WHAT DO BULLDOZERS, REGIONAL CABINET OFFICES, CELL-PHONES & GOVERNMENT ADVERTISING HAVE IN COMMON? Answer: They are all recent examples of Harper government mismanagement and waste! Masters of hypocrisy, these Conservatives preach prudence, eviscerate federal programs and services and fire thousands of public employees while squandering millions of tax dollars in so many other ways. Some examples: * A bulldozer used in certain illegal activities was confiscated. The courts ordered the equipment destroyed. Instead, the government sold it privately for $5500. They then claimed that sale was by accident and bought the dozer back - at a cost of nearly $75,000. What a Keystone Cops operation! * Tax-paid offices exclusively to service Cabinet Ministers are proliferating across the country. Instead of having one per province (as used to be the rule), the Conservatives now have 16 of them. The number of full-time political staffers in regional offices has increased by 50% and the budget to pay their salaries are ballooned from $1.6-million to $2.7-million - all during a period of so-called austerity. * Austerity notwithstanding, the Conservative addiction to tax-paid government advertising is also relentless. The vast majority of it is unrelated to any useful information the public needs to know - its mostly image advertising to polish tarnished Conservative credentials. Something over a half-a-billion dollars has been wasted in this way, including hundreds of expensive (and annoying) TV ads during events like the NHL playoffs which can cost an eye-popping $100,000 for every 30-seconds of airtime. * This government cannot even pay its bills on time. In the last two years, it has incurred close to $300,000 in extra late fees on cellphones and other wireless services. Such sloppiness is all too characteristic of Harper government operations. From these so-called little things to big screw-ups like the botched procurement of F-35 stealth fighter jets, the debacle around temporary foreign workers and the discredited design of their faulty EI tax credit, and more, Mr. Harpers Conservatives are often a wasteful managerial embarrassment. Not to mention that still unexplained $90,000 secret payment by Mr. Harpers hand-picked Chief-of-Staff to his self-proclaimed favourite Senator, Mike Duffy!
Posted on: Mon, 22 Sep 2014 01:45:14 +0000
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