel their ambitions and prestige.

LRT Building Snarled, Traffic A Mess, Take A Boat

Our politicians and staffers have cocked-up more projects than anyone could reasonably expect.

Heads should be rolling. Incompetent people who don’t care enough must go.

Good people are out there to work at city hall. Let’s get them. And make sure their hearts and ethics are in the right place. And they’re not buddies of special interest groups but real public servants.

Furthermore next election, find good, smart people in your community to run for council … even mayor. It’s up to you.

Light rail and other municipal fiascos show that our staffers and pols are not good enough for the good people of this community.

Let’s get people to make good decisions, the correct decisions and get it right.

Ken Gray

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