MSN04

I had a hard timing voting yesterday because I don't know who to choose.  I personally don't like unions too and of course I remember Glen Clark and his ferry project, etc!  On the other hand, I don't ...
shutterbug 發表於 2009-5-13 12:35

How do you think NDP is gonna fix the gun shooting problem if they won the election?

MSN04

NDP could be over spending before I have no objection about that.  However, do you think Liberals has cut back far too deep causing many social tension and issues?  Remember how Gord proposed to give  ...
shutterbug 發表於 2009-5-13 20:06

hmm... i think the cut back is necessary?  As far as I understand, the BC Liberal is a party that is very conservative on the budget.  I mean, if there is only so much money in the pool, that's all we have.

As for the raise, I personally have no problem with that.  If someone do reasonably well with the job, a raise is deserved.  I do think that the Libs did pretty well.  (isn't that the reason why they are back for 4 more years?)  But yeah, u can argue that 53% is a lot!  but it is not insane, esp no really a lot of people getting that much money.  Campbell get 186k, MLA get about 98k after increase.  The vancouver police chief is getting 193k!!!  I would think a reasonably-ok premier should deserve more than a vancouver police chief :p  I mean.. come on... 120k (before the 53% raise) is even worse than an engineer.

MSN04

So raising minimun wage, which we are the second lowest in Canada but with highest cost of living, is not OK while giving a raise to his party is perfectly legit?  Where is the balance?

My view is t ...
shutterbug 發表於 2009-5-14 09:35

Two totally different things and should not be put together for comparison la.

Raising the MLA's salary does not hurt small business *directly*.  But, increasing the minimun wage does.  If I run a small business and my cost increases to a point that the business is not profitable, what would I do?
1. fold the business --> instead of getting minimum wage, my employees get nth (may be EI, but where money coming from again?  Tax payers!)
2. Either cut the workers' working hour evenly, or just cut 1 or 2 person.
3. Increase my service fee or the unit price of the product i am selling. --> further increase cost of living.

For the MLA, similar senario would be:
If a company does well, the company give the employees, who contribute to the sucess, wage increase, and i don't think those employees get minimum wage anyways...

o well... I am not good at expressing myself, but i hope u get my point.