This was originally posted by Sue's Blog - September of 2007.
Considering that Loyola Sullivan and Fabian Manning want your vote - it is worth considering the following.
The Auditor General's Report also dealt with the "special" "onetime" $2875 constituency allowance payment. Primarily because during the last election some MHA's went on an election spree and spent up to 90% of their yearly allowance in just 6 months. That helps with the vote hey?
There was a commitment by all parties that this money would be paid back. Unfortunately - this has not been the case.
As at August 16 - 07 - nine MHA's had not paid any back nor made arrangements to do so. Another three had not paid any back but had made arrangements and six had paid some back and had made arrangements.
Those in the first category are:
Wally Anderson
Percy Barrett
Ed Byrne
Randy Collins
Kathie Goudie
Roger Grimes
Jim Hodder
Fabian Manning
Loyola Sullivan
According to a local news story the Premier said "Williams says the repayment of the bonus seems to be a question of means."
Okay - I have TWO words for that - SCHOOL TAX
Was or is the former Minister of Finance Loyola Sullivan being gouged for mega-interest on the monies owed? He had no problem gouging ordinary citizens who owed resurrected back accounts for school tax.
Or how about those people suffering from ALS - no experimental drugs?
Public Pensioners with no indexing?
Not enough nurses?
To the MHA's
Is your electricity disconnected?
Your phone cut off?
Credit cards maxed?
Houses run down?
Eviction notices?
Car repossessed?
No furnace oil?
Going to the foodbank?
Come on tell us about your financial hardship! Now you want another pension? More income? You are kidding right? The funniest part of Fabian offering himself is who is running his campaign - the former Auditor General and now Senator Elizabeth Marshall. My how her standards are lowering.
1 comment:
I sometimes wonder if these people whose names you bring to question have any empathy for those who elected them or for anyone other than themselves for that matter?
Imagine certain of them were after the collection of the school tax with so much gusto and vehemence and rightfully so, then when the shoe is on their foot and these wealthy people owe taxpayer's monies they do the exact same thing as what the ower's of the schooltax did, the only thing the monies they owe are far more excessive.
It is time we had an overhaul of our politiical system to change matters. The electorate/taxpayers are so abused that it is pure corruption on the part of the politicians and their bureaucrats.
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