Prerequisite for Government(s) to Screw Up

At least that's the way it seems.

Throwing good money after bad -- whether it's local government spending $29 million of taxpayer money to build a water treatment plant (Duteau Creek) where it doesn't belong because only 4 per cent of treated water during summer goes to domestic use, or whether it's our Federal government(s) (since 1974 so you can't blame just the Conservatives!), for borrrowing money on the international market versus the "no interest" borrowing via our own Bank of Canada -- examples simply go on and on.

Maybe it's the ubiquitous Murphy's Law that causes things to be shoddily run.
We used to laugh at the notion of government paying $5,000 for a hammer.
There's even a story about the 99 stupid things government did with your money.

Maybe the "G"-governments--in this case the G-12--are forced under the laws that originally formed the group of 10 industrialized nations to borrow internationally to support the International Monetary Fund.

Whatever...the result is the same.
Wasted money.
Wasted taxpayer money.

Read it and weep.

At the trillions of dollars that have been wasted in Canada.

Just think what that money could have provided for Canadians...infrastructure, policing, water treatment, sewage systems...safe care of the elderly, retired military and the vulnerable in our society.  All the stuff that make a country or city safe and healthy for its residents.

No-one could tell this story better than The Tyee, so no more needs to be said by me.
Entitled Liberate the Bank of Canada, it'll have readers seething with anger.

And this is just Ontario...

"Yes, it has become a prerequisite for governments to screw up...and their bureaucrats are doing an impeccable job at it,"  offers Kia, adding "the North Okanagan fits in nicely."


There's a lovely little definition for political correctness:

"Political correctness is a doctrine, fostered by a delusional, illogical minority, and rapidly promoted by mainstream media, which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a piece of shit by the clean end." Student at Bond University, Australia