not being able to afford a basement
apartment in that city after all the hidden fees, extra taxes
and fraud allowed by business I came
back, after quitting two jobs that did not pay me what they
told me they would. Later I would find
out Brewsters, north on Shagannapi trail, Calgary did not eventually
file their taxes correctly. And I was to find I could not afford my
classes because they are allowed to remove student loans from your
bank account without trial or any process, never mind due process.
But when I came back in January 2001
it did not take 2 months for the phone company to disconnect my phone
(as I was told it would by Calgary's main phone company which is not
privatized but must provide service to those that are... for free
thus slowing everything down). I did not have to pay for a 5 year
drivers license that I must pay all at once. My car taxes insurance
premiums never did go up to $2400 a year from around $300 because I
was a young mail, and when you allow P3s into your system you allow
them to change the law so that they can charge whatever they like if
they feel a minority is at high risk to them. Never mind at that age
many people want to start a family and can not afford a car and this
endangers children. I have heard of 3 newborns dying solely because
of the cold in Canada, and I am sure the statistics are staggering.
But we don't care about that we are P3s! We can do what we like we
don't care about anything! Unless it costs us money, and not only
are we going to fuck you and your system up we now own your system
and there is nothing you can do to change exactly how it works!
And that is just some of the
specifics. Let me back off and say what I draw out of all of this,
and some recent news that the Sask Party, who I will say I would
never vote for, is blaming low government income and record high
taxes for wanting to privatize one of the few phone companies that
makes sense in this country. Of course those who have scammed
Calgarians and other groups, waltz in here and spout their mouths off
and try to make the scam look all pretty. But this is the proverbial
horse you should look in the mouth of, before it is too late. Like it
was for Calgary.
This is the central math that people
are not aware of. When a group comes in and takes over, like the P3
that took over our water has, they no longer answer to the
government, they no longer refund their income to the government, but
pocket it. And then they will not upgrade infrastructure. And this is
the part of the scam that really hurts because most naive voters, who
are happy with a phone call telling them to vote “yes”... and not
asking “hey isn't someone calling me to tell me how to vote
illegal?” ends up going. They are not telling you to vote this way
for your own good. It is because they are receiving kick backs and
flat out bribes. Also that group that is not reducing your money, is
making two people rich and those two people have no problem
converting that money into bribes / extortion rackets / lawyers and
lobbyists to fight the city.
Add to this mess that comes in, not
with one company but usually with more P3s, they will tell you that
you can not change the law to make them pay to upgrade or fix, or
even to use the infrastructure that they use. All changes, all
upgrades made are now paid out of your taxes, the ones that are
currently not being used except to reduce taxes in the rare case of
upgrades.
There are massive amounts of
infrastructure upgrade needed, the old head of Regina City Water
informed me before he quit his job due to me and others “constantly
badgering him over bad water quality because the city refused to pay
for the upgrades.” The old plant needs upgrades. Most of North
Central and the older parts of the city, such as Cathedral and the
Core need serious infrastructure upgrades, and the old work done in
Hillsdale is rife with bad infrastructure done by shoddy contractors.
A friend of mine, Steve McLellan found that the pipes leading into
his home were made out of asphault wrapped in cardboard... something
never approved by the city. And I hope this is not endemic of what
that area looks like, but suspect it may be.
If the emergency “repairs” done to
North Central last year, and then removed, are any sign of what is to
come, what is to come is probably not good and I will be selling my
home, and moving out of the country. Where this sort of thing and
property values fluctuating between $80,000 and $700,000 for
virtually the same thing are not an issue.
So Sask Party, why would something
that in the short term results in tax increases be used to lower
taxes? If this is like your case of trying to find savings of $200M
and only coming up with $2M, and are you just retarded or can you not
pull out a calculator for 5 seconds and calculate what the cost of
your evil and Draconion measures will
be on the electorate that hired you. If I hear about any more shoddy
math, and name-calling over intellectual dialogue, and a
systematically positive government ethics I will be calling to have
your group dumped from parliament. I think you will be off the bill,
and everyone's bill next election at the rate you are going. If you
think that we will pay any of your bills from now into fortuity you
are entirely wrong. And if you think further governments will stand
for your ignorance and allow P3s to continue their dereliction and
other evil actions uninhibited by the law, you are also wrong.
The only option is that we get rid of
P3s entirely and we bring in a required upgrade schedule. Every 50 or
80 years it needs a full overhaul in Regina and that should be
implemented now, while only the old areas need upgrades. Although it
is easy to go with a spend-thrift and go easy rate, giving the new
areas a double vote in regards to changes because they are paying
higher taxes, it is possible to miss the large picture in finding the
reason for these high taxes already.
I would also like my $50 a month back
now that the Colleseum to Riderdom is built, and we are back to
having a less than desirable team once again.
