When life deals you lemons, you are sometimes awash in lemonade. Even with the legislature shuttered for the summer, premier Ford hangs heavy over Ontario. He is that slow, overweight kid from down the street, who is always it in an imaginary game of hide and seek. And, you can’t change the role he plays, because he likes it. It makes him feel important.
As premier of Ontario, Doug Ford revels in the perception of himself as a populist. Yet the only voter he really pleases is himself. This is a guy who has no compunction but to mess with Ontario’s Greenbelt. He also messes with our highways. Both of these activities are not to please the public but to please his developer friends. These were the only people who were nice to him when he was on Toronto council.
But Doug Ford, in his ignorance, kills people. He muses about the highly invasive Ontario Works program that supplies a limited amount of support to people in search of work. He complains that these people are sitting at home just taking your hard-earned dollars. The fact is those hard-earned dollars are about half what is considered the poverty line in Ontario. What he is really doing is creating thievery. He is encouraging people to break and enter, pick your pocket, steal packages from your porch or your car or just shoplift. He thinks it is an incentive to work to watch your family starve. He thinks Les Miserable by Victor Hugo is just a frothy Broadway musical.
He swears he supports the Ontario Disability Support Program (ODSP) but it is also so far below the poverty line to be ludicrous. It is plain and simple murder. He is causing people to die on our streets and he cannot deny it.
In Toronto, they chase the homeless out of the parks so that the gentry can enjoy them. The parks provide places for their dogs to poop.
What is really stupid about the Ford regime at Queen’s Park is its constantly telling us they are spending our money wisely. When there are serious complaints about needs, they assure us that they are throwing money at the problem. It hardly helps when we find they are really squirelling the money away. And you thought it is only ideological conservatives who are supposed to be reluctant to spend money.
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