The idiots in Toronto are going to pay for it now...

I stumbled across this article today.

In the recent municipal elections, idiotic Torontonians voted in Rob Ford. He won on a slogan: "Stop the gravy train."

So now, he has paid for an expensive audit, and has a 774 million deficit. He has to cut the staff, because that's where 80% of the money is, to cover this. However, he is looking into cutting subsidized daycare and fluoride in Toronto's drinking water.

Cutting fluoride in the drinking water? That's playing with the health of every Torontonian out there. Especially if he is going to be cutting back city employees, the public health department will be overworked, for sure.

I believe what he is proposing is very short-sighted... Cutting fluoride out of the drinking water is very very short sighted... It can (and probably will) cause more troubles which will cost money rather than save money... Not to mention that if you value the health of the citizens that voted you in, you cannot put a price on peoples' health... That's just like giving the middle finger to the people who voted you in...

Cutting the work force for the city will mean even longer waits for people for services... The wait already is not great, but what Rob Ford is now doing is going to make the wait even longer... Not to mention he has constantly shown his short-sightedness on many projects. He killed the proposed LRT routes to build a subway route... When most cities now are not building new lines at all... They are only building short extensions to existing lines. They are also investing in streetcars and LRT. These options are better for the environment, are more cost-effective in the building, but his lack of foresight has shown Torontonians that he will make decisions to cut in the short run to save money in the short term, but will be detrimental in the long run.

Did Torontonians not learn from the Mike Harris fiasco in 1995?