It amazes me that anytime someone questions the validity of a major expenditure such as a new hospital, they are labeled as a pessimist.
There are lots of what-if’s in a decision of this nature and if you don’t look at each and every one of them then you are not a pessimist, you are a fool. You are doing the same thing when you say that Iola will end up like Mildred if we don’t have a new hospital or a new school (that’s a big what-if).
I have yet to see a town fold because the school got shut down. The school got shut down because the town dwindled away.
I’m in favor of a new hospital, but I assure you I still have a lot of “what-if’s.”
Don Erbert,
Iola, Kan.
