• Tax money for services, not salaries • Personal bravado, political failure? • Safer airport security • Reveal yourselves • Reducing taxes for wealthy is wrong solution Tax money for services, not salaries I know that ‘tis the season to
• Tax money for services, not salaries •
Personal bravado, political failure? •
Safer airport security • Reveal yourselves
• Reducing taxes for wealthy is wrong
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Tax money for services, not salaries
I know that ‘tis the season to be jolly and Ho Ho Ho, but wait a minute folks. I don’t mean to be the Grinch, but a clerk position salary of $114,848 a year?
In this terrible economy when so many people are suffering we the taxpayers are expected to pay a county clerk this kind of salary?
This sounds just like what happened on the Mainland recently in the city of Bell, Calif. The people were outraged and protested, and their city council was booted out and some of them were prosecuted and sent to jail.
I’m sorry to be a wet blanket but I’m tired of us taxpayers paying these ridiculous salaries while our politicians continue meet behind closed doors. What’s that about? Let’s rethink big government taking our tax money for services, not padding salaries.
Frank Ayon, Kalaheo
Personal bravado, political failure?
It was a very brave thing for President Obama to go to Afghanistan. But what’s this deep secrecy about his trip after nine years of the invasion of Afghanistan?
Napoleon was frequently on the front and there was no secrecy about it. Hitler traveled the streets of the occupied countries in an open limousine. Stalin visited the front frequently, and held speeches to the soldiers in open camps.
Were they braver than the American president? Perhaps. One thing was different, for sure: they trusted their troops to protect them.
Where is your trust, President Obama? Where was the cheering Afghan crowd welcoming you on the streets of Afghanistan as the leader of the liberation forces?
Oh, I forgot… Why should there be any crowd when there is nobody there to cheer for. And our question after your safe return home: after nine years of fighting in Afghanistan what are the achievements and what are the benefits for the American working class who is financing this military adventure with its taxes?
János Keoni Samu, Kalaheo
Safer airport security
I have been reading about the development of an airport security device that will eliminate the privacy concerns that come with full body scanners, as well as TSA personnel being accused of touching private parts at our airports.
It’s a special booth you step into that will no longer x-rays our bodies, but will detonate any explosive device you may be stupid enough to carry on yourself.
This will be a win-win situation for everyone with no more scenarios about racial profiling, or being touched in the wrong way. It would also eliminate the high costs of a long drawn out trial and justice would be swift.
Just think, you are in the airport and you hear a muffled explosion. Shortly after an announcement over the p.a. system, “attention standby passengers, we now have an open seat on a flight to the Mainland.”
Steve Martin, Wailua
Reveal yourselves
A message for the chemtrails industry minions: your sloppy, overt efforts leave Kauai skies not unlike a toddler’s dripping, monochromatic finger-painting.
Your perverse bosses must be sorely disappointed in your lack of expertise, dedication and commitment to be the best operatives you can be.
This peasant on the ground is on to you and other islanders awaken to your secret.
Reveal yourselves from behind the failing opaque curtain — isn’t it time to clear the fog to finally bestow the benefits of your mysterious geo-science?
Rolf Bieber, Kapa‘a
Reducing taxes for wealthy is wrong solution
There’s too much money at the top. The amount of money in the American economy is finite, not unlimited.
Two things make the American economy hum: banks have to lend and businesses have to hire. If the financiers of our country want to cause a president to fail, all they have to do is to stop lending and stop hiring. It appears that that is where we are now. Whether it’s by design or evolved naturally makes no difference.
Some of us feel that the powers that be are intent on causing the Obama administration to fail. Others say that this is in the natural cycle of our economy. Whatever the cause, the resulting financial deadlock is the same: too much money at the top and no obvious plan to restore normal circulation.
Middle class America is the hardest hit. These are the people who spend almost all that they make, and still manage to save a little for a rainy day.
We are now in a period of high unemployment. The situation will get worse if the Congress fails to extend unemployment insurance and extends the tax breaks for the wealthy.
I don’t have enough information to suggest that we go to the FDR solution of WPA, CCC, or PWA. But there are competent economists who should be speaking out.
I am certain of one thing: reducing taxes for the very wealthy, in the face of the present financial deficit, is the wrong solution to a dangerous problem.
Harry Boranian, Lihu‘e
