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Simply put, Government employees are paid too much. Perhaps not in comparison to other government employees but to the average Nova Scotian taxpayer, it’s an astounding amount of difference. Especially when some of the individuals within our government decide what to do with our taxes. The film tax credit, so much has been said but I don’t feel anyone paid any attention, Basically McNeil took millions from Joe the small time business owner and gave it to the Ferry debacle. Millions of Nova Scotia dollars sent to the Untied States company to run the Ferry system. Not to mention the sneaky little buy-outs they pull off for their buddys with factories in the Maritimes desperately in need of mindless hourly employees, forced to make enough to “get by.”
I’m sure when a government employee is pulling in over 200 000 dollars a year they are thinking about the Nova Scotians who have to worry every single waking hour of their day, where am I going to get the money for rent, food, my utility bills. Could this individual say, get by on 100 000 a year? My god, half of Nova Scotians will never see that kind of money in a lifetime.
I’m not a fan of politicians, I take the Thompson position at them being swine. There are a few who want to make a difference but the whole system is concreted in it’s ways, I fear the changes we need will never come. It is the system. The big nasty machine of capitalism.Taking advantage of the less fortunate to better your position in the world. I have delusions of grandure, would like to afford nice things, but I’m realistic, I would like to pay my bills doing something I enjoy, writing, art, whatever, but with the system the way it is, artists and creative people are being phased out. It is such a struggle to be an artist in Canada. And now we’ve got to hear about cutting budgets to art programs, when video lottery rakes in billions, where’s that report? The government pisses away money, and when everyone is looking around saying where have all our young people gone? somewhere it’s possible to make a career besides taking up a trade that’s available.
I maybe a child of the early 70s, grew up studying the counter culture of the 1960s, but I see none of the lessons taught from that time learned. Share, share the wealth, share the opportunity, for fucks sake share the province with the rest of us. —Maybe not
This article appears in Aug 25-31, 2016.
I completely agree 100% with this. Politicians pay themselves way too much in this province and they do a shitty job of managing our resources — the bay ferry is a sterling example of this. There are government jobs that I feel deserve a higher than normal pay. Police, fire, hospital, public school teachers, even Canada Post to name a few. But politicians (especially on the municipal level but ESPECIALLY on the provincial level) are inept and out of touch with their constituents and the needs of the proivnce.
As for the film tax credit, who that’s hurting are the overpaid film people who send their kiddies to private school & the Bengal Lancers. I have a copy of the resolution from the N.S. House of Assembly about some film prat crying over how he’d have to take his poor young ones out of the Bengal Lancers if he couldn’t find work – boo-fucking-hoo-hoo – made me want to fucking hurl.
As for government employees, I was a lowly paid non-union government drone for over 20 years (with very few raises and a couple of wage freezes) and, if you think dealing with fucked up, crazy-ass management is easy, go give swivel servanting a ride, my friend. Your brain will never recover. The people who whine about government employees have NO fucking idea what it’s like to work in total fucking chaos with incompetent, self-important managers. The worst government I ever worked for? The NDP, hands down.
I wish I could sit around not working and write crappy poetry, crappy short stories or be another failed musician too — hey, it’s way easier than breaking your body every day doing real work.
I really feel bad for the all our struggling artists, really bad, I know how it feels, I wish I go make a go at in life being a boobie inspector too.
Seriously? I read this long winded tripe to find out that you want more of my tax money so you can be an artist on my dime? Being an artist is just a hobby until you make enoigh money to survive. I wish my job could be hiking and hanging out with my dog, but it looks like that doesn’t pay enough, so I gotta work like a chump like everyone else. Time to grow up and give up on the “starving artist” routine. You get no sympathy from me.
Whoever wrote thus bitch was high on crack and completely uninformed about economics and realities. Please don’t waste my time.
But the government thinks it’s better at spending your money than you are. Afterall all you’re going to do with it is have shelter food and clothing and they can do a better job at that than you and do you really need all those extras?
I thought this was about the govt employees, but then about the film tax credit.
But wait, it’s about the ferry, capitalism, phasing out artists, not learning from the “60s, and (somehow) sharing the province.
Yawn…mindless ramblings…
Also, I wonder how the Soviets judged the labour-value of their wannabe artists.
Boris: Comrade, report to Lada factory 14 tomorrow for duty!
Alexi: Blyat! Nonsense, I am artist! *pulls out portfolio*
Boris: O yes Comrade, good job, Lada factory no place for artist. I designate you head potato artist at collective work farm #1715 instead.
another SET looking for the government to solve all their problems.
Is this in any way related to bags being 25¢?