• Specifics, please, when criticizing candidates • Charge for rescues, lower taxes • Return trips aren’t free Specifics, please, when criticizing candidates I note that people who criticize various candidates often use catch phrases such as “failed policies,” which are repeated by paid
• Specifics, please, when criticizing candidates • Charge for rescues, lower taxes • Return trips aren’t free
Specifics, please, when criticizing candidates
I note that people who criticize various candidates often use catch phrases such as “failed policies,” which are repeated by paid political wonks ad nauseum.
Voters should be old enough and wise enough to say, “What, specifically, is this failed policy?” and “What does this other candidate propose to do instead?”; and “How does he/she propose to get it accomplished?”
America’s future lies in specifics, not in the glittering generalities and tribal party-speak that make us feel so comfortable. Such cheap comments may be pleasurable at a social gathering, but serious adults deserve and should demand more.
Suzan Kelsey Brooks, Lihue
Charge for rescues, lower taxes
I am a little confused. While the county is considering raising my taxes to pay for various shortfalls in their budgeting I read about a Houston woman who is airlifted out of Kalalau. (The Garden Island Feb. 16) The woman was uninjured but was “incapacitated and would have probably needed assistance in the future.” According to whom?
If she was drunk she would have sobered up. Then, in the Garden Island Feb. 18 I read that the county doesn’t seek reimbursement for any of their “rescues.”
Well, since it is my tax dollar being spent, give me her name and address and I will send her a bill. If we are going to give people free aerial tours of the Na Pali coast you might as well start calling it a shuttle service because that is not the last call your going to get.
If we can afford to provide this service we obviously have no reason to raise my taxes.
Allan B. White, Hanapepe
Return trips aren’t free
To the couple from Utah. Your trip is not free! We won a trip in 1979 and got hooked on Hawaii. The first trip may have been free, but we have spent some big bucks coming back because we longed for the beauty and aloha of these amazing islands. We’re visiting now on trip number 24. Save your money because I’m certain you won’t be able to resist coming back.
Art Ringwald, Oakdale, Minnesota
