tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7229885.post4512618946697740951..comments2024-03-27T01:58:22.445-07:00Comments on The Gazetteer: One-Two-Three-Four....Are We In A Class War?RossKhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07677239332112652522noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7229885.post-26171995385779574612011-09-01T09:57:41.839-07:002011-09-01T09:57:41.839-07:00Ian--
I'm actually working on a serious longf...Ian--<br /><br />I'm actually working on a serious longform post about this which may turn out to be way off the mark (and/or never see the light of day), because this stuff really is not my forte.<br /><br />But...<br /><br />I think it's worth considering that if you were currently in Calgary looking out that window you might feel very differently. <br /><br />My only point here is that folks are clearly starting to wake up and wonder why, despite how often they are told that things are so much more wonderful now than they were a generation ago, they cannot, for example, afford to live in the neighbourhoods they grew up in.<br /><br />Can these same folks still be bamboozled? <br /><br />Of course they can....In fact, if I remember correctly Mr. Ford himself promised them he could drastically decrease tax revenues without decreasing public services.<br /><br />Thus, the real question in my mind is....How do we stop the bamboozlement in its tracks?<br /><br />I have argued long and hard, most often on the prog-blogs down south, including Firedoglake, that 'better prop' from our side is NOT the way to go. <br /><br />Instead, I honestly (and perhaps naively) believe that all it would take to jam the breaks on, hard, on the Bamboozlement Express is a proMedia that would just start calling demonstrable falsehoods what they actually are.<br /><br /><br />______<br />And, way more importantly, wtf are you still doing in that damnable H-room anyway?<br /><br />.RossKhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07677239332112652522noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7229885.post-50834609388494616222011-09-01T04:00:25.149-07:002011-09-01T04:00:25.149-07:00Very interesting RossK. That question is why I po...Very interesting RossK. That question is why I posted the riding profiles you first posted from CCPA BC, because they seem to show that in this instance, many middle class voters joined with lower income voters and voted against another consumption tax that increased their costs so business can get another break. The riding info on the vote seems to show that you get well into the middle class before ridings start turning positive towards the tax.<br /><br />Nevertheless, as I sit here staring out a window at Toronto Western Hospital, I am reminded that the middle class lie behind the insanity that is Mayor Rob "what's a library" Ford. So, unity on these questions is never a foregone conclusion.Ianhttp://therealstory.canoreply@blogger.com