To the Editor:

The following is a letter to Wareham's Planning Board and Zoning Board of Appeals.

In approving the new Wareham Walmart, you have the ability to change someone's life.

According to an independently certified study by Global Insight Inc., a Walmart selling groceries saves the average household more than $3,100 per year.

Some of you might think that $3,100 is not a lot of money and will not impact your quality of life in anyway. If you feel this way, consider yourself lucky.

Let's take a look at how $3,100 per year affects a family of four living in poverty making $22,000 or less per year. It would represent 14% of the family's income for the year.

For the median Wareham household income of $51,000, 14% would equal getting an additional $7,100 per year in free money.

If you are lucky enough to earn $100,000 per year, 14% would equal an extra $14,000 in your pocket every year. Wow, how this could change your life.

Take a look at how $3,100 per year could affect someone:

• Never having to pay for gas
• Never being cold again in the winter, as there would be money to heat their
• Never going to bed hungry, as there would be money to feed the family
• Saving enough money to pay for the first and last month's rent and security payment to rent an apartment or house, enabling a person to get out of one-room government housing