Maybe it’s time to return to work programs

I am reading about the budget for Yuma and it scares me. My husband and I are both retired, as is a large part of the Yuma population. We should be able to get by, but gas and other prices have recently shot up, plus government seems to be offering free money to everyone in the world, except us, even promising to give out our Social Security Insurance that we have paid for! The taxes on our house were awful last year. The last thing we need is high property taxes. Yuma can’t fix everything. I know our mayor and politicians of both parties are asking for border crisis help, but I don’t think the career politicians in our capital care. We may need to return to work programs. People who are able-bodied and want welfare or student loan forgiveness can start by regularly clearing some of the underbrush on I-8 and along the river, to fight brush fires, and doing other community projects, maybe even work that would train them for a back-up job.

DORI MORILL

Yuma