This quote comes from an article on gutting the reporting requirements for unions …
Segal's amendment raised the threshold for salary disclosure from $100,000 to $444,000, the same as the maximum amount a senior deputy minister can earn. It also changed the amount for disclosure of union spending to $150,000, up from $5,000.
Two things blew my fricken mind. First, the bill really is gutted. Spending $149,999 is ok with the senators … no need to report that to the people who actually pay for it both directly through dues and indirectly through our taxes. Remember that this from the house of ill repute where you have a job for life and where the celebrity shame fest recently was spawned with Duffy and Wallen getting caught with hand in till … so why am I not surprised?
But … the truly shocking salary thresholds raise a much more serious question ….since the fkcu did Canadian bureaucrats start to deserve almost half a million dollars in salary? what is happening in a world where the vast majority of taxpayers have gone with nothing but decreases in compensation for decades (check the graphs on middle class and lower class salaries and compare with CEOs if you don’t believe this imbalance is as bad as I am suggesting) …
And we wonder why our governments have a little problem understanding the plight of those whom they have screwed for decades by allowing corporations to send the middle class jobs overseas …
And let’s not forget that a gold plated pension is piled right on top of that half million per year … step back if you are puking right now. Don’t want the keyboard to stink like these numbers do …
If “top” deputy ministers were the world’s best leaders and administrators, the salaries would still be ridiculous. But we are quite clear that they could not lead or manage their way out of a soggy paper bag … the waste in government is very well documented every year by the Auditor General …
And then there is union management … there aren’t all that many unions around these days, but apparently the few that exist have enough people who make almost half a million in salary to make that number plausible. Again – WTF?
Did unions suddenly start creating jobs and generating trade surplus and tax revenue?
Next thing you know, the rich will be bending over backward to scratch each others’ backs and protect their own lol …
