{"id":10386,"date":"2015-04-16T00:15:59","date_gmt":"2015-04-16T04:15:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/?p=10386"},"modified":"2015-04-16T00:15:59","modified_gmt":"2015-04-16T04:15:59","slug":"view-from-a-taxpayers-hot-seat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/view-from-a-taxpayers-hot-seat\/","title":{"rendered":"View from a taxpayers\u2019 hot seat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>(Re: View from Queen\u2019s Park, April 10)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>When you want to, temporarily, blind people, shine a very bright light in their eyes, then they will not notice the rubble behind the person shining the light.<br \/>\nSuch is Mr. Ballard&#8217;s (MPP) View from Queen&#8217;s Park.<br \/>\nWhen he states that the government was elected for its commitment to take a balanced and thoughtful approach to governing, it could not have been from a financial perspective.<br \/>\nWe are facing another over $10 billion deficit, a continuation of various previous $10 billion deficits started under Dalton McGuinty, which will accumulate by 2017-2018 into an overall debt of $235 Billion, which, with any increase in the interest rate, will become a virtual unbearable burden on the taxpayers and will gobble up a good portion of future budgets in just paying the interest.<br \/>\nA continued &#8220;apres nous le deluge&#8221; (read tsunami) is the prevailing attitude of this government; we are heading for serious financial difficulties, not to mention bankruptcy.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Alex Vander Veen<br \/>\nAurora<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Re: View from Queen\u2019s Park, April 10) When you want to, temporarily, blind people, shine a very bright light in their eyes, then they will not notice the rubble behind the person shining the light. Such is Mr. Ballard&#8217;s (MPP) View from Queen&#8217;s Park. When he states that the government was elected for its commitment [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-letters-opinion"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10386","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10386"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10386\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}