Letters for Feb. 1, 2016 Change the way Congress operates We can start asking for change. Copy this and send it to your representatives and demand change. Please see that this is put into law immediately. Thank you. 1. No
Letters for Feb. 1, 2016
Change the way Congress operates
We can start asking for change. Copy this and send it to your representatives and demand change.
Please see that this is put into law immediately. Thank you.
1. No tenure/no pension. A congressman/woman collects a salary while in office and receives no pay when they’re out of office.
2. Congress (past, present and future) participates in Social Security. All funds in the congressional retirement fund move to the Social Security system immediately. All future funds flow into the Social Security system, and Congress participates with the American people. It may not be used for any other purpose.
3. Congress can purchase their own retirement plan, just as all Americans do.
4. Congress will no longer vote themselves a pay raise. Congressional pay will rise by the lower of CPI or 3 percent.
5. Congress loses their current health care system and participates in the same health care system as the American people.
6. Congress must equally abide by all laws they impose on the American people.
7. All contracts with past and present congressmen/women are void effective immediately. The American people did not make this contract with congressmen/women.
Congressmen/women made all these contracts for themselves. Serving in Congress is an honor, not a career. The Founding Fathers envisioned citizen legislators, so ours should serve their term(s), then go home and back to work.
David Presley
Hanalei
Chain of custody from Kingdom to State of Hawaii never broken
Mr. Janos K. Samu, I am an American with proud roots in Kipu. The Hawaiian Islands were not and not now occupied by any foreign military, except briefly by the British from Feb. 12 to July 31, 1843.
The Hawaiian Islands had the Honolulu Rifles organized in 1854 and officially recognized by King Kalakaua in 1884. The Honolulu Rifles were re-organized into the National Guard of Hawaii by the Provisional Government on Jan. 27, 1893, and officially recognized on July 4, 1894, under the Republic of Hawaii’s Constitution.
The National Guard of Hawaii was renamed the Hawaii Territorial Guard on Aug. 12, 1898, upon the United States annexation of the Republic.
On May 26, 1942, 1,432 American men of Japanese ancestry serving in the Hawaii Territorial Guard became the Hawaii Provisional Infantry Battalion and on June 12, 1942, on the docks of Oakland, Calif., was designated the 100th Infantry Battalion (Separate).
The 100th Infantry Battalion (Separate) officially became part of the 442d Regimental Combat Team on Aug. 14, 1944. They are all part of the honored military and the special American history.
The 1894 Morgan Report, 1893 Blount Report, and 1894 Turpie Resolution were all initiated when Congress believed that the United States was involved in the removal of Hawaii’s Queen. Historical records clearly show that it was the subjects of the Kingdom who removed the Queen and formed the Republic.
My opinion on Jan. 20 is based on the Constitutions from the Kingdom of 1840 to the present one for the State of Hawaii. As I had written, the chain of custody from the Kingdom to the State of Hawaii was never broken.
Jimmy Kuroiwa
Kaneohe
