🚀 go-pugleaf

It is astounding, how much time and energy is being spent on the
sponsorship scandal and Gomery inquiry.  The latest estimation of the
inquiry cost is $200 MILLION.  Now, what idiot would find it necessary
to spend $200 MILLION to find out, how $250 MILLION were stolen,
without recovering a penny?

The funny part though, $250 million constitutes only a small portion of
the total stolen money.  Some of it we do know, for example, $2 BILLION
were stolen on firearms registry.  I use the word "stolen", rather then
"spent", because there is no way one can actually SPEND this amount,
say, by buying necessary equipment, salaries and external contracts.
For example, you can hire 20 THOUSAND employees and pay them $100
THOUSAND each for this money.  I do not think, they need even 100
employees.  Remember, initial cost estimation for the whole registry
was couple of millions.  Do you believe, one could make a 100,000%
error?

It was reported back in May that the commission counsel Roy accumulated
over $1 MILLION of salary.  Let us do some arithmetics.  The hearings
started in September of 2004 and by May he worked less than 180 days.
If you divide 1,000,000/180, he was paid over $5,500 per day, which
comes to almost $700 per hour.  Not bad, isn't it?  Now, a good
question to ask is: why would anyone agree to pay this kind of salary?
The answer is obvious: the government is buying him off, so that he
would do his best to whitewash all major criminals: Chretien, Martin
and alike.

Gomery was appointed to the court in 1982 by Trudeau, so he is a
Liberal appointee, and this is why he was chosen as a commissioner.  Is
not it obvious that government should not be allowed to appoint the
so-called "independent" commissioner?  Opposition should do that.  The
next good question is: how much Gomery himself is being paid?  And you
already know why.

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