Letters to the Editor - Hawaii Editorials

"Time to revise U.S. priorities"

Well said comrade. Perhaps set aside 2 or 3% for our new uniforms.

Our forefathers would be apalled at what is currently happening with healthcare.

Panos Pravadouros should get his head out of the sand and cease making his idiotic statements and stop endeavoring to garner publicity for his own self-interest. Can you imagine Hawaii without H-1, H-2, & H-3 and now there is a definite need for rail transportation to alleviate the traffic congestion in West Oahu. Yes, its costly and yes, sacrifices must be made just as much as there were criticism in building the three H-projects but there is an absolute necessity for rail and any endeavors to derail that project is typical of dinosaurs that refuse to make changes and disappeared into obscurity and that's exactly the persona of this has-been professor who represents stagnation in the midst of progress. Stick to your idealistic comments to the classroom as you have no practical reality of progress in a city that is growing beyond its means and therefore must meet the changing needs of the population.

shut up Panos. You lost, get over it, and oh yeah, shut up.

Medicare for all! What a great idea ...until one thinks it through. Medicare does not pay physicians enough to make any reasonable profit to stay in the healthcare business. Perhaps Medicare for all could be coupled with a plan in which physicians are given a discount card, entitling them to only pay 40% of the going rate for whatever they buy - that way all can share in the sacrifice. Is Ms Blair willing to provide her services at only a 40% reimbursement rate?

willie wrote:

"Time to revise U.S. priorities"
Well said comrade. Perhaps set aside 2 or 3% for our new uniforms.
Our forefathers would be apalled at what is currently happening with healthcare.

If our nation's founders foresaw the overbearing, obnoxious, rampantly corrupt Clowngress (sic) and Walkin', Talkin', BS Machine masquerading for a U.S. president today, we would be a British Commonwealth nation today. It would NEVER have been worth a possible hangman's noose around their necks for treason against King George III only to foresee for the imminent collapse of our once great nation that we're witnessing today.'Nuff said...

satch7 wrote:

Panos Pravadouros should get his head out of the sand and cease making his idiotic statements and stop endeavoring to garner publicity for his own self-interest. Can you imagine Hawaii without H-1, H-2, & H-3 and now there is a definite need for rail transportation to alleviate the traffic congestion in West Oahu. Yes, its costly and yes, sacrifices must be made just as much as there were criticism in building the three H-projects but there is an absolute necessity for rail and any endeavors to derail that project is typical of dinosaurs that refuse to make changes and disappeared into obscurity and that's exactly the persona of this has-been professor who represents stagnation in the midst of progress. Stick to your idealistic comments to the classroom as you have no practical reality of progress in a city that is growing beyond its means and therefore must meet the changing needs of the population.

What is the necessity you speak of. Anyone who has been paying any attention at all to the public discourse on this project over the last few years already knows that it will not ease congestion one iota. So if it won't ease congestion, why do we need it. Going beyond that, we can't afford it, nor will we be able to maintain it unless we want a significant bump in our property taxes. Please don't tell me it will stimulate the economy, not when it's taking several thousand dollars out of the hands of each and every family on this island.
Panos is right, we are watching a modern day tyrant.

Excellent LTE Bernie Schrecker. Our democracy has been totally corrupted by special interests. The bank bailout was the biggest swindle in the history of mankind. The health care system is broken and still the GOP will not do the right thing; They view this as a time to increase the level of bribes the insurance cos. pay them for their votes!
Their greed has brought the country to ruin! It is LONG past time to take our country back from the greedy special interests and GOP who only pander to the rich! We are America, not the Fascist Nazi America of the GOP Bush Admin.

You're absolutely right, Ms. Blair. Eversince WWII....billions upon billions of tax dollars have been awarded to the military-industrial conglomerates for the safety of this country and its allies.

Panos told the truth

Panos lost, the voters won, he won't stop yapping, and HE points the tyranny finger. What's wrong with this picture?

"Excellent LTE Bernie Schrecker. Our democracy has been totally corrupted by special interests. The bank bailout was the biggest swindle in the history of mankind. The health care system is broken and still the GOP will not do the right thing; They view this as a time to increase the level of bribes the insurance cos. pay them for their votes!
Their greed has brought the country to ruin! It is LONG past time to take our country back from the greedy special interests and GOP who only pander to the rich! We are America, not the Fascist Nazi America of the GOP Bush Admin. "
Good point... except for the part you left out. The democratic party has a super majority; they don't need a single GOP vote to pass anything. If they really wanted change, they would have done it by now. Blame them, not the GOP.

Flexo wrote:

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What is the necessity you speak of. Anyone who has been paying any attention at all to the public discourse on this project over the last few years already knows that it will not ease congestion one iota. So if it won't ease congestion, why do we need it. Going beyond that, we can't afford it, nor will we be able to maintain it unless we want a significant bump in our property taxes. Please don't tell me it will stimulate the economy, not when it's taking several thousand dollars out of the hands of each and every family on this island.
Panos is right, we are watching a modern day tyrant.

The most recent studies say rail will have a similar impact to when UH is out of session - a huge reduction in traffic congestion. So pelase stop making up you own facts ala Panos...