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Let police search cars

To The Editor:

We have bright minds out there and they make sure they get paid well. I would like to know where the common sense is when people make laws so they can profit and protect the outlaw?

When we break laws, you know that the ordinary person pays. So why are the outlaws that sell drugs and women getting off? If I get a ticket, I pay, and so should the person that sells drugs.

The RCMP officers are fed up; they do their job and the system fails them and us as well. Allow them to search vehicles. Make laws straight forward, no exceptions: you do the crime, you do the time.

The taxpayer is being taxed to death and beyond and the ones doing time now are looked after better than the ordinary person who works hard just to get by.

We don't need bright minds, we need common sense to make changes that are necessary.

Please let your voice be heard. I for one say bravo for the RCMP that are trying to do their job. Speak out and demand change, put the drug runners out of business.

Say no to the justice system that lets them free. We want them to protect us and use their bright minds. Write your MP; Change is needed.

Ernest Robinson,

Moncton

The exodus continues

To The Editor:

Lobster fisherman need the population's help. They are being driven into bankruptcy by the greedy buyers and lobster processing shops.

These people insist on passing along their increased energy costs to the ones who can least afford it, the fishermen.

They announced that they will pay them $3.75 per pound this year. That compares to over $5 of a few years ago when fuel was less than half of what it is now. Their bait and everything else also increased.

The fishermen cannot go out to sea and recover their cost with their catches.

There have no help forthcoming from a federal government that would rather give hundreds of millions of dollars to millionaire tobacco farmers in Ontario than a few dollars to the vote poor Maritime fishermen.

The public should go en mass to buy their lobster directly from the fishermen and not from the buyers. This might convince them to reconsider the price if the lobster shops start running out of it.

You will eat deliciously fresh lobster at a bargain price and support a disappearing trade in New Brunswick.

I know of at least one fisherman who already booked his trip to Alberta where he will get rewarded for his labour. The Exodus continues.

Normand Montour,

Cap-Pelé

Moncton citizens most helpful

To The Editor:

This evening my roommate and I were picking up some last must-haves for our move to Ottawa at the end of this month.

We ended up picking up a few large items and were having trouble carrying them to the cash when a man that neither of us knew came and offered to carry it to the cash for us. The woman he was with then proceeded to bring us a cart so that we wouldn't have any trouble carrying it to our car.

This was great until we got to the car and were trying to figure out how we were going to lift our items into the trunk. Once again another Moncton citizen (one of our fine cab drivers) came and offered to help us place the items in the car.

It is acts like these that prove that Moncton citizens are one of a kind. We were both overwhelmed with the generous and thoughtful acts of these complete strangers. We only hope that Ottawa treats us as good as our home town Monctonians!

Michelle LeClair,

Moncton

Tax reforms good, bit need tweaks

To The Editor:

I must say that the Liberal government's idea to greatly reduce income tax and in return increase "consumption tax" is an idea that I have agreed with for years.

This is the only real way that the average working person can keep more of his or her take home pay and do what they please with it. This is very forward thinking tax reform, and even though I do not always agree with any political party, I really think this must be followed through on.

For all those against the idea for various reasons, I ask them "do you have any better ideas?"

We have been maintaining the status quo for many years and things simply have to change to keep average families' heads above water.

The plan does, however need some minor details changed or tweaked a bit. The big one, and I believe most obvious, is that they must have a concession that does not add this new tax to those consumables that are everyday necessities like gas, heating oil or electricity.

If this is not part of the plan, the plan does not make any sense at all.

Without these concessions, it will not help anybody, it will just change the pocket from which our money is drained on a regular basis; money we need just to stay alive.

Michael Steeves,

Moncton

Store aisles often crowded

To The Editor:

Concerning the shopping carts in stores, first parents who unload their children into their car and then leave the cart in the middle of the lot as they can't leave their children somehow manage to get the children into the store without the use of the cart!

Having got that off my chest, now let's talk about the carts. Some of the stores have their aisles so filled up with merchandise that two people can't walk side by side in some of them. Meeting others means that one has to back into a load of merchandise to allow passing.

Visualize a major emergency: there would be a major rush to the exits, people with carts would either use them as battering rams to get out, or abandon them in the single person aisles. Self-preservation is one of the strongest forces in us.

It has always amazed me that the fire and building inspectors would allow the major aisles to be so filled. I am sure it wasn't shown so when application was originally made. Christmas will be here soon with the extra people and the usual "adrenaline running shopping" going on.

When calamities occur in other communities we ask "How did they allow that to happen?" Don't blame the stores, they will take every inch to make every cent that he can. Blame the authorities, fire and building, for allowing it to happen.

H.C.H. (Bud) Garner,

Riverview