Comment 46146

By realfreeenterpriser (registered) | Posted August 23, 2010 at 21:22:23

HamiltonFan said "Another post blaming Bob Young for Hamilton's ills. What a joke."

If successive Hamilton Councils can be blamed for approving developments like Lime Ridge, Eastgate, Centre Mall, the Meadowlands and Clappisons that sucked the life out of the downtown, I think it's only fair to blame Bob Young and the Tiger-Cats for demanding, at the 11th hour, that the city do the same thing with a stadium.

The big difference, of course, is that the destruction caused by the former developments was paid for with PRIVATE money. Bob Young and the Tiger-Cats want to drive even more people away from the heart of our city using PUBLIC money; stripping the city of it's cash reserves and exhausting our hard-earned future fund, all for their virtually exclusive benefit.

No one blames Bob Young for everything that's wrong with Hamilton. Lord knows there's lots of blame to go around. But the blame for the stadium fiasco lies squarely at his feet. The West Harbour proposal has been around since Hamilton first applied for the COMMONWEALTH games and we heard not a peep from the Tiger-Cats. The ONLY thing that's changed is their last minute refusal to share a stadium's benefit with the rest of us.

Who else COULD you blame?

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