• Dog food tax would be better answer • Shame on you, Landing vandals • The answer is simple: sheep are led • GMO, pesticide use is scary enough Dog food tax would be better answer The proposed increase in dog
• Dog food tax would be better answer • Shame on you, Landing vandals • The answer is simple: sheep are led • GMO, pesticide use is scary enough
Dog food tax would be better answer
The proposed increase in dog fees is silly, inefficient and will make it ruff, ruff on the hunters.
Do you really think people around here are going to send in the money for this and stay current?
A tax on dog food would be guaranteed, collected by Big Save and others, and paid by all who bought it.
Heck, who knows, it may even bring in extra money from humans who are eating it.
Mahalo!
David Kundysek, Koloa
Shame on you, Landing vandals
Have you been to the Waimea Landing or pier on the West Side? It’s a great place for residents and visitors alike to go for walks, fish, picnic, whale watching or just relax. You get a nice view of Niihau, sunset views from the pier can be awesome, and on rare occasions, you look mauka and are blessed to see rainbows.
The roof at the end of the landing provides respite from the scorching sun, especially for people who fish and picnic there.
There is or was a picnic table there where people could picnic or snack, and fishermen could sit and talk stories while waiting for that big “strike.”
Imagine my surprise one weekend when I went there to fish only to discover that someone had removed one side of the bench. And just past weekend I went back and the other side bench was also removed. Now, only the table top is left. My goodness!
Whoever did this obviously doesn’t have any consideration or respect for other people’s property. Did you need material to build your own bench? Did you need firewood to build a fire for your campsite? Or did you just think it would be a cool thing to do? What’s next? Are you going to remove the table top and perhaps use it to make a raft or canoe to take a scenic tour of the beautiful coastline? Besides lugging fishing equipment, refreshments, and other necessities are we now supposed to bring our own chairs?
Come on people, please think of the consequences of your actions. Maybe you don’t use the landing, but others do. For all you know, it could be your auntie, uncle, cousin, grandparents that enjoyed that picnic table!
Rene Muraoka, Hanapepe
The answer is simple: sheep are led
So how’s everything working so far in America today?
Women in the U.S. Army are issued rape whistles along with body armor, in case a fellow U.S. soldier attacks them.
Edward Snowden alerted the world that some people who work for the U.S. government have set up the proverbial “big brother system” and have asked (coerced) the free market to help them spy on “just foreigners’’ (unless they happen to converse in any way with Americans, then America can spy on Americans, too).
And that is only the first hurdle. Once spying on Americans, for any reason, is accepted by the general populace, then what follows?
Just remember one thing, everything is done by people. Fascist leaders are people. Their followers and supporters were people. Government employees who exhibit morally reprehensible behavior to further their own personal goals … are people.
But they are also our employees and they answer to unified voices. We have a deficit of almost $17 trillion, and this was accomplished by both parties.
Anyone who really believes we have a two-party system is lying to themselves. Just a few people from each party are really representatives of that party; most politicians are serving themselves and the people who give them things. They laugh and drink martinis in buildings bought and paid for by the people.
We went from the “greatest generation” to what we have now. And the reason is simple. We got lazy, we want everything to be easy, we all want to be rich, we all want what someone else has and we do not care about anyone or anything else.
And that is the worst thing. We do not care about each other — we pretend that we do, but we really don’t. We care about personal friends and family but not about each other as a nation. How often do we extend kindness to strangers? Do you trust strangers? Out of every one million strangers, one might be evil, which is no reason to distrust or dislike all strangers.
And this “me generation” is turning America into something that would horrify the people who wrote our Constitution.
When we act like sheep, we are sheep.
And that is not something our forefathers wanted or expected.
Dennis Chaquette, Keaau
GMO, pesticide use is scary enough
Recent letters regarding Bill 2491 have resorted to name-calling and scare tactics to present the opposition voice.
Bill 2491 does not call for a ban on industrial agriculture practiced by the seed companies. It requires transparency, protection of neighborhoods, and prevention of pollution for waterways and shorelines. There are many municipalities in the USA which have restrictions on pesticide use.
Certified organic farms are required to establish buffer zones, disclose every phase of their operation, have every single input reviewed, and submit to annual inspections and fees. This has not put our farm out of business.
It is sad that the seed companies are mistreating their employees by injecting them with fear of job losses. Regulations to protect the other 50,000 people on Kauai are not going to put these mega-billion dollar companies out of business nor cause 600 people to lose their jobs.
The health of our tiny island is being sacrificed to grow seeds to “help feed the world.” Right now, we don’t even grow enough food on Kauai to feed ourselves.
Countries like Japan, the Philippines, Brazil, India, and the EU reject GMO foods and ban certain crops. This cliché is becoming an empty promise.
These companies apply as much as 18 tons of restricted use pesticides here annually and an unknown amount of non-restricted pesticides and chemical fertilizers.
A list of these poisons can be found at StopPoisoningParadise.org. Check out the MSDS labels online with your web search engine. This is scary stuff. No tactics needed.
Louisa Wooton, Kilauea
