• Reagan column • Pay raises for council • Peer pressure Reagan column A column appeared in The Garden Island on June 12, which obviously means that it was written before President Reagan was even interred. The hate and venom
• Reagan column
• Pay raises for council
• Peer pressure
Reagan column
A column appeared in The Garden Island on June 12, which obviously means that it was written before President Reagan was even interred. The hate and venom are evident throughout. You didn’t even wait until he was at peace.
It said of Reagan:
Tip O’Neill found his ignorance of public policy flabbergasting.
Ignored the Aids epidemic.
He dyed his hair.
Starred in “B” movies and chased starlets
His children thought him distant and disengaged,
Didn’t recognize his own son.
Wife Nancy, she of the $5,000 gowns a grasping woman
He approved to approve of God insofar as God approved of him.
Scarcely coherent in debates with Democrat Walter Mondale.
Robert H. Miller
Princeville
Pay raises for council
Pay raises for the Kaua‘i County Council! Why? Pay raises should be earned and these ol” dogs don’t hunt. They dodge all the tough decisions that come their way. For ten years Kaua‘i County has needed a new landfill. The council has spent about $500,000 on studies. Result: no action taken on the recommendations and the old landfill gets piled higher.
Citizens complained about the grading and grubbing violations by Mr. Pflueger. The council took no action. Result: the rains came and great damage was done to the environment and private property by the ensuing mud slides.
The council exercises little restraint on property developers. It is only when outraged citizens pack hearing rooms and protest loudly that the council bestirs it self to action. I won’t even mention the eight-year hole in the Kilauea gym roof.
But worst of all, the council has failed in their most important obligation: to control the county budget. Over the last several years the Maui County budget has increased by 15%, while the Kaua‘i County budget has increased 45%.
These dogs don’t deserve a raise, in fact most of them don’t deserved the job at all. But because the voters of Kaua‘i are such passive sheeple, the council will probably get more dog biscuits, be reelected in the fall, and continue to spend our tax dollars like drunken sailors. It must be the Aloha spirit.”
I suggest that citizens attend the public hearing on salaries and compensation on June 23, at 6pm and chant, No Landfill, No Raise!
Biff Whiting
Kalaheo
Peer pressure
The biggest problem teenagers face nowadays is peer pressure from other kids and them making the wrong decision on what may affect you in your long run.
How people in school act nowadays is very overwhelming but as you go on in high school things change for instance you see “A” students go down to a B average and B average drop down to a C average. And if you notice one reason how that happens is that kids get pulled into a situation where they have no say and are forced to smoke or drink.
One thing kids have to do on there own in high school is make sure they hang out with a good and a true friend that if he does smoke he will tell you to either go on and go somewhere else or you can wait here and cruise with me but you will not need to smoke.
Another big topic is “alcohol.” Alcohol is very bad because it makes your grades in school drop a lot and it makes you feel that you don’t need to go to school and that you are to cool already.
Alex Soza
Lawa‘i
