Government Horseshit

[Toad-O-Line]

I’m not too sure if I’m in the minority or not, but I have slowly been fuming over the recent audits surrounding the waste of taxpayers money by the federal government.

It seems like this motley crew of myopic fucks figure that as long as there is no threat to their power base they can piss away as much tax money as they need to. Christ, the human resources scandal is not even cold yet and the gun registry program is already rearing its ugly head. If a private company employed any of these losers they would either have been fired or perhaps prosecuted for their actions.

Canadian citizens need to wake up and demand that all levels of government clean up their act. We need to have legislation introduced to protect taxpayers from these trough hogging bottom feeders.

Personally, I would like to see these incompetent cocksuckers pay for their crimes by eliminating their tax exemption privileges and forfeiting their golden parachute pension plans.

It’s time for a revolution Canadians! Change is necessary!

 

[Hepcat]

Right on! Smash the state! Anarchy now! I can't wait all day you know!

 

[Quest4Less]

It's only a BILLION....

So I lose $10 bucks out of my checking account and the bank flips out.....

The Government loses 1 billion to HRDC, 1 billion to gun registry, and soon billion(s)? to Kyoto.

Make sense to anyone?

Next election I'm voting Alliance. They may be a little crazy, but they have to be better than the Liberals.

 

[Garrett]

Pallydin... the NDP had policies (payroll tax, other forms of taxation, increased social services) that were clearly harmful to the economy. Do you have issue with specific policies of the alliance? Note this is not confrontational... just curious.

My greatest annoyance is the alliance and PCs do not have the cojones to find a way to merge. I also think Preston had more going on than many people give him credit for.

As for the liberals, it still amazes me how well Chretien does. He goes on record telling us the low Canadian dollar is good for us... drives me nuts!

 

[train]

The most depressing aspect of Canadian government is that the party in power spends half their time just trying to stay in power . It's the well established bureaucracy that actually runs progams and the government " machinery " . It is fairly clear that once the general policies are set the elected officials just don't have the slightest clue abount implementation or management of day to day affairs . This stuation changes surprisingly little no matter which party is in power . Perhaps a few Deputy Ministers get changed when a new party takes power - thats it . I would have to think it's like trying to turn an ocean liner to effect any real administrative changes . Most elected officials just don't have the stomach or the smarts to accomplish it .

The ONE advantage that the American system has is that their equivalent to cabinet ministers are appointed and can be hired and fired mid-term based on performance . We are stuck with the infamous "cabinet shuffle " which just recycles the incompetents that support the Prime Minister the most .

Even the Provincial Tories who started making real changes ( like them or hate them ) have now fallen back into the "big government " mode and are now developing policy with the sole view of getting re-elected . The stupidity of the Hydro business is just incredible . How it was possible to do a worse job of easing it into a self financing , free market position is beyond me .

I have to laugh at the people who complain about what MP's and MPP's pay themselves . I mean it's not like you are going to get the top minds in the country to do this for $ 100,000 a year . Hell , I, guessing that the tops girls at the best mp's make that (and at a more honest profession too ) .Having said that the pension portion is way , way to rich .

Don't hold out to much hope for a change in parties having any long term effect . The Liberals do need to be booted out just on principal though .

And thus ends the rant for the day ......

 

[Irish06j]

Waste....

Bottom line here in Canada and with the British Parliamentary system is that if the party in power has the majority we effectively have a dictatorship with no accountability until the next election - we have to wait 5 years to turff the garbage out. We need a recall system here like in the US where the people have the power to yank their representative out and replace him/her if they are not happy. They also have an impeachment system that we sorely need here!

 

[mr. x]

frankly, i don't think that the federal government is much worse than private sector companies... just look at some of the scandals of the last few years... enron and all those US companies that cost investors millions through deception, companies like nortel that fucked up badly during the tech boom, bre-x, and so on... the federal politicians are pikers by comparison.

for those who love the right wing tories, just look at the mismanagement of hydro by the tories, the ndp, the liberals, and then the tories a second time!

those who want to penalise politicians for misdeads by cutting pensions etc. must remember that really only the PM (or premier) and finance minister really have any power over spending and management - all of the opposition MPs, backbenchers and minor cabinet members are pretty powerless - its an "elected dictatorship.

in some ways, the US is worse, because the congress faces elections every years, they spend every day doing fundraising of some sort or other...

so, just as somebody said that "democracy is the worst system, except for all the others" i say "the chretien liberals are the worst party, except for all the others!"

 

[train]

And that , sadly , is a view shared by many Mr X . So can I blame all this stuff on you ? lol