Money at heart of what government does
Money at heart of what government does
This is in reply to Andrea Jasper’s guest column, “Hiking citations show state oversteps role.”
Along with the trail, you mentioned a lot of other activities that are curtailed by our governments. The bottom line is always money, even with creative bookkeeping, there is never enough money.
Decades ago most people had an internal trait called personal responsibility that is not as noticeable now days with the expanding nanny state. No matter how many notices, gates and fences are put up, someone is going in and will get injured or die. Then they or the family will find an attorney, or an attorney will find them. The government, whether county, state or federal, will be in court and most likely end up paying a sizable settlement because they did not do enough to protect the person from themselves.
On top of all this is the cost of rescue or recovery, which is expensive for whichever government agency is involved. I seem to recall that Oregon, some time back, decided to charge people for personal rescue operations.
I have no idea how that worked out but maybe it can be made law in Hawaii and people can take back their personal responsibility.
Charlie King
Holualoa
How WH would handle murder by a Trump
1. There was no murder or any killing of any kind.
2. If someone was killed, the Trump family was not involved.
3. Although it appears that someone is dead, no one has proved any connection to the Trump family.
4. Even though the Trump family was acquainted with the deceased, they barely knew him.
5. While some are claiming that the Trump family had access to the murder weapon, this is simply conjecture.
6. The fingerprints on the murder weapon may well be Trump family fingerprints because the weapon was a family heirloom. As such, they would never use it to kill someone.
7. Although the deceased was a Trump family enemy against whom the president was recently heard to yell, “You’ll die before you get away with this!” it was a presidential joke.
8. Even though Don Jr., was the last person seen alone with the deceased moments before the death, no one can be sure what happened. It could easily have been terrorism.
9. While the deceased did scrawl the letters DJT, Jr. in blood on the carpet before dying, there are many people who have these initials.
10. Presidential pardon.
John Sucke
Waimea