The NDP MLA for Red Deer-South has a serious caffeine addiction. Barb Miller spent $4,868.50 on coffee pods in one quarter alone. Three months! It was right there in her online expense filings for anyone to find.
I did the math. Whoever is ordering the enormous amounts of coffee in Miller's office paid roughly $8 per 12 pod box, meaning they bought 7,300 individual coffee pods. Over a three month period, that amounts to 81 coffees per day, each and every day, even on days the office is closed.
If you care about environmentalism as the NDP claims they do, those little coffee pods are filling up landfills faster than disposable diapers. In fact, by 2014, there were enough coffee pods in landfills to circle the earth ten and a half times.
Is Barb Miller running a black market Tim Hortons? Or does she just go through life whacked out, jittery and sleepless? I’d love for someone to explain the trend that, if continued, would see her spend nearly $20,000 annually on coffee.
If the NDP can't manage something as small as the coffee pod budget in their offices, they shouldn't be in charge of something as large the provincial budget.
I do not know Barb Miller, but I guess I realize I am contributing to the problem.
Sheila Gunn Reid perhaps should ask us to abstain.
No offense to our fine navy intended
They truly are parasites with zero respect for the hosts they are bleeding dry.
@bill Elder…apparently Harry Truman was so scrupulous that he never used so much as a penny postage stamp paid for by tax payers on his personal mail.
Now here is a hypothetical question…suppose a government employee took so many Bic pens from the office inventory that he was able to build a cabin in the woods with them….but before you jump to judgement….weigh in the mitigating factors that he built that cabin on Crown land with the door left open for any member of the public to use……..:-)
Here’s another overspending minister (this time a federal one.) http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/philpott-ground-transportation-1700-bill-1.3725211
I agree with Fraser McBurney: the problem is that socialists think everything is free and don’t worry for a minute about where the money is coming from.
Normal people are not petty thieves, only the sociopath.
Is that why we call them “dippers?”
That’s my roundabout way of expressing skepticism that this money could possibly be going into coffee for a single person. More likely, she is sharing it around the whole office, in other words giving it to any number of staffers at taxpayer expense. Or maybe there is something more sinister going on and the money is going to entirely different destinations but being disguised as coffee expenses.
They are also taking home the sugar the coffee creamers the printer ink the toilet paper the paper towels the pens the staples and anything that is not nailed down.
You know socialists think every thing is free they have no idea where the money comes from THE MONEY COMES FROM US
I was just watching fox news and they were discussing the Milwaukee riots and the stand down of the police. Can you THE REBELS tell me when the last time a white mob rioted and burned and stold and the police did not intervene. the last time I can remember was the riot that followed when The rocket Richard was suspend in the 50s and as I recall the police cracked a few heads
When was the last time in the U.S.A. did a white mob riot.
Dump Justin bin Trudeau