Wednesday, March 25, 2015

THIS SEEMS LIKE A HEALTHY TREND

The study calculates that between 2005/06 and 2013/14 (the latest year of available data), compensation spending by the Ontario government—including wages, benefits, and pensions—increased by 47.1 per cent, faster than all other program spending (38.8 per cent) and well beyond the combined rate of inflation and provincial government job growth (26.0 per cent).  
Geez. It's a good thing the taxable productivity of private enterprise is growing even faster. Oh wait...

2 comments:

  1. Just what are they trying to say here? That a hydro lineman isn't worth 130K?

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  2. "We have here but five loaves, and two fishes. He said, Bring them hither to me. And he commanded the multitude to sit down on the grass, and took the five loaves, and the two fishes, and looking up to heaven, he blessed, and brake, and gave the loaves to his disciples, and the disciples to the multitude. And they did all eat, and were filled: and they took up of the fragments that remained twelve baskets full. And they that had eaten were about five thousand men, beside women and children...."

    Cont'd:

    ...And they were the Servants of Pilate, one and all. And they said to Jesus, 'take now these fragments and throw them to the poor, those from whom the loaves and fishes were stolen in the first place.'

    ...and once the

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