Yesterday Conservative MP Jim Abbott (pictured above) announced he wasn’t going to seek re-election, meaning that he’s now eligible for a $108,516 a year fully indexed pension for life.
According to Jane Taber “His greatest successes, he believes, were in constituency work, especially when he was able to help miners in his riding recoup at least some of their pension earnings when the coal mine where they worked went bankrupt.”
Well good for him, but that completely overlooks the role that he played along with his intellectually bankrupt Harper government in lying to Canadians about tax leakage and causing 2.5 million Canadians to lose $35 billion of their life savings.
What do we elect and pay these people for anyway? To lie and steal from us? Speaking of being paid and elected, I wonder how many of our paid and elected MPs get letters like these in the mail, which are but five of the letters I received in the mail today:
Rob from BC writes: Brent: Way to go - Keep it up!
Joyce from Ontario writes: Keep up the excellent work! I love the Marshall Plan.
Perry from Ontario writes: Brent. Thanks for the great effort you are putting into this trust issue – it is greatly appreciated. Please find enclosed my cheque to assist with your great work – I think we will win eventually. Need to keep the pressure on – you are doing a great job in this respect.
Stan from Alberta writes: Thanks Brent for your hard work on this issue!
Bob (a WWII air force vet) from BC writes: Brent, Many many thanks for all your efforts – I am afraid our crooked politician will find some way to continue to hide the truth. We will keep it up. Big Question: Who the Hell do we vote for – they are all the same?
Tuesday, February 23, 2010
Just how many MPs get letters like this?
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January 13, 2010
“My goal as an MP is to see that my role is relevant to individuals and the Kootenay-Columbia community. It will be up to others to judge whether I meet that goal.”
The above comes from Jim Abbott's web site. So far he has not said anything about the Income Trust fiasco or about the Marshall Savings Plan. BB
It's the same bullshit everywhere . . . this is just the Canadian version. I loved how they left the REITs out of the equation in order to get the banks to sign off/stand aside . . and Goldman as usual has been laughing all the way to the bank ever since.
We have no Matt Taibbi in Canada . . . . http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/32255149/wall_streets_bailout_hustle/print
DH
DH:
MPs as Morons and Pansies
Brent
Bob the Vet says " Big Question: Who the Hell do we vote for – they are all the same?"
Bob has hit the nail right squarely on the head.
In reality , the only party that has not screwed us royally are the Greens.
Sad isn`t it??
Dr Mike Popovich
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