Government must sacrifice

Why can't government learn to live within its means as the rest of us do?

A lot of time is spent working on budgets, etc., and then bureaucrats exceed their limits and start scrounging around looking for “;idle dollars”; to put Band-Aid solutions to permanent problems.

Let's not kid ourselves; we just have too much government. Don't cut programs. Cut government!

Kudos to Obama for cutting nuclear arms

At last, we have a president who has taken the initiative to cut back on our own, and through example, the nuclear arsenals of other nations with stockpiles and stockpile wannabes.

It is foolish to continue developing and stockpiling such weapons because:

» The funding of their development could be spent on more urgent human needs.

» We have an excess of weapons to destroy the whole planet.

» The greater the number of stockpilers, the more vulnerable we all are to the actions of some trigger-happy zealot who will begin a nuclear war.

Which attitude is more likely to lead to peace? The answer is clear.

It is simply immoral to wipe out entire nations, cities, populations—whether by nuclear weapons or others.

What hubris we have!

Reverend spoke only for his own church

The Rev. Ron Williams spoke only for himself and his Nuuanu Avenue church when he wrote, “;The United Church of Christ, the denomination of which I serve, has long been the defenders and advocates of gay and lesbian rights”; (”;Pass civil unions bill to assure rights, not religion,”; Star-Bulletin, Island Commentary, April 7). ALL UCC churches are unique and independent, as opposed to other Christian churches that are governed by an administrative body.

In other words, Williams does not, and cannot, speak for my UCC church, nor hundreds of others in the United States. Certainly neither the national nor local UCC administrative office does not speak for us either. Our unconditional and loving God stresses values.

For what reason will we raid a fund next?

OMG! That's “;Oh, My God.”;

Our lovely elected politicians want to use our hurricane relief fund to meet the demands of a union. Which group will be next?

Most of us are hurting because of the Furlough Fridays, even the teachers who don't work because they're not getting paid. But what are we going to do when a real disaster hits us?

Mr. and Ms. Legislator: Fix the real problem!

That would be the broken education system we currently have in our Hawaii. We have the state Department of Education, the Board of Education and a strong union—all of which has zero accountability to the governor, whom you all are blaming.

Wake up, Hawaii. These are the same folks we continue to elect who are killing our state.