Feds to cut up to 68,000 jobs
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I am all for trimming government. They spend far too much of my money on bullsh*t that does nothing for me. Government should be as small as possible providing only essential services like healthcare, education and defense. We need to move back to a society of free people who are responsible for themselves and away from the big govt nanny state we have today. I am not a fan of Harpo and his clowns usually but this is a good thing in my view. Now if he would only start repealing a whole bunch of meaningless legislation that gives govt control of our lives I might even start to support him.
I would like to know, but he won't tell us.
Ah, it was in another article I read, but not in the OP..
Now there's a new report on what the Harper Conservatives are up to in Ottawa and if true, 50,000 to 60,000 federal public service jobs or private sector jobs funded by Ottawa could be eliminated by 2014.
http://www.newstalk1010.com/News/localnews/blogentry.aspx?BlogEntryID=10339836
If cutting these jobs has no real consequence to us, then by all means, cut. But we should have transparency on what jobs could be cut so that everyone can respond and have an opinion on whether those jobs are reasonable/necessary.
After everyone can speak their piece, then we could ensure that wasteful services (like this) are cut, while important jobs are left alone.
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I'm not saying toss out every clause of every act and the criminal code but there is a lot of stuff that costs a boatload to administer that we could be responsible for ourselves and deal with any issues civilly.
I'm a bit curious as to how that works.
I seem to recall being told that all unsolved murders were perpetrated by the RCMP, so maybe this is related.
It could be gaffe on 1010's part. I'm not sure how they define private industry if it is publicly subsidized.
Public Sector cuts will affect services - no doubt - The Liberals did the same in the 90's. Aging population equals debt has to be cut as these costs wil increase.
I also see the Civil Service pensions will change.
And for those that ask - I am ex military and I was never a Public Servant.
I'm not saying toss out every clause of every act and the criminal code but there is a lot of stuff that costs a boatload to administer that we could be responsible for ourselves and deal with any issues civilly.
THAT I agree with. A couple of years back they had one doddering old bastard who was away in Mexico 97% of the time. Hopefully they "deep sixed" him! :lol:
Yeah, right- I think they have more senators in P.E.I. than they do in Canada west of the Lakehead!
Double post - I thought it was a bad stutter. MF had a touch of that the other day. I get it at times as well.And I even stutter from time to time.
