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Signs an eyesore
Over a week has passed since our election snafu and we still have all of the electioneering signs remaining as an eyesore.
It may be just a hope on my part that this election graffiti will disappear. Perhaps those individuals who disapproved of the murals and the coral along the highway will take it upon themselves to remove this, as well. I can dream can’t I?
Dick Skarnes
Kailua-Kona
Unbelievable
Repeal the PLDC
Unbelievable. The State Public Land Development Corporation, under the auspices of the Department of Land and Natural Resources, wants to be able to invest tax dollars in private, select companies that could go belly up and leave taxpayers stuck with the bill, plus clean up costs.
Remember the $250,000 DBEDT race car that blew up?
This doesn’t sound like a good deal to me. So much is wrong with the PLDC, with so little public oversight and neighbor islanders shut out of the process — exempting select private companies from many zoning, cultural, land use, public access, environmental, county charter, CDPs and building code laws; the PLDC may be a costly travesty to every family in Hawaii.
So much for the “free market.” I received no special exemptions. This sounds like socialism for the 1 percent to me.
I just read two DLNR employees were caught stealing $150,000. How many more are stealing in other departments? And they want to start selling off public land to make up the shortfall?
I have zero faith that the DLNR/PLDC is capable of handling more money and power if they don’t notice $150,000 missing and can’t oversee two wayward employees, not to mention, leasing 23,000 acres at Pohakuloa for about a penny a year to toxic polluters, which will eventually cost us billions to clean up — but that’s another story.
William Aila and Neil Abercrombie, I used to be so proud of you. Repeal the PLDC 2013 — it’s a new day, we’re broke and have no more to give you.
Congress and Wall Street gangsters have devastated the world economy and the PLDC hyenas will strip what’s left of the meat from our bones.
Shannon Rudolph
Holualoa
Politics
Assigning blame
You are reading a letter from someone who doesn’t own a television set, so my perspective is somewhat limited.
It seems to me, however, the partisan aspect of our politics are beyond reason. It’s nice to be able to blame the Democrats for this or the Republicans for that.
Is it really that simple? Is it always someone else’s fault?
Sounds good to me.
John Totten
Kailua-Kona