Ontario woman ticked with Quebec senator!

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Ontario woman ticked with Quebec senator!
Topic Started: Feb 21 2017, 06:21 AM (164 Views)
swing	Feb 21 2017, 06:21 AM Post #1
swing Posts: 9,979 Group: Member Member #359 Joined: August 18, 2006	This was sent to me from a friend on F.B. this morning who lives in Ontario. She displays many good points, however if you find the language too offensive please remove. Leon Roy February 5, 2016 · PISSED AS HELL: WOW!! This is too good not to pass it on. I don't think “pissed" really covers it!!!! She uses some pretty strong language in her commentary. I know how she feels on this point. Too bad that all of us "easy going" Canadians couldn't hire this lady to be our leader and then we would all storm Parliament Hill with torches aflame. Smith, the Senator from Québec calls senior citizens the Greediest Generation as he compared "Social Security " to a Milk Cow with over a million teats. Here's a response in a letter from PATTY JOHNSTONE in Ontario ... I think she is a little ticked off! She also tells it like it is! Oh sooo true! "Hey Larry, let's get a few things straight!!!!! 1. As a career politician, you have been on the public dole (tit) for FIFTY YEARS. 2. I have been paying CPP & OHIP for 48 YEARS (since I was 15 years old. I am now 63). 3. My Canada Pension payments, and those of millions of other Canadians, were safely tucked away in an interest bearing account for decades until you political pukes decided to raid the account and give OUR money to a bunch of zero losers in return for votes, thus bankrupting the system and turning Social Security into a Ponzi scheme that would make Bernie Madoff proud. 4. Recently, just like Lucy & Charlie Brown, you and "your ilk" pulled the proverbial football away from millions of Canadian seniors nearing retirement and moved the goalposts for full retirement from age 65 to age, 67. NOW, you and your "shill commission" are proposing to move the goalposts YET AGAIN. 5. I, and millions of other Canadians, have been paying into OHIP & CPP from Day One, and now "you morons" propose to change the rules of the game. Why? Because "you idiots" mismanaged other parts of the economy to such an extent that you need to steal our money from OHIP & CPP to pay the bills. 6. I, and millions of other Canadians, have been paying income taxes our entire lives, and now you propose to increase our taxes yet again. Why? Because you "incompetent bastards" spent our money so profligately that you just kept on spending even after you ran out of money. Now, you come to the Canadian taxpayers and say you need more to pay off YOUR debt. To add insult to injury, you label us "greedy" for calling "bullshit" to your incompetence. Well, Captain Bullshit, I have a few questions for YOU: 1. How much money have you earned from the Canadian taxpayers during your pathetic 50-year political career? 2. At what age did you retire from your pathetic political career,and how much are you receiving in annual retirement benefits from the Canadian taxpayers? 3. How much do you pay for YOUR government provided health insurance? 4. What cuts in YOUR retirement and healthcare benefits are you proposing in your disgusting deficit reduction proposal, or as usual,have you exempted yourself and your political cronies? It is you, Captain Bullshit, and your political co-conspirators called Parliament who are the "greedy" ones. It is you and your fellow nutcase thieves who have bankrupted the Canadian Pension, OHIP and stolen the Canadian dream from millions of loyal, patriotic taxpayers. And for what? Votes and your job and retirement security at our expense, you lunk-headed, leech. That's right, sir. You and yours have bankrupted our benefits for the sole purpose of advancing your pathetic, political careers. You know it, we know it, and you know that we know it. And you can take that to the bank, you miserable son of a bitch. P.S. And stop calling CPP & OHIP "entitlements". WHAT AN INSULT!!!! I have been paying in to the CPP system for 45 years "It's my money"- give it back to me the way the system was designed and stop patting yourself on the back like you are being generous by doling out these monthly check EVERYONE!!! If you like the way things are in Canada delete this. If you agree with what an Ontario citizen, says, please. PASS IT ON!!!!



Trotsky	Feb 21 2017, 06:24 AM Post #2
Big City Boy Posts: 38,319 Group: Member Member #79 Joined: September 8, 2005	Quote: Smith, the Senator from Québec calls senior citizens the Greediest Generation as he compared "Social Security " to a Milk Cow with over a million teats. What is his annual salary? Our senators are paid $174,000/year of taxpayer money. (Social Security pays an average of $1300/month.) And then the senators retire: Quote: The 75-year-old Harkin, who served for 30 years in the Senate and 10 years in the House before that, will be eligible for a starting pension of $125,000, according to estimates from the taxpayers union. His retirement pay would be almost 71 percent of his final salary. (This is more than 5 times the maximum possible social security benefit and nearly 8 times the average SS check. But Harkin is an exception. Pensions for most members are far less than that. According to the Congressional Research Service, as of Oct. 1, 2013, there were 367 former members of Congress who had retired under the Civil Service Retirement System, the old system that was criticized for being too generous. Those members were receiving an average annual pension of $71,664. I see no reason any senator should retire on more than the maximum social security stipend. Then lets hear them moan about teats. I don't know the Canadian pay scales but I doubt they would be far different. Edited by Trotsky, Feb 21 2017, 06:38 AM.



FuzzyO	Feb 21 2017, 07:50 AM Post #3
Posts: 16,968 Group: Administration Member #710 Joined: March 30, 2010	http://news.nationalpost.com/news/canada/mps-senators-get-pay-hike-as-canadians-struggle-with-stagnant-wages-rising-unemployment Quote: Senators, who by federal law are required to be paid $25,000 less than MPs, will make $145,400, up from $142,400. The letter is a Canadian-ized version of an American one dating back to 2011. One of those things that keeps circulating around the internet with occasional revisions to make it appear up-to-date or to fit a particular situation. http://www.snopes.com/politics/soapbox/simpson.asp



wildie	Feb 21 2017, 08:19 AM Post #4
Veteran Member Posts: 12,173 Group: Member Member #442 Joined: October 11, 2006	FuzzyO Feb 21 2017, 07:50 AM http://news.nationalpost.com/news/canada/mps-senators-get-pay-hike-as-canadians-struggle-with-stagnant-wages-rising-unemployment Quote: Senators, who by federal law are required to be paid $25,000 less than MPs, will make $145,400, up from $142,400. The letter is a Canadian-ized version of an American one dating back to 2011. One of those things that keeps circulating around the internet with occasional revisions to make it appear up-to-date or to fit a particular situation. http://www.snopes.com/politics/soapbox/simpson.asp And lets keep on recirculating these, as long as politicians keep swilling at the trough.



FuzzyO	Feb 21 2017, 08:54 AM Post #5
Posts: 16,968 Group: Administration Member #710 Joined: March 30, 2010	No, let's write ones that have the correct info and attribution and are specific to the issue!



Durgan	Feb 21 2017, 09:09 AM Post #6
Veteran Member Posts: 13,273 Group: Gardening Guru Member #720 Joined: March 31, 2010	Few people are bright enough to compose such a letter. First it would never be published publically in the main stream press. Calling a spade a spade is not used in writing today.



goldengal	Feb 21 2017, 09:39 AM Post #7
Mistress, House of Dogs Posts: 11,674 Group: Member Member #715 Joined: March 31, 2010	For the life of me I could not see why OHIP was lumped with CPP which caused me to stop reading. Take care, Pat



Delphi51	Feb 21 2017, 09:41 AM Post #8
Member title Posts: 13,967 Group: Administration Member #441 Joined: October 10, 2006	Many people believe they paid for their Canada pension but this is not very accurate. In fact, while we were working we paid for the pensions of the people then retired. We pensioners now count on the CP contributions of the people now working to cover our pensions. The plan's unfounded liability is nearly a trillion dollars. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada_Pension_Plan#Funding



Durgan	Feb 21 2017, 10:20 AM Post #9
Veteran Member Posts: 13,273 Group: Gardening Guru Member #720 Joined: March 31, 2010	So what is the problem making he pension plan self sustaining?



Trotsky	Feb 23 2017, 02:08 AM Post #10
Big City Boy Posts: 38,319 Group: Member Member #79 Joined: September 8, 2005	FuzzyO Feb 21 2017, 07:50 AM http://news.nationalpost.com/news/canada/mps-senators-get-pay-hike-as-canadians-struggle-with-stagnant-wages-rising-unemployment Quote: Senators, who by federal law are required to be paid $25,000 less than MPs, will make $145,400, up from $142,400. The letter is a Canadian-ized version of an American one dating back to 2011. One of those things that keeps circulating around the internet with occasional revisions to make it appear up-to-date or to fit a particular situation. http://www.snopes.com/politics/soapbox/simpson.asp So that's $12,000 a month of public money to senators who moan about paying retirees a tiny portion of that amount.



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