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PAGE 6 â€" WATERLOO CHRONICLE, WEDNESDAY, MAY 19, 1993 even Bob Rae â€" a dedicated socialist â€" that unions in the public mmnmdhpdmdufiqflwlm other than their own. Some of the unions‘ goobletalk is pretty bad. For instance, when asked about how the government can fulfill its commitment to cut wm&qnfihmhflmamfiu Can you imagine? That‘s the same as a private sector union, asked to find efficiencies, recommending a customer price increase. ‘What all of these people are really saying is: Don‘t touch us and our perks. Raise other people‘s taxes instead. Bdhhudflwutubfi_hpflfi:m workers. With the horrendously high debt of the province, he should be asking for more. And that will come in the future. w:»-,bwn,dywhhlb-hhhlbh -npmmmfiz‘:';'-u-hfi-lflfiv- the president of the Ontario School Teachers‘ Federation. It is time for Ms. Barkley and all her socialist friends to sit down and listen to the rankâ€"andâ€"file: they know, because many of them have called and told me that the cupboard is bare â€" they need to Public sector unions need a dose of reality year. And that‘s a start. _ Mhfiowmmm&ilnfiz We‘ve overspent and we‘ve got to cut the public By billions. And if it isn‘t done voluntarily, it‘ll be done by And if the w@mnmhhuuw posed by the Rae government â€" would save about $4.3 billion a EeBCRBO MnE J 2 E+ If the IMF comés here, you‘ll see that what Bob Rae is doing will look like child‘s play. To cut Ontaric‘s debt, the IMF could well slash the salaries of teachers, policemen, firemen and other public serâ€" vants by as much as 50 percent. * No.yw.fihb&d'hdhm&lhhm Britain and Argentina when those countries overspent. MEANWHILE Fred S! heâ€"board pay cut of 10 per cent â€" more than that proâ€" You‘ll note I haven‘t made much sport about Waterâ€" 100 Region and its water woes. The recurring probâ€" lems are no laughing matter. _ ,, But, heaven knows, it‘s not that the regional water folks are lost: You can‘t get lost if you don‘t know where you‘re going. . uuwwmmrw and deeper, so deep that Kâ€"W Hospital patients 'flq;rivtmvfllmwflhtbopcfl( room. But it could be worse, folks. You‘ll know the till is really empty when the same patients are asked to walk back. Crime Wave: I‘ve always poohâ€"poohed claims that Kâ€"W has a lot of crime, but no longer. Not when the community has so much physical vioâ€" lence and so many homicides. Not when almost everyone has a friend or neighbor whose home has been broken into. ‘Not when drugs and hamburgers seem about equally easy to get. f ‘And a lot of the crime is mindless. For example, the home of one of our ministers at St. Andrew‘s Presbyâ€" terian was recently burglarized. That‘s lunacy. The only thing a burglar can get from breaking into a clergyman‘s house is practice. Bush League: An incredible eightâ€"death crash has Such gatherings have been around under one name or another since the mind of man remembereth not, and police seem unable to do much about them. ‘That‘s especially so at the moment when their No. 1 breath machine is on the shelf because a Saskatchewan court has questioned its accuracy. ‘True, police can scoop up sozzled teens for underage drinking and nab the odd clearly tipey driver, but the alâ€"fresco hijinks go on. You have to wonder about the people who rent their Mhmhfivlh‘lhymaymkmwit,mt they can be legally liable for any misery that results. The sad think about teen drinking is that a lot of : the youngsters think it‘s smart. Fact is, the bush parâ€" ties are piggy affairs unless you think that spewing constitutes an achievement and a hangover is someâ€" thing to be admired. Show me a youth who can eat, drink and be merry, and T‘ll show you a fat, grinning drunk. ‘The views of our columnists are their own and do the views of the newspaper. seR The Fairway Group Incorporated Frobriend ty q President: Paul Winkler j Still, it‘s lWfllfiK"‘l’% our PM mmmmmuflqmm low coming from him. Iathemaddnwudnhd-mmwhg shorted our services on numbers and equipment atC. cared so little for our troops that he let them serve under one NgnUweighnt MERBBVSL ©IVSR METITEC s And that includes dilettante Marcel Masse who did for the position what David Koresh did for jackleg preachers. & how popular he and his wife become each summer what with the dropâ€"in cottage visits and the relatives who book themselves in each year.. .. In particular the relatives are a nuisance, but he doesn‘t want to do anything that would put a knot in the family ties. wal,iuemwmw-um-_r-;‘”““ way to keep relatives from visiting you is to bortow never see either of them our PM