What's really behind this?

There's got to be something going on here we don't see.
1. The Province is bankrupt,
2. The biggest Hospital, the VG looks like something in the 3rd world with the signs on the sinks, "do not drink the water bottled water available on request" and
3. The city has an antiquated water and sewer system that has to be replaced and
4. The half assed sewer treatment plant is already obsolete according to new federal guidelines
5. All of the overpasses are starting to decay and need costly repair. They did Fairview cove and are now doing the recent one at the end of the BiHi
6. The city is continually cutting back on services
7. The province is cutting education health everywhere and anywhere
Yet Dexter and Kelly are spending money like Drunk Marines in a Cambodian Cathouse on.....
1. conventions centres.
2. monster libraries with no reference department while people are more and more getting books off line with the new electronic readers..
3. A stadium that will cost tens if not hundreds of millions that will sit idle most of the time unless we spend tens of millions more bribing some sporting event to go there.
4. Don't forget Peter Kelly's insane high speed ferry because I'm sure he hasn't.
5. None of this spending makes any financial sense in this at all. Surely to God they aren't stupid enough to think they can spend their way out of debt. Anybody have a theory as to what's behind it because it's not fiscal responsibility.
Bruce DeVenne

news maker? What about the crooks

News maker of the year: Jacques Lapointe


Mon, Dec 27 - 7:32 AM
IT might be a bit of an understatement to name the understated Jacques Lapointe Nova Scotia’s News maker of the Year. You bet he is.
The soft-spoken Mr. Lapointe is hardly a natural-born spotlight-grabber. But when he did grab it in February, it was to shine it not on himself, but into the shadows of the legislature.
http://thechronicleherald.ca/Editorials/1219077.html
Shouldn't the news makers of the year be those politicians who, in most people's opinion. stole from the public? Paying legal Ass'n fees why over what was necessary. When the Pemier got caught he suddenly decided is was OK to pay the $350 per year now that it was coming out of his pocket.
The laptops for them and family members, coffee machines, generators, high end digital cameras not needed in their work, you name it and they bought it as long as the public was paying.
The news makers of the year
should be the crooks in government and/or the mounties who can't seem to get any investigation into this matter into gear. If it had been you or me involved we'd be in jail long ago
Bruce DeVenne

The two faces of Mayor Kelly!

From the left hand face we hear, we can afford the new Convention centre despite the hundreds of millions it will cost us.

From the right hand face he tells us we have tens of millions in "short falls" and we will face tax hikes (as always) and service cuts (as always) with no decrease in taxes to match the decrease in service

You have to wonder if either head has a brain that can do basic math and add and subtract!
SOME SUGGESTIONS
We pay for the services leave them in place as mandated
Kill the new Convention centre
Revise the way over priced excessive new library to a sensible building.
Kill the football stadium that will sit Idle most of the year
Kill the high speed ferry from Bedford.
Stop paying to bring money losing concerts and sporting events to HRM.
Cut council numbers in half
Remove the discretionary spending fund.
If Mayor Kelly can't see the savings in this I will be glad to buy him a calculator.