Members of
Parliament have been given a $7,000 salary rise by the independent body that
sets their pay.
The
Remuneration Authority gave MPs an increase of 1.5 percent, as well as a $5,000
payment to compensate for the international travel allowance which was scrapped
in January.
The changes
will see the next Prime Minister's salary rise from $400,500 to $411,510, while
his deputy will get $291,800, up from $282,500.
The Leader of
the Opposition and the Speaker will both get $257,200, up from $249,100.
Backbenchers
will receive $141,800, up from $134,800.
Authority
chairman John Errington said increases in recent years have not kept up with
the rising cost of living and general wage increases.
Of course all
of them get heaps of other perks, housing and accommodation, transport, air
travel, health care etc. etc.
Prime Minister John Key
said we was also disappointed with part of the decision to increase MP's pay. He
said he was happy with the 1.5 per cent increase because that was roughly in
line with what the rest of the country got, but he said there was little need
for the $5,000 to compensate for the scrapping of the travel allowance.
Talk about
jelly-beans and bullshit and media manipulation; we’ve just had the finest
example of Hollywood style crap presentation and a thick brained idiotic
acceptance of medias first rate clap-trap. Which was fed to readers and viewers
in the name of democracy and freedom? It’s
the kind of PR driven crap which the NZ public consumes on a daily basis… The
PM fed the media a line of bull so obvious that a ten year old would recognised
it as such from a hundred yards. But our media stayed blind, deaf and dumb as well as being one eyed.
The PM didn’t
want MP’s to get a salary increase…yeah right.
He waits
until the commissioner is about to announce what the increase will be…the very
day…and he goes to the media and says that he asked, no begged; the
commissioner not to give MP’s a lift in salary…as the law requires him to do.
He doesn’t have a choice.
The PM knows
this but still goes through the completely bogus motion of pretending he is
against the possible increase, and wants MP’s treated the way public servants
are treated. And he pleas for the commissioner to do the decent thing…he says
this as he wipes the self-induced tears from his eyes. He is the finest B/S
artist in NZ maybe even the world…
The media simply love
and adore his Hollywood style drama style ‘Queen’ presentation. National Party clones
like…Paul Henry, Mike Hoskins and the NZ Herald absolutely perspire
with delight at this display of frustration by an emotional PM as they offer
him a tissue or two to wipe the invisible tears from his pink cheeks, this
proves they say, that he is just one of the crowd…a good Kiwi bloke…yeah
right…if you believe that then you’ve got rocks for brains. He could have
simply turned up at work on Thursday morning and retrospectively changed the
law…but alas he didn’t do that, instead he bluffed and huffed like a miniature
Snow-white.
The PM knows
full well that the increase will be granted…because under the law the
commissioner has no choice. He does his crying leader act on a Thursday, a day
on which he won’t be in the house to answer any questions on the issue [He
almost never goes to Parliament on a Thursday, he needs the rest after two days
in the house [Tuesday and Wednesday].
This last
Tuesday and Wednesday have been like days from hell for the PM…he has ramped
and raved, swore and stamped his feet, has bull-shitted his way around sending
troops to Iraq without the support of Parliament, tried to explain his various
falsehoods about the Sky City give away and the resignation of ex-Northland
National MP and chair of the Law and Order Committee and super
anti-family-violence campaigner Mike
Sabin, who’s name cannot be mentioned in Parliament…and if you do that
great protector of the PM the Speaker will leap to his feet and shut you up,
yet the PM can call others, cowards, gutless, spineless, and the speaker always
finds a reason to allow that to happen. I sometimes feel that the Speaker and
the PM are in some sort of relationship…father and son, husband and wife…or some
other variation on that theme, but it’s not hard to recognise which one is the
boss…
A new way of
recruiting CEO’s, senior management, and other positions paying more than the
living wage is discussed in the following blog:
Another
method that would be fair is never to pay increases other than in money terms
rather than percentage terms…5% of half a million is a hell of a lot more than 5%
of the minimum wage. What you do is always increase salaries or wages from the
bottom up…for example if the bottom level got an increase of say 5% which
equals say $500 per year…then everyone above the bottom point receives
$500…this maintains the gap between positions. This would of course hold the gap that now exists between people.While new ways of reducing top salaries...as per the link above for example.
The gap
between the bottom and the top has been growing at a massive rate and a 50 cent
increase in the legal minimum hourly rate for those over eighteen years of age,
workers under that age could be paid as low as eleven dollars.
If we fail to
take action then we should expect a violent reaction sometime in the not too
distant future…
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