To the editor:

Some people who watch the amazingly crazy happenings relative to efforts to fix the terrible healthcare we have, now find their own heart is still alive and kicking.

I don’t have much hope that right-wing Republicans will ever be able to comprehend why so many of us pray for them to wake up and to discover what they failed to learn while they were so busy getting rich and powerful.

I try to imagine them learning about how they and their cronies played such a huge part in causing the cruel financial, political and complicated mayhem — i.e. the very complicated poorly understood situation President Obama is trying so hard to make right.

Nothing wrong with having money, but having too much wealth and power can be worse than being poor. This happens especially when people eventually discover what they have failed to learn about life. This is when they realize how little they understand of the yearning for welfare and happiness among humankind that they seem to have tuned out.

There are many books, articles and speeches pointing to wisdom from countless sources that elaborate the elements that must be included in our personal lives if we are ever to understand what it means to be civilized and humane. During our present period of serious challenges, we are all called upon to wake up, and to increase our understanding of the serious issues before us.

Bill Moyers’ program on Friday nights at 9 p.m. (Channel 9) deals effectively with these issues by having experienced and mature individuals describe, comment upon and explain the depths of many of these subjects.

These issues are often upsetting, complex and challenging, to be sure. Yet all of us have to take them on if we are ever going to comprehend what we are dealing with, and hear what some of the best minds suggest we do about them.

I would particularly like to hear that lots of people are bothering to learn why we are arguing about needed changes in our healthcare system.

Think about what it means that our present system is purposefully set up for people to make money, and it is done by treating healthcare as a product to be sold — and as a good way to acquire wealth. This before bettering the lives of most of our population.

Jack W. Small

Clinton