• Obama the demise of this nation • Overpaid football coaches • Occupy thoughts Obama the demise of this nation President Barack Obama cannot be elected to a second term as president of the United States of America. He has
• Obama the demise of this nation • Overpaid football coaches •
Occupy thoughts
Obama the demise of this nation
President Barack Obama cannot be elected to a second term as president of the United States of America.
He has no right to be honored to govern this constitutional republic in which he has — and is continuing to — weaken with his failed policies bypassing Congress and issuing outrageous executive orders: The passage of his failed stimulus package further grew the deficit, and the passage of Obama Care (a socialist dangerous political legislation) must be stricken as unconstitutional.
Ever since the time of the debt ceiling debacle this past summer, and the failure of the Super Committee to come-up with $1.2 trillion in cuts (agreement by Nov. 23) within a decade, the present accusation is strictly and wrongly aimed of blaming Congress (i.e., the Republicans) for not agreeing to any so-called “mild-temporary” tax hikes, and more recently in furthering refusing to compromise for the payroll tax cut extension and extension of unemployment benefits forcing for up to a $1,500 tax increase for majority of Americans, especially for the disappearing middle class, if no agreement is reached which is to tax the higher income earner (or so called million- and billionaires) to pay their fair share — which is: No one knows.
Obama has yet to be “President” by taking most if not full responsibility for the failures or inaction of this “dysfunctional Congress.”
Within three years — on to his fourth — as president, time and time again he offers no real leadership and refuses to take any responsibility of the failures of Washington citing blame on the obstructionist Republicans.
Not once in public has he said that as president he is by de facto responsible for whatever happens in Washington.
Most past genuine presidents acknowledged that taking responsibility for failures in Washington was part of what it was to be president, and they learn from it and move on. But Obama is of a different breed, for he expects the Republicans to “compromise” even if the “compromise” he seeks is no compromise at all.
The United States cannot have an arrogant Obama who pretends to be for the middle class to be re-elected for a second term — and Americans should be well aware that he is socialist by nature.
He is anti-business, anti-capitalist, pro-government growth. And he will say and do anything to be re-elected. God forbid if he is re-elected for a second term. If he is, the United States of America will cease to be a constitutional republic — the beacon of freedom.
Americans must be ready to fight to retain and regain the freedom and liberty, and to protect the very foundation of this great nation. It is not yet too late to replace this socialist president and his minions from taking away our constitutional rights, and to make the United States greater than before.
A second-term of Obama will only mean the demise of this great nation, and we must be prepared to once again face and fight against Obama’s tyranny on American soil.
Drew Kosora, Honolulu
Overpaid football coaches
The governor’s salary is approximately $123,000 a year, the chancellor of UH Manoa is around $337,000 a year and the average teacher makes approximately $50,000 a year in Hawai‘i.
The coach of the Hawai‘i state football team makes $1.1 million a year.
Coach Greg McMackin did not warrant a salary of over a million dollars a year, even June Jones, a known coach, never made that kind of money during his time as head coach.
It was long overdue to force coach ‘Mac’ into retirement, he was an average Joe, nothing special, during his tenure at UH he won 29 games and lost 25.
Coach Mac’s salary could had been cut in half and he still would had been the state’s highest paid employee.
I am glad coach Mac retired, although in actuality we all know he was in essence fired.
Tuition’s are on the rise , the state is cutting program after program, may I suggest in the search for the next UH coach to offer a decent salary but don’t offer them the whole bank, there are other priorities besides overpaid college coaches.
Maybe now with coach Mac out of the picture the state can start balancing the budget and win some football games.
James “Kimo” Rosen, Kapa‘a
Occupy thoughts
Thank you, Mr. Ryan Couhan, for proving my thesis on the Occupy movement.
You said and I quote “… where all important decisions are guided directly or indirectly by corporate lobbyists, enormous corporate campaign contributions, revolving-door government/corporate regulators and other complicit government officials, to name just a few.”
To whom would a corporation go to gain preferential status without a coercive state (we call it a Democracy)?
Ralph Tamm, Lihu‘e
