$22 000 vs 2%
Premier Dalton McGuinty has just announced a $22, 000 pay raise for MPP's sitting in the Ontario Legislature. Coincidentally it comes in the same month that Ontario's Social Assistance recipients will be receiving their 2% increase.
McGreedy claims that MPP's are feeling second rate to their higher paid counterparts on the federal level. Apparently the $126, 321 a year that Cabinet Ministers like Sandra Pupatello were making (not to mention her paid for suite at the Sutton Place Hotel) was leaving them a little light in the pocket compared to scumbags like Federal Finance Minister Jim Flaherty.
Today at an OCAP Special Diet Clinic there was a woman who had come to sign-up for the dietary supplement, which was slashed by McGreedy and Pupatello last year. The woman and her partner were raising eight children and were being paid $1, 100 a month or $13, 200 a year for 10 people.
To put it simply these people at Queen's Park make me sick. When she was Minister of Social Services Sandra Pupatello went on the CBC and admitted that people could not live on what Social Assistance pays out but that the Government couldn't afford to help them out with a meaningful increase. Now she's going to receive an extra $22, 000 a year and families on assistance are being nickel and dimed by welfare and ODSP offices when they try to access their minimal entitlements.
If there was any question about the necessity of fighting this Liberal Government it has been answered with this insult. The good news is that our Special Diet Clinics are continuing to drain money out of the hands of our greedy government and put it in the pockets of the people who need it. You can rest assured that OCAP is going to keep fighting until people on Assistance are getting a $22, 000 raise and those politicians at Queen's Park are swallowing a 40% pay cut.
McGreedy claims that MPP's are feeling second rate to their higher paid counterparts on the federal level. Apparently the $126, 321 a year that Cabinet Ministers like Sandra Pupatello were making (not to mention her paid for suite at the Sutton Place Hotel) was leaving them a little light in the pocket compared to scumbags like Federal Finance Minister Jim Flaherty.
Today at an OCAP Special Diet Clinic there was a woman who had come to sign-up for the dietary supplement, which was slashed by McGreedy and Pupatello last year. The woman and her partner were raising eight children and were being paid $1, 100 a month or $13, 200 a year for 10 people.
To put it simply these people at Queen's Park make me sick. When she was Minister of Social Services Sandra Pupatello went on the CBC and admitted that people could not live on what Social Assistance pays out but that the Government couldn't afford to help them out with a meaningful increase. Now she's going to receive an extra $22, 000 a year and families on assistance are being nickel and dimed by welfare and ODSP offices when they try to access their minimal entitlements.
If there was any question about the necessity of fighting this Liberal Government it has been answered with this insult. The good news is that our Special Diet Clinics are continuing to drain money out of the hands of our greedy government and put it in the pockets of the people who need it. You can rest assured that OCAP is going to keep fighting until people on Assistance are getting a $22, 000 raise and those politicians at Queen's Park are swallowing a 40% pay cut.
posted by miked at 3:29 p.m.
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