Advice for the Fords

[T-Bone]

In the entire history of civilization, a left-winger has never, not once won a political argument
against a right-winger.

Hence the natural response of lefties, for name-calling, and making fun of an opponents appearance.

For those unfamiliar with Toronto local politics, we kicked out the left in a 51-37% Mayoral election, which Mayor Rob Ford won, practically a landslide.

But keep talking, guys.

Your level of class is becoming apparent.

1argoholic, you are a disappointment.

Kozak blood? Not a chance.






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"Bloody Ti-Cat fan. Eat any good books lately?"

I live in the purple part. I couldn't care less if Ford is smoking crack or not, what has he actually done as mayor? Cut the vehicle tax and found out that all that "gravy" he was going on about, didn't exist. That's all I can think of off the top of my head.

[Midnight Blue]

The gravy train doesn't exist anymore.

Mayor Ford restored fiscal (monetary) sanity to City Hall, and the budget eventually had a surplus, instead of a deficit. Ford kept Toronto from approaching bankruptcy. He got rid of the vehicle registration tax, and the home transfer tax, and will be here to prevent the left from imposing new taxes and road tolls. He got rid of the Jarvis bike-lanes, which along with Dundas East and Dupont (which still exist) were simply meant to make it harder for cars to get around. Ford suggested that bike lanes should be built where they make sense (like Sherbourne, which was already planned, and now implimented). He ended the "war on the car". This war has been going on since the Eighties, when City Hall decided not to add an off-on ramp directly to the Skydome, since in their words, "it would encourage more cars."

We live in a democracy. Rob Ford is our point-man for sanity, funny as that may sound.

Sure, he looks, and sometimes acts goofy.

Personally, I wouldn't care if he was a cross-dressing transvestite, as long as he got the job done.

And there has been no evidence yet, of crack-smoking, only allegations.

The "group" responsible for get donations, has now well over the $200,000.- asked by the owners of the supposed video. But the sellers seem to have disappeared. If the video is real, then Mayor Ford should resign. Though if the video is real, he was probably just sharing some pot with some locals.


Oh and I live Downtown too.


Ka' Pla !









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"Bloody Ti-Cat fan. Eat any good books lately?"

[Mulder]

I live in the purple part. I couldn't care less if Ford is smoking crack or not, what has he actually done as mayor? Cut the vehicle tax and found out that all that "gravy" he was going on about, didn't exist. That's all I can think of off the top of my head.

Argofan87's post and article outline it pretty clear. The stuff you don't see published anywhere has saved the City tens of millions of not more. There was no single source of gravy.
Beside's IMO,I think more people voted for Rob Ford for his Subway's platform, which was voted down by council, not the mayor.

[Will]

The part I agree with the most in that article is that the last thing Toronto needs is the other extreme (Olivia Chow); she might not come with the baggage that Ford did, but the map that T-Bone posted is very telling and very truthful. The suburbs won't be fond of Chow just as the inner city isn't fond about Ford.