Politicians never cease to amaze me.
The Liberals and NDP issued a joint news release that said both sides have agreed to bring their wages more in line with other provinces.
The new $86,580 salary, which will automatically be reviewed every year, amounts to 60 per cent of the $144,300 a year that MPs are paid.
B.C. MLAs are currently paid $75,400 annually. The pay raise takes effect on April 1, 2006. The new pension will see MLAs contribute 9 per cent of their salary to the plan.
Mr. Campbell's base salary rises to $146,320 a year from $119,500. Ms. James will now make $131,329 a year, up from $114,400.It's "absolutely disgusting," said Sara MacIntyre, B.C. director of the Canadian Taxpayers Federation.
"We're going to be looking at a government in a very difficult position to not be handing over the same types of massive increases to public-sector unions, who are going to be lining up in droves next year wanting pay raises similar to what MLAs voted for themselves."
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Disgusting.
Doubly so in the wake of the BCTF illegal strike over wages.
At least MacIntyre is more man than some of these Fiberals and Dippers.
I can't beleive how DUMB most politicians are.
Just a month ago we went through a bitter illegal teachers strike. They got NO increase. In the spring 85% of B.C. public sector unions will be seeking new contracts after 3 years of NO increases.
Surely out of 77 Liberal and NDP MLA's at least ONE would have said" aaah, don't you think the optics of this won't look good. Perhaps we should wait until spring and the unions have settled"
My first impression was "are they crazy to do this now?"
And while the union bosses and the Fed of Labor boss are gleefully rubbing their hands together they too are publicly saying"are you guys nuts"
For some strange reason I used to think that most politicians were maybe just a little smarter than the average Joe. But I have now come to realize that most of them probably have a double digit IQ at the lower end of the scale.
There is no difference between the Federal and B.C. Lie-beral's/NDP'ers.
The Campbell government has been infected with the Earnscliffe/Martinite virus and the B.C. NDP can be bought just like their counterparts in Ottawa. Wonder why Earnscliffe has offices in Victoria and Vancouver? Some bloody example we have for government and opposition, how about zero,zero and two for you too!You god damn bloodsuckers!
I have to admit I was shocker when I heard about the pay raise for the MLA’s and then when I heard the PM’s idea of a raise; I was near the state of absolute rage! There are more reasons to not give out anymore money to the political government. First, who wants to give 56 or 59% increase to a drunk driver? Secondly, I know that when Summerland wanted to contact the MLA, the email address to him stopped working so the citizens couldn’t contact him. He is around when there is a photo opportunity but if there are hard questions they cannot find him. That is worth a raise? Third, when the minimum wage goes up, it is by something like a quarter, not a percentage. When anyone gets a raise it is by a dollar or in some cases like my friends in pennies. They never get a percent raise because it doesn’t even amount to 1%! For those who are in favor of the raises tell us that it is a hard job and we want to attract more people to this type of job, I have something to tell you. When people go for the job of MLA or PM they know what the salary is. If it isn’t enough for them they can leave and we can “hire” someone else. Anybody else who would go to their boss and tell them to give a raise to them than is more than half of what they already make would be fired! There will never be a shortage of people going into politics. There are the few who really want to make a difference, the ones who love the spotlight and the ones who love power. You don’t need to give the taxpayer’s money away to attract people. If you do, you will attract the worst ones! As usual, the ones in power right now have given themselves a raise, and I might add, behind our backs with our own money.
After all of what I have pointed out there is one more thing that I would like to mention. People on welfare get $325 a month for rent, a total of $600 a month to live on. If the government thinks that the average person who is down on their luck for whatever reason can live on $600 a month, they don’t need anymore money, they can’t manage it.
Write to the PMs office and complain.
premier@gov.bc.ca
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