• Don’t blame, heal the soul • Six years is too long • Gabbard should sit in Inouye’s seat • The middle class is at war Don’t blame, heal the soul When a family member is killed, most often family members
• Don’t blame, heal the soul • Six years is too long • Gabbard should sit in Inouye’s seat • The middle class is at war
Don’t blame, heal the soul
When a family member is killed, most often family members are left behind to grieve for the loss and to search for answers.
The school shooting over the past years have left wounds that will never heal, left anguish that will never bring back the children, many unanswered questions that will never be solved.
People are angry and need to voice their opinions and cast reasons why things happen. I believe that writing is a form of release and that at time it dispels hatred and fears.
When sorrow is felt and tears are ripe and your heart is ripped out, the last thing the world needs are writers that try and fault the public with insane reasoning and political or biblical nonsense.
Both have appeared in letters to the editor this past week and made me sad the see how finding blame is important and grandstanding is vital to healing.
It is not, it is better to heal the soul and mend the heart with love and soft -spoken words of wisdom and kindness.
Take time and love those families that lost love ones…. It is hard, I’ve been in their shoes… the hurt is with you every day of your life.
Ronald Horoshko
Kalaheo
Six years is too long
In his letter to the Forum (Dec. 12), our Parks and Recreation Director, Lenny Rapozo corrects Mr. Troutman about the Kilauea Gym roof STILL leaking.
What Mr. Rapozo fails to say is that under our Buildings Division and now under our Parks and Recreation Department two new roofs (after ‘Iniki) and a windward door on the gym have been leaking for over 18 years! And a third roof may now be in the planning stages.
This is not a problem that would take space science to solve and yet administrations past and present have spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on consultants and on legal fees to try and correct the fault. Does that not tell our tax payers what kind of incompetent people we have running our government?
Where in the hell are all the so-called checks and balances?
It’s time to get the County CEO (the Mayor) to tell the Council and the public why after 6 years, two as parks director, and four as mayor, why he has, or we still have a problem.
Why do we continue to hire outside consultants for hundreds of thousands of dollars to tell us how to put a roof on this gym instead of getting one of our own qualified roofing contractors to tell us what to do and let them do it? What’s even more shocking, at the last Council meeting on this matter, the question to the staff, “Have you talked to a roofing contractor?”
The answer, “No!”
Why has this issue been turned over to Parks and Recreation when it originated with Buildings Division and where it still belongs?
There appears to be two separate issues here — a leaky roof and a leaky door. Why has the door problem not been fixed, I know sometimes roof leaks can be tricky, but if you don’t call a competent roofer you can’t fix the roof. Mayor Bernard Carvalho, 18 years is way too long, and 6 years under your watchful eye is absurd!
Ken Taylor
Kapa’a
Gabbard should sit in Inouye’s seat
One reason Senator Inouye was so valuable in the U.S. Senate was that he brought the experience and perspective of a war veteran. Of the 100 members of the Senate today, only 18 have any military experience and not a single one has served in Afghanistan.
Like Senator Inouye, Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard is a war veteran who has served two tours of duty in the Middle East, including in Afghanistan. Appointing Tulsi Gabbard to replace Inouye would perpetuate the war veteran perspective in the Senate at a critical time when our leaders are struggling with how best to deal with the conflict in Afghanistan.
Tulsi Gabbard’s military experience, combined with her relative youth and resultant ability to develop real seniority in the Senate, makes her an extraordinary replacement for Senator Inouye.
Thomas Steiner
Waimanalo
The middle class is at war
One of my favorite and most trusted leaders in America is Warren Buffett. For many years, he has warned America about the growing inequality of income and wealth. Mr. Buffett is a successful businessman worth tens of billions of dollars. He knows his businesses will be unable to grow and prosper if the consumer base collapses.
This is similar to the iconic Henry Ford. In the early 1900s, he did the unthinkable — he voluntarily raised the salaries of workers at the Ford automotive plant. He knew Ford could only be successful if Ford workers made enough to buy the products they manufactured.
Henry Ford and Warren Buffett believe in a strong middle class — because a financially healthy middle class is the backbone of community. Mr. Buffett has made it clear we are tearing down the pillars of a strong ‘ohana, which directly threatens our democratic form of government. The rich in society criticize Mr. Buffett for engaging in class warfare. To this Mr. Buffett has responded repeatedly: “There’s class warfare, all right, but it’s my class, the rich class, that’s making war and we’re winning.”
There is an excellent animated short film on this subject. It appears to be going viral around the Internet.
For those who have not yet seen this, please take eight minutes to view: Tax the Rich: An Animated Fairy Tale: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S6ZsXrzF8Cc. Mahalo nui loa.
Scott Goold
Koloa
