Up To 15,500 Homeless: Report

Strongly denied by the BC, or shall we say BS government ...........of course.

Funny, that before we got under the fist of "wealth creating, globalized neoclassical market economy", we had no homeless to speak of, no foodbanks, and everybody with some kind of a job could afford to survive.

When I was apprenticing in 1955, my starting wage was .75 cents an hour, my wife was making about the same in various odd jobs.

I was driving a 1949 Hillman Minx I picked up for $325, paid
.20 cents plus for a gallon of gas, our rent for 2 rooms was
$35. a month and we could buy all the groceries we needed for under $20/week.

Now we have market economy dictated by NAFTA and the WTO.

We use Propane for cooking and hot water. Filled our 100 gallon tank with 366 litres of gas for $283.55 on July 24, 07. The price was .69.9/l . Filled it again on Jan 23, 08 with 416 litres for $387.47, at .85.9/l., an over 20% rise in 6 months

Every time we go shopping, the prices are up, while ranchers are going broke all around because the powers in control of the world's food supplies pushed the price of beef down to around .75 cents/lb, about half of what it was 10 years ago, while jacking them up in the stores, claiming a shortage .

So much for market economy and the over 1000% rise in living
costs since the multinational crooks in control of our universities forced it on our necks 35 years ago, eagerly pursued by the born again Reform governments across Canada.

But wait for what they're really planning for the future, endorsed by pimp politicians.

Ed Deak.

And while prices go through the roof, wages remain frozen, for those slaves who
are "lucky" enough to have a job. Inflation is nothing more than the intentional
devaluation of currency by our banker buddies to destroy the lower and middle
classes. Not only do politicans refuse to do anything about this, they are
accomplices in this entire scam.

<blockquote> I was driving a 1949 Hillman Minx I picked up for $325, paid .20 cents plus for a gallon of gas, our rent for 2 rooms was $35. a month and we could buy all the groceries we needed for under $20/week. </blockquote> I started work about 10 years later than you, Ed, but these prices sound like nothing much changed for the longest time (no "inflation"?)........... <p>---<br>"When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change." <br />
-Max Planck<br />
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<blockquote> Not only do politicans refuse to do anything about this, they are accomplices in this entire scam. </blockquote>It's the reason they stay in politics........you notice the earnest ones don't last very long. They become corrupted, being close to all that loot, or they get shuffled out for persisting in being idealistic. <p>---<br>"When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change." <br />
-Max Planck<br />
<br />

RPW....Having experienced years of starvation during and after the war, we like and enjoy our food. Even in the early 70s we could feed our family of 5 from $25/wk.

I bought a new Dodge Tradesman 200 van with all kinds of extras for my business in 1975 for $5,600.

The price of vehicles about doubled between 1955 and 75, but went up 1,000% in the next, neoclassical market economic, 20 years.

We have all our meats, eggs and much of frozen stuff in 3 large freezers for the 2 of us apart from our large garden in the summer, which means that our grocery bill is much lower than for most people, yet it is about $100/wk. for 2 old people of 80 and 79?

So much for the glories of globalized, free market economy.

Now try to explain this to Stevie and his fellow economist merry men.

Ed Deak.