Tea Party now committing elder abuse

For decades, it's seemed like northern Kentucky has been on the cutting edge of looting public assets to pad corporate and personal profits, and the shutdown of Northern Kentucky Senior Services drives home this point.

Thanks to Tea Party misrule, Northern Kentucky Senior Services - a nonprofit that has served local seniors for a half-century - will be closing down this week, leaving your parents and grandparents to their own devices. The agency has run out of operating funds.

This nauseating news comes just after local counties have reauthorized an unconstitutional program that lavishes taxpayer funds on private schools that can afford to pay for their own transportation. It also comes while Boone County is spending badillions defending its unconstitutional "right-to-work" ordinance in court. And, as far as I can tell, Campbell County is still giving public money to a luxury high-rise development by exempting it from property taxes. If local governments have money for luxury high-rises and defending ideological pursuits like "right-to-work", certainly they should have money for senior services. That's part of what living in a society is all about.

The Tea Party should be charged with elder abuse lickety-split.