Was talking to a friend about this very thing. We were remembering back to when you didn't even notice how much money you spent on gas. If three people chipped in a couple of bucks each that was good for the night.
Today a tank of gas will run you a hundred bucks?
Yes- and it`s ALL DUE to LIE-beral inflation! LIE-berals LOVE inflation- they borrow high value dollars then let inflation eat into the value and pay back with lower value dollars! Too bad anybody trying to save for retirement gets SCREWED by the artificially LOW interest rates that LIE-berals have set to "control inflation" -so they say! But there IS a reason why we call them LIE-berals! And it has to do with their tongues being so twisted they can open wine bottles easily with their mouths!
Here is an article illustrating that even the Toronto Sun gets it a little bit wrong once in a while- with some comments of my own in brackets):
Wynne's Liberals don't give a hoot about Toronto's social housing woes
By Sue-Ann Levy, Toronto Sun. First posted: Wednesday, May 03, 2017 06:32 PM EDT | Updated: Wednesday, May 03, 2017 08:02 PM EDT
It is clear Kathleen Wynne's Liberals don’t really give a hoot about improving the quality of life for the downtrodden in social housing.
(LIE-berals are interested in power and gravy only-all else, including all of US, are DISPOSABLE!)
Liberals leaving Toronto to fend for itself. Trust the provincial Liberals to muddy the fiscal waters enough to make you want to throw up your hands and say “uncle.” Not that we did.
(I ask why worry specifically about TORONTO Housing when there is such a HUGE number of people right across the province being abandoned by madly spending LIE-berals who think any and all problems can be resolved by throwing cash at LIE-beral FRIENDS!)
All the Toronto Sun wanted to confirm Wednesday was how much, if anything, the province under Premier Kathleen Wynne has given since 2013 towards clearing up the $2.6-billion backlog in repairs to Toronto’s social housing stock.
That was the year council approved a 10-year capital financing plan for Toronto Community Housing Corporation- TCHC- that asked the province and feds to chip in one-third (or $864-million each) to try to keep open all of the housing authority’s 58,000 units, many beyond their best-before date.
(This is a fine example of Toronto hypocrisy- Mayor Jackass John Tory wants other levels of govt to curtail THEIR idiot spending in order to free up cash to help HIM out-so he can continue with HIS idiot spending un-impeded by bankruptcy!)
(What’s really scary about the condition of TCHC units is that they city got hold of many of them in the aftermath of the Great Apartment Flip in the early 1980`s when Bill Player and some Saudi investors tried to use loopholes in the rent control laws to artificially increase the value of the buildings and the rents being charged so there would be enough money to maintain the buildings properly so they would not become the bedraggled slums they are today! Its been over 30 years since any real work has been done on the buildings and we are approaching real structural damage in those rotting piles- as Jackass John Tory has warned! Too bad he has no spine and thus can do nothing about this mess!)
And thus began an e-mail version of cat-and-mouse whereby Theresa Lubowitz, spokesman for housing minister Chris Ballard, threw at us a variety of numbers that really had nothing to do with repairs.
In the end, we were able to confirm the province has contributed $0, nada, nothing, zilch, zip toward that $864 million first requested in 2013.
(Considering that Ontari-owe LIE-berals have-for several decades- been giving Toronto ten dollars in transfer payments for each citizen compared to ONE dollar per citizen in other Ontari-owe municipalities, its going to be VERY HARD to persuade those outside GTA that their taxes should go up even further to benefit already overpaid Toronto Hogs! And with LIE-beral support at record low levels they will not be excited about paying even more to buy Toronto Hog support at the expense of the rest of the province! After all, LIE-berals can already count on support from Toronto Hogs- so no need to buy them twice! )
It was the same figure I’d first heard about at a TCHC board meeting a week ago, when officials contended that 325 units are already closed now and another 1,000 could close by the end of 2018 if $358 million doesn’t come their way for repairs next year.
(City Hogs want 358 million or they will close 1,325 units? That works out to $270,000.00 per unit-just how rotten are these places? And would it not be cheaper to knock the TCHC buildings down and simply fire the costly Hog staff and use the saved money to supply housing allowances to tenants to go live in privately owned buildings? Since most of the tenants are apparently either un-employed or retired or on some sort of disability pension, perhaps we should be shipping them in job lots to some smaller and cheaper municipality to live at less cost? A province teetering on the edge of bankruptcy like Ontari-owe does not have a lot of options with frills on them!)
(But why should stupid LIE-berals change their ways now? LIE-berals created much of this mess with their idiot immigration policies that let in any doofus who was smart enough to mark an `X` beside the name of a LIE-beral candidate and they brushed off concerns about the lack of ability of their newly purchased voters to survive in Canada without constant costly govt aid- which is WHY we keep speaking of PURCHASED VOTERS- LIE-berals have turned immigrant support and social worker `poverty pimps` who profit from badly planned immigration policy into a growth industry!! In addition, LIE-berals have ruined our economy with massive taxes and huge debts that are job killers-as proof, one has only to look at LIE-beral economic policy that offers grand tax discounts and outright gifts and grants to any company willing to set up here! If high taxes are not a job killer then WHY is there need to offer tax breaks as a lure to new business?)
(LIE-berals have made grandly paid careers out of buying immigrant votes and now the money has run out and the party is OVER! The next generation of Cdn leaders will have to make some HARD choices! And why is Toronto so convinced of its special status since it already gets TEN DOLLARS PER CITIZEN from the province versus one dollar per citizen for other municipalities- ten to one in favour of Toronto is not enough for greedy Hogtown-still they want WAY MORE!)
In fairness, as TCHC spokesman Brayden Akers confirmed Wednesday, the city has contributed nearly $1 billion since 2013 and TCHC, while it has its fair share of issues, has looked at a variety of funding sources including refinancing its mortgages and selling off single family homes- not enough of them mind you- to raise the needed cash.
And if I were Toronto Mayor John Tory, I wouldn’t be talking about a $1-billion Rail Deck park vanity project in one breath and no money for social housing repairs in another.
(But Jackass John BADLY wants a legacy project- something he can point to and say “there, that is what I did for the city”! And of course he is dreaming in technicolour! The city is bankrupt- and the only solution city staff has come up with is to seek more money from the bankrupt province!)
(Former mayor Rob Ford identified over 700 single family homes owned by the city that could be sold off to raise money for multi unit dwelling repairs. That most of the single family homes are un-occupied due to need for various repairs the city cannot afford is another reason to sell them. Under pressure from Ford- Metro Housing goofs did sell a dozen or so run down rat haven down town homes-at an average price- from 4-6 years ago- of about $800,000.00 each! If they sold all 700, at an average of $800,000.00 each they would recoup a gross amount of $560 million dollars- way more than enough to do those emergency repairs they need on 1325 units! By doing so the city could raise a nice chunk of cash, reduce its need for maintenance and security at the un-tenanted properties, let private companies create jobs while renovating the places and then see them turned into real estate tax generators for the city-how can any of this be wrong? Unless you are a socialist or LIE-beral?)
But getting back to the province, Lubowitz tried to pass off some $43 million Toronto got this year through Ontario’s Green Investment fund to retrofit aging buildings and reduce greenhouse gases as part of the money given to TCHC for repairs.
Of that, Akers said TCHC got $28 million to make their buildings more energy efficient - in other words, not to repair kitchens, cracked walls, decaying bathrooms and the like.
(Hey- replacing rotted out hot water boilers and installing modern heating systems is not chicken feed-it IS necessary-and we are back to WHY Toronto thinks it is more special and deserving than the rest of us? And we ask again why TCHC will not sell any of the vacant single family homes it owns and is ignoring?)
Lubowitz also listed all of the money ($100 million a year give or take since 2013) the province, as part of its “strong leadership in fighting homelessness” Toronto got for emergency shelter beds, affordable housing and the prevention of evictions.
(Prevention of evictions? Who are they protecting there? Drug dealers? Pimps? Gang members? We know that one old guy died in a TCHC stairwell a few years back after being evicted. Turns out the old guy was a little senile and didn’t properly fill out some papers for special grant money and fell behind in his rent and got thrown out! Funny how they can get rid of feeble old guys so quickly but can NEVER get rid of gun toting gang members! All those costly social working poverty pimps on public money and nobody cares to ask why the old guy is suddenly having his money troubles?)
Yet again, that has nothing to do with social housing repairs.
And just like the goobledygook her boss, Chris Ballard, fed to the media at Queen’s Park this past Monday- myself included, she tried to make it seem that the $130 million being given to social housing over the next three years out of Wynne’s cap-and-trade fund will actually go to repairs.
No, it will go to retrofits, and I’m betting there are pretty strict conditions on what gets funded.
She, like Ballard, mentioned another $340 million that will be given towards homelessness prevention over the next three years.
Aside from the clear attempts to muddy the waters, I have to wonder if anyone in Liberal-land thinks logically.
Let’s say those 1,000-plus TCHC units are forced to close by the end of 2018 due to disrepair and there’s an issue finding units to relocate tenants.
Wouldn’t a government so concerned with homelessness prevention be wanting to ensure there are units available so no one gets tossed out on the street - especially with a wait list tens of thousands of names long.
(Its my opinion that the LIE-beral response to the housing issue is a signal of impending bankruptcy! What little money LIE-berals have in their hands is ALREADY SPENT! They need it all- AND need a huge new supply simply to
pay off the civil service working family Hogs that have been promised so much! Newly appointed Ontari-owe premier McWynnty stood in front of that pack of teacher Hogs and swore she would do whatever was necessary to regain their trust- which translates into a stark and simple choice: gravy for Hogs OR money for housing repairs! Guess which way LIE-berals will jump on this choice? With their political future hanging in the balance-no gravy for Hogs means NO Hog voter support for LIE-berals-and political suicide for McWynnty and her party! But that was last spring before LIE-berals started whining about the edpanding need for homeless shelters! The ones desperately needed NOW to house all those newly arrived illegals who are being groomed to support LIE-berals- at huge expense to |Canada!)
It is abundantly clear - amid the province’s efforts to obfuscate and change the channel with a dizzying array of meaningless numbers - that they don’t really give a hoot about improving the quality of life for the downtrodden in social housing.
Social housing repairs aren’t sexy enough for them to get funding attention and it certainly doesn’t buy them votes.
Not that their lack of concern for Toronto’s most vulnerable surprises me in the slightest.
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