The Occupy Movement started right – but mostly the people with jobs had to get back to work. Their goal never exactly focused and the folks that remained, not perhaps the best example to the middle class and upper end neighbours of the encampments. In fact it was amazing to see on-camera interviews of how the neighbours feared these vile rabble-rousers.

AND what was great about “Occupy”? People. People that took at least some time to gather and in hopes of expressing a goal. But clear communication of a focus was missing – it was even avoided. Business guru’s call it a Vision Statement and how could you have one of them, without its parallel, the - Mission Statement? If ever either of these were missing, here it was. BUT alas – people came together and actually invested time. Ultimately the purity of “leaderless” was the demise of these groups. It was a though testament to a growing frustration and unrest – in an otherwise ‘civilized’ collective of citizens.

And now the City of Toronto in the midst of a all-so-common Operating Budget crisis throws numbers to re-sod, clean up and re-grow the grass at $60,000 or even more...my gosh. Is this perhaps another example of City services, no matter how executed upon – internal or external, being way way more than we’d pay our Gardeners?

And now, a City Councillor without shame, asking for donations from the public? Oh a 'Donation'? Is that as opposed to the prescribed (forced) contribution/donation we make through mandated taxes? How stupid....how openly admissive that the money to operate governmental budgets likely comes from other than the public. Some magical place, off this planet maybe?