• For Superferry • Hawaii Superferry • More on ferry • Another take on ferry • Social Security For Superferry Finally you all see the light on a real world issue of significant worth. Now please give the Superferry’s smothering
• For Superferry
• Hawaii Superferry
• More on ferry
• Another take on ferry
• Social Security
For Superferry
Finally you all see the light on a real world issue of significant worth. Now please give the Superferry’s smothering special interest group the same front page coverage that you gave the unsocialized dog. Otherwise you will confirm my candid observation of “not wanting to be a real newspaper because the reporting requirements might be too hard or step on too many local toes.”
You only have to look to the north at the other great state, Alaska, to appreciate what a maritime highway would do for industry and the people of Hawai‘i. The Garden Island should be leading the proactive charge on this important and vital addition to our states infrastructure by naming names and making council members accountable for their obstructionist stands. This action would define the difference between a “rag” and a newspaper with name “Pulitzer” associated with it.
Tom Ellis
Kapa‘a
Hawaii Superferry
My family is most anxiously awaiting the arrival of the superferry!
We live on Maui and Kaua‘i. My grandchildren have mopeds and a motorcycle, now my son can load all of the toys into the pickup and visit us on Kaua‘i. We cannot afford to travel on the airlines.
Shirley A. Schwartz
Kilauea
More on ferry
I think we will all miss the boat if we lost this chance to have a ferry between the islands. The ploy they are using is standard nowadays for land use, but hardly needed for water use.
Do we run one of these for every new cruise ship that enters our waters?
Richard Czebatol
Kilauea
Another take on ferry
Wait a minute here. We get a cheaper way to O‘ahu and possibly a less expensive way to send freight with a superferry.
Lets do it, don’t even think about all the people bringing their old cars and vans to stay in while visiting our nice clean county parks.
Well maybe our parks are not super clean but I’m sure they won’t mind. Hey but the superferry will create more jobs and with more jobs more people can move here and then that will mean more cars on our roads and more demand for housing so it will drive up the cost of a rental what a good idea. Hey now that I think about it maybe the superferry is a super bad idea. Well maybe a ferry that is only for Kaua‘i people and no one can use it but us.
Jay Louis
Lawa‘i
Social Security
The solution to the Social Security conundrum is really quite simple. All we have to do is use the same logic employed by sainted Democrat President Franklin Roosevelt when the legislation was passed in 1935. The genius of the Social Security scheme is that in 1935 the average life expectancy of an American was 61.7 years.
Roosevelt set the retirement age at 65, thus guaranteeing that the “average” American would not receive a penny of the money he/she paid into Social Security, but it was a great system for those who dodged the Grim Reaper and beat the odds. Now the average life expectancy is 78 years.
If the Democrats don’t like President Bush’s “privatization” plan, complaining that it destroys the humanity and compassion of dear old FDR, why don’t they propose following Roosevelt’s example and raise the retirement age to 81. Social Security problem solved.
Biff Whiting
Kalaheo
