Chris Christie, sous la loupe

http://frontpagemag.com/2010/11/12/coming-for-christie/

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Chris Christie, sous la loupe

[What’s $2,000 in travel costs, assuming they really are unjustified, next to the government’s two-year spending binge?

But to ask the question is to miss the point. On President Obama’s watch, the priorities of the Justice Department seem to be dictated more by politics than merit. Thus, in 2009 the department famously dropped a clear-cut case of voter intimidation by the New Black Panther Party. Yet the department is bent on pursuing a long-settled, and far more trivial matter, against a popular Republican governor.]

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Jean Charest not the leader Canada needs, Eric Duhaime, Toronto Sun

Here are the facts on Charest’s administration, from the time it arrived in office to today:

• The size of the provincial government in the economy went from 27% to 31.4%.
• The spending per capita went from $9,036 to $11,627.
• The proportion of investments that are public went from 23.1% to 34.9%.
• The number of bureaucrats went from 95.5 per 1,000 habitants to 97.3.

• The provincial net debt per capita went from $14,270 to $16,482, while it decreased on average in Canada to below $8,000.

• Provincial subsidies per capita went from $637 to $741, while it declined in the  rest of the country to below $200.

And let’s not talk about the fact that the waiting lists in Quebec hospitals are now worse than they were seven years ago and the school dropout rate has also increased.


Jean Charest not the leader Canada needs

Crédit: Éric Duhaime A.K.A @Endroiteligne 

Quebec health care really that good !? I think not

[Fair or not, that’s the stinging reality of a creaking medical system – one that Ken Jamieson felt the effects of first hand. In need of a colonoscopy on the advice of his doctor late last year, he was told he would have to wait a year in his hometown of Gatineau, Que., or pay for it at a private clinic. But across the river, a mere 15-minute drive away in Ottawa, it could be performed in about a week

The rates Quebec pays to physicians to deliver medical services are, on average, the lowest in Canada, which means that patients like Mr. Jamieson are refused non-urgent care when they travel to another province, are treated like foreigners, or are among the lucky few who have doctors provide medical services at a discounted rate.
“It’s not what I could call fair,” says Mr. Jamieson, a retired high-school teacher]

Article du globe&mail

Credit: ME !

Les chiffres des élections mi-mandat qu'on ne verra jamais à Radio-Can

[Democrats turned out in roughly the same numbers they did in the last midterm. Nationwide turnout for Election 2010 was 36 percent Republican, 36 percent Democrat, 28 percent independent. The major difference between this election and the 2006 midterm (partisan turnout: 38D-36R-26I) is not turnout, but rather the fact that Republicans won the independent vote by 18 points. In 2006, they lost it by the exact same margin.]

[Two years of Obama-Reid-Pelosi were enough to rehabilitate the philosophy of limited government. 56 percent of this year’s voters felt the government is doing too much, and only 38 percent believed it should do more. Each group voted roughly 80-20 on opposite sides..0

Read more at the Washington Examiner: http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/blogs/beltway-confidential/a-few-interesting-notes-from-exit-polling-106856253.html#ixzz151kprEul

Crédit: @PatLePresdePP

Une journée dans la vie d'un politicien honnête,

- Bureau tout simple, digne d'un IKEA
- Pas de garde du corps
- pas de chauffeur attitré
- horaire adapté à une famille
- pas d'appartement ministériel
- transport le plus efficace et le moins cher pour les fonctionnaires (quitte à marcher)
- etc...

Le train de vie d'un politicien Honnête.

Crédit: @S_Beausoleil sur Twitter

Abribus pour millionnaires, Lysiane Gagnon, La Presse

[Taxer les automobilistes en fonction des émissions de leur véhicule, introduire le péage sur les ponts aux heures de pointe, encourager les transports collectifs, j'en suis. Mais il faut garder le sens de la mesure. Or, cette qualité semble s'être complètement perdue à Montréal. À preuve, l'importance absolument disproportionnée que nos édiles accordent aux pistes cyclables, dans une ville qui est aux prises avec le froid et la neige six mois par année.]

[On a échappé au pire, le chef taliban étant maintenant écarté du comité exécutif de Montréal. On pourra enfin avoir un jour, après d'inutiles et coûteuses pertes de temps, un Turcot 2 conçu par et pour des adultes rationnels.]

Abribus pour millionnaires

Crédit: @RéseauAntiSpin sur Twitter