Personally I will take the talk about drastic cuts seriously when Miller, et al announce how many unions jobs will be cut and when.
Childlike antics
Re "Drastic cuts to TTC?" (July 20): The childlike antics of your fearless leader and the rest of the sandbox bunch are classic. To threaten to shut down the Sheppard subway line and decrease rush hour service will rile the soiled masses enough that they will scream at Dalton McGuinty and Stephen Harper for a raise in allowance. This does not affect the unionized city workers because they can all afford cars and parking.
Tom MacMillan
(It will when those roads, like Sheppard, become even more crowded)
Many I's at City Hall
I agree wholeheartedly with the assessment that any form of budget cutting should start with those who deem such cuts necessary ("Start the cutting at City Hall," Rob Granatstein, Point of View, July 20). That David Miller would throw his toys after council deferred the vote on his new taxes -- and then have the gall to not rescind the 9% council pay hikes is absolutely abhorrent, arrogance of the highest order, and makes me sick to my stomach. Here is the math: 9% pay raises for all councillors + Miller equals $354,998. This is more than 10% of the $30 million dollars the TTC needs to cut. It's funny that Miller likes to pull out all the cliches like "we're a team." Yet when it comes time for action, look who doesn't want to be part of the team! Miller and his band of tax-happy councillors.
Tom Beshoff
East York
(Aren't we sick of the councillor pay issue yet?)
Bully tactics
Re "Drastic cuts to TTC?" (July 20): My goodness, what a baby we have elected to run our city. I was aware Toronto was being run by an arrogant socialist, but I didn't know he was also a classic schoolyard bully. The first time one of his abusive tax grab ideas is stopped in its tracks, he behaves like a spoiled child. Mayor Miller and his cronies should be ashamed of themselves for turning this self-inflicted crisis back on their own constituents. This kind of political reaction seems not unlike that of a dictator, who rules by fear.
Richard Bates
Toronto
(We fear their choices)
Why trust them?
I love it! The city spends one billion dollars on a subway extension and now they can't afford to operate it. There obviously isn't a need for the extension. Any they wonder why we don't trust their need for new tax money.
Steve Lamont
Toronto
(A stump that stops at Don Mills will be viable in 10 years, when all the condos are finished -- or when it reaches Scarborough)
Simplistic perspective
Re "Petulant response to serious problem" (Sue-Ann Levy, July 20): Leave it to the Sun to address every serious issue with the most simplistic and provocative perspective while adding nothing substantive to the debate. Calling councillors socialists, tossing in a few out-of-context expenditures to inflame your readers, and writing as though you are stating the obvious doesn't make any of it true. I am always surprised at the complete void of analytical reasoning, or any reason at all, displayed by your cranky, ranting children -- I mean, journalists.
Craig Mansfield
(Thanks for reading)
Show us the books
Many of us really have no idea if the city needs the money or not. We are asked by both sides to take their word for it: One side says we need the money, the other side says no, we need to redress things. My question is, can't the Toronto Sun put a full-page analysis on this showing what the budget is, where the money is going, how much is being spent over that, which services are bloated, etc.? It would be a good way to inform the public of the facts, and also level a good blow against Mayor Miller's fear mongering.
Timothy Oostendarp
Toronto
(At $7 billion-plus it's hard to boil down, but we've done it before and we'll do it again)
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