tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1400574.post3693644175386568266..comments2024-03-29T01:09:22.557-07:00Comments on Paying attention: Dismal child poverty record, and no plan to improveUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1400574.post-53376118187049119772011-11-28T18:21:04.306-08:002011-11-28T18:21:04.306-08:00The eighth year in a row you say. As long as the ...The eighth year in a row you say. As long as the lieberals are in power, we will continue to be in last place when it comes to child poverty. <br /><br />The lieberals don't care about child poverty. It is that simple. Their goals are to ensure they and their friends do well. Making lucrative deals for major corporations is more important than children living in poverty. I would suggest some members of government are so out of touch with reality they may actually think its o.k. and welfare pays enough if the parents just learnt to budget.<br /><br />Suggesting they "partner" with local communities is not going to work. Some communities don't even want homeless shelters, come on down Courtenay, B.C. or affordable housing, come on down, Courtenay, B. C. <br /><br />Some communities are just too poor to deal with the social issues the federal and provincial government have been downloading for the past 20 yrs. <br /><br />There are parts of B.C. which are so impoverished they would qualify for aid from international organizations if they were a seperate country. <br /><br />The Harperits aren't going to do anything about child poverty. All they do is give tax credits. To take advantage of a tax credit you first have to make money.<br /><br />Welfare rates in B.C. are criminal. Parents can not house, feed, cloth, etc. their children on the alloted money. The refusal of the lieberals to increase welfare rates for children is Child Abuse. <br /><br />By refusing to give parents enough money to adequately feed their children is forcing children to go hungry and inflicts all that which goes with hunger on the children. If well to do parents fed their children as little as the government allows for food for children on welfare, the well to do parents would be charged with Child neglect and abuse.<br /><br />I would love to see someone actually charge the lieberal government ministers with child abuse. Arrest them, handcuff, them, throw them in a cell, and let the legal process take place. <br /><br />With Christmas right around the corner we are hearing from all sorts of agencies how children need toys. Everybody feels bad, contributes but after Christmas it is all forgotten. If parents actually could earn enough money to purchase gifts and food for their children we would all be a lot better off. Maybe what we should to is demonstrate outside of the homes of the lieberal mlas on Christmas day and let them see what is actually going on in the real world.e,a,f,noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1400574.post-31598671987485205852011-11-28T08:52:06.850-08:002011-11-28T08:52:06.850-08:00When the BC Liberals won ten years ago I predicted...When the BC Liberals won ten years ago I predicted children would be impoverished as a result and I was called a cynic. I absolutely take no pleasure at being proved right, year after year right up till now.<br /><br />I remain cynical about the BC Liberals when I hear Christy Clark's "Families First" slogan mystically manifest in every pronouncement she makes. Yes, it is odd that after ten years of insisting that increasing minimum wages would do nothing to reduce poverty, the government now cites their belated decision to raise minimum wages as adequately addressing this serious problem. If "Families First" was a real policy instead of an insincere campaign slogan, and if Christy Clark was really party leader, Finance Minister Kevin Falcon would be finding money to increase regulatory oversight on "Family First" policy on things like, say, child poverty, instead of prioritizing legislation to decrease regulatory oversight across the board.<br /><br />There won't be any cogency or competence coming from a divided BC Liberal party which is too preoccupied with what is looking more and more like an impending palace coup. As leader of the Campbellite faction, would-be Premier Kevin Falcon does his self-interested best to get regulatory oversight out of the way of cementing deals with insider buddies and shredding forensic audit evidence. Christy Clark would add that Kevin Falcon and special friends all have Families.<br /><br />As long as the BC Liberals are in power, child poverty will get worse. Call me a cynic.scotty on Denmannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1400574.post-12926559223896231532011-11-27T12:35:57.006-08:002011-11-27T12:35:57.006-08:00Hey Raymond:
It was up about 15 per cent between 2...Hey Raymond:<br />It was up about 15 per cent between 2008 and 2009, but the child poverty rate dropped through the middle part of the decade. But it also dropped in other provinces, so B.C. never rose from the bottom ranking.<br />(The report is at firstcall.bc.org - quite an interesting read; much more than I got into in the column.)<br />Cheers<br />Paulpaulhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11003637352818760817noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1400574.post-73967991208609932011-11-27T08:19:29.988-08:002011-11-27T08:19:29.988-08:00They would rather spend our money on a leaking roo...They would rather spend our money on a leaking roof on the old stadium than helping poor kids and their families. And yes the roof is leaking and they got a real good price for it, in their twisted little mindsDPLnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1400574.post-19628842895519936392011-11-27T06:29:45.894-08:002011-11-27T06:29:45.894-08:00"despite some reductions in the number of poo..."despite some reductions in the number of poor children in recent years"?<br /><br />I believe I recall hearing it was actually the other way around, Paul, with about a 15%increase between the years 2008/09 and little relief in the numbers since then. Sorry, the source escapes me.<br /><br />Raymond GrahamAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com