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Originally Posted by MoneyGuy
Creating a city budget is a huge job. There will always be someone who is unhappy. It's all about doing the most for the smallest dollar. I know a couple of your councillors and don't know them well, but I'd bet that they have these discussions and have gone through that budget (or will if they haven't already done so) pretty thoroughly and are doing their best to meet the objectives of over a million people. It's very difficult. It's easy to complain. Talk to one of your aldermen and let him or her know your point of view. Go to a council meeting and ask to make a presentation. Do something other than just state your opinion on some forum. Go to city hall and ask for the budget detail you want, then you can make a stronger case for your point of view. I'm not trying to diminish your point of view, only to say that if they cut services and programs, someone else will be affected and that there are ways to let them know of your views.
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When it comes to municipal politics its easy to cite platitudes originating from taxpayer-funded gabfests and studies taken part by like-minded civic types to justify expenditures towards the priorities of said like-minded civic-types. Very true, it is a very difficult job and everybody cannot be appeased. However so to is the everyday job of some of the very people complaining in this thread who have to comprise annual budgets that have to pay real economic rent in order to sequester funds as opposed to simply decreeing whatever tax increase is necessary to keep the machine running in the manor to which it has been accustomed to.
Ultimately I can only get so annoyed because the people of Calgary actually elected these aldermen and the mayor into office. If I want change I will have to play a more active role the next electoral cycle and hope that people from the city that elected Conservative MPs nationally with a whopping majority of votes in each case do not re-elect Brian Pincott (former NDP candidate) types civically.