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When I first heard about this a week back, I thought it might be a bad rumour, but today that rumour sprouted into reality. Well I guess as that time old analogy says "If you can't beat them, you may as well join them". Not surprising this coming from the Mr. Harper, after all this is the same PM that changes his mind as often as the TSX changes its daily index.
We now have 18 new senators, all appointed in just one day, Wow! History in the making. We have now been initiated into the exclusive club of Banana Republic's and rubbing shoulders with such names as Zimbabwe, Haiti, Ethiopia, Mogadishu and Congo, just to name a few. I wonder if we'll put a banana on our flag, or maybe even replace the maple leaf for a banana tree, which correctly reflects our new status.
At $130,000.00 annual salary and a $90,000.00 annual expense budget per senator,X that by 18= $3,960,000.00 that quite a stimulus package Mr Harper. The only problem here is he gave it to the wrong people. But hey no one ever accused him of doing the right thing or doing things on a small scale, after all he's a big thinker, almost as big as his ego.
Oh well while I sit back and count my nickels this year wondering if I can afford those new pair of winter boots, I have the comfort in knowing that Nancy Green and Mike Duffy will be picking my pockets and fighting for democracy on my behalf. I now know why Mike Duffy had a grin on his face as big as the Grand Canyon last week on the CTV news. He can now retire and draw not one but two pensions.
Whats next; Prime Minister Harper names himself PM for life, or at least until he's 75. But hey anything seems to go in a "banana republic" After all President Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwa did it.
Cheers.
We now have 18 new senators, all appointed in just one day, Wow! History in the making. We have now been initiated into the exclusive club of Banana Republic's and rubbing shoulders with such names as Zimbabwe, Haiti, Ethiopia, Mogadishu and Congo, just to name a few. I wonder if we'll put a banana on our flag, or maybe even replace the maple leaf for a banana tree, which correctly reflects our new status.
At $130,000.00 annual salary and a $90,000.00 annual expense budget per senator,X that by 18= $3,960,000.00 that quite a stimulus package Mr Harper. The only problem here is he gave it to the wrong people. But hey no one ever accused him of doing the right thing or doing things on a small scale, after all he's a big thinker, almost as big as his ego.
Oh well while I sit back and count my nickels this year wondering if I can afford those new pair of winter boots, I have the comfort in knowing that Nancy Green and Mike Duffy will be picking my pockets and fighting for democracy on my behalf. I now know why Mike Duffy had a grin on his face as big as the Grand Canyon last week on the CTV news. He can now retire and draw not one but two pensions.
Whats next; Prime Minister Harper names himself PM for life, or at least until he's 75. But hey anything seems to go in a "banana republic" After all President Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwa did it.
Cheers.