MP Pension Plans

[Larry Storch]

$1 Billion by March of Next Year

 

[Cock Throppled]

Can't stand listening to that guy, but I do know we pay something like $25 for every $1 an MP puts into their pension, they can start collecting at 55 (I think) after serving 6 years and they don't have it in the markets - it just grows at 10% a year courtesy of the taxpayer.

Greedy, self-serving pigs like Bev Oda and travel pigs like Russ Heibert and anyone able to get elected more than once, even if they bail part way thru the second term get it.

 

[storm rider]

What is the difference between a country like Canada and a country like the Phillipines.....in the Phillipines government legislators steal from the treasury...in Canada the government legislates their entitlement legally and the Canadian taxpayer is on the hook for it......and Addler is quite correct...it is legal theft.

The Conservatives are not going to change it and nor would the liberals if they somehow won a majority....the NDP pay lip service to it but the vast majority of their MP's are in their first term in Parliament and they want to get a second term so they can have their turn at the trough....Elizabeth May of the Green party is not going to say jack shit as she most certainly wants that solid gold pension as well....yeah she will shrilly bleat about the environment and other issues she feels strongly about but if she was put on the spot about the MP pension plan she would most likely come up with some lame excuse like "well all Canadians should get a pension like that"......and in 4 years Canada would be in the same sinking boat that Greece is in.

It does not matter which party an MP belongs to....no MP is going to say they want the MP pension plan drastically reduced...they will avoid the issue at best.

The only way that change will come is if the MP pension plan is brought to the forefront during an election by the media and supported by the electorate and it is MADE into an issue that will either win or lose the election.

Allmost as disgusting as the MP pension plan is the Parliamentary dining room....luxury 5 star gourmet food at pennies on the dollar for MP's...paid for by the Canadian taxpayer...but you wont ever see a story by ANY member of ANY Canadian news agency about it...thats because they get to enjoy it and they dont want to lose that tax-payer funded perk.

In the grand scheme of things...if you plan to retire on CPP...start eating a tablespoon of catfood a day.....so that when you turn 65 you are well accustomed to the taste.

SR

 

[Larry Storch]

I don't have a problem with them getting a decent wage and some kind of retirement package, but not like this. If you look at some of the bone head moves so many politicians have made, it's a little hard to look at them as "smart' or "capable". Fast ferries? If they were paid like every other Canadian regarding their performance then perhaps they would be more inclined to actually show up and work at doing a good job. If anyone else behaved as they do they'd be out of a job pretty fast, if I conducted my business the way they work I'd be out of business as well. If there wasn't so much waste and greed things would be a LOT different.