HELLO BC - TIME FOR A WAKE UP CALL - YouTube HD

Hello BC, beautiful as you are, there are big, I mean really BIG problems.

Crime is often overlooked but whether it's drugs, gangs, B&E's, assaults, robberies, we have serious issues. Four days after Xmas 2011 - 4 murders. And let's all not forget the 'Highway of Tears' between Prince George and Prince Rupert where up to 43 girls and women have been murdered or have disappeared.

Nov 24, 2011 -- With nearly 140000 kids growing up in poverty in B.C., the province has among the worst child poverty. The proportion of B.C. children living in poverty has risen, marking the eighth straight year that the province has claimed the highest after-tax rate in the country.

Property prices - The quarterly report says detached bungalows in Vancouver were especially expensive, with the cost of mortgages payments, utilities and property taxes equivalent to 92.5 per cent of a typical household's monthly income.That's up 10.4 percentage points from the previous quarter.

BC has natural beauty but if you travel you can find many places also full of natural beauty, it takes more than that to make a place - the best place on Earth, and in quality of life for hundreds of thousands of our population we fall short.

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[NeverMind058]

We don't need to be spending more money on prisons, ad campaigns and funding to the CBC, what we need are more JOBS and decent wages.

[JCVdude]

@NeverMind058  totally agree

[walperstyle]

btw, by the sounds of it, you didn't buy property in the 70's. You could have provided affordable housing for people today if you had spent your money better.

[JCVdude]

@walperstyle there's affordable housing in Vancouver at the Olympic Village...Last night the CBC showed a 1.1 million dollar home in Vancouver, just a small old bungalow - how can young families starting out afford one? But they also said that some Asians, not even living here have up to 4 homes, so that is driving a market that excludes our own Canadian population, not a sound strategy.

[lilmiss0702]

for those in favour of capitalism,what happens when the peopke on the bottom cant buy the goods produced by the top, there is a halt in progress, and we collapse

[walperstyle]

@JCVdude read a book by Robert Kiyosaki. A Hawaiian that teaches you a new perspective on how to let money work for you. I'm 30, and have a 5 bedroom house. I worked hard, then found renters/buddies to help pay my mortgage. I am providing a place for them to live, as well as securing my future. I accomplished this within 5 years of leaving my parents mobile home, with next to nothing in my bank.

[Seamstobesunny]

You are so right on will all you are saying. Greed and profits have destroyed the future for our children. We need to use our resources for developing our own industries so we have some hope for the future. We need our quality of life back in beautiful Vancouver Island. There is no hope to own a home any more. The day of reckoning is coming if the government does not start supporting the middle aged and young people. Our government has turned into a buddy payoff system. Have we lost our values?

[NeverMind058]

Or piracy bills....

[vegasfutbol]

thumps up if you live in bc and just want to live ur life