Pubdate: Thu, 10 Nov 2011 Source: Kamloops Daily News (CN BC) Copyright: 2011 Kamloops Daily News Contact: http://www.kamloopsnews.ca/ Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/679 Author: Jocelyn Nash END THE GREED AT POLITICAL TROUGH I am so tired of hearing our trough-hugging bureaucrats pass the buck when it comes to protecting our, and their, most vulnerable citizens. Are they members of our community or not? Most recent cases in point are the continued eroding of funding to our special needs citizens. Shame on you, Kevin Krueger and Christy Clarke, and the "nuthin' to do with me" attitude of Terry Lake and Cathy Macleod regarding the raiding of the Compassion Club. The latter seems to me to signal the federal government's agenda to Americanize our marijuana laws no matter whom it hurts and the former shows a heart-breaking disregard for the quality of life of our most helpless citizens. I also cannot help but worry how this affects the lives of those senior parents who thought that they had planned for a safe and certain future for their disabled offspring. It is well past time to put a stop to the endless greed and indifference at the political trough and return to treating our neighbors the way we would like to be treated ourselves. Jocelyn Nash Kamloops - --- MAP posted-by: Keith Brilhart