Nancy Moller's letter (Saturday, March 23) about The Dalles using $73 million for public improvements and economic stimulus could be a wake-up call for interested citizens and concerned groups in Hood River.

It seems we may be evolving into our own Hood River version of the Triangular Trade of the 18th Century. That old Triangular Trade consisted of sugar raised by slaves in the Indies being shipped to ports in the States for processing into rum, and then the rum being transported to Africa to trade for more slaves sent back to the Indies to grow more sugar. It was an efficient system that depended on regard or disregard for economics, ethics, and exploitation.