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| Topic Started: Jan 5 2013, 09:29 AM (914 Views) | |
| Darcie | Jan 5 2013, 09:29 AM Post #1 |
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My apology, it really isn't funny, but it is. I was reading an article in Maclean's titled "99 Stupid Things the Government did with your Money", (page 16) Number 24 is this one: Maybe he's born it it: Not one to be caught without his game face on, it was revealed the office of Finance Minister Jim Flaherty expensed $130 worth of cosmetics for an apparent beauty emergency ahead of a televised budget announcement. Flaherty's staff scrambled to purchase concealer, blush, loose powder and shaving supplies to do the minister's makeup after a cosmetician cancelled at the last minute. For anyone wanting to replicate the look, Flaherty wears a combination of Maybelline CoverGirl and Smashbox. No link, you have to buy the magazine. Just dawned on me that it cost us $130 to find out that we won't have the penny any more. You really have to buy the latest issue as # 27, 28, 29 and 30 are equal if not better than the previous #24 Edited by Darcie, Jan 5 2013, 09:38 AM.
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| margrace | Jan 9 2013, 03:21 AM Post #31 |
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Olive oil you hit the nail on the head, seems he might be missing the gene that promotes emotion. |
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| friendshipgal | Jan 9 2013, 08:38 AM Post #32 |
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It did, silly me, I thought we could read about free on line.. oh wait - we did. |
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| Deleted User | Jan 9 2013, 09:51 AM Post #33 |
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FG do you think we can afford to pay our share of $130.00 divided by several million people? It is such a big deal & huge amount, do you think we should contact our MP & complain? :laugh on head: |
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| Bitsy | Jan 9 2013, 10:46 AM Post #34 |
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I bet the Liberals or the NDP would happily reimburse the taxpayers for Flaherty’s make-up.... cheap price to pay for all the buzz and jokes this little tidbit has provoked. Conservatives don’t seem to be able to just laugh about it and let it go, they keep it in the spotlight by defending it because “everyone does it”. laugh123 http://www.jordoncooper.com/2012/12/maybe-its-natural-maybe-its-maybeline/ |
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| Darcie | Jan 9 2013, 10:53 AM Post #35 |
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Great article Bitsy, it is good to know that he is the only MP who has charged make-up to the taxpayers. It was an expensive perk considering the negative media attention it got him. |
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| Deleted User | Jan 9 2013, 12:10 PM Post #36 |
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Oh Bitsy .. gotta luv ya .. but we are laughing. Not so much about the makeup but the pettiness over a piddly amount. :ciao: |
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| Darcie | Jan 9 2013, 12:15 PM Post #37 |
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Nice that you can think it is a piddly amount, that is what my friend who is a very low income widow has left for food for one month. |
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| Deleted User | Jan 9 2013, 12:16 PM Post #38 |
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Maybe so, but it will soon be forgotten like Chretien adscam and shawinigate. It wouldn't be the first MP to use makeup and charge it to the taxpayers - it's just that no one found out about them. I read more crying here over $130.00 than the millions stolen from the taxpayers for adscam & shawinigate. Not if you divide that amount between all the citizens of Canada ... remember we all have to share equally. laugh123 |
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| Bitsy | Jan 9 2013, 01:24 PM Post #39 |
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You left off the last part of what I said, Toodles, and 'let it go". It is still being discussed and, as I said, excuses’ being made that everyone does it. As a liberal, I would have laughed and said something, 'oh yeah and didn't he look good' and then let it go. The more it is discussed and the more it is defended, the more of indelible print it makes on one's brain. |
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| friendshipgal | Jan 9 2013, 03:38 PM Post #40 |
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I tell you what I'll pay my share and theirs, if they (the complainers) will be willing to ante up and contribute to the native coffers. (they will probably have to ante up more in taxes now) :laugh on head: Not too many other people making such a fuss over nothing or being so petty and mean spirited - but then they are not here. :beer: We don't know he's the only MP ever to have done that, but note, we do know that Jack Layton actually had the highest expenses even though he was the leader of the smallest party. Edited by friendshipgal, Jan 9 2013, 03:51 PM.
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| margrace | Jan 10 2013, 01:37 AM Post #41 |
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Still into Johnny did it, Johnny did it. Why not just ignore it, why is is so important to Conservatives. |
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| Bitsy | Jan 10 2013, 01:59 AM Post #42 |
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Beats me 017 Gotta love the snark that turns what should have been a 1 page topic into 3 pages and still going. laugh123 |
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