The issue(s) with Children of the Mountains

The Appalachian people is a marginalized community mostly forgotten for Politicians. It is a community which lack of resources, work places, transportation services, good education and government health care.  But this situation is not something new, many presidents since Kennedy has mention this community on their speeches and have "try" to help them out. But for one part, the geography of the place and the routes of access isolate the community from all the nation, leaving them like 50 years behind vs a regular US city. Second, Coal Companies are the main employers of the area, being the only good job around, but it cannot employee everybody and do not allow people that use drugs to work on it. Third, drugs is a main issue on the mountains; prescription medicine could cost as much as $50 per pill. Pain killers are as a value as a gold is in other places. Because of the extreme conditions that these people live, and the coal mine work, illnesses are around the corner the corner, so people live with several pains in their bodies . The demand for pain killers is very high and the supply is very low. People pay a lot of money for them and get addictive to it, which does not allow them to work in the coal mine. Also, Coal mines causes black lunge in their workers because of the many hours that workers breath coal dust and the hours that work inside the mine.

It is true that 50 years ago, Appalachian was worse than it is now, but today it is abandon for governments. Nobody actually cares about these people as long they are working on the mines and stay in their place. But it is time for a change; It is time for a government that help them out and create better conditions for them to live. This is not Sri Lanka or an African country, this is America, the land of opportunities where everybody is tread equal and with dignity. Now, it is time for us, as a nation, show dignity to them, and allow them to have the same opportunities as we have in this part of the country: Better education, public transportation, health care, cleaning services, a subsidy to build houses to those families that do not have where to sleep at night. America has always come together and achieve great things when the nation work as a whole: Earthquake in LA, Katrina in New Orleans, 9/11. The US people have done miracles on those days and have overcome those obstacles being unite, forming a more perfect union. Lets do it again America, the Appalachian people is begging for it and we are the driving force of our nation!!!