• Close stores to prevent gridlock during disasters • Obama spends billions on jobs, but not in America • Elections and shearwaters • How do you choose to vote? • Lingle is a free-thinking candidate Close stores to prevent gridlock
• Close stores to prevent gridlock during disasters • Obama spends billions on jobs, but not in America • Elections and shearwaters • How do you choose to vote? • Lingle is a free-thinking candidate
Close stores to prevent gridlock during disasters
In view of Saturday night’s traffic gridlock — something that happens every time an evacuation order is issued — why not simply mandate that all stores and gas stations close upon the issuance of the warning? People would be forced to head straight home and the roads would clear much faster. In the event that a catastrophic tsunami does hit, this might save numerous lives.
Ann Leighton
Kapa‘a
Obama spends billions on jobs, but not in America
GM was bailed out with 50 billion taxpayer dollars, so what happened to that money? GM built two new plants and raised their employment by 55 percent. The problem with that is, it all took place in China, and they still laid off and closed plants here in America.
Then Obama gave $355 million to a Brazilian company, Embraer, to manufacture our military light aircraft, no jobs for America.
Then he spent $529 million with Fisker to build an electric car — in Finland, still no American jobs.
Another $2.4 billion went to foreign companies (not in America) to develop wind farms here in the U.S.
Like Romney said, he spent $90 billion on this kind of stuff? Now he wants to close over 200 coal-fired plants. May I ask why? Someone please tell me why.
Then we find out Big Bird is worth more than $400 million. I found all these facts on the web pages of ABC, NBC, CBS and CNN. Please care enough about our country to look this stuff up, it is all fact.
Michael O’Brien
Willows, Calif.
Elections and shearwaters
There are two things that are very disturbing.
First: The Japanese man who served in the American Japanese Army and was very patriotic. He was on his death bed, worried about his casting a vote for November 2012.
To make a long story short, he filled an early voting form and voted for his choice of politicians (the president, especially). Now he is dead. My deepest sympathy to the family.
The last I heard is that his vote will not count if his death certificate is processed before Nov. 6, and is in the hand of the person over the counting process.
Something has just got to be wrong with the voting procedures. One’s vote won’t count for what’s mentioned above. However, we are able to vote for someone who is dead and whose name is left on the ballot.
Secondly: Why have we gone through two seasons with the high schools’ football games played during the day? So the stadium lights can remain off during shearwater season?
Yet nothing is mentioned that the corn fields should keep their lights off. The shearwaters can fly into the lights there, too. Their lights stay on all night.
Just something that need to be re-thinked.
Howard Tolbe
‘Ele‘ele
How do you choose to vote?
How does one determine who to vote for? There are debates, conventions, advertisements and rallies where you become familiar with candidates.
Sometimes you personally know someone, or that candidate once did you or a family member a favor. Maybe you just like the looks of one candidate over another, maybe the candidate is the same religion as you or has the same skin color as you. You may even like the political views of the candidate, imagine that. There are as many ways of determining who to vote for as there are fish in the sea.
My method is somewhat unconventional. Being a news junkie and a huge fan of late night comedy, I enjoy the candidates that make news for controversial things and are easy to make fun of. Remember George W. Bush? The late night comedians had their hey-day when Dubya was in office. He was easy to impersonate and make fun of, as was Sarah Palin.
With that said, I like being entertained and really don’t believe one man or woman will make a difference. Therefore I vote for the candidate that is most easy to mock, make fun of and ridicule. The ones that always make news with something stupid they did, or the ones that are easy to make jokes about.
How I long for the days of Dubya, Clinton and Jimmy Carter.
James “Kimo” Rosen
Kapa‘a
Lingle is a free-thinking candidate
It is well known that Linda Lingle is pro-choice — in contrast to the national Republican Party, which is pro-life.
This simple fact disproves the false allegations of desperate Democrats claiming that Lingle is not independent and will always toe the party line.
On Nov. 6, voters will get to choose between an independent-minded moderate Republican and a left-wing Democrat whose socialist views are so extreme that she voted against the free trade agreement with South Korea and therefore against the interests of the farmers and agricultural industry of Hawai‘i, unlike the other Democrats in Hawai‘i’s congressional delegation.
Ben K. Azman, M.D.
Lahaina, Maui
