Stuffing
Remember "Triple E?"
No, not the hamburger sauce.
The Alberta push to reform the Canadian Senate.
What was it now? Elected, equal and...equine?
Now that he is Prime Minister, Stephen Harper has forgotten all that campaign nonsense stuff.
And speaking of Christmas stuffing that is exactly what he has done with the Red Chamber.
18 new breast-feeders appointed, the only real surprise being that somehow John Reynolds missed the cut.
Now, I knew that senators - and that includes Larry Campbell - get $130,000 a year. What I didn't know until this morning is that they also get $90,000 in travel and what with copying machines and faxes and secretaries and whatnot, the total cost for each of these layabouts is in fact $860,215 per an...uh, annum.
The photo, by the way, is of Mike Duffy, a broadcaster.
Times must be tough.
4 comments:
It boggles the mind. The credibility of those in the press corps is slowly heading down the toilet. How can the press be neutral when so many leave their press jobs and immediately end up 'hired' to do spin doctoring for political parties? Yes, in the 'old' days when the media supported one party or another there seemed at least arms distance to politicians but not now.
Senator David Berner.
Happy Chanukah!
Thank you, Keith.
I will light a candle for you for each of the eight nights that I fly first class from home to my new job in the Red CHamber.
I'm not sure if Air Canada wull be too happy about that, but what're they gonna do? Pitch a Senator out the window?
Hey folks do you realize that the new 18 senators will cost Joe Lunchbucket $16,200,000? The filthy rich have tax breaks up the Wazzoo so it won't cost them a cent except to whine even more about THEIR perceived tax load (and the "poor" are off the tax roll.) So one can only hope that Harper will be toast before the end of the year if Joe and company vote this lot out of office. Harpoon Harper and put someone in his place that has brains and not spite laced with dogma.
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