This has had me thinking for some time, just what are we spending a day to run the operation that quit frankly is a fucking joke. Go watch question time on parliament TV for ten minutes and see how it is run, it will be worth it just to educate yourselves on what a circus we are paying top dollar for.
So I wrote parliament services and asked…
“How much does parliament cost to run per day, per hour, per year EVERYTHING included?
MP wages the lot.”
It seems my question wasn’t clear enough though going by the reply as a few thing’s were left off.
“Good morning Stephen,
Attached is a table regarding the cost of running Parliament 2008-2015.
This cost is based on the total voted appropriations for the Parliamentary Service and Office of the Clerk. It includes the salaries for all MPs who are not part of the executive. It excludes all Ministerial salaries, Ministerial Services, DPMC, PCO costs (as they are considered governmental or executive agencies).
Hopefully this is of some use to you.”
Cost of Parliament
Now the thing that jumped out is they worked this out over 24 hours a day 365 days of the year. But parliament doesn’t sit for those hours.
I also note there has been a rise of near enough to $2000 per hour since last year. Why? It seems rather extreme for twelve months. That must be around 10%.
I also don’t know if this includes travel expenses for parliamentarians and their associated hangers on or costs of all their electorate offices etc.
Is all their free travel after they retire included?
Is all their retirement packages included? After all they are extremely good, or should I say WE are extremely good to them.
THEN IT GETS MORE INTERESTING
After asking yet again for the total cost I got this back …
COST OF RUNNING PARLIAMENT & Political Executive agencies
Cost of Parliament per Hour 2008-2015
$500,972 per sitting hour or $311,437,000 per year
Now so far no one can tell me if that includes retirement packages. Wait, WHAT? Yes I’m fucking serious.
“I have not been able to confirm directly whether it includes all retirement packages. Some MPs would collect GSF, Kiwisaver, SSRS which I understand are funded differently. Otherwise I would assume retirement packages is aprt of the ongoing cost of these agencies.” That is from Parliamentary services (whom I will say have been good to deal with).
Then you go watch question time and think to yourself “WE ARE PAYING FOR THIS FUCKING SHAMBLES”
We are paying for them to hock OUR assets off cheap.
We are paying for john key to stand there and make pathetic jokes.
We are suffering because of these wankers and all they do is joke and blame others for their fucking mess.
Remember that number. $311,437,000 per year.
Think about that, Panda bears and ponytails do NOT change this fact.
Think about the fact TPPA is hidden from us behind a huge wall of bullshit. WHY???