Comments on: Toronto Garbage Strike — Day 22

By: Jimmy

Jimmy — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 17:07:55 +0000

Enter week #5! I don’t care how they portray Miller, the fact is Miller cannot give in to these clowns. It is the Union Leadership who decides on a direction for the new contract & for them to think that the status quo remain, just because of the police/fire, is unthinkably arrogant.

The Union members, most of them peons, follow what their leaders say. Sick days to be banked? Come on I had to use my sick days as holidays if I didn’t use them in the year & these dummies think that they can bank them.

We all know Miller is a weak leader but he must remain firm on this one. Time for the union to come back to reality. You don’t save lives, nor do you rescue them.

Unions, sleep with the fishes!!!

By: The Mayor

The Mayor — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 20:12:15 +0000

And this is why it’s important next November when electing a Mayor, to remember who gave the unions everything they wanted if they in turn delivered the union vote.

Miller gave the unions everything they asked for, for years and years. Now that Toronto is bancrupt and Miller’s popularity is in the tubes, he’s decided to make a stand. I wonder why?

You have the right idea, Michelle, we just need more Michelles and maybe this crap will stop once and for all.

By: Michelle

Michelle — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 18:40:37 +0000

I think there should be a class action lawsuit against the civil servants and the unions VS the Taxpayers. Taxpayers should be suing for the garbage tax money they pay, endangering the health of a mass population, assisting the spreading of disease. They should also be sued for Child abuse, as because of them children are left to play in disease and filth, also child endangerment, as there are many rats, raccoons and other forms of pestilance that could seriously harm a child ( anyone remember learning about the black plague?)
Anyone who has become sick since the garbage strike as a result of the unsanitary conditions of the streets should sue for life endangerment. Then the union and civil servants should be sued and forced to pay the taxpayers the amount of money lost on tourisim due to their greed-if they cant pay, give them jobs at Mcdonalds or put them in prison for life. I would rather have my taxmoney spent on their lifetime stay in prison, then their salaries for doing nothing

By: Disgusted

Disgusted — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 02:20:15 +0000

Let’s fire them all and employ private contractors.

By: Andy

Andy — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 23:26:19 +0000

Go_Fish, I think that was Ozzie Osbourne, not Uncle Ted. No, Ozzie bit the heads off of bats, doves…stuff with wings.

It must be an urban legend that he ate rats on stage. But y’all might want to contact Ozzie anyway…I imagine that he didn’t just stop with winged creatures.

I grew up eating rats myself. Well, we call them squirrels down here. The hardest part was getting them skinned completely. No matter how hard you worked at it, a few hairs and nails would end up in your Mulligan.

But when you’re hungry, you can just close your eyes and pretend it isn’t happening.

By: Go_Fish

Go_Fish — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 20:56:27 +0000

Isn’t “Rat Bite Fever” a Ted Nugent song?

Eat em.

By: Godless Commie

Godless Commie — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 18:33:07 +0000

“The garbage police are looking — they are sifting through your refuge, taking names and addresses …”

So spike your garbage with a couple of envelopes addressed to Mayor Miller, or a local Council-critter, or even the CUPE capo.

Won’t do any good, of course. They’re protected from the rules that apply to the proles.

Mind you, stinging some of their family members might get a response. Does Miller have a particularly bad-tempered sister?

By: Andy

Andy — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 18:11:59 +0000

I don’t know the ins and outs of Toronto garbage collection…but do Commercial establishments pay for private service…like Waste Management, Western Waste, etc.?

If so, you can do what “this friend of mine” did when he lived in a rural area. I waited until the dark of night, and he chunked his junk in commercial dumpsters.

But I do like the catapult concept. I will file that in the brain for future reference.

By: mare

mare — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 18:01:30 +0000

I like the trebuchet idea. Imagine several hundred (or thousand) people launching their garbage all over the city. I think it would be exciting.

My idea, how about paying human garbage mules. I’ll let your mind wander on that one.

By: nancy

nancy — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 16:19:39 +0000

Wait a minute, I forgot something important…purchase those cans in small quantities…I’ll tell you why.
Back in the day, a friend, who had several shrimp boats, caught the “Mariel Boat Lift” fever a little too late.
Cuban families in Miami were paying tens of thousands of dollars for the retrieval of family and friends. So George, not Stuttering George, but, Big Daddy George, got primed up for the action.
Unfortunately, it was over as fast as it started, and he never made one trip, but was left holding 300 life vests.