Celena Mabry

I understand the whole concept of paying taxes but I have a problem with how the government uses it.  Our country gives all sorts of foreign aid to all these countries when our schools are falling apart, people are homeless and hungry, children don’t have families and live in orphanages that don’t truly care for them (I’m sure not all of them are bad) and shouldn’t we be more concerned with our own before we take care of others?  Ya think?  I do. 

There are so many empty buildings around here that businesses have built new, better buildings and left the old ones vacant.  Why doesn’t someone go in and make affordable small apartments for the homeless, along with fast food restaurants or even a home style restaurant and something like thrift type stores that these people can work in to help pay for their places to live?  They could even provide educational classrooms to help reeducate some of them so they can get a job and get out of the homeless shelters.  Some of these buildings are even large enough to put in day cares to take care of the homeless kids so the parents can work.  The people that live there would have to work so many hours in the day care, thrift store, or restaurant to help get some training and experience along with it helping cover their expenses on their little apartments.  It could be done quite easily if the government would give some aid to us and acted like they cared just a little!!!!!!!!!!!

Maybe someone needs to call Oprah or Bill Gates because they both do a lot to help others and besides,  they have the money and knowledge to do something like that and show the government just how easy it might be to help our own before we try to help the world.  I’m all for helping others but it should start here first.