City puts $60M into restarting economy
The city has announced a $60-million cash injection to restart the economy whenever that becomes possible.
I must be getting desensitized, because my first thought was how little $60 million is, and how it’s like a small pat of butter for a large loaf of bread.
dmdiem 08:29 on 2020-12-04 Permalink
That’s about $15 dollars for every Montrealer. Which is, ironically, about enough to buy some bread and butter.
Kate 10:41 on 2020-12-04 Permalink
It will be dolloped out to businesses and tourism, but I always wonder, with announcements like this, exactly where the cash goes. I’m not implying the city administration is corrupt, but that this seems to be how government largesse works: a big number is mentioned, but so much of it gets soaked up in administrative costs (and sometimes paying expensive PR firms to brag about the program, if it’s big enough) that the money that actually reaches the people who need it is a fraction of the original amount.
I’d love to be disabused of this impression but I suspect it’s just how the interface of government operates.
Ephraim 18:14 on 2020-12-04 Permalink
Willing to bet I don’t see a single cent?
Kate 18:39 on 2020-12-04 Permalink
Well, you have to ask. I don’t know what the process is, but squeaky wheel that shit.