100 YEARS AND WE STILL CAN’T GET IT RIGHT...

By Joe Ingino Editor/Publisher ACCOMPLISHED WRITER/AUTHOR OF OVER 800,000 Published Columns in Canada and The United States “I live a dream in a nightmare world” Always Remember That The cosmic blueprint of your life was written in code across the sky at the moment you were born. Decode Your Life By Living It Without Regret or Sorrow. - ONE DAY AT A TIME - It has been 100 years. It should be a time to rejoice on how great our City has become. All the accomplishments and all the great people living within our city. A time to acknowledge all the great talent. Instead, our city is in peril. We have never faced such poor living conditions. Such high taxes and such poor quality of life. People living on the streets. Open use of drugs. Our downtown a shamble. Our municipal government is obsolete. We do not elect on merit or accomplishments. We have a council that is played by staff to their every whim. Councillors rule of thumb is do nothing and you be elected next election. Look at the last election. Look at what took place this past week. The mayor, council and his chosen staff decided to host a 100th anniversary event at the Regent Theatre. No advertising. No promotion. Just friends of the Mayor, his chosen staff. To ad insult to injury. Mayor Carter announces the erection of a 100th anniversary sign in front of City Hall. Another white elephant. A sign that says nothing... non informative. Just the number 100. This sign according to the City was paid by staff. The city is yet to confirm cost and or who really paid for the sign. The City in it’s arrogance had deemed the City as not having a newspaper. An insult to every downtown merchant and every business person outside of the Chamber of Commerce good old boys club. Not to mention the Durham Realty. A testament to the corrupt mentality. How dare they deem the city without a newspaper, when we been serving the City and Region for over 29 years.... We do not bow to the Good Old Boys mentality. We bring a service of delivering news. This is the same city that paid with your tax dollars to magazines like SNAP, The Express. All Good Old Boys club members... I feel for our founding fathers... This is not the Oshawa they wanted for future generations. A council made up of retiree's that are only in it to fluff up pension. Realtors, that are enjoying the taxpayers extra cash. The un-employable... people that out of office. No one would hire them to clean floors. A musician dead beat. A man that is supposed to be in charge of the downtown core... A pretty boy has been third rate actor/teacher/self professed artist. To be fair. Amongst the hay stack there is one lawyer. From the bunch, I feel the lawyer has the most potential but is kept in a dark room at city hall. As he is the only real threat to real thought and opinion. Sad that the Mayor would have used your tax dollar to create a pre-elections photo opportunity to better his political position in he community. I wonder if his actions are not against the Ontario Elections Act. After all. The 100th rendezvous was kept pretty much quiet and circulated among his supporters. I feel for future generations as we are not going forward to a better place. We are going back to the old wild wild west. Days people feared walking downtown or wondering due to fear off all kinds of unknown dangers. Happy 100th Oshawa.