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Do you really think he believed that the salaries of 22 councillors and their staff would cover the costs of 100 police? When public documents show that lots of police officers make the same overall salaries as one councillor, and those same public documents show that most councillors' staff make less than that?
Or that it was simply a great sound bite for a lot of disaffected people who never have or take the time to check on a fact like that, and he knew that he could say anything as long as he kept talking?
Stuff like that is how I started coming here...
Deco can't really do any of those things. They print sticky labels like you find on retail product bottles like shampoo or ketchup. They'd give a great deal on sticker rolls or magnets.
Wouldn't have printers big enough for signs, or the machine for assembling buttons, or the right inks for cheap paper leaflets.
If you don't like someone just tell them to shut up and call them a loser lol.
Deco can't really do any of those things. They print sticky labels like you find on retail product bottles like shampoo or ketchup. They'd give a great deal on sticker rolls or magnets.
Wouldn't have printers big enough for signs, or the machine for assembling buttons, or the right inks for cheap paper leaflets.
Mind you, it's part and parcel of the Fords' shtick that they're unwilling to work with "commies," which is to say anyone who's not a social Neanderthal. That's what their fanboys love about them, whether due to being reactionaries themselves, or just angry & pissed off at business as usual. See Donald Trump for a more recent example. Then again - and as we've been discussing here lately - it's not like the Fords wouldn't pivot on a dime if they saw any profit in doing so. It's not like they have any true political principles. Really, their only genuine ideology is self-promotion. Again, just like Trump.
Do you really think he believed that the salaries of 22 councillors and their staff would cover the costs of 100 police? When public documents show that lots of police officers make the same overall salaries as one councillor, and those same public documents show that most councillors' staff make less than that?
Or that it was simply a great sound bite for a lot of disaffected people who never have or take the time to check on a fact like that, and he knew that he could say anything as long as he kept talking?
Stuff like that is how I started coming here...
Christina @throwitinmyhat 44s45 seconds ago
OOPS.... Was this needed? Rob Ford 'International Fan Club" https://www.facebook.com/groups/RobFordIFC/?__mref=message_bubble… #TOpoli #RFMG
That's why Robbie is a champion of fiscal Conservative management... ONE BILLION DOLLARS!
Yep. Like all populist pandering, it's just about whatever sounds good at a particular moment. The Fords talk a lot about sticking up for 'the little guy' and representing 'the common folk', but economically they haven't been those things for a generation or so. Their whole shtick involves having a blind spot about their own privilege and counting on their supporters to have a blind spot too, hence DoFo going on swanky European vacations
while railing against 'wine-sipping elitists'. There is such a thing as raging so hard against perceived elitism and pretentiousness that the pendulum swings back the other way towards affectation ...
Didn't he float the idea of halving the number of councillors and wards before being elected to his first term, only to never mention it again? I don't recall him saying anything at all about how the new wards would be defined, how much it would cost to reorganize everything, hold new elections, etc.
Didn't he float the idea of halving the number of councillors and wards before being elected to his first term, only to never mention it again? I don't recall him saying anything at all about how the new wards would be defined, how much it would cost to reorganize everything, hold new elections, etc.
Details! Robbie doesn't worry about the details. He just throws crap out and hopes it sticks.Didn't he float the idea of halving the number of councillors and wards before being elected to his first term, only to never mention it again? I don't recall him saying anything at all about how the new wards would be defined, how much it would cost to reorganize everything, hold new elections, etc.
Sandie Benitah @sandiebenitah 6m6 minutes ago
Just taught a high school journalism class in #SandyLake #FirstNations using an article on Rob Ford as an example. No one had heard of him.