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Jeff Smith Senator (Quebec)

I think she along with every True Canadian has a right to be.

Actual names have been changed. ( Legal reasons )

 

 

I don't think pissed really covers it!!!!

Jeff Smith, the Senator from Québec calls senior citizens the Greediest Generation as he compared "Social Security " to a Milk Cow with over a million teats.

Here's a response in a letter from PATTY JOHNSTONE in Ontario ... I think she is a little ticked off! She also tells it like it is!

Oh sooo true!

"Hey Jeff, let's get a few things straight!!!!!

1.    As a career politician, you have been on the public dole (tit) for FIFTY YEARS.

2.    I have been paying CPP & OHIP for 48 YEARS (since I was 15 years old. I am now 63).

3.    My Canada Pension payments, and those of millions of other Canadians, were safely tucked away in an interest bearing account for decades until you political pukes decided to raid the account and give OUR money to a bunch of zero losers in return for votes, thus bankrupting the system and turning Social Security into a Ponzi scheme that would make Bernie Madoff proud.

4.    Recently, just like Lucy & Charlie Brown, you and "your  ilk" pulled the proverbial football away  from millions of Canadian seniors nearing retirement and moved the goalposts for full retirement from age 65 to age, 67.

NOW, you and your "shill commission" are proposing to move the goalposts YET AGAIN.

5.    I, and millions of other Canadians, have been paying into OHIP & CPP from Day One, and now "you morons" propose to change the rules of the game. Why? Because "you idiots" mismanaged other parts of the economy to such an extent that you need to steal our money from OHIP & CCP to pay the bills.

6.    I,  and millions of other Canadians, have been paying income taxes our entire lives, and now you propose to increase our taxes yet again. Why? Because you "incompetent bastards" spent our money so profligately that you just kept on spending even after you ran out of money. Now, you come to the Canadian taxpayers and say you need more to pay off YOUR debt.

To add insult to injury, you label us "greedy" for calling "bullshit" to your incompetence. Well, Captain Bullshit,  I have a few questions for YOU:

1.    How much money have you earned from the Canadian taxpayers during your pathetic 50-year political career?

2.    At what age did you retire from your pathetic political career, and how much are you receiving in annual retirement benefits from the Canadian taxpayers?

3.    How much do you pay for YOUR government provided health insurance?

4.    What cuts in YOUR retirement and healthcare benefits are you proposing in your disgusting deficit reduction proposal, or as usual, have you exempted yourself and your political cronies?

It is you, Captain Bullshit, and your political co-conspirators called Parliament  who are the "greedy" ones.  It is you and your fellow nutcase thieves who have bankrupted the Canadian Pension, OHIP and stolen the Canadian

dream from millions of loyal, patriotic taxpayers.

 

 

 

And for what? Votes and your job and retirement security at our expense, you lunk-headed  leech.

That's right, sir. You and yours have bankrupted our benefits for the sole purpose of advancing your pathetic, political careers. You know it, we know it, and you know that we know it.

And you can take that to the bank, you miserable son of a bitch. NO,  I didn't stutter.

P.S. And stop calling CPP & OHIP "entitlements". WHAT AN INSULT!!!!

I have been paying in

to the CPP system for 45 years "It's my money"-give it back to me the way the system was designed and stop patting yourself on the back like you are being generous by doling out these monthly checks.

EVERYONE!!! If you like the way things are in Canada delete this.

If you agree with what an Ontario citizen, says, please PASS IT ON!!!!

 

 

Have a GREAT day

 

Gas City Campground

Donna and Robert Coey pulled off the highway for a nice picnic at the Gas City Campground on Victoria Day.--NEWS PHOTO TIM KALINOWSKI

 

 

Campers at the Gas City Campground had a family friendly May Long Weekend.

Most of the campers were locals enjoying a nice staycation at the campground with a few others from further afield. Medicine Hat resident Larry Glauser has been coming to the Gas City Campground every year for the last 10 May Long Weekends.

“My wife Janice and I come out here every year. It’s probably the 10th year we’ve been here,” said Glauser. “So we’ve been through snow, good weather, rains we just love coming out here. It’s the first camping weekend of the summer. Normally this is the first place we come to make sure everything is working good on the RV.”

Kim Hill, also a Hatter, was out for a good time at the campground with her friends. She says this weekend’s great weather surpassed all her expectations.

“It was a fantastic weekend. The weather turned out fantastic. We were expecting the worst and got good weather. It rained for two hours, not even. We just sat under the awning and waited,” said Hill

The Palin family was up from Lethbridge for a fun family weekend getaway. Art Palin says despite all the travel and business of the weekend he, wife Roxanne and sons Ty and Logan had a great time in the Hat. They took their boys swimming at the Medicine Hat Lodge and went down to the Leisure Centre. Palin says he especially enjoyed staying at the campground doing nothing but sitting by the fire.

“I took a day to get settled and a day to pack up,” said Palin. “But there was one day in between when we got to sit around and not do a whole lot.”

Robert Coey and wife Donna stopped at the Gas City Campground for a nice Victoria Day picnic on the way to visit a relative’s house. Daytrippers down from Strathmore, Robert said they love having that extra time the long weekend brings to get down to see family.

“It’s that extra day that is so nice. And it just shortens up your work week,” said Coey.

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Press Club Asks For Answers In AP Records Seizure

Angela Greiling Keane | May 13, 2013

In the wake of reports today that the Justice Department secretly obtained phone records of several of AP’s reporters and four of its offices, the National Press Club requests that the Obama administration publicly explain the reasons behind the action.
The Justice Department disclosed to AP in a May 10 letter that the government had obtained last year two months of personal and professional phone records for individual AP reporters and from AP offices in the House press gallery and from AP bureaus in DC, New York and Hartford, Conn. The letter did not provide a reason why, AP said, but the targets of the government seizures and the timing suggested that it might be related to a probe of who leaked information to AP for a story the news organization broke last year about a bombing plot that had been organized by an Al Qaeda affiliate in Yemen.
AP President and CEO Gary Pruitt called the incident “a massive and unprecedented intrusion” into newsgathering and said the records could reveal how AP reporters and editors gather news and what they’re working on.
“This appears to be a gross violation of press freedom,” said National Press Club President Angela Greiling Keane, a Bloomberg News reporter. “If there’s a good explanation for this, the public has a right to hear it promptly.”
The National Press Club is the world’s leading professional organization for journalists and is an ardent advocate of press freedom and open government.
Contact: NPC President Angela Greiling Keane (president@press.org; 202-662-7517)
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Thursday, 27 December 2012 09:52

Judy (Underwood) 1942-2012 Judy was born February 4, 1942 in Medicine Hat, Alberta to Jack and Grace (Minor) Underwood. She was raised on a farm near the village of Abbey, Saskatchewan where she attended school. In 1956 the family moved to Medicine Hat where Judy graduated from High School in 1960. She moved to Saskatoon and worked as a legal secretary for a law firm for two years. In 1962, Judy moved to Montreal where she trained as a Trans Canada Airline Stewardess. She was based in Toronto for two years before transferring to Calgary. I n 1966, Judy married Ed Yates, a teacher with the Calgary Board of Education. They lived in downtown Sundial Apartment Building that year. In 1967, they bought their first home in Lake Bonavista Estates. Judy retired from the air lines in 1967 and worked for the Calgary Brewery Marketing Department for two years. Between 1970 and 1976 Judy brought four sons into the world - Darren, Murray, Kevin and Colin. In 1982 Ed became Superintendent of Schools for the County of Ponoka. The family moved to Red Deer, Alberta in a new home in Country Club Estates. In 1987 the Yates’ family owned and operated their own property management company. In 1996, with the boys gone, they started traveling again taking trips throughout North America, Caribbean, Mexico, Hawaii, England, Wales, Ireland and the Mediterranean. Judy’s pastimes were crosswords, scrabble, reading, writing, piano playing, painting, scrap booking, family history and walking in the park with her dogs. Judy survived a brain tumor in 1988. In 2002 she was diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes and in 2010 with colon and lung cancer. She passed over on December 9, 2012. Judy became a grandmother to two boys; Kaeden in 2001 and Issac in 2008. Besides her family of seven males, Judy is survived by two siblings, Jim and Merle and their families, sister-in-law Irene and her family and numerous Underwood and Minor relatives and many lifelong friends. Judy was predeceased by her parents Jack and Grace Underwood, brother Chuck and parents-in-law Tom and Mary Yates. At Judy’s request, there will be no funeral service. Urn internment will be at Abbey Cemetery, Abbey, Saskatchewan at a later date. Cremation arrangements with Eventide Funeral Home in Red Deer.

2013 Tax Assessment

By Collin Gallant on April 16, 2013.

 

Joanne Birtz, representing the Medicine Hat Coalition of Commercial Taxpayers, speaks out against the 2013 tax assessments at Monday night's city council meeting.--NEWS PHOTO CHARLES LEFEBVRE

A two-year deferral for major tax increases, and even one-year cancellation in the most extreme cases, is on the way for business owners facing stiff property tax increases.

But even the expanded motion to give relief while appeals are launched alongside City Hall’s call for a provincial audit of the local assessment appears not to have appeased about 100 angry non-residential taxpayers who attended Monday’s city council meeting.

Joanne Birtz, a spokesperson for the medicine Hat Coalition of Commercial property Owners, renewed her group’s call for the City to do everything in its power to revert back to the 2012 assessment a move council says is not within its power.

“I suggest respectfully that going to the 2012 assessment is still a possibility,” said Birtz, who told council her group has evaluated about 1,000 of the 1,400 non-residential properties in town and characterized the issue as a “state of emergency.”

“We’re asking you to go to the minister and tell him that this is a complete mess. (Appeals and audit) is a great process but it was never meant for this much of a mess.”

Aldermen and the city solicitor Bob Schmidt confirmed that only Municipal Affairs Minister Doug Griffiths could make such an order and only then with a cabinet order.

“I know the provincial government,” said Ald. Jeremy Thompson. “It’s all about process, process, process… The motion that we just passed sets us down the path of correcting the situation.”

The issue arose last month when a move to a Mass Evaluation system of assessing property apparently set in motion a massive increase in taxation values for some businesses.

The City says the overall increase is in the 10 per cent range, and the overall share of tax paid by the business sector will actually decrease once the millrate is factored in.

But, the group is adamant the assessments do not reflect market value, and they want it thrown out.

The Administrative Committee brought forward the tax deferral motion, and an amendment by Ald. Ted Clugston removed the condition that increases be above a value of $5,000.

Now all non-residential tax increases amounting to 35 per cent higher will be able to defer some of the increase until 2015.

“(The $5,000 cap) didn’t capture very many businesses, which was a concern,” said Clugston, whose motion also directs the city to request that the minister “audit/alter/investigate or uphold our 2013 non- residential tax assessment roll.”

Clugston said: “I feel that it captured what they were asking for… the process will go forward, and if the composite review board starts overturning all these assessments… we’ll contact the minister again and ask for help.”

The cost of such a deferral program could be about $1.5 million, said Corporate Services commissioner Merete Hegglund.

Ald. Robert Dumanowski called the deferrals the “right thing to do,” and called on council to support a motion to support an evaluation of the Mass Appraisal process.

“Asking the province to get involved is essential,” said Ald. Graham Kelly.

The original amended motion passed 7-0, with Ald. Wayne Craven and Mayor Norm Boucher absent.

The City has already requested that a regular five-year audit of the assessment, set for next year, be moved up.

Those whose tax bills are increasing by at least 100 per cent for a total of least $5,000 could have half the increases cancelled for the current year.

According to the city finance department, 12 properties would qualify for cancellation, which would cost the city about $69,583.

They would also be eligible for deferral, and still have the right to appeal their assessments something that council is encouraging.

“I’m asking everyone to appeal,” said Ald. Phil Turnbull. “Once the appeals process starts, the city will monitor. That’s what has to happen. I know it’s not what you want to hear but that’s the process.”

Members of the gallery, however, felt the motion puts them back at square one, and that the appeals process is onerous and costly.

“They may get their $200 (appeal fee) back but what about the thousands they’ll spend (on professional fees) and countless hours fighting this,” said Barry Knodel, a spokesman with the Coalition.