Poliquin’s misplaced priorities

To the Editor;

I have to laugh to see the front-page attention Rep. Bruce Poliquin receives for proposing a ludicrous bill to prevent terrorists from receiving food stamps. Is that all he can come up with after 1½ years of serving Maine in Congress?

Here is a modest list of legislation that would be beneficial to the residents and businesses of Maine: single-payer health care; all state workers and teachers should be able to receive all the Social Security benefits they earned, as well as their state pensions; and a major paring down of our bloated military system, with the savings directed toward rebuild our crumbling and outdated infrastructure.

Just these three proposals alone would dramatically increase the security and wealth of all Mainers by providing jobs and health for a better future for all. But Poliquin wants to waste untold amounts of money to prevent a minuscule number of people from receiving food stamps who are highly unlikely to apply for them.

David Ziemer 
Orneville