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Letter: What does the push for funding statues and sports teams say about our priorities?

(Rick Egan | The Salt Lake Tribune) A man pushes his belongings down the sidewalk on North Temple, on Wednesday, Feb. 7, 2024.

Please explain to me why the movement to fund statues and sports teams.

Can they shelter the homeless from the sun, the rain, the snow, the cold or the heat? Can they feed the hungry? Or give water to the thirsty?

Where are our priorities? What should our priorities be?

When we see no more homeless huddling under a blanket in a driving rain, or learn of children with no food when they have no school breakfast or school lunch, perhaps then we can dream of statues and sports teams.

Rita Green, Salt Lake City

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