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NDP = bloated overpaid civil service and TEACHERS Iwould like to see the COST per hour ,wages AND benefits the average working man can't even dream to attain. oops forgot the pensions.

Sunk, not sinking

"The ship isn't sinking," Eric Foster has said. True, it's already well below the surface. Perhaps, the BC Liberals can sell their vessel to the Feds as Canada's next submarine - last time it was the Brits who seemed able to readily dump their rubbish on the Canadian taxpayer.

Correction

Sorry Bill, "When the Levee Breaks" and these lyrics you've credited to Led Zep are in fact by Memphis Minnie and Joe Mccoy. A minor point perhaps, but I think it is always good to give credit where credit is due, especially when you are writing in public.

Puuulleeeese Uncle George

UG- Where are your facts? The Liberal government has crippled BC with their failed fiscal policies. The latest audit reports demonstrate how badly they have managed the provinces finances and show they couldn't manage a popcorn stand without going broke! The BC Liberals leak money like an Enbridge Pipeline leaks oil.

It is about priorities and the Free Enterprise coalition has driven down wages and workers rights in BC while giving away our tax dollars to profitable multi-national corporations.

You must have forgotten Gordon Campbells 43% pay increase to MLA's when he entered the position of ultimate power. You must have forgotten the 30 million dollar Boss Power screw-up. There are so many examples of obscene and twisted spending priorities executed by the BC Liberal party that it would take a large volume book to account for them all.

Yes please pay teachers well, they spend money, lot's of it, which keeps money in small towns. This money get's recirculated into the local economy instead of being siphoned out by multi-nationals who don't pay scant of what they should in royalties and taxes. The public service benefits...yes please give them good benefits. When they retire they will remain strong consumers on a local level! They will have better health and less likely to end up on welfare due to rising user fees and costs of living delivered by the BC Liberal government.

Teachers are only one example.

The Liberal government of BC is the dictionary definition of bloated. Bloated with corruption, ignorance and hate (KK). The spittle spewing blathering that has come out of that man's mouth was unreal!

Luckily these fools are fleeing...let's hope most don't get recycled by John Cummins- another total wing nut!

Good time Charlie?

So Falcon had "good reasons" to resign?
One commentator mused if those same good reason would have counted, had Falcon been the premier?
Yes he lost to Christy and so that changes the perspective?
No, it proves he is an opportunist!

Watch for his next "opportunity" and which corporate board takes him on.

How many more required

How many more Liberal MLA's need to leave before Christy HAS to dissolve her failed government and call an election?

Please Mr. Lake do us all a favour and join your friends in the public sector. Don't you want to spend more time with family too?

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/story/2012/09/04/bc-liberal-mla.html?cmp=rss&utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter

Anachronism

The party is already dead. All that is left, is for the self-congratulatory nonsense as they transition into their private lives.

Thanks for coming out. Thanks for the mess you left. Enjoy the pensions.

Who's next

Prediction: Hawes and Chong next, Hansen by the end of the month.

Be careful

Coming News Item.

" Christy Clark will announce in the Feb 2103 budget that due to BC's financial crisis there will be no time for an election that year and pass legislation moving the election date to the statutory May 2014."

This will be a Hail Mary pass for her hoping the Fascists and/or NDP implode, but at the very least giving the corporates an extra year to rape and pillage. In the latter case she will be richly rewarded.

Uncle George, If you believe

Uncle George,

If you believe the public servant package is all it is cracked up to be, I encourage you to apply for a job with them.

Many jobs classified as "working" earn far more in both cash & benefits (especially in the North) than a public servant can ever hope to receive.

Pensions.

For her it is about a Gold Plated Pension.
For the MLA's it is about taking a fat pension, getting out of the way as your fellow MLA's climb the greed ladder for a few months as cabinet ministers and also max out the penions.
Fact is their is far more money to steal from the public sector than the private sector.
Will the NDP be any better?
The NDP are in lockdown saying nothing, they are about to win the lottery of life and are not going to brag!!!

Uncle George

I'm curious too UGeorge and agree whole heartedly, let's see what teachers really make per hour. Let's be fair though and not forget after school tutorials and meetings, oh and the sports stuff, you know the travel to and from games, practices and set up time etc.. and clubs. Once you get home George don't forget to thoughtfully mark each assignment and make 4 new lessons for tomorrow including all supplies and materials. All this to help your grandkids while you complain? I see the BC teacher's hourly wage hourly shrinking George because you didn't think it through. Oh and how can we forget the pension that every teacher pays approx $1000-$1100 net wages a MONTH into. Remember if it seems too good to be true than it probably is.

Libs n teachers

1. The complete demise of the Christy Libs would worry me, it only further polarizes and creates a less cooperative and so less functional system. Just superimpose the Ottawa scenario onto BC 2017 or 2021.

Like to see an NDP crack at power in BC, but watch the MSM attacks on them, and their backing of BC Cons, likely minus John Cummins.

2. Different note in this comment.

Uncle George wouldn't likely last 2 months in a public school classroom, Gr. 2,7 or 12.

50% of young teachers leave within 5 years. And it really ain't so much the kids, even though they can be very trying (consider Arnold's Disneyfied "Kindergarten Cop" for 35 years), but it's the system that drives many down.

A meticulous, Business Ed. dept. head I knew calculated that most teachers' salaries, given the mandated student contact hours, but also including the many non-contact hours requirements and time donations, even more than those so well presented by Davey, they earn only a couple of dollars more than minimum wage. Regardless of love, many educaters do their best to climb out of these trenches.

He liked the job, working with kids, but he could never run his own businesses that way, expecting that his employees would ever tolerate similar requirements unless truly desperate.

But Davey, check your pension numbers.

Teachers contribute a considerable amount to their pensions each year (35 years of contributions and interest throughout those years surely ads up if kept completely seperate from general revenues or hyper-risky investments).

But teachers don't pay 12 to 14 thousand dollars a year for their pensions, or they would surely be millionaires when they retired.