Item: The Old Testament prescribes beating swords into plowshares.

Item: The U.S. Department of Transportation reports that more than 230,000 bridges in the U.S. need major repair work or replacement.

Item: President Biden has halted construction of former President Trump’s wall on our southern border.

Suggestion: The new Secretary of Transportation and new Director of Homeland Security heed the Biblical prescription for purposeful recycling and collaborate by dismantling the wall and using the then-available steel to repair our bridges.

Max McConkey

Foothills

Disclaimer: As submitted to the Arizona Daily Star.


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