Has the City of Windsor been poorly managed over the past 40 years? Of course the answer is yes. But is this scenario simply a reflection of the times? Let’s reflect on what the last four decades of poor management across N. America has wrought.
Our traditional auto industry and supplier base has shrunk to a shadow of its former self as has Canada’s military. Our infrastructure is outdated and not properly maintained. Lawyers and the threat of being sued dominate our thoughts before taking action or indeed hosting a party or disciplining our kids. Self centred students control our schools, they all pass regardless and the pap they are taught is often just that.
Big government is everywhere. Politicians are beholden to their political parties above all else. Fifty per cent of everything we earn goes to taxes. To obtain a government job means you have arrived. Ontario businesses are the highest taxed in Canada.
Mayor Francis no doubt, is doing his best but he is conducting an orchestra comprised of mostly amateur union and social engineering types; the very breed that has given the City a budget where more than 50 per cent alone goes to paying social payouts, wages and benefits. Where outsourcing doesn’t exist and non unionized contractors need not bid.
How many white elephants can the downtown core hold and remember the MFP scandal? The water pipes are rotted, roads are bad, weeds aren’t cut, workers suffer poor productivity, city workers increasingly emigrate to the burbs etc. Obviously not everything is doom and gloom but are we generally experiencing a degradation today versus say 1967? Yes, certainly in areas of infrastructure, quality of education, government, judicial activism, sentencing guidelines, artificial bilingualism, taxation, health care, national defense, immigration policies, studying things to death, business friendly environment, efficiency and leadership.
Mickey Moulder
Former Windsor Resident
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