What a waste, and what a reason why the city is always looking for more cash. They are always after more cash because there isn’t a reason that is too silly to waste a few thousand dollars on.

Why is important that government advertise so much?  Do they have competion? Will they sell more stuff? I think they actually do it to keep the media  quiet. Stir up too much dirt and we will cut off your advertising.

In the recent imposition of a fee schedule on the Alberta doctors, Fred Horne said he had no choice but to impose that schedule on the doctors but we know he had decided to do that weeks ahead of the announcement as they had a complete adverising program ready to go. We all know how long it would take civil servants to put together that amount of advertising. It wouldn’t have been done overnight.

I still say that once government got into the gambling business, they started acting like mafia and not government. Government has always been inefficient, but they used to be fairly honest. Now you can’t believe anything that comes from them.

Just sleeze and lies.

I am not questioning the need for a warm up facility at the trail head of Whitemud trail, but I sure am questioning why it should cost 3.9 million dollars when a comparable facility could have been built by the private sector for well under 1 million dollars.

Where does all the money go?

Why do we let this waste continue?

No wonder the city and province are always crying poverty.

There is something wrong with the air in those pyramids as it seems to cause people to lose their common sense.

And they are doing it so they can store rail cars. It seems to me that they could store rail cars anyplace along the line, they don’t have to pick that place.

Weird.

If we are attracting people who can’t even tell the difference between what is legal and what is illegal I don’t think we are getting our money’s worth.

And by the time they renegotiate the public service contracts I bet the operating budget will not even be balanced.

What a bunch of goofs.

I fear for the USA as I fear for Alberta.

Why doesn’t our government look to Saskatchewan and see how a government can run.

They will lose all the tax money that Edmonton gets from airport business and will also have to close the air museum.

If that isn’t enough problems the neighbourhoods will be designed and developed by civil servants and not real developers and home builders who know what the public wants to buy.

I can see a bunch of over priced “green” inspired homes languishing on the market that seemed like a great idea to the civil servants that dreamed them up but that no one wants to buy. So they will rent them out to every drunk and druggie who needs a home.

Instant slum.

Slowly bankrupt.

No wonder Edmonton is continously falling behind Calgary in every way.

The real cure for youth obesity is included in one sentence. “Go out and play”. Not organized play, just running, jumping, climbing, building forts, everything a childs imagination can lead them to.

The chance of kids being abducted is so slight it isn’t something to be worried about, but raising kids with no confidence or independence is someting to worry about. Playing outside with friends is a real help to develope confidence and social skills as well as being good exercize.