Another Poll Goes Horribly Wrong

The splitting of one side of the vote is the oldest trick in the book. How long before the CBC announces that the tally has been tampered with and the results cannot be trusted?

True that, marc in calgary. I don't think that trick goes over many heads anymore these days. But, it is gratifying to see the final two options tally to 50% of the total.

Vote rigging seems fair here.
After all, Unions have been doing it forever and the CBC is an untrustworthy Union entity too.

It's time we did the pitching and they did the catching.

Hmm. In today's paper in Cayman, a the Miller report stated that our over staffed civil service was retiring too early, and getting paid too much to do too little. Want to borrow Mr. Miller?

Oddly enough, there don't seem to be any cookies attached to that poll. Each time I check it, I'm invited to vote again.

I didn't even read the article before voting, which was very bad of me. Voting several dozen times would also be immoral.

The logic in that would make bam bams head spin.

Syncro

mamba,it's okay to vote for absent friends and deceased relatives. It's an old Canadian tradition,I won't mention which Party.

I was quite disappointed with the poll. It didn't have a "Sell the CBC to Fox" option. Never the less I voted to decrease the snivel nonservice.

Should not this be in The Journal Of The Obvious?

Only if it's peer reviewed.

Syncro

Great find Kate. I only voted once...was tempted though to vote again, but then I would be like somebody's supporters. CBC, privatize it. Now to have a bath and wash off the socialist odour.

Sorry, Mother corp. -is- enabling cookies,or IP, as you can't have multiple votes, oh well, at least the poll is still going in the right direction

It behooves me to name one problem that the common taxpayer has, that is solved by having more civil servants.

peer review?

Syncro

Sask and California cut the slackers

http://www.businessweek.com/ap/financialnews/D9EFBE3G0.htm

I had no idea that having the private sector do what public employees do costs three times more. Thanks CBC.

Whereas the last two options totalled 50% last night, they're now well past that point.

Common sense, that beleaguered commodity, seems to be winning ... encouraged, of course, by SDA!

marc ~ "How long before the CBC announces that the tally has been tampered with and the results cannot be trusted?"

That has never happened before, has it?

You should propose a 6X6 rule to make the 4X4 rule more attractive.

It seems that very few people in Canada recognize where we are headed with an aging population and government spending growth. Based on the information that Kate posted on personal debt trends, we are headed for a major disaster with our social safety net. The message, get your own financial house in order and hold onto your wallet.

Kate...off topic, but here is a "juxtaposition" for you. Quite unbelievable really....

http://wcbstv.com/topstories/paterson.tax.refund.2.1569690.html

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/Tax/100000-federal-employees-owe-irs-back-taxes/story?id=10125860

Surprised it took the Sask Party government 2 years to start implementing this, after a near revolt internally. Many, many people within the party were extremely upset and voiced their frustration that these very necessary cutbacks were not implemented the day that the Sask Party took office.

The travesty here is that the cuts don't appear to be targetting dead wood, but rather, they appear to actually entrench the old and incompetent in their positions until they retire.

The travesty here is that the cuts don't appear to be targetting dead wood.....
unless they've got plans to shut down the Dept. of Agriculture and kick all of those rural conservative welfare bums off the dole.

Poll needs another option: that the government unilaterally cut all civil service salaries by 15% across the board.

So that brings on a strike. Then just de-certify the union.

Although to be fair, not all civil servants are bad.

I think 10% per year for the next ten years might be more appropriate.

If the USA's lot don't pull their thumbs out, they're going to have at least that due to nothing other than sheer federal and state bankruptcy.

Its hard to get blood from a turnip. Particularly and armed and dangerous turnip. Gun and ammunition sales remain brisk down south.

Although to be be fair, not all Nazis were bad.

(Why, Oskar Schindler was a member of the Nazi party.)

No, I don't really think civil servants = Nazis. But analogies help me think.

The poll is doing just fine.........

Maintain the status quo, the current size is about right. 15% (437 votes)

Hire more people. 10% (285 votes)

Reduce the civil service by about 4 per cent per year for 4 years, as suggested. 21% (606 votes)

Reduce the civil service by more than the 4 per cent per year for 4 years. 54% (1,585 votes)

Total Votes: 2,913

21% + 54% = 75%

I really don't understand the outcry. No one is getting fired. No one is getting a layoff notice. These are positions that are vacant or will be vacant in the very near future.

The feigned outrage from the usual culprits, the NDP and the big unions, is just another attempt to smear the Sask Party. Of course, some of this outrage may be genuine. These positions within the civil service represent a good-sized chunk of union dues and a few more votes for the NDP.

Maintain the status quo, the current size is about right. 14% (442 votes)

Hire more people. 9% (288 votes)

Reduce the civil service by about 4 per cent per year for 4 years, as suggested. 20% (624 votes)

Reduce the civil service by more than the 4 per cent per year for 4 years. 57% (1,765 votes)

Total Votes: 3,119

20% + 57% = 77%

It seems to indicate the union lacks popular support.