Comments on: Sarah Kramer’s goodbye gift: $317,000

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 05:14:25 +0000

What planet do any of the troughers that think they are entitled to be kept like royalty at the taxpayers expense and that they are above the law. Just as in Britain people are wisening up to the ongoing fraud perpetrated on them. $5m dollars in untendered contracts to buddies of Kramer and Hudson! In any law governed society they would be in gaol. It is only the complete subservience to date of the citizens of Canada that lets them get away with it.

Some “accomplishment” – $800m+ of public money and not a single thing to show for it. In the UK the national government is on the brink of falling as more of the facts of the utter sleaze and corruption comes out. The Ontario mob may now think that the recess will let them off the hook. They should know that this was also tried in UK but the net result there is likely to be the complete destruction of the Labour Party.

Canadians are beginning to wake up. It is just a tragedy that there is not a single political party to represent their interests at present. In the vacuum they will do whatever it takes to pnish all parties. In the meantime they know that there is a conspiracy among the Canadian political classes and their hangers on in the myriad of public and semi-public agencies to hide the extent to which there is daily ongoing institutionalized theft of their dollars. A pox on all their houses!

By: Kerry Mehowm

Kerry Mehowm — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 01:03:29 +0000

What planet do you live in where the people who get you coffee or a mcmuffin are more useful than someone who might have achieved some actual value for our tax dollars in healthcare. Its pretty crazy that these allegations led to her dismissal especially when you compare it to the others raised above. For one thing she didn’t do anything illegal like these people – she managed to make sure that those in her employee worked to pull together a strategy to show the people in charge she could make a reasonable difference – which she did – and they did – and they compensated her for it – and what an accomplishment if they actually really were just cronies ushered in by Alan Hudson. Since they managed to get work done they had to at least have been somewhat capable and the woman who pours my coffee cant even serve two customers at once so it seems to me like the line up at the cafe is reminiscent of the back up and time wasting money sucking that was going on at SSH for years. And what family are you feeding happily for $50,000 before taxes? Sarah Kramer is actually not a criminal or a greedy CEO like those ones you mention so what is your point?

By: Robert

Robert — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 16:45:38 +0000

And people who actually do something useful, like serve coffee to normal people and help brighten their days, serving at say McDonald’s, get “thanks” as they leave or “bye” as they are fired. Not even a free small bag of fries.

The amount of money wasted on these people who are fired or quite is insane. When I quit my job to move East, guess what my severance was NOTHING! It was unused vacation pay which I was entitled to, no bonuses, no remainder of salary, nothing!

How many more are like eHealth’s CEO (HydroOne’s debt could be reduced by CEO’s taking less salary) with gross spending and salaries? Are they really worth that much, especially if contracting out the work?

How would our wait lines differ if the salaries were more realistic, or at least in line with effort the individual puts into their job, and the money was used wisely with our hospitals?

By: Devil's Advocate

Devil's Advocate — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 15:03:30 +0000

“…the âCanadian-born former CEO of the U.S.-based pharmaceutical company Pfizer Inc., received a retirement package worth $181 million US…”

Never mind the little blue pill!
I wouldn’t need it, with that kind of settlement!
: P — L