We might all guess that Rob Ford could easily live with the knowledge that 50, 60 or even 75 percent of the City’s population just plain hates him. Surely what distresses the Mayor more is that no one — not one person much less a group — has said “Here is palatable alternative plan for balancing the City’s budget.” Why? It’s because there is no such alternative plan. Any solution to our debt will require sacrifices. So it doesn’t matter whether we like Ford, or find him too fat, or mouthy, or blunt or uncouth. He is not the issue. The issue, just as it is for Greece, is overwhelming debt. In Greece they have a wonderfully debonair and intellectual prime minister in George Pandreou. But that hasn’t helped the Greek debit crisis. Just as in Toronto, it isn’t about the guy who is carrying the can, it’s about the can.
