Misinfomed people live to blame government spen ding on “social programs.” Far and away the mofority of our budget goes to the defense Departent, military retirement (from the Treasury department), and interest paid on past wars. As a veteran, and former US civil service employee, I can tell you there is no more waste in government than in defense spending. It is ridiculous that the US spends more on the military than all other nations combined. If this ceased, all budget problems would cease, and scholls, health care, and other needs could be easily satisfied.

See this non-partisan website for information:

http://www.nationalpriorities.org/taxday2010

Steven, it’s possible to build infrastracture without incurring deficits. In fact, if government stopped wasting money on all their precious feel-good social programs, maybe there would be a comprehensive motorway network there and more money in your pocket to boot. There was some planning to build freeways in metro Vancouver four decades ago. That’s why the Georgia St. Viaduct exists. It wasn’t built with the vision of connecting a residential side street to a downtown surface street. The whole Hastings corridor was supposed to be a freeway that connected downtown, eastern Vancouver, Burnaby, Coquitlam, and beyond.

I love how these people always mention changing your “driving habits” as an option. As though driving were a vice. These liberals control all the local governments in metro Vancouver. I encourage you 100% to form your own tea party movement. We killed health care here in the U.S. with ours – even with the Democrats having majorities in Congress.

The government should collapse Translink, and form a new transit body where no one makes more than $50,000/year (current Translink salaries are a joke) and have everything run on user-fees. No breaks for the auto sector, no breaks for Translink. How about fairness for a change?