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Political Greed Strikes Again

Ontario MPPs have voted to give themselves a whopping 25 per cent hike.

How generous!

And just in time for Christmas too.

Must be nice to be able vote yourself a pay hike.

And what did the MPPs do to deserve such a raise?

Are they working harder? Have they done an excellent job? Do they have more responsibilities?
No.

They were just envious of federal MPs who made more money than they did.
Envious and greedy. Nice combination.

What gets me is that all these MPPs who are crying about how they are so underpaid, are the same MPPs who not too long ago were begging us for votes.

They knew what the pay package was when they ran. If they thought the pay was too low why didn’t they say something then?

And then they wonder why voters hold them in such low regard.


Comments

Beverley Mantell says:

Really hard to take, given the average wage of Ontarians, and given the state of health care, infrastructure, electricity generation etc in Ontario. It doesn’t seem to me that they’ve earned such a raise.
If they feel that MPP’s and the Premier should be paid more, the least they should do is make the raise applicable following the next election.

submitted on December 13th, 2006 at 5:08 pm

George Hinton says:

It appers that our M.P.P.’S of “All Parties” are all guilty of “sitting in their comfortable Pews”! Not the least; they haven’t earned raise! I believe it is time that we of the N.C.C. gave the members of our legislature a “Job Performance Review”. Using such source info’. as the Frazer Inst’t.
George Hinton.

submitted on December 14th, 2006 at 11:29 am

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