Subject: Do you think that political leaders are worth their wages!
Why politicians need our surveillance!
Do not forget for this year's income tax report,
to list the names of the Members of Parliament and Senators
as your "dependants".
MP's at work :a nice wage at 10,000 $/month.
Siesta courtesy of the taxpayer at 8,000/month
A little bit or reading on the side at 11,000 $/month.
Writing your mail at the expense of the tax payer ..
Dammit, this job is so hard! I deserve a raise.
How I miss my rocking chair!
I'm not sleeping, I'm thinking about the laws of retirement.
This is not what it looks like!
I'm thinking!
Maybe I'm getting too old for those all night parties?!
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NOW WE UNDERSTAND WHY THIS JOB IS SO MUCH WANTED!!
This Picture is worth a Trillion $$$
House Minority Leader Lawrence F. Cafero Jr., R-Norwalk, pictured standing, far right, speaks while colleagues Rep. Barbara Lambert, D-Milford and Rep. Jack F. Hennessy, D-Bridgeport, play solitaire Monday night as the House convened to vote on a new budget. (AP)
The guy sitting in the row in front of these two...he's on Facebook, and the guy behind Hennessy is checking out the baseball scores.
These are the folks that couldn't get the budget out by Oct. 1, and are about to control your health care, cap and trade, and the list goes on and on.
Should we buy them larger screen computers - or - a ticket home, permanently?
This is one of their 3-DAY WORK WEEKS that we all pay for (salary is about $179,000 per year).
Why politicians need our surveillance!
Do not forget for this year's income tax report,
to list the names of the Members of Parliament and Senators
as your "dependants".
MP's at work :a nice wage at 10,000 $/month.
Siesta courtesy of the taxpayer at 8,000/month
A little bit or reading on the side at 11,000 $/month.
Writing your mail at the expense of the tax payer ..
Dammit, this job is so hard! I deserve a raise.
How I miss my rocking chair!
I'm not sleeping, I'm thinking about the laws of retirement.
This is not what it looks like!
I'm thinking!
Maybe I'm getting too old for those all night parties?!
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NOW WE UNDERSTAND WHY THIS JOB IS SO MUCH WANTED!!
IT IS IDEAL TO CATCH UP ON MISSED SLEEP AFTER EXHAUSTING TRAVELS WHILE WAITING SERENELY FOR RETIREMENT OR FOR A REWARD IN CASE OF A LOST RE-ELECTION...
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You probably thought that only Canadian MPs are behaving worse than children!
This Picture is worth a Trillion $$$
House Minority Leader Lawrence F. Cafero Jr., R-Norwalk, pictured standing, far right, speaks while colleagues Rep. Barbara Lambert, D-Milford and Rep. Jack F. Hennessy, D-Bridgeport, play solitaire Monday night as the House convened to vote on a new budget. (AP)
The guy sitting in the row in front of these two...he's on Facebook, and the guy behind Hennessy is checking out the baseball scores.
These are the folks that couldn't get the budget out by Oct. 1, and are about to control your health care, cap and trade, and the list goes on and on.
Should we buy them larger screen computers - or - a ticket home, permanently?
This is one of their 3-DAY WORK WEEKS that we all pay for (salary is about $179,000 per year).
Article: http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2012/03/05/rob-anders-veterans-sue-defamation_n_1321452.html
ReplyDeleteSent by luke deluka
A Calgary MP who was caught sleeping in the House of Commons during Question Period last year apologized for his comments this week after he was accused of doing it again.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/story/2012/03/02/anders-committee-asleep-halifax.html
http://m.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/ottawa-notebook/why-does-tory-mp-rob-anders-keep-falling-asleep-on-the-job/article2356427/?service=mobile
These guys are working so hard on the public's business that they're all sleep-deprived!
ReplyDeleteThey need a permanent unpaid vacation!
hey, it ain't illegal to catch a few winks!!
ReplyDeleteDereliction of duty:
DeleteIn the military if you get caught sleeping on the job
you are considered to be in "delelicttion of duty" ...wch is grounds for being courtmarshalled!
Clearly "doing the job for wch one is being paid" does not have the same meaning when you're elected to the
legislature (parliament or congress)!!
I wonder if they even feel embarassed?!
ReplyDeleteThe main prerequisite for membership in this club must be an incapacity to feel embarrassment or shame!
ReplyDeleteIf they are doing this out in the open in front of 30 million people...you can imagine what must go on behind the scenes
when no one is watching!
Great post, but honestly are we all not napping at our office, especially after lunch?!
ReplyDeletelooks like these guys went "out to lunch" and never came back!
ReplyDeletenodding off:
ReplyDeleteMy boss would not be very understanding if he caught me "sleeping on the job", or posting updates on my Facebook site!
makes me sleepy! Yaaawn!
ReplyDelete"I'm Entitled To My Entitlements"
ReplyDelete- David Dingwall
http://www.politicswatch.com/entitlement-dec23-2005.html
http://blogs.canoe.ca/lilleyspad/general/entitlement-culture-strikes-back/
servants of the people?
ReplyDeleteor blood sucking parasites?
Why do so many politicians go astray?
Some con artists cloak themselves in suits and ties and pretend to be servants of the people.
DeleteThe Canadian institution of the "Senate" serves no useful function.
ReplyDeleteIt is a drain on the taxpayer to the tune of $ per year!
It should be abolished by process of referendum in the next federal election.
see Kevin Page's "Exit Interview " aired on W5
ReplyDelete"The quality of our political leadership has never been weaker"
transcript of Parliamentary Budget Officer Kevin Page’s interview with Question Period.
http://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/kevin-page-nearly-quit-in-2009-and-has-no-intention-of-running-for-public-office-1.1199244#ixzz2NuyiTRZQ
http://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/kevin-page-nearly-quit-in-2009-and-has-no-intention-of-running-for-public-office-1.1199244#.UUde5UgNcFk.email
systemic corruption in politics is not new: power corrupts!
ReplyDeletehttp://www.huffingtonpost.ca/mobileweb/2013/04/30/quebec-corruption-election-law_n_3186012.html?utm_hp_ref=canada-politi
Campaign strategists know that in politics
subterfuge and
deception are tools of their trade
see "tbe rulez of politics"
culture of entitlement
Deleteculture of corruption
culture of deceit
culture of lying
....no wonder politcians have
lost the trust of the people!
ReplyDeleteAbuse of entitlements by "publc servants" :
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/blogs/canada-politics/senators-bill-taxpayers-ottawa-living-expenses-despite-owning-213952639.html
Corrupted by power:
ReplyDeletethe use of public office for personal gain
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/canadian-press-newsalert-pms-chief-staff-nigel-wright-125350650.html?.tsrc=yahoo
Illegitimate expenses: senate expense accounts padded ( no honour among thieves)
The Canadian senate is an i.stitution witbout legitimacy
unelected=unaccountable
Senate expense scandal undermines tbe legitimacy of the institution
Patrick Brazeau:
ReplyDeleteanother politician charged with defrauding the taxpayer!
http://www.ctvnews.ca/mobile/politics/brazeau-never-lived-in-maniwaki-expense-claims-constitute-breach-of-trust-rcmp-docs-1.1393964
Senator Wallin's questionable expenses total $140K, audit reveals
ReplyDeleteIndepedent auditors reveal retroactive changes to expense claims
By Leslie MacKinnon, CBC News
Posted: Aug 12, 2013 5:07 AM ET
Last Updated: Aug 12, 2013 2:18 PM ET
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Pamela Wallin's Senate expense repayments could top $100KWho's who in the Senate expenses storyTranscript: Senator Pamela Wallin on her expense claims
Key An independent audit of Senator Pamela Wallin's expenses has found ineligible claims amounting to as much as $140,000, and that the number of those claims is in the hundreds, CBC News had learned.The 95-page report currently being viewed by a Senate sub-committee also reveals the Saskatchewan senator made attempts to change her expense paperwork after the fact
These people should be convicted of breach of the public's trust,fraud and theft...and prohibited from working in the public service.
ReplyDeleteThe Whalin audit cost taxpayers $127,000
ReplyDeleteThat bill should go to Pamela Wallin...
not to Joe Publi c
"When anyone wicked bears rule,the people sigh."
ReplyDelete-Proverbs 29;2
Scoundrels. ..all!!
ReplyDeleteCulture of corruption:
Deletehas. the conservafive govt fostered the fraudulent use of taxpayers money?
Senator Mike Duffy faces 31 criminal charges of fraud,breach of trust,bribery,etc.
The only difference between a lolitician and a criminal is the politician hasn't yet been caught and convicted.
DeleteYour sins will find you out!
DeleteI understand politicians are not well treated in prison.
DeleteThey are treated like pedophiles!
New price of Pamela Wallin audit: 390,000
ReplyDeletehttp://m.thestar.com/#!/canada/redirect/b8ea68d0db9672b08db75280a29c6e8b
Senate expense audits cost taxpayer 528,000:
http://www.cbc.ca/m/touch/politics/story/1.2325379
Wow...whats it going to cost to audit all hundred of them!!
ReplyDeletehttp://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/senate-audit-cost-21m-another-10-senators-will-be-referred-to-rcmp-sources-1.2381537
DeleteSenate audit cost $21M,
another 10 senators will be referred to RCMP
A sweeping Auditor General’s audit of the Senate has cost taxpayers $21 million, and uncovered troubling expense claims from 10 more sitting and former senators, CTV News has learned.The 10 senators filed questionable expenses
DeleteDuffy is "not guilty"! Mike Duffy acquited of "fraud" and "breach of trust" on all counts
Duffy innocent;Harper and his minions in the PMO guilty
Conservative senator, Mike Duffy, exonerated
of fraudulently using taxpayer money for personal gain.
The judge said that Duffy sought out experts’ advice on the issue of primary residence, and that his conduct was “honest and reasonable.” He said there wasn’t any “sinister motive” on Duffy’s part. .." Duffy had no intention to deceive or defraud.
Judge says Duffy was credible and sought advice from both the Senate and PMO.
It appears that it was the Senate and the PMO that failed to properly exercise their oversight roles and thereby failed the taxpayer...and have attempted to throw Mike Duffy under the bus out of political expediency
by way of covering their own negligence.
Judge criticizes the rules(the rules and the process were ambiguous) of the Senate and the advice Mike Duffy received from the PMO wch he had no choice but to follow.
The Senate and PMO wch vetted and approved his "expenses" receive judge's scathing condemnation.
Duffy repeatedly sought and received reassurances from the Conservative government that he was doing nothing wrong. Judge delivers scathing rebuke of the role of PMO's office.
In any other business or occupation Duffy's actions of padding expense accounts would be both immoral and illegal....but judge says Senate rules allowed it.
In other words, Senate administrative rules entitle/allow senators to ripoff the taxpayer.
Deletean insightful analysis of the Mike Duffy senate scandal:
http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/at-issue-mike-duffy-video-1.3548445
ReplyDeleteEven if you don’t speak Russian you don’t have to, in order to enjoy the spectacle of elected officials behaving badly.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4CYqw4s6XF8&feature=youtube_gdata_player
Alison Redord forced to rezign as premier of Alta
ReplyDeleteover allegations of fraud and misuse of public money!
Politicians should be transparent a.d accountable.
They should be required to recite an ""oath of ethics" upon taking the job and every morning to remi.d themselves that they are public serva.ts.:
"
I shall not steal!"
We shoild pray for all those in posittions of authority.
ReplyDeletePoliticians should be thanked for public service.
We have placed them in their positions
because we believed them to be most capable and most trustworthy to create good policy and laws.
Its not healthy to rob oneself of a good snooze!
These people who are nodding off on the job are probably sleep-deprived becuz they are working hard on our behalf.
Should we continue to support them when they discredit themselves and betray our trust?
ReplyDeleteCheck out Rex Murphy's ideaz on how to improve the Canadian parliament:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.cbc.ca/player/News/TV+Shows/The+National/Rex+Murphy/ID/2540128027/
At least these guys showed up!
ReplyDeleteCheck out "paid for being absent":
https://anc.yahoo.com/news/pacman--jules-ledesma-top-congress-absentees-list-093303866.html
In my many years I have come to a conclusion that one useless man is a shame, two is a law firm and three or more is a government. John Adams
ReplyDeleteIf you don't read the newspaper you are uninformed, if you do read the newspaper you are misinformed. Mark TwainI
I contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle. Winston Churchill
A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.George Bernard Shaw
Foreign aid might be defined as a transfer of money from poor people in rich countries to rich people in poor countries.Douglas Casey, Classmate of Bill Clinton at Georgetown University
Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.P.J. O'Rourke, Civil Libertarian
Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavours to live at the expense of everybody else.Frederic Bastiat, French economist(1801-1850)
I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts. Will Rogers
In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one party of the citizens to give to the other. Voltaire (1764)
Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you!Pericles (430 B.C.)
No man's life, liberty, or property is safe while the legislature is in session.Mark Twain (1866)
The government is like a baby's alimentary canal, with a happy appetite at one end and no responsibility at the other.Ronald Reagan
The only difference between a tax man and a taxidermist is that the taxidermist leaves the skin.Mark Twain
What this country needs are more unemployed politicians.Edward Langley, Artist (1928-1995)
A government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to take everything you have. Thomas Jefferson
We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.Aesop
Canadian legislators adjourn for summer holidays:
ReplyDeleteParliamentarians take step to restore public confidence in political institutions by adjourning for summer holidays.
Won't be back to "work" till after the election in mid October!
That's some "break"....4 months vacation paid for by the taxpayer!
Psychopaths lie,cheat,steal--all out of a sense of entitlement--without ever feeling they are doing anything wrong.They have no conscience!
ReplyDeleteThis is not to label all politicians who have an attitude of entitlement with "psychopathy"...but it may indicate there is a higher percentage of this "disorder of conscience" among those who aspire to political power than amo.ng the general population.
A psychopath's behaviour is not constrained by moral principles because they cannot distinguish between right and wrong.
ReplyDeleteConfessions of Congressman X:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-ChvMjTf24&sns=em
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https://www.youtube.com/watch? v=o2sbCgvz_5AHumpty Dumpty
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1hogz4jbdQM