• Living wills • Mom and pop stores • County budget Living wills Truth. We are all going to die. There will be a long pause here while some of you recover from the shock. If it is your wish
• Living wills
• Mom and pop stores
• County budget
Living wills
Truth.
We are all going to die.
There will be a long pause here while some of you recover from the shock.
If it is your wish to be kept alive, under any circumstances, by any means, please put it in writing. Sign it. Notarize it. Give a copy to your nearest and dearest and a copy to your priest, pastor or rabbi.
If, like many of us, who do not choose to be kept alive by artificial means or heroic measures, please put it in writing. Be a little bit more specific. See a lawyer. Sign a living will. State specifically what your wishes are. And then, maybe, if you’re lucky, you can die in peace.
Each of us is responsible for his own death. I have not got the right to tell you how to die; neither do you-the government the medical professional family members, or the church-have the right to tell those of us who can still reason how to go.
Why are so many religious people so scared to death of death? Is there anyone who cares to answer?
Mom and pop stores
They claim that they will lose money and go out of business if Costco Hawaii enters the market here on Kaua‘i.
Who are they fooling? Safeway, Foodland, and Starmarket are here and nothing’s changed. Since I grew up on Kaua‘i 1953, those stores did not go out, they got better.
They just want to have control of food prices. Don’t they know that, “we know when they put out their sales advertisement it’s not a sale, but regular price. They only mark up the prices to make it look like a real deal.”
I think with Costco opening up here on Kaua‘i, it will be good for competition on food prices. (In fact not, we can get things cheaper by buying bulk for food parties). However, not everyone shops for bulk foods. (I shop everyday for my meals at a mom and pop store in ‘Ele‘ele).
Reality check, Mom and pop stores say if we build roads away from their business area they will lose money. Hello, if we need things (food especially), we will drive in to pick up items needed.
I still will be shopping at mom and pop stores from Waimea to Hanalei. Costco, I’ll buy when need for parties. So no worry mom and pop stores, you’ll still have your loyal shoppers around. Just accept the changes and start selling at sale prices not regular prices.
County budget
A budget of over $120 million (up from $50 million just a few years ago) divided by about 60,000 residents is roughly $2,000 of county government spending per resident of Kaua‘i.
How much of the total $120 million goes for salaries, pensions and benefits for roughly 1,500 county government workers? Nobody seems to want to answer this question. I’d love to know. Would the Deptartment of Finance please respond?
