As long as the liberals are in power we will be faced with poverty , the job market is sad , wages are way to low , housing is out of reach , and the prices of groceries are going up in leaps. I am so proud of the folk who provide for those who are in need , But I ask you where is our great leader Chrispie Clark ? Has she forgotten it is all about families , Oh ! I forgot that was election year .

dozens?
is that considered a turn out?
I guess it might be……
i get that many at a back yard bbq with no guests.

Posted on Sunday, December 7, 2014 @ 7:10 AM by Fedup2015

As long as the liberals are in power we will be faced with poverty

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News flash! Poverty was an issue when the provincial NDP was in power. Poverty was an issue when the Federal Liberals were in power.

Perhaps we should stop expecting the bureaucrats to solve the problem?

25 years ago (1989), ALL parties in Ottawa passed a solemn resolution in Parliament that child poverty would be eliminated by the year 2000 – all across Canada. Here we are in 2014 and the percentage of families and children living in poverty in Canada has not changed in a quarter of a century. It is a country wide problem, although BC could have done a lot better during that time, all parties and party politics aside.

Politicians of all parties (!) had and have an opportunity to put people first, both on the provincial and federal levels. The bloated bureaucracy obviously never passed up on an opportunity to pay itself handsomely with gold plated pensions, salaries and benefits, at all three levels of government.

It is what it is! Is it ever going to change?

“It is what it is! Is it ever going to change?”
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No. It’s not. So long as ALL ‘costs’ are included in ‘prices’ yet only a PART of those ‘costs, (and an ever declining PART of them at that), are distributed as ‘incomes’ IN THE SAME TIME PERIOD those ‘prices’ are made, we are going to have a financial poverty in the midst of a physical plenty.
There is no escaping it. No amount of ‘re-distributive’ taxation can begin to touch the underlying problem. Which is, to put it simply, that the quantity of money itself is collectively insufficient in what it will BUY to fully liquidate the costs of goods and services priced in money.

We cannot solve this problem the way any of the current political Parties have been trying to do it. No shift from private to public ownership, or vice-versa, or encouraging or discouraging foreign ownership, will do it.

If we try to stimulate the economy by large scale capital spending, (the ‘mega-project’ solution), whether it’s public or private, we quickly get inflation under the guise of prosperity. But the apparent ‘boom’ is soon over, and we’re left with higher prices, lower incomes relative to them, and further in debt privately and publicly than we were before.

We then generally enter into the ‘austerity’ phase of the process. Where we try to get sale for our exports at any price anyone abroad will offer us for them, to try to get ‘their’ money, and raise the price of those same products to all their would-be consumers in this country. Pricing our own products out of our own home market to subsidise what amounts, in fact, to a give-away abroad. Where often those same products can be had for less than they sell for here.

Poverty grows by leaps and bounds, and with it the kind of social unrest that forces governments to go back to the stimulus solution. Whereupon the whole process repeats, hopefully with the next ‘bust’ being of shorter duration than the last ~ for hope, against all odds and past experiences, seems to spring eternal.

A real solution is not complicated. It is to make ‘money’ itself do what it is supposed to do. Accurately ‘reflect’ numerically the physical realities of production and consumption.

We don’t have to additionally tax anyone or anything to do this. In fact, if we properly understood what is happening now, a great number of taxes we’re currently paying could be totally eliminated. For they only add to the problem, rather than assist in its solution.

We don’t have to attack business profits, either. For, if we changed what is necessary to change, those profits become a reflection of some correct line of entrepreneurial action in successfully meeting the very real demands of consumers. Rather than as they often are now, increasingly, the results of financial manipulation trending towards monopoly in an effort for the surviving business to continue to survive.

You should run for office Socredible!I think most politicians start out having noble causes ,then slowly turn to the dark greedy side! Then round and round we go!