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Originally Posted by Bagor
Why not. Are you against the idea of health and wellness for all? Or should it be an elite thing? Gets the pensioners out and about.
Highland: You're arguing against yourself now that private courses are "doing a better job".
And rec centres potentially doesn't?
What is your criteria for deciding what government should be involved in? I'm using demand. If they're white elephants and not being used then fair enough, if they're providing a net benefit to society and the city as a whole then I'm not opposed to my tax dollars going towards them whether I use them or not.
You wanna make rec centres competitive with private gyms? Apples and oranges. One's a fitness centre so to speak, the others a muli-facility, multi-use, multi-age, multi program centre.
Is the Foothills Hospital?
Not everything has to be profit making and financially competitive to be considered money well spent or beneficial.
Anyways, glad to hear you got your problem sorted out. Things could be worse.
I paid $50 to the city of Ottawa this summer to have my mains turned off and another $50 for the pleasure of them coming out to turn it on again.
I've since managed to get my hands on my own personal mains key.  |
I am not against health and wellness, not sure what I said that gave you that impression.
I never said private enterprises
always do it better.
All I am trying to do is generate some discussion of things the city "could" look at.
I have also stated, there are things government does have to cover. Taxes are a reality and necessary; that does not mean they should be given free reign to spend willy nilly.
I watched the proceedings today and I heard was excuse after excuse why they couldn't reduce spending.
Everytime they are asked about it by the media they claim "We will lose essential services". I just don't think they have dug deep enough. If a family or business finds themselves short of funds they do not look at cutting "essentials"; they look at frivilous spending and reduce there.
For the city that might mean:
no gym for their employees;
a functional foot bridge instead of "world class tourist attraction";
less money for the "arts";
and so on.