
Toronto Tough Times
By
James Bredin
Mayor Miller has got himself and us in a financial bind,
He wanted to raise our taxes and thought we wouldn’t mind,
But they stopped this socialist in his tax-and-spend tracks,
And now he’s mad as hell at us and is going to get us back.
They’re going to cut the Transit System in half they say,
As punishment for questioning the mayor’s integrity; OK?
So you may have to walk to work a very long distance,
It’s for midnight-basketball programs and more social assistance.
The city smacks of incompetence from the tip top down,
And from tax-and-spend politicians, we only get a frown,
The citizens never participate in City Hall decisions,
And nothing is allowed to change and there will be no revisions.
They are going to knock down some welfare buildings and build more,
No one knows why and only politicians know the score,
They call it revitalization – or maybe abuse of power,
Blocking public input again from high inside their ivory tower.
Democracy hollowed out by closed-agenda politicians,
Public trained by a TV screen to altered hyped-up conditions,
Truth can be twisted and manipulated to calm the crowds,
Don’t underestimate their propaganda as it comes in loud.
The manufacture of consent by public relations types,
Could bury incompetence or corruption with their hypes,
Could cause us to accept something even though we know it’s wrong,
One-way flow of indoctrination from this political throng.
Sunday, July 22, 2007