In a world where everyone and everything is in debt in one way or another, we rely 100% on our government to ensure our safety and prosperity. From health, to safety, to education, all aspects of our lives are managed by the government of Canada. It blows my mind when counsel and mayor spend money like it’s Toony Tuesday at Taco Bell. We opted to spend $200,000 repainting sidewalk crosses because people are so insanely dumb that they can’t look before crossing the road (or can’t take their eyes off their phone while driving) that we need to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars to make sure these idiots have an excuse when they get hit that fault doesn’t really get shifted in the first place. A few years back Dal was crying for funding to keep scientific research data in the country by getting their own servers setup, they needed $300,000, and if they couldn’t they would have to store their data in the US&A on Google servers. They never did get that funding.. but we spend $200,000 on zebra striped cross walks? This kind of irresponsible spending is what is keeping us in debt, I can live with politics spending a few thousand(s) of dollars on their own personal life, hell I would ever encourage it if it meant they did their job correctly and gave us a surplus. Maybe it’s time to change how we look at the debt vs income structure in Nova Scotia. Maybe it’s time to let oil companies come and ravage our province like Alberta, After all.. they only pay about 5-7% income tax for far better service than we have. Instead everyone is concerned about the environment all of a sudden when frankly pollution around here is at an all time high. Personally I think if we did make as much money as Alberta, we’d end up blowing it on more zebra stripes from people getting hit by the oil tankers. Maybe it’s for the good though, one less moron who isn’t draining our fiscal budget by “working seasonal shifts” and more money in the hands of the corrupt politicians that fight to give them the check so they can buy a $20,000 talking Christmas tree. —A logical thinker
This article appears in Mar 26 – Apr 1, 2015.
OB, I get that you want our political leaders to spend more responsibly but, I’m sorry, I find it hard to square your rambling diatribe with your claim to be “a logical thinker”.
For example, it’s hard to tell if you are in favour of or against oil companies. You have “let oil companies come” and “only pay about 5-7% income tax for far better service” vs ” ravage our province like Alberta” and “pollution around here is at an all time high.” You seem to be arguing against yourself. Just sayin’!
Taxes in Alberta are a flat 10% rate, no? Much better than NS, yes.
If you listened to the news, you’d hear that Alberta is currently fucked. Their irresponsible spending, complete lack of foresight, and conservative approach of giving tax breaks to big oil companies while taking very little back in royalties has put them is quite a shitty situation.
200k really isn’t that much money to solve a problem that was clearly an issue within HRM. Sure it’s mostly people’s fault (drivers and pedestrians both), and I agree that we shouldn’t always look to government to solve our problems (see snow removal complaints) but after visiting a few other places in Canada and the states, it was clear we could use an improvement in our side walk visibility.
THE LOGICAL THINKER
“Instead everyone is concerned about the environment all of a sudden when frankly pollution around here is at an all time high.” A logical thinker
What we need around here is more logical thinking like that.
A pleasure as always.
Cheerio!
If the 200k spending on crosswalks prevented just one serious accident we would save much more than 200k in medical costs. If it prevented just one person from becoming permanently disabled we would save far more than 200k in life long care costs. It’s a good thing that we have some big picture thinkers among us because the small thinkers would nickel and dime us into the poor house!
wait….
just hold on ONE DAMN MINUTE.
Taco bell has a cartoon promotion on Tuesdays?
How did I not hear about this?
What is your point? For a logical thinking this is a ramblng mess.
Seems loons are not as endangered in N. S. as some people thought.
I get a Woody every time I think about a talking Christmas tree.
^^^ I’ve made that joke before but I am a firm believer in recycling.
meanwhile, we are getting charged an extra 17 dollars for 2 months on our water bills to maintain the storm drains that we already paid 120 dollars for retroactive to last year for the same thing because we had a “lot” of snow today…only province ive lived in that gets away with arbitrarily adding fees every other day ffs. i mean at least in Ontario its just the power company trying to sneak fees in lol…here its water, road maintenance, snow removal, power, licensing. Add it up just from water, power and licensing, they got me for 250 dollars this year in extra service fees….LIKE FUCK!!! i have a fucking 9 foot wide by 7 foot long by 8 inch pothole in the road 15 feet from my driveway…at least they put a goddamned pilon in the middle of it.