Told you so!

"News" in the weekly paper: the new Town Council is starting to come to the realisation that they have to either raise taxes or cut services. Just like I said before the election. Keeping election promises even when not elected: I'm that good. In fact, I can even tell you what the Council is most certainly not gonna admit: we don't just need to raise taxes, we need to more than double them to keep on top of the infrastructure reserve, PLUS we need a one-time take to fund the current replacement needs. All the 100% increase would do is fund the things that are recent and won't need replacing for some time.

It's funny. I mean, it would be funny on its face, but what's really funny is that I'm moving to Winnipeg in two months, while everyone else can stay here with their crumbling infrastructure, no jobs, no economy, and the Council they elected themselves, of eight people who don't know the first thing about economics and social policy and are committed to keeping on exactly the way things have always been done. I mean, when the two most successful talking points in the campaign are "I've lived here all my life" and "I agree with the others", you're pretty much thoroughly fucked, as a group.

Thanks for voting me off your sordid little fantasy island of denial and ignorantism, Hay River. You're such a low level, it's not even bragging to say I'm much better than this.