Radio Gaga
Jul. 25th, 2007 01:13 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
talktoolooseTwo moronitudes of note from the radio this morning:
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CBC news reported that an Afghani restauranteur in Quebec City is having trouble. He came to Canada as a refugee at the age of 17 and many years later opened a restaurant called Kabul. Since Canadian soldiers have started dying in Afghanistan, he has become the target of threats and loss of business. What.
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In the wake of the cowardly rejection of Toronto Mayor, David Miller's tax plan's by craven City councillors, a $500 million budget shortfall is threatening everything important and progressive in the City. Metro Morning on CBC Radio 1 asked people to phone in with suggestions for how the now necessary budget cuts should be made. One man phoned in to say:
"I like the idea of City Councillors taking an unpaid week off. Let's say there are, like, 50 councillors (there are actually 44 plus the Mayor) and they make $1000 a week (figure courtesy his ass), that's like $500,000 in savings!! (um....)"
Thanks for your call.
Much as I'm not a fan of Premier McGuinty, I have to agree with him this morning. If the Province gives Toronto taxing powers which it refuses to use, why should we expect a Provincial cash bailout? The process of undoing the downloading of social services made by the Harris government a decade ago will take years and require constant pressure from the City, but to reject the things they have done for us at our request instead is madness.
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CBC news reported that an Afghani restauranteur in Quebec City is having trouble. He came to Canada as a refugee at the age of 17 and many years later opened a restaurant called Kabul. Since Canadian soldiers have started dying in Afghanistan, he has become the target of threats and loss of business. What.
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In the wake of the cowardly rejection of Toronto Mayor, David Miller's tax plan's by craven City councillors, a $500 million budget shortfall is threatening everything important and progressive in the City. Metro Morning on CBC Radio 1 asked people to phone in with suggestions for how the now necessary budget cuts should be made. One man phoned in to say:
"I like the idea of City Councillors taking an unpaid week off. Let's say there are, like, 50 councillors (there are actually 44 plus the Mayor) and they make $1000 a week (figure courtesy his ass), that's like $500,000 in savings!! (um....)"
Thanks for your call.
Much as I'm not a fan of Premier McGuinty, I have to agree with him this morning. If the Province gives Toronto taxing powers which it refuses to use, why should we expect a Provincial cash bailout? The process of undoing the downloading of social services made by the Harris government a decade ago will take years and require constant pressure from the City, but to reject the things they have done for us at our request instead is madness.
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Date: 2007-07-25 07:47 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-07-25 07:52 pm (UTC)Many of the soldiers I've heard interviewed have formed a lot of feeling for the people around them, many of whom are grateful for the presense and protection of the Canadians. I can't believe these soldiers would be happy to hear their fellows back home consider Afghanis the enemy by default.
grrrr.
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Date: 2007-07-25 08:07 pm (UTC)I'm really appalled that the American government who so scorned Hussein now wants his job and can't even do it as well as he did it. Keeping Iraq together apparently required a savage dictatorship. Democracy only works by consent, and the Iraqi peoples all hate each other.
But, yeah, after having been a military brat most of my childhood, I realize that you can't live in a foreign land without developing either an affinity or a distaste for the people and their culture there and it's more or less mutual. I saw both situations being stationed on foreign military bases.
It's also a failure to see anyone different as an individual. First step in depersonalizing someone enough to hate them is to take away their individuality and refuse to see them that way. :(