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flesh and blood instead of bricks and mortar.
Let’s use the lottery money - most of which will be contributed to our state coffers by hard working, salaried people - for needs everybody in every nook and cranny of this Commonwealth can relate to.
We should put a sum of the lottery revenues into a program to give low cost prescription drugs to elderly citizens over 65 at certain income levels who are not otherwise reimbursed for the high cost of the drugs they must take to survive.
All of us, even if we are not yet 65, know of someone (a parent, a relative, a friend) who is elderly and lives on a fixed income and yet must pay $50, $60, $70 or more every month for prescription drugs they must increasingly rely on for health care in their advancing years.
We can help ease the burden on these senior citizens with a program that could provide such medicines for as little as $4 a month if they met certain income requirements.
Now I fully realize that our capital construction costs must be met. We must have more dormitories and classrooms at our universities and more prisons and more buildings in general in which to place the state bureaucracy.
I say let general fund revenues take care of those needs and let everyone who pays taxes in Virginia share in meeting them.
J. W. (BILLY) O’BRIEN JR.
Delegate, 83rd District
Virginia Beach
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