Me and the wife are strugglin along on 55 a year. Luckily the house is paid for and we have some RRSPS that didn’t get hit too bad. We got some xtra coin stashed in the bank but don’t know what to do with it. Our pensions have been keeping up with most of the inflation. Duh wife is goona take her CPP early so we can vacation all winter but Onatario is so cheap with the medical coverage u can’t get out of this horrid climate for longer than 40 days or you loose your medical coverage. I guess we will have to move into the other country which is 40 miles away or buy a cottage up there so we can make PQ our permanent address to qualify for their medical plan.
I drive school bus for beer money and to get up in the morning.

We spent 3 months in FLA this last winter. It wasn’t too bad with the heated pool and gated communityand all. We had 4 bedrooms so we had lots off non paying visitors. Most of em payed our food and done the cooking. The temperatures ran about 80 f every day. We managed to get over to the Barrett-Jackson auction in WestPalm Beach to see how the other half lives. Heh Heh.

I stayed in a FLA hospsital for some tests and they charged OHIP 6,500 clams for a 3 hour stay and some tests. Sure gladd I ain’t an American

Anybody wanna buy a 67 New Yorker? She’s appraised at 12,000—make me an offer.

Like I say, when your a poorstrugglin civil servant retiree LIFE’S A BITCH, THEN YUH CROAK!

Gotta leave now, got to see a sexton about my tomb payments.

Oh there is no HIDDEN AGENDA. it is right there in our face. We are their piggy bank which is why our’s is usally empty or has just a few pennies. Got to keep their corporate friends happy you know, the ones that finance the Big Parties (of all types).

I do not mind paying taxes, that is part of being a citizen and Canadian. I do mind greed, corruption, and outrageous severance packages like the moron running eHealth got. I also mind the arrogance, unwillingness to listen to the average person, and the ridiculous salaries ‘administrators’ are paid.

I also mind the assinine fees being charged for housing developments, permits, etc.. Theh we have idiocy like the taxpayer founded 407 that sold off by Flatulance (aka Dim Jim) to a private and unregulated corporation. I wonder what his campaign contributions were that little deal?

Brown bags filled with money everywhere!

Our taxes should be for helping US!

There is a nice mix of viewpoint, information and ideas here. (Keeps my old Jones generation grey matter going lol)