Reproduce from a Letter to the Editor of News/North.
Does it seem funny to you that in the March 14 issue, you ran both an ad for the "Come Make Your Mark" campaign and an article on the MLAs' one-year $94,000 end-of-term compensation package?
Really. They're telling us we have so many "brilliant opportunities" going unfilled because of a "labour shortage" that we need to recruit desperate carpet-baggers from northern Ontario through blogs and Facebook pages; yet they themselves couldn't possibly be expected to find a job in under a year.
Really? Seriously: either we have this awesome economy with the brilliant opportunities, and they don't need a golden parachute; or they're lying and our economy is a farce, and they don't deserve a golden parachute. Either way, who cares? They can use the same one-year transition package that's good enough for the rest of us: employment insurance. Forty weeks at $410 a week. Granted that's a bit less than what they're voting themselves, but everyone else makes do with it; so can they. And our economy rocks, they said so themselves, so it's not like they're gonna spend ten weeks wondering where those alleged "brilliant opportunites" are to and the next thirty trying to decide whether to a) take a menial low-paying job that has nothing to do with their skills, b) collect welfare when their EI runs out, or c) look for work down south instead. And surely they'll be too busy with their brilliant new job opportunities to start asking themselves why exactly every government decision revolves around putting more money in the decision-makers' pockets while doing nothing for the citizens, or why there is no ombudsman to keep them honest and MLAs never answer emails.
You know, if they had to face the same economic reality as everyone else after their term, maybe they'd be more motivated to make sure there is an economy out there.
March 14, by the way, is the day before the Ides of March. The day Julius Cesar was assassinated because he was arrogant and working for his own good rather than the people of Rome's. Back in the days when governments used to be held accountable to people.
Does it seem funny to you that in the March 14 issue, you ran both an ad for the "Come Make Your Mark" campaign and an article on the MLAs' one-year $94,000 end-of-term compensation package?
Really. They're telling us we have so many "brilliant opportunities" going unfilled because of a "labour shortage" that we need to recruit desperate carpet-baggers from northern Ontario through blogs and Facebook pages; yet they themselves couldn't possibly be expected to find a job in under a year.
Really? Seriously: either we have this awesome economy with the brilliant opportunities, and they don't need a golden parachute; or they're lying and our economy is a farce, and they don't deserve a golden parachute. Either way, who cares? They can use the same one-year transition package that's good enough for the rest of us: employment insurance. Forty weeks at $410 a week. Granted that's a bit less than what they're voting themselves, but everyone else makes do with it; so can they. And our economy rocks, they said so themselves, so it's not like they're gonna spend ten weeks wondering where those alleged "brilliant opportunites" are to and the next thirty trying to decide whether to a) take a menial low-paying job that has nothing to do with their skills, b) collect welfare when their EI runs out, or c) look for work down south instead. And surely they'll be too busy with their brilliant new job opportunities to start asking themselves why exactly every government decision revolves around putting more money in the decision-makers' pockets while doing nothing for the citizens, or why there is no ombudsman to keep them honest and MLAs never answer emails.
You know, if they had to face the same economic reality as everyone else after their term, maybe they'd be more motivated to make sure there is an economy out there.
March 14, by the way, is the day before the Ides of March. The day Julius Cesar was assassinated because he was arrogant and working for his own good rather than the people of Rome's. Back in the days when governments used to be held accountable to people.
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