• A health insurance fix • Sticks and stones • The original Hawaiians • Vote in alignment with your soul • Superferry vs. Healthcare A health insurance fix Health insurance to cover all Americans at a reasonable cost is a
• A health insurance fix
• Sticks and stones
• The original Hawaiians
• Vote in alignment with your soul
• Superferry vs. Healthcare
A health insurance fix
Health insurance to cover all Americans at a reasonable cost is a hot issue nationally. It affects us all.
One of the most serious roadblocks to a satisfactory solution is the obscene amount of money that the health insurance companies, the pharmaceutical industry and others who make huge profits from the status quo, are pouring into the pockets of congressmen who are responsible for solving this problem.
It is tantamount to bribery and it won’t stop until we pass a constitutional amendment limiting the amount of money that lobbyists can give to individual congressmen.
Nonprofit organizations such as AARP, veterans organizations who have an important interest in health care, and the National Committee to Preserve Social Security and Medicare are ideally suited to introduce such an amendment and see it through to a satisfactory end.
I urge such organizations to encourage their members to contact their congressmen in order to get the process started. Remember that the squeaking wheel is the one that gets the grease, and our health wheel is squeaking loudly.
Harry Boranian, Lihu‘e
Sticks and stones
So if coach Mac would have said they danced and chanted like a bunch of “dingle berries,” would he have been suspended 30 days plus a 7 percent decrease in pay and on and on? (“Coach Mac’s Blunder,” Sports, Aug. 2)
Now that I have used the term “dingle berries,” will that become an attack bone for the ACLU?
What ever happened to sticks and stones will break my bones, but names will never hurt me?
Lynn Brodie, Princeville
The original Hawaiians
The Garden Island recently reported on the indictment of the person who killed the pregnant Hawaiian monk seal. (“Man indicted on charges of killing Hawaiian monk seal,” TGI, Aug. 6)
When I first heard about it, I thought about what the Hawaiian monk seals really are — the original Hawaiians — and what they represent.
They watched the island of Gardner Pinnacles come up out of the ocean some 12 million years ago. Then they watched it slowly sink back down into the ocean floor.
They were here some 10 million years before Kaua‘i rose up out of the ocean depths. They then watched the rest of the islands come up out of the ocean. One at a time. All the way to the Big Island.
They saw the Marquesians arrive by boat and get out on the Big Island. Then they watched a few more migrations of people.
For the Hawaiian Monk Seal, mankind just arrived. We just showed up yesterday. They have been here for 12 to 15 million years.
The Hawaiian Monk Seals should be able to watch the newest Hawaiian Island. Lo‘ihi, come up out of the ocean. And they will, as long as we don’t stop them.
Dennis Chaquette, Kapa‘a
Vote in alignment with your soul
In a time when we all on Kaua‘i need to be looking for progressive, open decision-making, it truly amazes me of the corrupt behavior, and yes I say corrupt, of the 4-3 votes on the County Council. As one person labeled it, K-3D. (“Council kills proposed rule changes,” The Garden Island, Aug. 6)
Gentlemen, before you cast off that word corruption, I ask you to look into the mirror and say into your own eyes, “I am acting honestly, from my heart.” Then listen to what that inner voice says back.
It’s your higher self/soul speaking, and it doesn’t piddle around with back room deals. It sees everything, it records everything. Each vote, you can vote in alignment with your soul, or to the games of the ego’s power.
So many of us hold for you each to rise to the honorable path, well before your next election. Thank you Lani and Tim for being in touch with your conscience. There is a moral compass waiting for all seven of you to be able to collectively hold.
This island’s residents more than ever truly need decisions coming forth from that space.
John Tyler Cragg, Kapa‘a
Superferry vs. Healthcare
I am amused by the characterization of “angry mobs” at town hall meetings. Remenber a few years ago, the hapless people trying to get off and on the Superferry.
A crowd assembled to pound cars, yell and scream and generally hassle the folks who had the audacity to disagree with the eco-freaks and local Luddites.
The governor, admiral of the coast guard, the mayor and others held a public meeting which got very ugly, loud and rude.
Loud and intense protesters are fine, if you agree with the issue. Otherwise, they are really bad eggs lead by nefarious groups.
Suzanne Woodruff, Kapa‘a
