What a waste!

I just watched Diane Sawyer's report on the Lakota Sioux in South Dakota and the poverty running rampant there. Fifteen people living in a trailer, high unemployment, alcoholism uncontrolled, half the population is diabetic, there are no businesses: no banks, no shops, nothing!

Now, just think. Over the next several months the Republican candidates for president and the president himself will raise more than $100 million vying for a $200,000 a year job. They will piss that money away on radio and television time and travel to places near and far to tell us why they're the best person to lead this country.

That money can be better spent!

It will build 1,000 homes priced at $100,000 each. It will provide over one million,eight hundred thousand meals, three-a-day. It will build five new schools or educate 5,000 kids for four years.

I hope one of these days we'll get our priorities straight!