Rooted in Reason
December 29, 2009
Keeping Up With Health Care Reform in the New Year?
Do you find that no matter how many headlines you read in the newspaper concerning health care reform in an effort to keep up, you still feel hopelessly left behind? You're not alone. Read the following breakdown and pass it along to your friends. The more informed you are, the more convincing you'll be when explaining to others how worse off we'll be with greater government intrusion into our health. (more)
Rooted in Reason
December 21, 2009
In Hawaii, We Must End the Mail-in Election Ballots
We take the secret ballot as so essential to our form of government that many think it is required by the Constitution. Thus it comes as a surprise to most people to find that the secret ballot was not adopted in the U.S. until 1892 — more than a hundred years after the country’s founding. (more)
Rooted in Reason
December 16, 2009
Porkers Also Abound Across the Pond
Recession or not, government spending abounds, as evidenced by Mayor Hannemann's recent $10,000 televised speech promoting rail transit. As of June of last year, the city had already spent about $2.6 million in taxpayer money on rail promotion. Perhaps Hannemann is practicing wasteful spending for future Congressional ambitions. (more)
Rooted in Reason
December 14, 2009
Myth Continues Concerning Hawaii's Unemployment Rate
The media and government remain intent on concealing Hawaii's true unemployment rate. Do not make the mistake of taking data by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics at face value. While the Bureau claims that Hawaii's unemployment rate remained steady at 7.2 percent in October, the truth is thatit is actually 14.5 percent, more than double the reported rate (and exceeding the reported national unemployment rate). (more)
Rooted in Reason
December 09, 2009
Jones Act Lawsuit Irks Federal Government
Federal judge David Ezra chose to toss a lawsuit seeking to overturn the Jones Act, an 89-year-old law that restricts interstate shipping to Hawaii to only U.S.-built and U.S.-flagged ships. Earlier this fall, Honolulu attorneys John Carroll and Christopher Dias filed the suit against the U.S. government on the basis that the Jones Act infringes upon the Commerce Clause of the Constitution. (more)
Rooted in Reason
December 04, 2009
Hawaii: Eliminate State Jobs, Save Money For Real Stimulus
A real stimulus should include a provision for eliminating government jobs of which there are too many and costing too much . On the Big Island, the County Council is examining 193 vacant positions to see which ones can be eliminated. Councilman Dominic Yagong of Hamakua says, "It's a no-brainer. We need to unfund these vacant positions to deal with the budget deficit." (more)
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