Politicians standby as our city becomes a wasteland

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I am tired of paying and paying thousands of dollars in gas, property, sales, and vehicle taxes and getting hardly anything back and an inadequate response by local politicians. Our parks that we pay for are overrun with drug-induced vagrants, filled with feces, and scattered with drug paraphernalia. Our local neighborhood parks have become freebie campgrounds. Why should we pay to have them kept up, why should we volunteer to clean them, and why do we pay taxes for nothing but to have them trashed and our community become a dump? Shoplifting, break-ins, thefts, car prowls, public harassment, and public dumping are costing us millions. It is time laws were enforced, new ones written, and local politicians who were voted in to do their job of protecting taxpaying citizens. Vancouver has become a dumping ground for human refuse where local neighborhoods and businesses are suffering from inadequate government. We do not need another study on homelessness; we need to clean it up.