Sometimes I feel that our supposed “leaders” just don’t get it.

This is in reference to your very newsworthy article on the attempt to decontaminate the Santa Susana Field Laboratory by removing some 5,500 cubic yards of contaminated soil this year with another 2,100 cubic yards to be removed next year (Simi Valley Acorn , July 10).

So, let’s see, their predecessors allowed NASA and their contractors to contaminate this area, then allowed property near the contaminated area to be developed (collecting property and sales taxes of course).

And now we’re told that it’s better to transport this contamination to another site and let others deal with our problem. Well, misery shouldn’t be allowed to work in this manner.

Disturbing the earth which has lay dormant for more than 50 years to relocate it is worse, by far, as I see it, than doing nothing. Hundreds, maybe thousands, of truckloads of dust spreading this poison over our highways is just foolhardy in my opinion.

Sharing our problems doesn’t solve the problem, it just spreads the problem.

Supposedly we don’t have the funds to staff our schools, yet we find the funds to create more bike lanes and move to try and decontaminate an area that we/they’ve ignored for more than 50 years.

Sometimes I feel that our overpaid and supposed leaders just don’t get it at all. Leonard Samuel Simi Valley