northstar
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Whatevs, because the idea of equating a city with a corporate structure is totally asinine!!!Originally Posted by Automation Gallery View Post
City of Toronto is falling off the same cliff as General Motors
The workers enjoy perks that others can only dream of. The well-paid executives avoid making tough decisions. The organization has lost touch with those it serves and become a sprawling, self-perpetuating bureaucracy. The whole vast enterprise is drifting toward the rocks.
All of this was said of General Motors a year or two ago. It could just as easily be said of the City of Toronto today. Toronto is the GM of Canadian governments, heading for ruin, knowing it but lacking any credible plan to save itself.
The strike that started this week is only the latest sign of trouble. Mayor David Miller blames the city's worsening financial state on the recession. With revenues down, the city is trying to cut labour costs by wringing concessions from the unions.
But, as with GM, the recession is merely the straw that broke the camel's back. Like GM, Toronto has been storing up trouble for years.
More.........http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/...rticle1197951/
"Whatevs" is a rather cavalier comment that dismisses Toronto's culpability in creating its own financial mess.
As was the case with GM, the article is suggesting Toronto could be managed better.
I know Toronto isn't getting as much money from the Feds as it once did, but explain how this is different from situations in other cities across the country? And then explain why Toronto should be treated as a special case, while other cities, many of which managed their finances well, should be left holding the bag?
As mayor, David Miller is responsible for seeing that the city is well run. I'm not sure that this city is being run as well as it could be.
The fact that Miller sulks about things "not being fair" gets childish after a while.
At the end of the day, the question is this: Is the city being run as well as it could be, or even as well as other cities?
If not, then is it time for a new mayor?