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Today I read an article about the air quality in southern California, in the star tribune. The article was about how more people die annually from the poor air quality, compared to car deaths, and how improving the air quality would save twenty-eight billion dollars in health care annually. I think that it is ridiculous that we have such bad air quality in this part of America that we can compare it to car deaths. I also do not understand how this was able to go unnoticed for so long to become such a problem that it is being reported in the news in Minnesota. One last thing that makes me disappointed is the fact that the government can spend money on a “war on terror” to keep us safe, but we can overlook the problems that are going on in our country. Its more than just air quality that we overlook, we need to focus on things closer to home like poverty and homelessness in America.