Liberal with Money

The BC legislature has just quietly passed a bill to increase their own salary by 15% and instituted a pension plan that Gordon Campbell, the premier, and the Liberals has called all kind of ugly names when they were campaigning as the opposition party. Once the Liberals came to power, they forced a freeze on the salary of all public sector workers, citing, of course, fiscal responsibilities as the reason. And now we know why they had to save all that money. It is not easy to find the money to pay for million-dollar pensions. It just does not make sense that the legislature, or any public servants for that matter, should be able to set their own compensations. Would it not be better if their salary floats with the public sector union contracts they negotiated? If they think nurse should get pay less, why should they not themselves be paid less. The Liberals like to talk about accountabilities, my suggestion would be right on the money. Oh, I forgot, when they talk about accountabilities, they really mean that they do not want to be accountable; it is something that applies to others. Oh, well, never mind.