Canadian Government at work

molly · **Joined:** Apr 07, 2010 **Posts:** 14182

PICTURE WORTH A TRILLION DOLLARS
House Minority Leader pictured standing, far right, speaks while colleagues play solitaire Monday night as the House convened to vote on a new budget. (AP)

The guy sitting in the row in front of these two....he's on Facebook, and the guy behind Hennessy is checking out the baseball scores.

These are the folks that couldn't get the budget out by Oct. 1, and are about to control your health care, cap and trade, and the list goes on and on….
Should we buy them larger screen computers - or - a ticket home, permanently?

This is one of their 3-DAY WORK WEEKS that we all pay for (salary is about $179,000 per year).

gerard82 · **Posted:** Tue Nov 15, 2011 2:18 pm **(#2)**

Are you Canadian or American Molly?
To me it's confusing seeing stars and stripes on the desks and not maple leafs.
Gerard

molly · **Joined:** Apr 07, 2010 **Posts:** 14182

I am Canadian, I didn't even notice that. Dam, you are observant

gerard82 · **Posted:** Tue Nov 15, 2011 2:46 pm **(#4)**

Thanks for the compliment Molly.
There are similar pictures of parliaments worldwide.
Gerard.

molly · **Joined:** Apr 07, 2010 **Posts:** 14182

Then we should fire them all. We could get a job there and play on Gimp all day.

gerard82 · **Posted:** Tue Nov 15, 2011 2:57 pm **(#6)**

But all parties need yes men/women.
In our parliament there are no laptops or flags visible though.
Gerard.

molly · **Joined:** Apr 07, 2010 **Posts:** 14182

O I see you are from the Netherlands. I know lots of people from there but I know nothing about your government.

ofnuts · **Joined:** Oct 25, 2010 **Posts:** 4812

As if us all would only do work-related stuff all day

Tip to bosses of computing addicts: nothing looks more like a programmer coding work-related stuff than a programmer coding non-work-related stuff

gerard82 · **Posted:** Tue Nov 15, 2011 3:55 pm **(#9)**

Here you are Molly.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politics_o ... etherlands
Gerard.

lylejk · **Joined:** Sep 24, 2010 **Posts:** 12845

This picture looks very familiar to one that was taken of our own Congress Molly; wonder if indeed this is the same picture. Still, at least they weren't viewing porn. lol

RobA · **Joined:** Jul 14, 2010 **Posts:** 697

I am Canadian and make no excuses for my government

. But the photo is not, as pointed out, Canadian:

Courtesy of a quick google image search:
http://blogs.courant.com/capitol_watch/ ... photo.html

Quote:

A photo of two Democratic legislators playing solitaire has ignited controversy at the state Capitol and in the blogosphere.

The Associated Press picture has appeared in any number of venues, and it shows two lawmakers sitting in the back row of the historic Hall of the House in Hartford during the lengthy debate over the two-year, $37 billion state budget.

On the left is Rep. Barbara Lambert, a freshman Democrat from Milford who won her first legislative election in November 2008. She replaced longtime Milford Democrat James Amann, who ended his legislative career as the House Speaker and is now running for governor against Republican M. Jodi Rell.

Lambert is playing spider solitaire in the photo, while Rep. Jack F. Hennessy, a Bridgeport Democrat who has served in Hartford since 2005, is playing regular solitaire. They both voted in favor of the Democratic-written budget, while Cafero voted against it. A Boston College graduate, Hennessy is a delivery specialist for FedEx.

-Rob A>

cecilia · **Posted:** Wed Nov 16, 2011 1:51 pm **(#12)**

maybe they were multi-tasking

:lol

molly · **Joined:** Apr 07, 2010 **Posts:** 14182

gerard82 wrote:

Here you are Molly.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politics_o ... etherlands
Gerard.

thank you gerard82, very interesting,