When you are a politician, you don't rain on your constituents' parade, even if they are marching toward a cliff. You don't tell them that their dreams of an easy life and an easy retirement are based on fantasy, not fact.

That is why you aren't hearing much now about the next bubble that's going to burst - the Retirement Bubble.

So someone needs to speak clearly to the tens of millions of people, particularly in North America and Europe, who are moving toward retirement right now. How about this:

If you think you can retire and live for 30 or more years off the productivity of others, you are in for a terrible surprise and a great deal of pain. You haven't earned a nonproductive retirement, nor have you 'paid your dues.' When you wake up to this in two, five or 10 years and realize that you are in big trouble, you will not only be in pain, you will dump that pain on all the rest of us who aren't retired. Don't expect us to be sympathetic for long. There are simply too many of you, and your demands will far exceed our willingness to sacrifice. And, no, we won't want to hire you. You will have been out of touch for too long. The world moves on. Sorry. Lots of luck.

http://www.theretirementbubble.com/barrons.html

Politician's jobs are about to get extremely tough. They are going to be the referees (and decide who the winners and losers are) in the "big fight over money" which is coming as a result of the bursting of the biggest credit bubble in the history of the world (and very likely in the history of the entire universe, and the "graying" of their populations (more people riding in the cart, fewer people pulling the cart). The politicians are soon going to be forced to tell a lot of people who are presently receiving money, services, or other "benefits" from governments, "as a society we have not been smart with money for the last several decades, the day of reckoning for our profligate ways has finally arrived, there is not nearly enough money for everyone's needs (and wants), very tough choices have had to be made, and you are going to have to get by the best you can with less (and in a lot of cases much less) money, services, or other "benefits" from governments."

Scrap it already, politicians just do not listen to the people who hired them. Fix our damn roads.

I cannot believe that they are actually going ahead with this? Are they going to plough through with the 700 seat art centre and paved 11 klm trail as well? Prince George is 111 MILLION...I REPEAT MILLION DOLLARS IN DEBT. The people who PAY THE BILLS (tax payers) are saying NO to all three projects yet THEY DO NOT LISTEN. My parents are house searching in the south and guess what people? House taxes are averages 800 to a 1000 dollars less than in PG. What is with that? We have lost nearly 5 thousand people in a few short years and more and more people are planning to leave. Keep spending like money is growing on all the bug killed trees PG.....REDICULOUS!!!!!

We need to start taking control of our governments! They have too much free reign to do as they please. The most disturbing is giving themselves raises. Wouldn't be nice to have no one to answer to or have to ask your boss for a raise? Only in government and we sheeple just sit back and say absolutely nothing.

Well said IMO!

Charles is doing his own drilling for thermals again!

Thermals???

Does that mean it is time to go fly a kite? -)

"If you think you can retire and live for 30 or more years off the productivity of others, you are in for a terrible surprise and a great deal of pain"

THAT is why the oil sands are so important!!!! Everyone can live off waht nature has provided for us.

We might not have planned ahead. But Mother Nature did ... :-)

Now if those blue eyed Sheiks in Alberta would only share a bit more with the rest of us ordinary folk.

Wait till you see the retirement bubble in China. They had a one child policy! That'll bite them in the butt shortly!

And next will be India ......

Our Mayor has to much of Martin Luther King in his veins when He told us a short time ago in one of his news releases via the media when he said “I have a dream for Prince George”

Most of our politicians are living a dream and I have to agree its time that we woke them up but who will start this waking our politicians. And its not just local that our politicians are dreaming its across our nation.

We have some pressure groups like the Miller Addition people but they again are focused on their own problems. We really need a group that will work across our city if we want to make changes. We cant do it by making smart cements on this site and then hoping that someone else will take the lead , Each and everyone of us are responsible on how our society performs.
Cheers

You want to read some of the problems of an ageing population?

This is about the Eupopean situation which has preceded our situation. So, we learn from them, right? Yeah, right. That would be the day. :-)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ageing_of_Europe

We like reacting rather than preparing.

When I talk to politicians and try to make sense to them, they think I am stupid.

I am starting to think they may have a point. :-)

What does Arlo Guthrie say?

"And the only reason I'm singing you this song now is cause you may know somebody in a similar situation, or you may be in a similar situation, and if your in a situation like that there's only one thing you can do and that's walk into the shrink wherever you are, just walk in say "Shrink, You can get anything you want, at Alice's restaurant.". And walk out.

You know, if one person, just one person does it they may think he's really sick and they won't take him.

And if two people, two people do it, in harmony, they may think they're both faggots and they won't take either of them.

And three people do it, three, can you imagine, three people walking in singin a bar of Alice's Restaurant and walking out. They may think it's an organization.

And can you, can you imagine fifty people a day, I said fifty people a day walking in singin a bar of Alice's Restaurant and
walking out. And friends they may think it's a movement."

So, according to Arlo, if we get 50 people a day singin' the same tune to our politicians we have a movement.

Anyone game? Could be the same 50 people?

Dont forget gus, you cant sing them on this web site you have to go down to Alices Resturant. And how manuy are willing to go.

Remember they have 700,000 signatures against the HST. And I guess the next move is still up to us and that is to start recall.
Cheers

Them politicos really know how to dangle useless phrases, like recall, and representation.

We know what they are supposed to mean, but the reality is that they actually mean false hope for the represented.

Let me focus on the news story here. Geothermal technology is being used to save taxpayer funds in the long haul. That is responsible. Bravo

Now why can't the Governing Liberals and the NDP opposition develop geothermal power generation?

BC has incredible potential for new power industries, and we need to show some guts in developing new industries. Wind, solar, tidal, and geothermal power could create an investment Renaissance and jobs explosion in BC.

Will no one step up? We need real leadership at the provincial and federal level

Sure hope they phoned before they drilled.

So....can all the PG taxpayers now say in unison that this cop shop is a done deal?

Ya, I thought we were to have a referendum on this going ahead or not. They sure make it a done deal before anyone ever actually gets a chance to vote on these things.

I think the City Manager should be fired first and foremost for his lack of respect for the voting tax payers of this city.

Can the Mayor and councillors be recalled?