Don’t fall for spin from the left
Don’t fall for spin from the left
There were two letters in today’s paper (March 9, “Vote Bernie”) that were interesting and somewhat telling regarding the mentality of the left. The first from Stan White advocating Bernie for president. While neither he nor Clinton would be of any value to our country, justifying a vote for someone because they would help to legalize the use of marijuana in Hawaii is somewhat moronic.
Bernie, if elected, would attempt to bankrupt our nation with new and yet unheard of taxes in an effort to make everything “free” to those who are unwilling to work for a living. Perhaps Stan thinks his pot would be free also?
Reading the letter from Dean Nagasako, “Hawaii government out of control”) gave me another laugh to say the least. He sounds like one of the tired old sovereignty crowd that never gets tired of trying to convince people of Hawaii that renouncing statehood would do something good for Hawaii.
The truth that he implied but would not come right out and admit is that Democrats have been destroying Hawaii for over 50 years and the people are in such a rut they are afraid of change. Funny how the left wing will skip around the facts and come up with any number of excuses to blame others for the corruption and destruction they cause our cities, counties, states and country!
Of course, every time any of us want to make issue of the Democrat destruction, they throw Gov. Lingle in our face – conveniently forgetting that even though we had a Republican governor for a few years, the legislators were still Democrats and did their best to make sure she couldn’t accomplish much of value. In truth, most Hawaiians are happy being part of the USA and just don’t “rally around the flag” for fear of repercussions from family or friends that choose not to appreciate what they have and refuse to acknowledge what they would lose if they weren’t part of the USA.
Frank Dickinson
Kailua-Kona
Trump hearkens back to Cold War
In her letter published March 12 (Trump will ruin us all), Lisa Christensen was right on the mark.
You have to look at the past to understand the present and the possible future. We all learn history ad nauseam in school, but how many of us remember it? The scary thing about Trump’s racist, anti-religious, and anti-woman statements are all a part of recent world history, with many of those statements echoing those of Adolf Hitler. His generation of Germans fell for his charisma just as easily as current-day gullible Americans fall for Trump’s humor.
She’s right about the evil in those statements. They are anti-Christian, no matter what many “Christians” say. The other folks he echoes were the leaders of the USSR, who loved the thought of keeping Westerners out of East Berlin with a wall and lots of bullets and/or prisons.
After all, how could those who were held hostage behind those walls and in the heavily guarded eastern European countries cause trouble, since they were not exposed to the truth about the West (or the Soviet government, for that matter)?
There are still many of us alive who lived through World War II and the Cold War with the USSR. We remember the evil that prevailed in the words spoken and the deeds done by those who easily hid their true meaning from the public, simply because the public chose to forget the past and to think more about the entertainment of it all.
Carol Buck
Waimea
Anger festers when officials ignore public
So many of us are surprised and dismayed by the popularity of Donald Trump. We wonder why this overwhelming response to his “Trumpeting.” I believe it is because we, the voters, are so deeply disappointed in our elected and appointed government workers. They plead with us for their vote and we believe their promises. We have hope that they will listen after being elected.
As we have seen numerous times, our hopes in being heard die as soon as they are in office. Some examples include The Kawaihae Road. Despite 26 years of meetings, petitions, and then promises “in writing” our hopes are dismissed with disdain.
“We know better,” say the elected and appointed officials. We are going to build a road where we want it, not where it is needed.
The people back in Waipio Valley in Kukuihaele have worked hard to be heard regarding their park. Their hopes are dismissed with disdain.
“We know better,” and we are going to build the park the way we want it.
And then of all the important transportation issues to work on, DOT elected and appointed officials are wasting their time and our tax dollars for their salaries arguing over increasing the speed limit on Saddle Road — should it 5 or 10 mph more?
Elected officials are asking for an increase in our fuel tax for infrastructure instead of focusing on utilizing the $634 million in federal money still sitting unused in DOT.
We each have our examples of disappointment in promises. When a person gives up hope, there is nothing else left to lose. So why not become angry and verbally violent because no one is listening to us otherwise? Politicians you are hearing the voice of sadness in those verbal screams.
Joyce Oconnor
Kamuela