Elections Canada - Please Read post Number 1

[Rruuff Day]

I've always found it interesting that the things that seem to upset a lot of taxpayers are this sort of conspicuous spending by elected officials. Such as the above $21,000 for in flight catering and Bev Oda's orange juice which I believe was $20.00 at the time . Yet when the Government blows 35 million on a failed hair-brained cricket factory there is hardly a murmur...... you would think they would learn.

There's an old apropos saying I often use.... If you take care of the pennies, the dollars look after themselves...

 

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There's an old apropos saying I often use.... If you take care of the pennies, the dollars look after themselves...

Please forward that to the PBO....

 

[Rruuff Day]

Please forward that to the PBO....

Think that would help? The abbreviation should be PFO....ask me ...lol

 

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Every Canadian paying $1,400 for federal debt charges alone this year, taxpayers group says

The debt interest burden is showing a "concerning upward track," says a new PBO report.

nationalpost.com

 

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Let's throw good money after bad.....and lots of it . Jesus H .

Feds greenlight $673 million to keep Canada Post afloat this year

The federal government is handing hundreds of millions of dollars to Canada Post to keep the money-bleeding mail service afloat for the current fiscal year.

www.bnnbloomberg.ca

 

[Rruuff Day]

Let's throw good money after bad.....and lots of it . Jesus H .

Feds greenlight $673 million to keep Canada Post afloat this year

The federal government is handing hundreds of millions of dollars to Canada Post to keep the money-bleeding mail service afloat for the current fiscal year.

www.bnnbloomberg.ca

We bail them out every year... Last year was over a billion bail out and they still lost $1.6 billion. Doesn't make sense. Cancelling door to door is their new plan to save money. For 5 years now the mail delivery to me and my neighbours has been even less than sporadic. Since the 20th of April we have had mail delivery 4 times. Can't end it though. That would just look bad for the government putting 32,000 people out of work.

 

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We bail them out every year... Last year was over a billion bail out and they still lost $1.6 billion. Doesn't make sense. Cancelling door to door is their new plan to save money. For 5 years now the mail delivery to me and my neighbours has been even less than sporadic. Since the 20th of April we have had mail delivery 4 times. Can't end it though. That would just look bad for the government putting 32,000 people out of work.

But it would provide employment for the 12,000 that would be required to replace them to get the job done......

 

[12cents]

Just out of curiousity with regards to the post office, since when did a government service have to turn a profit?

 

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Just out of curiousity with regards to the post office, since when did a government service have to turn a profit?

Breaking even would be nice. But loosing $1,5000,000,000 in ONE year defies logic. That's a lot of new health facilities or school lunches. If CP was a private company it would have been insolvent and folded years ago.

 

[12cents]

SO how much does the other government services cost?