Ige should cut salary and go on furlough
Gov. David Ige should start from the top down in reducing the budget.
How about all heads of state departments, including the governor, reduce their salaries to that of an entry-level teacher, be placed on furlough and still complete their jobs?
He is asking teachers to reduce their pay and take furloughs without considering the consequences to the future leaders of our state, the children of Hawaii.
Be brave, governor: Reduce your salary.
Ernella Kiyuna
Aiea
State-funded health care would cost too much
I wholeheartedly have to disagree with Anne Wheelock (“Hawaii residents need state-funded health care,” Star-Advertiser, Letters, Dec. 10). She goes on to say state-funded child care would be welcomed as well.
It sounds great at face value, but can you imagine what kind of taxes we’d all be paying if the state was funding health care and child care for all? Call it “state funded” if you will, but the reality of such things comes at a price. The people will still be paying for these things, but now indirectly and unfairly through gigantic tax and fee increases. State-funded will always mean resident-funded.
Michael Young
St. Louis Heights
Learn to use technology instead of complaining
To the many seniors who are grumbling they do not know how to upload information for the travel coronavirus test, why are you not following the advice that you gave us as kids? Look it up!
One word: Google. The search engine can teach you anything. Want to replace your transmission? How to cook a lobster? Change a tire? Upload a doc on a desktop tablet, or phone? Anything you want.
It will direct you to a bunch of tutorials on how to do anything. Knowledge is power.
Liz Dunn
Punchbowl
COMFORT AND JOY
2020 has been a whopper of a year: the COVID-19 pandemic, economic hurt, politics and elections. But surely there is much to appreciate, much that brings joy.
In the spirit of the season, we are accepting letters (150 words max) and essays (500-600 words) with uplifting messages to share during this holiday season; the deadline is 5 p.m. Dec. 16.
Email to letters@staradvertiser.com; or send to 500 Ala Moana Blvd. #7-210, Honolulu 96813, c/o Letters.
