There are few things more frustrating than working for a clueless boss. It’s a problem I’m sure many of you deal with on a daily basis.
You know the type of people I’m taking about. They walk around with their eyes glued to their smart phones, stumbling into random objects as they come up with pie-in-the-sky ideas.
They are oblivious to their surroundings and enamoured with their self-perceived brilliance. Unable to comprehend the consequences of their actions, they are a drain on whatever enterprise they are involved with until they are fired… or, in many cases, promoted away from their mistakes.
Unfortunately, for taxpayers, here in Alberta the clueless bosses have started to congregate at the top levels of the provincial government.
Case in point, last week at the Legislature’s Member Services Committee, PC Party MLAs used their majority to give themselves severance allowances as well as double the taxpayer-funded RRSP contribution rate to about $23,000 annually.
Perhaps they forgot how angry the public was just five months ago during the election. In the wake of revelations that MLAs were collecting millions in retirement bonuses or to sit on committees that never met, Premier Redford pledged to axe severance allowances altogether.
Now her party has changed its tune, fiddled with some accounting and proclaimed their new approach to be brilliant.
Since its inception, the Wildrose party has fought against such nonsense.
I am proud to say that our leader Danielle Smith voted against it. Both the NDP and Liberal leaders are also opposed.
The Federal Conservative government is also taking action to prevent politicians from feasting at the taxpayer trough. Conservative and some Liberal MPs are taking the knife to their own pensions. If the party of Brian Mulroney - supported by the party of Pierre Trudeau – can agree to cut their taxpayerfunded pensions, why can’t Alison Redford’s party do the same?
The simple truth is the brain trust at the top levels of the Provincial PC Party is oblivious to the concerns of Albertans.
Unable to comprehend the consequences of their actions, they will continue to be a drain on our province until they are fired… or promoted.
In Premier Redford’s case, a promotion just isn’t possible.
