TSA agents should not
be treated this way
My understanding is TSA agents are being forced to work without pay because Congress is upset how ICE is conducting its detentions, arrests and deportations.
Not paying TSA agents because Congress doesn’t like ICE operations is like throwing a rock through your neighbor’s window because you don’t like what happened at work. One doesn’t have anything to do with the other.
Congress should not hold TSA agents, their families and the traveling public hostage because they can’t get their act together.
Two points to keep in mind. First, through evolving procedures and technology, TSA has made sure another 9-11 has not happened. Second, during the first and now this second partial government shutdown, everyone in Congress got and is getting paid.
Ted H.S. Hong
Hilo
‘Death, destruction
and regime change’
Since the dawn of time, mankind to this current day deals in the art of war.
Can anyone give me a plausible explanation and difference between the Ukraine war that Russian President Vladimir Putin initiated four years ago, and the war U.S. President Donald Trump has recently started with Iran?
In my mind’s eye, all I clearly see is the same theme as in all wars of past history, which is death, destruction and regime change.
When will world leaders learn that there are no winners in the art of war? As one poet said before, we need to “give peace a chance.”
Prentiss Moreno
Hilo
Opposed to casino
gambling in 91直播
I am against the proposed legalization of casino gambling in 91直播, but not for reasons of morality.
Many who gamble do so because they believe that luck is the only way they’ll ever have enough money to live well.
Casinos are corporations that are machines engineered to extract money from a community that does not have enough to begin with. Those profits all go to mainland corporations.
As we all know, the house always wins, and thus the community loses.
Russ Button
Pahoa
Comparing bridges,
both large and small
A story in other media states that the county is claiming that a new bridge to Coconut Island will take a least three years to build. This is for a distance of less than a quarter of a mile.
How interesting it is to learn that the San Francisco Bay Bridge, eight miles from San Francisco to Oakland, was built between 1933 and 1936, about three years. And, there were no computers to help design it.
This reminds me of back in the early 1990s when John Clark, of the former Fiasco’s restaurant, ran a contest to guess the completion date of the Wailoa River bridge that was taking longer to build than even the Golden Gate Bridge.
The winner was to get a free trip to the Golden Gate Bridge.
Bob Alder
Hilo
