Editor, The News:
March 25th's headline, "Food banks hungry," once again started me thinking how we might re-prioritize to make things easier for our hungry, our homeless and our senior citizens.
First, I thought of the proposed state-funded off-ramp to downtown Saginaw and how that could move supplies to the food banks quicker. Then I thought how much warmer our homeless could stay just by hiking a few of the hundreds of miles of state-funded bike and walking trails available to them. Then I started to wonder how I could explain to our seniors why they have to choose between eating and buying prescriptions while some guy gets millions just to play baseball.
Of course, he is just one of hundreds of kids being paid millions to play games. Dare I even fantasize about what we could do for our down-and-out with just a couple of the billions of dollars spent in Iraq? As long as we're fantasizing, maybe the big oil companies could give up their billions of dollars of profit every now and then. Oh well, maybe we should just buy them a lottery ticket.