Rob Ford , Hero?

Rob Trick

From various Posts, Statuses,  about Rob Ford

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An epistle to a Vole 

Mike, how many kids do you have? How do they get their crack? How do they pay for it? Rob Ford is not "plain and Simple". He is a millionaire. Drugs are way easier when you have money. Ask Keif while he is in town. Drugs may not be the problem but the price is...at least for everyone else from below a certain income. Wait i am wrong, Crack and Meth are especially bad as they rot our cities from the inside out. The Cavitiy they create only continues to fester and ruin lives. You may be Be able to do drugs and cope but most can't. Let me know when you have kids...and then we'll talk

I love that he is so bombastic, a true and proper fool. I understand huge parts of his agenda. but the reasons or need for this type of mayor is because of cutbacks in the 1990's. Don't get me wrong I don't want him as Mayor . I was friends with David Miller . The game Ford plays is so similar to the Football Jocks at my old high school. The Star has been relentless and we will never know how much they drove him to do Crack. But if I remember my football Folk from my High School Days they were standing on the shoulders precariously of their achievements and endeavours. They are not intrinsically motivated or brave but rather Narcissistic and selfish. Again if I remember correctly, The football "jocks" got a huge amount of glory, Did Drugs and got all the girls. That affirmation stunted their growth, I also remember them trying to intimidate me. Calling me Fag. I am 6'2 240 pounds played Rugby for Ontario, Swam and played Tennis for my University, Won MVP in Hockey Tournaments on multiple occasions and came top ten in the country in Triathlons. AND NEVER PLAYED FOOTBALL yet they are remembered as the athletes. To Doug and Rob, FUCK OFF. 

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  Rob Trick I don't know if he is a racist or fiscally responsible...the liberal left, I think, is probably upset with their lack of access to the coffers of this city. My mother was a city councillor for 30 years but was never adopted by the left or the right. The idea that a city can be managed by dogma is very inflexible and therefore unresponsive. Her opinion in general was to see the positive in the arts and Pride etc. . Regardless of your political or religious views. pride served to help the city to celebrate a huge part of our city. Rob Fords decision not to support it smacks of fear more than anything. I might be afraid of sitting on a fire truck with hoses everywhere. I understand that but not ignoring half a million prospective constituents. Not everyone is a progressive as the rest. He has my compassion but not my respect on that. The other issue for me about him on pride is how that lack of support for that community is perceived by the general public. There is a huge amount of support for his points of views. But rather than lead them forward towards , what I believe, is a more progressive , more modern, more normal viewpoint and diffuse the fear, he is reinforcing the fear.
  
  I have said in other posts that you have to support the hub. The Chinese know that with Beijing and Shanghai. The French know it I with Paris. The English know it with London. The so called fiscally responsible response is misguided. We always talk about world class. I don't see it. Why do you think we lose Olympic bids? By fooling ourselves. We need subways. We need public housing. We need welfare.We need luminato, we need the arts. And we need to pay people enough that they can , in turn, spend money in the economy. Certainly the budget would go up but the idea that saving money on Dinners and limousines is petty. 
  
  Giving people jobs is one thing but disposable income is another. That is the true engine of an economy, not casinos. The arranged and managed economies of the right, the selling off and privatizing, is just another way of robbing us. How much was the Skydome to build? And how much did Rogers buy it for? That is a pretty good buy. And did our cellphone bills go down? Not likely. That dynamic is everywhere and a casino would be just another version of that. The private sector makes these choices for us by installing their people and saying anything to get the general public to vote for them. It is counter intuitive to vote for the right, as far as I am concerned. When only twenty percent benefit directly.... The greatest growth in economies in the west came after the introduction of socialism. The Panama Canal was only finished after they introduced health care. 
  
  Don't get me wrong I believe in Capitalism. More than most . I understand the intrinsic desire to succeed . I am self employed and do many different things with various degrees of success. There is a huge satisfaction when things go well and incredible introspection when things fare less well. But the lack of security is not for everyone. 
  
  Recently I went for an Historical walk of Toronto. When you look a the architecture of the old city you realize that this city has ripped down huge swaths of beautifully buildings. I can imagine the conversations in council as the fought for their self interests. This city has been robbed over and over by a similar group with the same last names. Be they Whigs or Tories or conservatives...we have been robbed. You can't rebuild these legacies. 
  
  What we lack is vision...Mel didn't have it, but John Sewell did, Art Eggleton didnt But David Crombie did. Rob Ford doesn't but David Miller did. 
  
  I repeat, we need Subways, We need Welfare and we need Jobs...but mostly we need Vision. 
  
  One of our greatest leaders in this country was a louse. Sir John could drink. But he was a leader.
  
  I'll give Rob Ford a flyer on the crack if it means he has a vision...but we all know he doesn't

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