Letter to the Editor: Submitted by Ann Klees

To the Editor:

If you were President, and had all the billions of dollars that Trump has spent on his ego, through wars, ballrooms, paving over the rose garden, gilding all the rooms in the White House, painting the reflecting pool blue, and I don’t know what else we haven’t heard about, what would you do with it?

Would you fund such “unnecessary” things as preschool for all children, maybe free meals, breakfast and lunch. We know kids learn better when they are not hungry. Maybe a new health system, where everyone has access to medical care, no matter how rich or poor. A great way to help that would be funding local hospitals and clinics, raising wages for the nurses and aides, and all the people who are instrumental in keeping the doors open.

Why not help students afford to get the education and training they need to fill our need for health workers, and all the general trades that are crying out for new high skill workers.

Maybe you would spend some on conservation and the environment; after all, we all want clean water and air. Roads and bridges would be helpful, many of ours in this country are at the end of their useful life span.

All these things, which, apparently, some people feel are unnecessary, tie this country together and make it stronger and better. When all of us are better fed, educated and kept healthy, we can do tremendous good for this country and the world.

I don’t know, maybe you have a better idea, but you and I aren’t the President. Maybe we need a new one.

Ann Klees
Waterville