I love lists, don’t you? Give me 5 ways to reduce stress or 10 things everyone your age should know or 3 ways to cook leftover turkey and I’m hooked. Maclean’s Magazine’s latest cover story is 99 stupid things the government did with your money. And they’re pretty stupid.
A Toronto City Councilor spent $300 to have his office blessed by a baptist pastor. Yes, he spent taxpayer dollars on that.
But most of the dumb things cost a lot more, like the Canadian mint making nearly 500 million new pennies at a cost of 1.5 cents each. The total was $7 million.
London gets a mention for spending $620,000 over the past four years keeping two money-losing, city-owned golf courses afloat.
The province of PEI spent $330,000 to build a parking lot for trucks to use when the weather is too bad to allow traffic across the Confederation Bridge. But the lot is too far off the route and the last time the bridge was closed only 3 trucks used it. The rest parked on the road.
Dumb, dumb and dumber! If you can stomach it, the magazine’s list is building by the day here: http://www2.macleans.ca/
Liberal, Tory same old story…its doesn’t matter who is in government, all parties are increasing debt, spending and hiring is out of control…what a mess!!!
“We don’t want the party to end, the “free” trips, expense accounts…perks, gold plated pensions, free this, free that…Yes indeed, see we in government, are all entitled to our entitlements folks and we can’t stop that, at least not until we retire. Our unions say so, it’s ours and we want it now…$$”
Scum bag parasitic unions, police, crown corporations, all government…all the same, bankrupting future generations…and they don’t give a damn. All you hear from government is high priced, expensive spin, lies…BS.
We now have over 3.6 million people working for government across the country. Average salary in government is 70 thousand (including benefits, pension, bonuses…) yearly and rising. Average salary in the private sector is 45 thousand yearly and dropping. Over 10% of government employees now make over 100 thousand yearly. In the private sector the number is under 2%. Look to Greece, Ireland and Quebec (all technically bankrupt), this is where Ontario, and Canada is headed if we don’t stop equalization and get spending and government growth under control. This tax and spend, pro union scum – socialist, big government, social engineering that has been destroying this country has got to stop. Yes, it has left Quebec and has been spreading throughout the rest of the country since the 1960”s, that’s right over 5 decades of massive government growth, massive government hiring, higher taxes, skyrocketing government salaries, social engineering ( the expensive forced phony charter, bilingualism, multiculturalism…) and more and more debt. Thanks Trudeau, Tanks kebec (original native spelling). Don’t believe me; go check the stats for yourself.
Try to digest this scum bags.Who do you think is going to pay off all this debt you are leaving your children, your grandchildren? That’s what I thought, you don’t care! You greedy, greedy scum bags.
We need a new party, a new leader willing to deal with the facts, the truth for a change. Things need to be cut in all government. The future is at stake here and no one is willing to deal with this, how sad, how pathetic, all of you.
I’ve had a few people today say how much they agree with this comment, James. Wish they’d say so here but at least they said so!
If you want parity between public- and private-sector wages, the solution is clear: Everyone in Canada should work for the government.