06-24-2021, 11:54 PM
(02-02-2021, 10:43 AM)danbrotherston Wrote: I'm sure I'm just going to be stirring up a nest here...but it was in the news today.
Regional Libraries (which serve the townships directly and not the cities which are serviced by city libraries), saw a significant budget cut this year:
https://www.therecord.com/news/waterloo-...t-cut.html
This didn't even make news in the wake of the, in my opinion, insane decisions around childcare and the police budget.
What is regional council thinking!?
No, you're not stirring the nest, you're just stating some facts. Nothing wrong with that.
It's a continual attack on those that are less fortunate -- and for those of use barely making it into middle class economy, just more stress we need to deal with.
Begs the question: has the region gotten so bad that we need a huge police budget? Are others so unimportant that we take away their only outlet for cultural enlightenment? Is it hard for us to help out low-income parents struggling with childcare expenses? I get we need to keep things under budget, but it appears at time that we're penny wise and pound foolish.