Thursday, August 2, 2012

Entitlement or Corruption?

More scandals exploding in the provinces this week.  Here in Alberta we have the CFO of the Health Board resigning amid news that his expenses over a couple of years exceed $345,000.  In B.C. the Premier’s current annual expenses exceed a half million dollars.  I would really like to know who approves these types of expenses, and is there really a reason for expenses of this magnitude?  In my line of work we have extremely strict procedures and processes which are aligned to be compliant with SOX (the Sarbanes Oxley Act which monitors companies registered on the stock exchange) and it is therefore extremely difficult to put funds through without someone having to take responsibility at a higher level.  In other words, someone is watching the bank.
          Why isn’t this happening with taxpayers money?  Why does it appear that politicians, and their cronies appointed in plum positions, are essentially using the tax treasury as their own personal piggy bank?  Why, I ask you, are they not made accountable.
          Why are they re-elected?  Why are citizens not outraged beyond simply shaking their heads or shrugging their shoulders.  (or blogging you might ask?)
          A few years ago we had a Governor General who was completely out of control, a few months ago one of our MPs finally resigned after the scandal of her upgrading expenses.  Talk about Animal Farm – truly a lot of pigs in the trough these days – and they hardly seem embarrassed or ashamed at their behaviour. 
          Greed, one of the seven deadly sins. 

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