Woe is we. Whoa indeed.

[Guest Peeves]

Whoa indeed ! Now I have had a bone to pick with the public sector wages for a generation, but today these are for the most part totally unacceptable, especially the top hog at the trough,Debbie Sevenpifer who was fired.

http://www.niagarathisweek.com/news/article/1323146--ousted-sevenpifer-made-618-000-in-2011

Sickening

In Niagara, which has the dubious distinction of having one of the highest unemployment rates in the country, one of Ontario’s lowest average household incomes and welfare applications that have soared 41 per cent since the economic meltdown in 2008, no less than 1,684 public sector workers now bring home six figures, up from about 1,552 last year.

Those figures don’t include people in some categories, such as judges, justices of the peace, senior employees with the Local Health Integration Network that Niagara is part of, and Niagara’s members of provincial parliament.

Topping the list of all money makers is someone who wasn’t even working for her former employer for almost the entire year in 2011.

Debbie Sevenpifer, who was fired as president and chief executive officer of the Niagara Health System by the NHS board in January of 2011, is listed as having made $618,300 last year.