Our PM sets an example:
Harper, who makes $157,731 as an MP plus his $157,731 prime ministerial stipend, will now receive three per cent of his prime ministerial salary per year of service.If he serves until after the next election, in 2015, he’ll get about $47,000 a year in pension, $57,000 less than he would have received under the old system.
Depending on when he leaves office, and how long he lives, Harper’s pension decision will cost him $1.5 million to $2 million. Harper is quietly setting a good example, and deserves a bit of credit.
Compare to Alberta’s ruling party saying, “Screw the taxpayer!”:
Alberta taxpayers could soon be on the hook for a pair of new financial perks for MLAs, as a legislature committee on Friday voted for an enriched RRSP benefit and reintroduced the idea of a transition payment for politicians leaving office.
About those “transition payments”:
Amid public outrage over such payouts, Premier Alison Redford campaigned to abolish transition allowances and the legislature followed through with a motion in May.
Promises? We don’t need no stinkin’ promises…
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This is ground-breaking territory in honourable, leadership-by-example principles. I applaud Mr. Harper and his government for amending their pension scheme in a better-than-expected degree of fiscal restraint. It’s obvious the PM gets no credit for this in the yarns of mainstream media propaganda, but we know full-well that we are witnessing and benefiting from the finest leadership Canada has experienced in decades. A sterling, precedential moment in the minutes of our federal budget proceedings, in bright contrast to the myriad of controversial manoeuvrings within the sordid world of dirty politics…
REDford – the name says it all. She is a political careerist whose agendas were forged in the crucible of back room politics and tempered in an environment of pure predatory bureaucratic regulating at the UN – Alberta will suffer the fallout of such a control freak kelptocrat. All the bureaucratic entitlement/elitist mentality and wacky politics of the malignant UN has now been dumped right into Alberta’s legislature. Having lived there for over 30 years I am amazed that Albertans don’t see through this rouse of a predatory UN commie masquerading as a tory. They better wake up before their province is stolen right out from under their noses and made an extension jurisdiction of UN globalist rule, and plundered by eastern crony cartels.
As for MP/MPP pensions, there should be none, period! A pension is a retirement award for a lifelong career – public service should not be a career. Public service at the governing level should have term limits and be done for the better good of the nation/province out of civil responsibility – it should be motivated by giving back to society, not taking from it – public service should be an honor, not looked at as a cash cow or lush sinecure or as an opportunity to grind a personal/ideological axe at public expense. As it is now, people go into politics for all the wrong reasons. It’s no wonder we get such a collection of psychopaths, axe-grinders, megalomaniacs, narcissists and predatory control freaks. Ever since the ethical motivation to enter public service has fallen to the “careerist” motive, our political arena has become a dumping ground for nuts, mutts and klutz’. Trudeau, Redford, McGuinty, Chretien and Boob Rae are prime examples of what political leaders should NOT be.
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