Abbotsford City Council has $1.73 million to subsidize Entertainment and Sports……<\/p>\n
Abbotsford City Council has an additional $1.1 million to subsidize the ownership of a professional hockey team……<\/p>\n
Abbotsford City Council has another $115,000 to subsidize golf plus clubhouse food and beverage services……<\/p>\n
And Abbotsford City Council has $0.00 to keep the warm zone open.<\/p>\n
Council has $2.945 million for frivolous pursuits and $0.00 for saving, reclaiming and transforming lives.<\/p>\n
A budget – spending – reflects the values and ethics of Council, our City and its people.<\/p>\n
$3 million to subsidize amusing ourselves and $0.00 to reach out to those in our City in desperate need of love and caring reflects a Council, a City, a people who are not simply ethically challenged, but suffering a critical ethical deficit.<\/p>\n
Not that this is the first time a city, a people, have suffered a critical ethical deficit.<\/p>\n
And……Abbotsford Council does have its Coliseum, a group of disposable people and just down the road – the lions at the Greater Vancouver Zoo……<\/p>\n
“Even the most rational approach to ethics is defenceless if there isn’t the will to do what is right<\/em>” Alexander Solzhenitsyn<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Abbotsford City Council has $1.73 million to subsidize Entertainment and Sports…… Abbotsford City Council has an additional $1.1 million to subsidize the ownership of a professional hockey team…… Abbotsford City Council has another $115,000 to subsidize golf plus clubhouse food and beverage services…… And Abbotsford City Council has $0.00 to keep the warm zone open. Council has $2.945 million for frivolous pursuits and $0.00 for saving, reclaiming and transforming lives. A budget – spending – reflects the values and ethics of Council, our City and its people. $3 million to subsidize amusing ourselves and $0.00 to reach out to those in our City in desperate need of love and caring reflects a Council, a City, a people who are not simply ethically challenged, but suffering a critical ethical deficit. Not that this is the first time a city, a people, have suffered a critical ethical deficit. And……Abbotsford Council does have its Coliseum, a group of disposable people and just down the road – the lions at the Greater Vancouver Zoo…… “Even the most rational approach to ethics is defenceless if there isn’t the will to do what is right” Alexander Solzhenitsyn<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,45,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-point-of-view","category-issues","category-provincial"],"yoast_head":"\n