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\"\"<\/a>I see in news from Abbotsford City Hall that senior staff and council continues to rush, like a pack of lemmings, over the edge of catastrophe that their Plan A represents. It would appear they are determined to prove the old adage: \u201cOne man alone can be pretty dumb sometimes, but for real bona fide stupidity, there ain’t nothin’ can beat teamwork.\u201d<\/p>\n

The entire debacle has more in common with a Keystone Kops movie than with the thoughtful, careful planned capital building strategy the citizens of Abbotsford should be getting.<\/p>\n

Except for humour, since the far reaching financial and delivery of services effects are straight out of a Shakespearian tragedy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I see in news from Abbotsford City Hall that senior staff and council continues to rush, like a pack of lemmings, over the edge of catastrophe that their Plan A represents. It would appear they are determined to prove the old adage: \u201cOne man alone can be pretty dumb sometimes, but for real bona fide stupidity, there ain’t nothin’ can beat teamwork.\u201d The entire debacle has more in common with a Keystone Kops movie than with the thoughtful, careful planned capital building strategy the citizens of Abbotsford should be getting. Except for humour, since the far reaching financial and delivery of services effects are straight out of a Shakespearian tragedy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-municipal"],"yoast_head":"\nFestival of Fools - James W. Breckenridge<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.jameswbreckenridge.ca\/?p=393\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Festival of Fools - James W. 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