[Newsbot]

Title: MPs' gold-plated pensions untouched by budget, no change before next election
Category: Political
Posted By: Robair
Date: 2012-03-30 08:15:33
Canadian

[Robair]

Ain't that rich!

The peasants can work a couple more years...

[bootlegga]

No surprise there - it's just like when the Reform party bitched about pensions and opted out - until they became eligible for them - then they all opted back in.

Politicians are always the very last ones to suffer budget cuts...

[Smacle]

http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/story/2 ... sions.html

[Freakinoldguy]

bootlegga bootlegga:

No surprise there - it's just like when the Reform party bitched about pensions and opted out - until they became eligible for them - then they all opted back in.

Politicians are always the very last ones to suffer budget cuts...

Exactly.

It's like that old line about "thems that makes the rules".