EARTH DAY!

Well, today was Earth Day, and a beautiful sunny day it was, and volunteers all over our GTA were out in rubber gloves ready to pick up the cigarette butts, paper cups and all the rest of the garbage all over the City that has accumulated over the winter as well as wiping graffiti off posts, walls, etc. This is an annual spring event in our City and the Mayor was interviewed thanking the volunteers for all their hard work and applauded their efforts in helping keep taxes down.

I disagree.

I know that by hiring a few hundred people to do this work over the next few months would hardly make a dent in the City’s budget even if they were to throw in free gloves for each person. Keeping in mind the unemployment situation, hiring people to do the work would take a great strain off the food banks and also help to boost the economy. Let’s face it, those paid workers would just turn around and spend the money on something.

Remember that famous saying, "Ask not what your Country can do for you, ask what you can do for your Country!" No, not in this case! The people of this Country deserve to be paid for their hard work!

I LUV SPRINGTIME!