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[转帖]Tories want to hear of Grit waste
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保守党嘛,总是采取中庸之道的。能不得罪就不得罪,非要得罪也肯定是得罪没钱没势的,坚决不惹有钱有权的。 :slobber:
Linda LeatherdaleSun, November 26, 2006
Tories want to hear of Grit waste
PCs set up website as election year nears
By Linda Leatherdale Nov. 26, 2006
Toronto Sun
Mom always said waste not, want not.
Too bad Dalton McGuinty's Liberals won't listen.
Because after lying to us about holding the line on taxes, then whacking us with a $11-billion health-tax grab -- here's a sampling of our hard-earned dollars at work.
Ministry of health officials spent a whopping $1.4 million on hotel rooms in 2005-06, after racking up $6.1 million in travel expenses. That's the equivalent of 10,117 nights in hotel in one year, plus a full year in a chalet.
"What were they doing in those hotel rooms?" Conservative leader John Tory joked at a packed fundraising dinner in Markham this past week.
But it was no laughing matter, when he lashed out at McGuinty for more broken promises.
"Dalton McGuinty promised to respect taxpayers' money. He has done nothing of the sort. Instead of helping people stuck in emergency rooms, keeping his promise to autistic children or increasing the number of PET scanners, the McGuinty Liberals are spending $1.4 million on hotel rooms."
Big Blue machine
It's all part of the Tories' Waste Busters campaign, as they crank up the Big Blue machine for one promise McGuinty did keep. Fixed election dates.
We go to the polls on Oct. 4, 2007.
And, it's a no-brainer one way to win votes is to promise to repeal McGuinty's hated health levy, which is collected from taxpayers' paycheques under income taxes with the money sitting in general coffers, in easy reach of the piggies at the tax trough who love to waste.
"I will phase out the health tax," Tory told the audience, promising by putting an end to wasted spending, the Conservatives would invest more in health care, not less.
Even with a Liberal mole in the room-- ("she follows me wherever I go," Tory joked, as he introduced a lady in the back of the room alleged to be a McGuinty spy) -- the Conservative leader boldly rolled out his election platform.
Promising to respect taxpayers' dollars, he said he would invest wisely in quality public service and infrastructure, pay down Ontario's ballooning debt and give money back to hard-working families.
Getting screwed
Convincing voters that we're getting screwed by wasted Liberal spending will be an easy sell, once you read the Waste Busters' report. Here's the disturbing list:
- $2 million spent on new furniture for McGuinty's new health care bureaucracy, which created 14 local health integration networks (LHINs) to take over the job of allocating the $33-billion health-care budget.
- $70,000 spent for a flyer that says "Toronto Central LHIN is good for your health."
- $2 million spent on an inaccurate health-care advertisement that proclaims wait times and doctor shortages are behind us. "I wonder how the 1.2 million Ontarians without a family doctor feel about this?" Tory asked.
- $91 million spent to fire nurses when Ontario was suffering from a nursing shortage.
- $90 million spent to close or consolidate community-care access centres.
- $219,000 spent to redesign the Ontario Trillium logo.
- $20 million spent to quietly give raises to appointees to government agencies and boards.
- $40 million on Caledonia.
- $6 million to overhaul the Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corp. logo, by removing the "C" from OLGC.
- $16 million spent on McGuinty's "I won't raise your taxes" Liberal ad agency.
Bottomline is McGuinty made 231 promises to get elected, and at last count had broken at least 50 of them, including not keeping caps on skyrocketing electricty prices, not keeping the hard cap on commercial property taxes, and not rolling back 407 ETR (Extreme Toll Ripoff) charges. The list goes on, and on.
"I don't know how McGuinty can wake up and look himself in the mirror," Tory told the audience.
He went on, "Ontarians work hard for their money. They have already been betrayed by broken promises and higher taxes. Now they get to sit and watch while Dalton McGuinty flushes millions upon millions of their hard-earned tax dollars down the toilet."
If you have a story about government waste, bloated bureaucracies or propaganda, Tory wants to hear from you. Go to
www.wastebusters.ca. |
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