tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1400574.post8572925137095713290..comments2024-03-28T04:04:03.006-07:00Comments on Paying attention: B.C. worst for child poverty for sixth yearUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1400574.post-20047796094492662512009-06-07T16:49:50.107-07:002009-06-07T16:49:50.107-07:00I have to agree with Anonymous 7:27 AM above and m...I have to agree with Anonymous 7:27 AM above and maybe even go one step further. After ensuring a third BC Liberal majority, either by voting for them, or not voting at all, we can only be left with the reality that a majority of BC's citizens approve of and encourage the poverty of a generation of BC's children. This will come home to roost on all of us. <br /><br />I know I've done my part to get the word out about this government's harm to our children & youth. I've taken direct action to raise awareness of the deprivation and how the Campbell government for the last 6 years has ensured, through their social policy decisions, that thousands of children in BC have been deprived of the necessities of life. That is not just a violation of the many human rights Conventions Canada has signed, but also a Criminal Code of Canada offense. <br /><br />The heart of a government can be seen in how it treats it's most vulnerable - it's children, it's seniors, it's disabled. That BC Liberal heart is stone cold and a dead, blacked lump. And it can only be said that this is true for those who voted to continue a legacy of poverty and deprivation for our own people, those who needed the rest of us to speak for them and their needs. <br /><br />Ye shall reap, what ye have sown, while our children suffer each and every day. We should be ashamed of ourselves in BC. But it's not too late, all of us could make a difference in our communities if we cared enough to do so.BC Liberals Suckhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16646644405853395094noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1400574.post-38432741486526998512009-06-06T07:27:25.727-07:002009-06-06T07:27:25.727-07:00"The public cares about issues affecting chil..."The public cares about issues affecting children and expects non-partisan action."<br /><br />What public would that be? The one that just gave Gordon Campbell and the BC Liberals a third mandate? Dr Phil McGraw recently coined the phrase "Pollyanna disconnect", with which I'd say you, Paul, are afflicted, when you attempt to dis-associate "the public" from the actions of the leadership they freely choose. Once again British Columbians chose to cling to their tax cuts before rejecting the authors of such well known and deplorable child poverty stats as your column decries. That public owns as much of the responsibility for child poverty in this province as anyone else. We can talk the talk all we want, Paul, and repeat ad nauseum that we are a caring and compassionate lot, but by the end of this government's mandate an entire generation of British Columbia's poorest will have been sacrificed at the alter of the god of tax cuts.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1400574.post-88935720332926462762009-06-05T20:32:00.415-07:002009-06-05T20:32:00.415-07:00The Province Newpaper editorial cartoon today( Fri...The Province Newpaper editorial cartoon today( Friday) was right on. Gordo with six gold medals all saying child poverty as he struck a winners pose. The guy cares little about those kids in poverty, as he collects money for the big circus of 2010. But he got relected so figures he can do just whatever he wants to do.DPLnoreply@blogger.com