Thread by @downtownrob88

Consistent with @FordNation's documented record of failure in business and government, no immediate urgency was found in the Aug 9, 2022 Throne Speech. The healthcare crisis, rising interest rates, high inflation, climate change and the growing possibility of a recession.../2

...spurred Doug Ford to do little more than offer income tax breaks that won't be receivable for months, if not as late as mid-2023;

Pleasing the base, Ford's economic blueprint affirmed Covid-19 "lockdowns" are a thing of the past while confirming action on hospital ER.../3

...lockdowns won't be a present-day, real-time focus in FordWorld; the callous premier offered no immediate solution to overstretched hospitals or relief to desperate HCWs. But the presumptuous Contractor-in-Chief arrogantly projected 10 years of hospital expansions and new.../4

....construction totalling $40 billion;

King Doug did use the speech to announce direct payments to parents of school-age children totalling $225M over 2 years in what looks like a privatization incursion into the education sector. Incredibly, the plan was never mentioned.../5

...in the election campaign that had ended only 11 weeks earlier. Apportioned among 3 million students, the so-called "catch-up" amounts to a token $72 per student spread out over 24 months;

Out of a $198.6 billion ON budget, ODSP takes up a mere $3 billion. But Hardhearted.../6

...Doug could only find $150M to help disabled people subsisting on less than $40/day (incl. rent). That Ford Nation thinks $42 is a difference maker is a "Let them eat cake" moment for the current Ford Family Compact governor.

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