ýWhitby ýFieePros.. Wockioday. Nouomber 29.1995. PÃage 7 It's neyer worke fiaos tedyMieHrisadhetcaint romeefa borsoIdtionlees ad uivree er b told what next year'e tranefer paymenta would be. Th at je what was promised. I write this on Monday evening. What actually toôik place today I do flot know. However, no self-respecting journaliet would let facts interfere with an opinion. I doubt anytbiing Treasurer Ernie Eves*did today will change many opinions. (Let me also declare my usual conflict of interest: as an employee i the broader publiceservice, I arn fot an unbiased observer.) To begin with: public spending muet be brought under control. No one ehould defend a deficit of seven to ten billion. A __________________________________ balaniced budget muet be our objective. The question is: 5_____________________________________ how? Bob Rae tried with elawbacks of transfer payments and with Rae Days. Remember those? That was, back in the could be fought by having each public servant take six days off a year without pay. Inside the publie service, and the union movementr generally, Rae was castigated for ripping up union ý . contracts without consultation., .Outeide the public servce, Bob Rae was flagellated for failing to bring the rising defleit under control. Rae Days . .. might have done it. Except that with very few exceptions, none of the public service, sectors took the full six days. Mainly because of the social contract, then, the public service in Ontario wanted to get rid of Bob Rae i the worst way. And having had a. brief look at Mike Harris, the my have'done-just that. *e ut let's get back te our main point. Mike Harris campaigned earlier this year on what he called the Common Sense Revolution. In recent statements, cabinet members assure ue-that today's cuts will be the first step mn-a process which will profoundly change this province. In hie 1947 novel Player Piano, Kurt Vonnegut Jr. GENEBAL STORE, MYRTLE, C. 1980e adws described a technocratie soiety of the future. Jobs, and the This store, which stood at the northeaet corner ofHFighway 12 and the Myrtle od a wçlt, ee n hehnd o 0 ercetofheppuatondmoshdin197.I-asosrvd-s oa ofce Te n&kba -nkrot etuesa and (through taxes) government. Upper income tax cuts, however, will end up in savinge accounts, RRSPs, stock 0 A shopping centre has been proposed for the Bradley Farm on the east side of Brock Street, accounts, and so on. Some will be spent quickly, sure. And south of the third Concession. Pe a Gordon T. Richards, manager of the Whitby DuPont plant, is the new president of the yes, we need savinge and stock market investment and ail Chamber of Commerce. that. But those things do not create quick turnaround 0 If taxes are raised next year, a lot of Wbitby's new residents will move back to Toronto, a dollars. resident warned at a public coundil meeting. Therefore: don't hold your breath waiting for the boom - Town Council is considering limitation of the number of service stations in Whitby. days. 80 YEARS AGO Where will Mike Harris lead us? Hie Cominon Sense from the Thursday, November 25, 1915 edition of the says we are h eading for the Promised Land.L For those Wflfl'BY GAZETTE AND CHRONICILE lucky enough te benefit fi-cm bis tax cuts, t"i may become a OntaÉo County hms granted $5,000 to the llGth Battalion which is heading for the war in the land of milk and honey. For many others not so lucky, Europe next year. it may become a land of hair shirts and loincloth. 0 About 250 men from the ll6th Battalion will be quartered in Whitby over the winter. And one afterthought: if deflcit-solving were so easy that a J.H. Downey and Comnpany are selling 90-pound bage o! potatoes for $1.50 each, bags ail you had te do was axe programe, wouldn't somebody included. -'iino e an nhrh havedon it efoe? Wat appns i, dspit th cut, teaeWbitby artist Florencé, McGillivray is holding an exhibiino e aningsinhrom havedon itbefoe? hathapens f, espte te ctsthestudio on Byron Street. deflit etill rises? _________________________ IF' ~1U