Health care change will hurt wallet
Health care change will hurt wallet
People have commented in the paper that we should give Trump and the GOP Congress a chance, and stop with all the complaining. What those same people need to know is what Trump and the GOP are planning to do to us.
To help out the insurance industries, and modify health care, the GOP has proposed throwing all the pre-existing medical cases to the national health care side. To pay for this, they plan to cut the financing amount you can deduct from your home loan. The result: real estate prices go down since people can’t afford to pay the same as now to buy a house, by not being able to write off more off their taxes, and local governments who get money from property tax, raise sales taxes on us since their tax base has decreased. Conclusion: The insurance companies make more money, and we pay for it. Such a deal.
Carl Merner
Holualoa
Bees are everything
My mango tree had millions of blossoms last month. Unfortunately, they haven’t been pollinated by bees so there will be no fruit this year — again.
I don’t know if your garden suffers from the same malady but we must do something to encourage bees in Hawaii. Our agriculture industry depends upon what we do about this today.
Bees are responsible for all the fruit and many of the other things we grow in this part of the world. Can you imagine what it would be like to import all of our food just because we didn’t spend enough time to prevent this kind of disaster earlier?
This letter is a call to action, folks. We must do something now to preserve our island’s ability to produce food. I wish I could call on an established beekeeper to set up and maintain a beehive on my property. I’d pay the person to build it and maintain it just so I can have my mangoes and avocados and other things I grow on my acre. The beekeeper can keep the honey.
Barry Willis
Kailua-Kona
Chance to move lifeguard tower
With Kahaluu Beach Park closed for the rest of March, this would be a perfect time to move that huge new lifeguard tower back to the concrete pad where it used to be.
The tower access ramp just needs to be cut and re-welded to face the mountains. We like our lifeguards, but the tower takes up a lot of beach, and we don’t have much beach in Kona. Moving the tower back would not make things any less safe than they have always been, and would definitely improve beach beauty.
My letters to a couple of county agencies have not been answered, so maybe this letter will be more effective if someone out there knows how to get things done.
Syd Kraul
Kailua-Kona