Interesting how the media is making the Ebola outbreak a picture of doom and so many wanting to keep folks from another country from coming to this country. At the so called discovery of our nation, our history books make so very little of the fact that the new visitors at that time brought there sickness”s to those true founders of our nation, and the results wiping out from 80 percent to 100 percent of the first founders” cultures. That fact has been put in a view that progress was more important then the deaths of the millions it caused.
Today, so many have a different view of the issue, and that its a terrible thing that our current population is threatened by the same type of issue that killed so many in the name of making our nation a better nation, justifying the terrible losses of those in the past. Those who think government needs to be made smaller, its citizens need to pay less taxes to fund it, will overlook the benefits it brings us, when issues like the Ebola threat spring up. The same taxpayers scream about the government”s desire to lesson the impact of global warming, the ever widening of the income gap between the 1 percent and 99 percent of our working force, or the rights of women to equal pay and control of their own bodies.
The profound statement, that a nation divided will not stand, is being tested to the max these days, and until we vote for intelligent, tolerant, honest, leadership, over weather a candidate is handsome, pretty, rich, or backed by the most powerful of some of our citizens, we may be watching the downgrading of our beloved country.
Our nation, thanks to our taxpayers dollars, has the skills and intelligence, more then any other nation, to bring the Ebola issue under control. But, the talking heads make more money in spreading fear then covering the issue with the truth of that fact.
I can only hope that we as a people wise up and get back on track, bring back our collective desire to being a nation that we can truly be proud of.
Jim Hall, Clearlake Oaks
