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<blockquote data-quote="KLinNBC" data-source="post: 236142" data-attributes="member: 6779"><p>I'm not saying ALL gov't employees are not needed, I'm saying there's way too many getting paid too much money mostly as bureaucracy - paper pushers. Like I said in the first post, more paper pushers in the health system than doctors or nurses. I didn't say, as you are alluding, that doctors or nurses are teat suckers. We are cursed with an overwhelming, self-serving bureaucracy that is sucking the life from the middle class while the lower class starves and the rich get richer. Yes, I also believe the rich and the corporatocracy need to pay more tax, in some cases a LOT more tax. But not to grow the bureaucracy.</p><p></p><p>And this is not really off-topic, the ridiculous and border-line criminal tax on vehicle resales was never proposed by any politician (that would have been the definition of political suicide), it was the product of bureaucratic teat suckers dreaming of ways to suck more and harder. Then they hit upon the fact that some cars were increasing in value, came up with the infuriating valuation and inspection scams and hired a whole new cadre of teat suckers to "administer" it all. </p><p></p><p>And because you raised it: I have a 1.6km long driveway that goes off the end of a rural side road. When it snows big (which it often does here in the Kootenay - like the 20 cm dumps twice in the last week) I plow it with my F-350 with the 10" Arctic blade. Plow alone weighs over 1200 lbs. Also, more to the question, I often plow out the rural road because the tax-funded plow won't show up for 2 or more days, once when we got 50cm it was 5 days. I might take issue with the guy driving the plow making $55/hour but it's more related to lack of funding for on-the-ground services. Because the administrators sitting in warm offices at big, important looking desks need much more than the $55/hour the grunt in the plow gets and aren't picking up a shovel anytime soon...</p><p></p><p>Oh, I treat and pump my own water and treat my own poop, thank-you very much. Still smarting from the cost of the permits, the interminable wait and the condescending twits I had to endure in order to do that which. of course, went into the pocket of some teat sucker...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="KLinNBC, post: 236142, member: 6779"] I'm not saying ALL gov't employees are not needed, I'm saying there's way too many getting paid too much money mostly as bureaucracy - paper pushers. Like I said in the first post, more paper pushers in the health system than doctors or nurses. I didn't say, as you are alluding, that doctors or nurses are teat suckers. We are cursed with an overwhelming, self-serving bureaucracy that is sucking the life from the middle class while the lower class starves and the rich get richer. Yes, I also believe the rich and the corporatocracy need to pay more tax, in some cases a LOT more tax. But not to grow the bureaucracy. And this is not really off-topic, the ridiculous and border-line criminal tax on vehicle resales was never proposed by any politician (that would have been the definition of political suicide), it was the product of bureaucratic teat suckers dreaming of ways to suck more and harder. Then they hit upon the fact that some cars were increasing in value, came up with the infuriating valuation and inspection scams and hired a whole new cadre of teat suckers to "administer" it all. And because you raised it: I have a 1.6km long driveway that goes off the end of a rural side road. When it snows big (which it often does here in the Kootenay - like the 20 cm dumps twice in the last week) I plow it with my F-350 with the 10" Arctic blade. Plow alone weighs over 1200 lbs. Also, more to the question, I often plow out the rural road because the tax-funded plow won't show up for 2 or more days, once when we got 50cm it was 5 days. I might take issue with the guy driving the plow making $55/hour but it's more related to lack of funding for on-the-ground services. Because the administrators sitting in warm offices at big, important looking desks need much more than the $55/hour the grunt in the plow gets and aren't picking up a shovel anytime soon... Oh, I treat and pump my own water and treat my own poop, thank-you very much. Still smarting from the cost of the permits, the interminable wait and the condescending twits I had to endure in order to do that which. of course, went into the pocket of some teat sucker... [/QUOTE]
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