...that is the only reason I can see for his blueprint. The only way most of his solutions would work is if ALL of the current councilors were given their walking papers, some senior bureaucrats were fired and the jobs for life credo was scrapped with a message to the unions that the Regan air controllers solution would be implemented.
My blueprint is as realistic as Royson's ...
James: How do we make Toronto great? Here's how
...in support of my alternative:
If you can't get rid of big government...
...start small:Maywood: A city that sacked its entire staff The US city sacked all its staff to stave off bankruptcy – and its citizens think services are now better. Tom Leonard reports.H/t: Denise.
To the casual eye, nothing about Maywood looks unusual. Police cars patrol the city’s palm-tree lined streets a few miles south of downtown Los Angeles, red-shorted lifeguards watch over the public swimming pool and, inside the striking Art Deco city hall, clerks issue yard sale permits. The police cars, however, are from “out of town” and manned by deputies from the county sheriff’s department, while the lifeguards and clerks are on loan from the neighbouring city of Bell.
Maywood – working-class, respectable and 95 per cent Hispanic – has attempted something unheard of anywhere in local government. It sacked its entire workforce and staved off looming bankruptcy by outsourcing everything. More than 70 workers lost their jobs at the end of June. Others were re-employed contractually, losing key benefits. But the newly jobless may be the only people not smiling now...
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