Letters to the Editor - Letters

Bernie: Your LTE is correct, but could of been written and valid 30 years ago. We, the people, vote these shylocks into office and keep them there. There should be a revolving door on Capital Hill....4-6 years IN and then OUT if they didn't do the people's will. We can only blame ourselves by the current state of affairs.

Hawaii 50 wrote:

Bernie: Your LTE is correct, but could of been written and valid 30 years ago. We, the people, vote these shylocks into office and keep them there. There should be a revolving door on Capital Hill....4-6 years IN and then OUT if they didn't do the people's will. We can only blame ourselves by the current state of affairs.

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The problem is, even if you vote them out the Congressional Bureaucracy (Aids)stay there. They are the ones writing the laws. The Congressmen, women aren't even reading what these folks are writing. When the President signs something into law, that law doesn't even go into effect until Bureaucrats set it up and then it often doesn't even look like what the Congress thought it would.

Hawaii 50 wrote:

Bernie: Your LTE is correct, but could of been written and valid 30 years ago. We, the people, vote these shylocks into office and keep them there. There should be a revolving door on Capital Hill....4-6 years IN and then OUT if they didn't do the people's will. We can only blame ourselves by the current state of affairs.

Goes both ways, left/right, red/blue, lib/con. I've found ways to make money with any party in office, you just have to adapt and play their games. I voted for Barry this time and i'm still waiting for the Job, 40 acres, and the mule. When the next pres is in, there will be a way to capitalize on that admin. Stay in between the lines and you'll profit.

Stephanie, have you noticed that the earth is cooling, not warming? Thirty years ago is was global cooling, ten years to present it is global warming. When the climate change desciples grand pupa is confronted with contrary evidence, he fails to reply and even has there microphone cut off. It is time for the global warming finatics to admit it and undertand that the only thing that is constant about the climate is CHANGE!!!

Panos is my hero. He grumbles more than anyone and tells all the lies I love to hear. I'll be we wets the bed a lot just like me. Go Panos! Going nowhere!

Hawaii 50 wrote:

Bernie: Your LTE is correct, but could of been written and valid 30 years ago. We, the people, vote these shylocks into office and keep them there. There should be a revolving door on Capital Hill....4-6 years IN and then OUT if they didn't do the people's will. We can only blame ourselves by the current state of affairs.

Can you imagine the congress voting in term limits. That will happen when Satan is running the show upstairs. Congressional term limits. It's a lovely thought, but it will never happen in our lifetimes. The slugs(both sides) like their jobs of doing nothing far too well. And the pay is great.

Ms. Blair. Your letter would be much more credible if you cited anyone other that the AFSC. The AFSC is an anti-military pacifist group who will skew the numbers to reflect their agenda. Matter of fact, the numbers you site are from a Quaker organization 2007 'analysis'.
That 57% they like to bandy about includes health care for the VA as well as retirement compensation for the retired veterans.
Think rationally. It takes two to make the peace. The recent appeasement gestures of our government have not resulted in anyone else coming to the table.
Turning the other cheek just doesn't work in today's world.
Try getting your information from one of the government websites, maybe the CBO, or HHS to see what is actually spent.

An interesting article on health insurance company profits from the Associated Press. Don't believe everything the politicians tell you:

http://tinyurl.com/yja7jdv

Paul wrote:

Stephanie, have you noticed that the earth is cooling, not warming? Thirty years ago is was global cooling, ten years to present it is global warming. When the climate change desciples grand pupa is confronted with contrary evidence, he fails to reply and even has there microphone cut off. It is time for the global warming finatics to admit it and undertand that the only thing that is constant about the climate is CHANGE!!!

Actually, Paul, more politically correct term now is "climate change" rather than "global warming" exactly for the reason you present: the earth's temps have been cooling over the last 10 - 12 years.

Anyone remember in the 1970's how air pollution was going to block out sufficient amount of sunlight from the earth by the mid-1980's? Remember in the 1990's how the growing hole in the ozone layer was going to kill the planet? How about the predictions of world disaster because of the killing of the rain forests? The predictions about the lost of 85% all wild animal species? The predictions about anther coming Ice Age? The predictions about massive world starvation because of growing world population? The Y2K computer disaster that was going to halt a digitally-dependent world?

Ten years from now there will be different set of dooms-day predictions and many will have nearly forgotten about "global warming" and "climate change".

Look like Dr P went off his meds again.

Mufi hates the truth

Hawaiian Republican wrote:

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Actually, Paul, more politically correct term now is "climate change" rather than "global warming" exactly for the reason you present: the earth's temps have been cooling over the last 10 - 12 years.
Anyone remember in the 1970's how air pollution was going to block out sufficient amount of sunlight from the earth by the mid-1980's? Remember in the 1990's how the growing hole in the ozone layer was going to kill the planet? How about the predictions of world disaster because of the killing of the rain forests? The predictions about the lost of 85% all wild animal species? The predictions about anther coming Ice Age? The predictions about massive world starvation because of growing world population? The Y2K computer disaster that was going to halt a digitally-dependent world?
Ten years from now there will be different set of dooms-day predictions and many will have nearly forgotten about "global warming" and "climate change".

So your point is what? We still have the same emission from cars that we did during the 1970's? Coal fired plants still have no scrubbers? The ozone is still growing because of the use of CFC's? And what about the rain forest predictions and shift in climates? That's still happening.

As for Y2K, no one said it would halt anything. It was simply a worst case scenario.

I don't see you're point.

Pearl City Senior wrote:

Ms. Blair. Your letter would be much more credible if you cited anyone other that the AFSC. The AFSC is an anti-military pacifist group who will skew the numbers to reflect their agenda. Matter of fact, the numbers you site are from a Quaker organization 2007 'analysis'.
That 57% they like to bandy about includes health care for the VA as well as retirement compensation for the retired veterans.
Think rationally. It takes two to make the peace. The recent appeasement gestures of our government have not resulted in anyone else coming to the table.
Turning the other cheek just doesn't work in today's world.
Try getting your information from one of the government websites, maybe the CBO, or HHS to see what is actually spent.

AFSC is a respectable anti-military pacifist group which I support. Again I say that America's priorities are wrong. They do not bring either security or peace or address the needs of the nations people.

Hey, Panos D. Prevedouros, it simply amazes me that you are a professor of traffic and transportation engineering. You are one very short-sighted individual. You never, ever offer a solution, just more bull. A light rail system needs to happen 20 years ago!

Bernie - great letter but I've got news for you. The reality of the world is that truly competent people rarely if ever run for office because they can make a LOT more money without any of the scrutiny heaped on them as public servants. Many of them give back to the world in their own way...in ways most people will never hear about. On top of that, assuming you are either directly in the equities market (owns and trades stocks, bonds, etc.) or indirectly (through your 401K, pension, etc.) these billionaire executives makes you money and if they didn't, you'd have them fired. Unfortunately, you can't have it both ways.

Panos is just nuts, and only fools listen.

Pearl City Senior wrote:

Ms. Blair. Your letter would be much more credible if you cited anyone other that the AFSC. The AFSC is an anti-military pacifist group who will skew the numbers to reflect their agenda. Matter of fact, the numbers you site are from a Quaker organization 2007 'analysis'.
That 57% they like to bandy about includes health care for the VA as well as retirement compensation for the retired veterans.
Think rationally. It takes two to make the peace. The recent appeasement gestures of our government have not resulted in anyone else coming to the table.
Turning the other cheek just doesn't work in today's world.
Try getting your information from one of the government websites, maybe the CBO, or HHS to see what is actually spent.

Couldn't agree more.
The AFSC has been a phony, Quaker front group for the Bolsheviki since it's inception, as was the ACLU, for draft dodgers.
The AFSC has supported every communist revolution in North and South AMerica I can thnk of all under the guise of peace.
The pacifists enjoy peace because of the sacrifice of our warriors.

Panos is AWESOME!!! "To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men" -Abraham Lincoln

PANOS IS RIGHT... MUFI IS WRONG.

The day they break ground for rail is the day I put my house up for sale and take my small business and the 4-5 jobs I create to the mainland or somewhere.

Rail = unhawaiian

Why can't Hawaii's taxpayers see that we WILL pay for it in the end?

Do those on the neighbor islands REALLY think that the state will not force them to pay a tax on a choo-choo they will never even see? Wanna bet?

AUWE

Did Panos not see the election we had last year? I guess he was too wrapped up in his own losing that he did not see that Oahu wants rail.

It was not Mufi but the State Leg that added the needed funding mechanism for the rail project.

Panos has no insight and does not know what West Oahu needs. He owns a house out here but RENTS it.

When we was running for third place last year he never made it to Kapolei or beyond. So he never heard from us what we need. Keep in mind that Kapolei is the fastest growing area in the STATE.

He complains about the elevated part of rail at one section then says it will wipe out the ag land in the other. SO which is it? The views or the land will the rail wipe out? Try NEITHER.

Keep in mind that he was promoting double decking the H-1 - to put more cars on the road and into downtown Honolulu! This man needs to pick a message and stick to it.

But I guess the voices in his head sometimes fight, that is why it sounded like his letter was written by at least three different people!

For an alleged educator he seems completely uninformed about rail and the needs of the island of Oahu.