Charity should focus on needy in C.R.

Every day in the mailbox, the newspaper and on television, people are begging for donations to some cause or another.

We have troops in 162 countries, we borrow $1 billion from China to buy foreign oil (when we have enough oil in North Dakota and Montana alone to last more than 2,000 years).

We send billions of dollars to countries overseas to try and quell fighting that has gone on for centuries, in most cases. We owe money to many countries we don't even get along with.

Most churches spend a majority of their budgets to foreign countries when a good percentage of their own congregations do without. Charity begins at home and it's about time for people to wake up and quit spending money on worthless projects and do what is right.

If you look at all the money spent in Cedar Rapids since the Flood of 2008 for projects that only cater to the upper crust and wealthy citizens' dream world, it should have been spent on more projects for the needy.

I've never received 50 cents in all my life and I don't appreciate all the begging for my piggy bank.

Dennis Burrier

Cedar Rapids