the jimmymac attack!

I've spent the past two months in Toronto. I was born in Toronto and have lived most of my life here. In fact I've spent too much time here and I now find it very boring. I'm familiar with every nook and cranny and its just not very interesting anymore.
Toronto would be a great city if they ever finished it. Even in the downtown area there are vacant lots and parking lots. There are always buildings in various stages of construction. They seem to take forever to build like they are in no hurry. In fact they are not in a hurry. One building was started and then stopped and only the foundation sits there right in the middle of the business district. Another site at the corner of Yonge and Dundas has had construction hoardings around it for about five years. They finally started construction just last year.
Then there are acres and acres of empty property on the outskirts of downtown. There are plans to build on it but it will be twenty years before its done. Maybe in fifty years Toronto will blossom, hopefully. Not that I wish to see more and more buildings but the land could also become parks or housing.
Which brings me to the next most striking thing about Toronto. Homelessness. Why does Canada's largest, richest city have people lying on the sidewalks and sleeping on the streets. You'll see someone at the corner of King & Bay lying on the sidewalk covered by a sleeping bag in the winter. At the same corner where many millionaires and billionaires have their offices. And everyone walks by like it is ok. The people and government do not care. Actions speak louder than words. If they cared they would house everybody. But year after year nothing changes. Street people die or move on but others replace them. They are not housed or counselled or helped in any significant way. The same old story continues.
So good bye Toronto. I cannot change you so I will change what I can - my place to live. Good luck! I'm sure we'll meet again... don't know when.

In the news in Canada is another story about a very well paid senior bureaucrat who went overboard with their expense account. This happens all the time and every couple of months another story hits the papers. What I want to know is why very well paid people do not have to pay for their own meals and cars and dry cleaning? It seems it's not enough that David Dingwall got paid over $200,000 per year at the Royal Canadian Mint. He charged on his expense account a golf club membership, his BMW car payments and even $1.29 for a pack of gum. Now you or I or most people must pay for their own car and gum. If I make $40,000 a year and I have to pay for my own car and gum and meals why does he get them all paid for? Why why why? Where did his pay check go? He wasn't paying for anything it seems. His pay must have gone straight to a Swiss bank account. Also in the news is a story about welfare people wanting $250 a month for food and the minister in charge says she is going to plug that 'loop hole'. Hey we don't want poor people wasting money on food! The government needs the money for the rich bureaucrats. In fact the minister has an expense account that must be protected too. So the rich get paid very well and get freebies left and right. The executives sometimes spend more than $250 of taxpayers money on ONE meal in a luxury restaurant. I guess this is more important than food for the poor. Who is the bigger free-loader? I think it is the executives. Pay your own bills you slobs! Why why why? Why do the rich get the freebies and the poor get the shaft? When will this ever stop? Or will this injustice ever stop? You know it is going on right now - we only hear about the odd dumby that goes a little too far. For every one that gets caught there must be another 100 still charging their cars to the expense account.