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.
