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   From: none@present.com   
      
   "cloud dreamer"  wrote in message   
   news:odSdnfMDv-rUaRvJnZ2dnUU7-b-dnZ2d@supernews.com...   
      
   > On 08/12/2014 3:16 AM, Alan Baker wrote:   
   > > On 2014-12-08 00:56:31 +0000, cloud dreamer said:   
      
   > >> If an employee was hired and told they would get 6% raise every year   
   > >> and this employee set up their mortgage and car payments etc with that   
   > >> 6% every year factored in....   
   > >>   
   > >> ....and suddenly the employer decides to only give him 3% a year...   
   > >>   
   > >> ...what happens?   
   > >>   
   > >> Granted, the logic might be too complicated for Wakefield.   
      
   > > Where in the world does anyone depend on such things absolutely?   
      
   > Sheesh. It's a fucking analogy, not an absolute. Holy cow, are you so daft   
   > you can't understand the point?   
      
   I guess you missed the post where your analogy got destroyed.  The 6%   
   increases were part of an agreement that lasted from 2004 until March 31,   
   2014.  There was no guarantees of what would happen when the agreement   
   expired.  And back in 2011, the provinces were told that the 6% increases   
   would continue until the new formula becomes effective on April 1, 2017.   
      
   So: nobody told the provinces that they were getting 6% forever, they were   
   given over 5 years notice of the change, and, a change in the rate of   
   increase is not a cut.   
      
   >    
      
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