So many in need, yet so much goes to 'Waste'

Merry Christmas, and a happy New Year in the coming days.

It’s that time on the calendar again when our minds and hearts turn to giving and helping. But the Cheney Free Press Editorial Board could not help but wonder how much more we all might be able to help those less fortunate, and maybe add to our own economy, if we had a little fatter wallet.

Perhaps that comes from the savings realized next year by not building a gas station in Afghanistan that pumps only compressed natural gas and cost $43 million of Department of Defense money. Are there really cars in that country?

The Afghan filling...