• Keep county’s hand out of Kekaha’s pot • Bring on the good doctor • One-way free trade Keep county’s hand out of Kekaha’s pot Regarding The Garden Island front-page story “Kekaha groups presented community project proposals” published Dec. 14:
• Keep county’s hand out of Kekaha’s pot • Bring on the good
doctor • One-way free trade
Keep county’s hand out of Kekaha’s pot
Regarding The Garden Island front-page story “Kekaha groups presented community project proposals” published Dec. 14: This money received by the Kekaha Community for hosting Kauai’s landfill and given by the federal government should be handled by the Town Hall Committee only. The county should not be allowed to make decisions on how money is spent and distributed. For this reason, they have a Town Hall Committee.
All of the proposals — fine arts hula, trashology101, micro-food forest, renewable energy for school, photovoltaics for residents and home renovation — are all sweet and will benefit the Kekaha Community. Hopefully, these proposals can materialize and be done.
It is my understanding by word of mouth that most of the residents that showed up to the meeting were elderly and nothing was mentioned for them, especially the elderly who live closest to the landfill — the whole length since the land fill began — up to present. It shouldn’t matter whether they own or rent a home. They are the ones that had the blunt of the health hazards, such as asthma and respiratory infections, by inhaling the fine dust and odors from the landfill. Compensate them with some cash that was allotted for the community from the federal government to help with their medical bills or to buy something for themselves.
Keep the county’s hand out of the pot and let the Town Hall Committee carry out the sweet proposals and care for the elderly residents living closest to the landfill, who face the health hazards.
Howard Tolbe, ‘Ele‘ele
Bring on the good doctor
Despite a status media blackballing, Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul rallies an almost miraculous grassroots groundswell force, sweeping up broad demographics from coast to coast with his now-decades-old tenet of small government, sound money, true free markets, anti-foreign aid, anti-empire building and war mongering, pro individual liberty and preserving the U.S. Constitution and Bill of Rights — an unwavering resonance now very popular everywhere but Madison Avenue — a message all but snuffed by king-making, megabank, globalist, technocratic oligarchs.
Congressman Paul has the pulse — a pro-life medical doctor, who is anti-communist health care, anti-Drug Enforcement Agency, who claims as president he would, for example, dismantle the slave master Federal Reserve Bank, pardon imprisoned non-violent drug offenders, while not burning the welfare system out of hand.
Fascinatingly unconventional, the guy simply looks to our founding documents for guidance. Paul gets to the heart of the matter: our Constitution. American’s freedom and God-given rights are now stacked against an over reaching, treacherous, criminal federal government making unjust, illegal war, bleeding tax payers dry and obliterating the line between Wall Street and Washington D.C.
Regardless of who wins in 2012, the “99.9 percent” are going to lose. Just how bad and broad the pain will be is still fully unknown and shall be placed for posterity at the feet of the president. The question now is who will lead us into more darkness of tyranny or a light of liberty.
Obama and company sit presently as fraudulent.
I say bring on the good doctor.
Rolf Bieber, Kapa‘a
One-way free trade
Thank you again for another almost comical Garden Island (contributed) editorial (“On lowering trade barriers,” Dec. 17), which advocates the wonderful benefits of our modern, global “free-trade” agreements. And thank you again for an excellent illustration of the distortions and half truths perpetrated by the bottomless-pit-funded, corporate-sponsored media, which controls over 90 percent of our so-called “public airwaves” and “free press.”
Fortunately, many of the less easily swayed folks are beginning to see through the conundrum of the “global-corporate octopus” with tentacles cunningly circumventing national borders; while for the less fortunate, less globally mobile folks must hope to find living wage jobs on one or the other side of these national borders.
The first world has gradually become a giant retail market — with high standards, regulations and consequently, higher costs — with mostly low-wage retail jobs, while the third world has gradually become a giant manufacturing and engineering market — with low standards, regulations and consequently, lower costs — with mostly low-wage manufacturing jobs and an inability to purchase most of the goods they produce, because those goods can be sold in the first-world retail markets at significantly higher prices — often with a 50-to-one mark up, which equates to 50 squared, or over 2,500 percent profit.
The only reason the “global-corporate octopus” still allows the first-world nations to manufacture and engineer airplanes, automobiles and defense technology is because these three industries are vital to defend the octopus’ circular, “one-way free-trade” agreement.
For more on this subject, see these past Garden Island (contributed) editorials: “Corporate power is not capitalism” (Dec. 5), “Decentralized power” (Dec. 11), “Reading between the lines” Dec. 1) and “Time to reintegrate” (Dec. 5). May coherent intelligence blossom.
Peter Ronan, Kalaheo
