Coach McMackin dropping the ball

Warriors head coach Greg McMackin shrugs off the lack of national media exposure and interest in the stellar accomplishments of our star quarterback, Bryant Moniz, saying, "Maybe the mainland is a ways away."

You gotta be kidding! What a wimp. Grow up. Take a stance. Do something. Take a page from the June Jones book. He created a tsunami of media attention when he proclaimed that his quarterback, Colt Brennan, would win the coveted Heisman Trophy.

Coach Jones didn’t sit back. He created interest by bold, courageous and proactive moves.

Economics 101 could be useful

These union workers at the Hilton Hawaiian Village and many of the Republican tea party candidates apparently have never taken Economics 101.

The hotel workers should wait another year before asking for more concessions from Hilton. The national economy is just starting to recover.

The tea party candidates should know that we cannot keep the Bush-era tax cuts without bankrupting the country. Cut-and-spend policies are unsustainable in the long run.

Voters to blame for sad situation

We elect for a leader of the wealthiest country in the world a man who has never managed so much as a paper route.

We elect government representatives because their names are the same as TV anchors or other well-known people.

We elect mayors who have no business or engineering experience to manage the city through billions of dollars worth of infrastructure projects.

We are seriously considering electing a governor who has not been employed in Hawaii for more than 30 years.

And we wonder why we are broke and in deep kim chee.

Health care must be affordable

Politicians need to stop padding their pocketbooks by blocking affordable health care for all.

The sooner we move forward the sooner we all benefit.

Insurance companies perpetuate fear to inflate health care costs. This practice needs to stop and be outlawed.

We need fair, honest health care practices so that we may all benefit. Health care needs to be affordable for all and not burden one socioeconomic group like the middle class.

Contract dispute hurts customers

Thanks to a Hawaii Pacific Health article in the Star-Advertiser and a letter from HMSA, we now know that failure to solve the HMSA and Hawaii Pacific Health dispute over a new contract could result in some subscribers having to pay significantly more for health care.

Hey, both you guys, stop the blame game, act like big boys and girls, and sit down with each other and do not leave until you solve the problems and sign the contract.

In this land of aloha, how do you have the nerve to refuse to compromise and serve your customers?

Base sex ed on science only

Insanity is defined as doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result.

That is what we have here with abstinence-based sex education and those who push it.

We see teen pregnancy escalate here in Hawaii along with STDs and what does Pattie Ceci call for — abstinence only ("Mentoring programs can help youth abstain from sex," Star-Advertiser, Letters, Oct. 15). Why? Because "Just say no" worked so well on the war on drugs? Oh wait. No, it didn’t.

If you want to see teen pregnancy levels go down along with STD levels, then sink that $10 million into science-only based sex education.