tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7875069982976812251.post3058673080036823916..comments2023-10-17T04:51:08.765-10:00Comments on KauaiEclectic: Musings: More for LessJoan Conrowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00172330100788007499noreply@blogger.comBlogger14125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7875069982976812251.post-71113691473212708182011-04-19T18:25:00.489-10:002011-04-19T18:25:00.489-10:00I can gather from your writings that you have a go...I can gather from your writings that you have a good heart and care deeply about people, animals, the beauty of nature and our community. You write about issues that move you and like it or not much of what is happening here and elsewhere isn't so positive. Yet I still appreciate your writing about it. We can stick our heads in the sand or be real about what's going on. How else do we affect change unless we acknowledge the negative? Your writings are thought provoking, inspirational and informative. Its one of my favorite daily reads.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7875069982976812251.post-26609993830053894532011-04-19T17:00:15.090-10:002011-04-19T17:00:15.090-10:00"Planning Commission when they attach conditi..."Planning Commission when they attach conditions (demanded by the public) that local people be employed."<br /><br /><br />-because the courts have said a condition like that is illegal?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7875069982976812251.post-42760249188252617082011-04-19T12:02:32.391-10:002011-04-19T12:02:32.391-10:00"when they attach conditions (demanded by the..."when they attach conditions (demanded by the public) that local people be employed"<br /><br />which is illegal, but go on.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7875069982976812251.post-1074677581242063132011-04-19T09:55:12.950-10:002011-04-19T09:55:12.950-10:00I encourage you to look for the good in people and...<em>I encourage you to look for the good in people and believe perhaps that they and most people, have goodness in their heart.</em><br /><br />Anyone who feels compelled to offer me this advice knows nothing about me - or what's in my heart and mind.Joan Conrowhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00172330100788007499noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7875069982976812251.post-37146519151842126792011-04-19T08:29:26.132-10:002011-04-19T08:29:26.132-10:00Joan,
Some of us diss you because we love your wr...Joan, <br />Some of us diss you because we love your writing ability and your commitment to the community, but have seen you turning oh so negative during the past two years or so. You have increasingly turned to judgeing and dissing peoples motives, intent and character rather than focusing on their actions.<br /><br />Just because someone chooses a path that you do not agree with does not make them a bad person. Just cause someone is wealthy or famous and perhaps does not "get it" with regards to local values,does not make them evil and deserving of ridicule and denigration.<br /><br />I encourage you to look for the good in people and believe perhaps that they and most people, have goodness in their heart. They may need education as to Kauai ways, history and culture and they may make choices you/me/we do not agree with, and when they do so they should be called on it for what it is. But the discussion should be on the facts, content and impacts of the decision and not on personal condemnation, ridicule and sarcasm thinking that we/you know what is in the persons mind and heart.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7875069982976812251.post-78608315328182963292011-04-19T07:05:08.072-10:002011-04-19T07:05:08.072-10:00they fill the plane with their imported stateside ...they fill the plane with their imported stateside workers.<br /><br />Good luck enforing those concepts. Corps will always hire the brightest at the lowest cost. We can't compete.<br />Stay in school and pay attention.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7875069982976812251.post-53905189639715839992011-04-18T22:59:08.342-10:002011-04-18T22:59:08.342-10:00keep on writing girlfriend!
haters keep on hating ...keep on writing girlfriend!<br />haters keep on hating while the world turns. u da bestest! keep it up : )Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7875069982976812251.post-38400191877491078652011-04-18T22:04:45.251-10:002011-04-18T22:04:45.251-10:00How dare you diss the philanthropists who provide ...How dare you diss the philanthropists who provide so much to the island. So we lose access and public shorelines. It's all worth it when you see the happy faces of the tourists staying in these luxurious rentals as they gaze out the picture window upon the now private beach.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7875069982976812251.post-3388642475317574402011-04-18T18:13:40.047-10:002011-04-18T18:13:40.047-10:00TO: April 18, 2011 12:09 PM
This also falls to th...TO: April 18, 2011 12:09 PM<br /><br />This also falls to the Planning Commission when they attach conditions (demanded by the public) that local people be employed. But even still as you will notice with places like COstco and HomeDespot, they fill the plane with their imported stateside workers.<br />Evidently these stateside corps donʻt have that much faith or trust in the local persons of the lands they encroach.<br />Itʻs the Planning Commission - again.<br />Thanks Joan.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7875069982976812251.post-79963835518848635912011-04-18T16:01:42.165-10:002011-04-18T16:01:42.165-10:00It's sad to see temporary vacation rentals tak...It's sad to see temporary vacation rentals take away from the hotels that are currently seeing only 60% occupancy. The hotel workers need the jobs which TVR's don't support. In any case, we should diversify our economy so we're less dependent on tourism. The rich tourists are moving to Kauai and Hawaii and raising the price of housing! We need to support Ag too! Aloha.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7875069982976812251.post-10371278801957238692011-04-18T15:11:02.220-10:002011-04-18T15:11:02.220-10:00Killing the golden goose for whom? Off island cor...Killing the golden goose for whom? Off island corporations that take most of the profits out of state? Unions have their place. If not for them hotel workers would be making piss-ass wages w/ little to no benefits. Rank and file deserve to earn a decent living for these service jobs especially since the local community is impacted in many negative ways by the commodification of Hawaii and because our government officials are too short-sighted to diversify our economy.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7875069982976812251.post-4689971898653107182011-04-18T12:34:55.284-10:002011-04-18T12:34:55.284-10:00Another case of unions killing the golden gooseAnother case of unions killing the golden gooseAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7875069982976812251.post-32675458394349540262011-04-18T12:09:32.223-10:002011-04-18T12:09:32.223-10:00Joan I am in total support of your take on tourism...Joan I am in total support of your take on tourism. I worked in the industry for over 25 years quitting in disgust over the grueling hours, night, weekend and holiday work and the instability of the industry itself i.e. hurricanes Iwa & Iniki, economic downturns, soaring fuel prices that impact the cost of airline tickets, natural disasters elsewhere like the Japan tsunami. This inadvertently results in layoffs and less hours of work. So we have hotel workers working multiple jobs to barely make ends meet. My husband finds himself in this situation right now. Only there are few other jobs out there.<br /><br />The proliferation of tvrs has impacted hotel occupancy and our current inventory of rooms aren't being filled. Why on earth would we continue to allow more hotels to be developed when we can't even fill what we already have?<br /><br /><br />The bigger reason for my distaste of the industry is the continued rape of the land and disenfranchisement of kanaka from the 'aina. Offshore owners who have no concept of community and will hire workers from Texas when local construction workers are hurting for work. So much for the promise of "jobs" that these companies use to win approval of their projects. Auwe no ho'i!!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7875069982976812251.post-88739552115215269682011-04-18T09:22:12.299-10:002011-04-18T09:22:12.299-10:00"Amazing how many people read this blog for t..."Amazing how many people read this blog for the sake of dissing you...get a life..."<br /><br />I think, or at least I hope, there are more of us who read your blog because of your point of view, because there is reality in what you write.Andrew Cooperhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16404795276468632488noreply@blogger.com