The Best Thing Bruce the Juice has Ever Written

This entry was posted on 12/13/2006 11:58 PM and is filed under Nay-Sayers,Government.

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• 12/28/2006 10:14 AM Carl Burns wrote:
  I'm not much of a supporter for either Mr. Harvey or Mr. Johns and I'm curious as to why they won't support local initiatives (curling club in SSS)but are willing to go out to "the end of the limb" over a games that they really have no idea how much it will cost or where the public money is supposed to come from.
  Recently Mr.Harvey attempted to get the debts of several local sports/recreation facilities taken over the HRM so as to ease the burden faced by community members and/or users of these facilities. Steve Stretch, councillor for the Eastern Shore said that the proposed addition of 15 million in debt would take a "considerable" bite out of the municipality's budget. This comment has puzzled me or perhaps Mr. Stretch and other members of council are confused by the numbers. If HRM gets the games, 15 million is likely to be just the first year's interest on the debt that citizens of HRM will owe on their share of the Commonwealth Games debt.
  
  Without becoming to "windy" over the issue, I guess the best example of public representative management of debt repayment would be the two Halifax bridges, the MacDonald and the MacKay. The MacDonald bridge is more than fifty years old and the MacKay is approaching thirty five and neither bridge is paid off. If I'm wrong and the bridges are paid off, then the public is being misled as to the financial needs of the bridges or as to where all the money goes that is collected every vehicle that uses the bridges (except for Christmas Day)
  Naysayers, as they have been portrayed have asked some very simple questions but have received nothing in the line of honesty from the bid committee and it is doubtful that in May 2007 they will be any further enlightened as the bid committee from each of the three cities (Halifax, Glasgow and Abuja) can submit final "revised" numbers in Sept 07 two months prior to the selection in November.
  
  This bid committee's "bid" in May will come in around 900 million but in Sept the "revised" number will be closer to $1.5 billion which if we "win" the bid we will learn sometime during the construction phase as costs continue to escalate. If Halifax doesn't win the bid, the public will never find out the real costs, which I will be able to live with because we won't be saddled with a debt that we will likely never pay off.
  To the supporters of the bid, shut me up by proving me wrong with facts, not foolish and insulting rhetoric.
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• 2/25/2007 2:49 PM Bruce wrote:
  Carl Burns has probably upset the local squad that hand out here. His article is intelligent, well written and shows forethought and reality. Nine of the above applies to the drivel that usually appears here.
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