Pubdate: Wed, 16 Mar 2016 Source: West Hawaii Today (HI) Copyright: 2016 West Hawaii Today Contact: http://www.westhawaiitoday.com/contact_us/letters/ Website: http://westhawaiitoday.com/ Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/644 Referenced: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v16/n141/a11.html Author: Frank Dickinson DON'T FALL FOR SPIN FROM THE LEFT There were two letters in today's paper (March 9, "Vote Bernie") that were interesting and somewhat telling regarding the mentality of the left. The first from Stan White advocating Bernie for president. While neither he nor Clinton would be of any value to our country, justifying a vote for someone because they would help to legalize the use of marijuana in Hawaii is somewhat moronic. Bernie, if elected, would attempt to bankrupt our nation with new and yet unheard of taxes in an effort to make everything "free" to those who are unwilling to work for a living. Perhaps Stan thinks his pot would be free also? Reading the letter from Dean Nagasako, "Hawaii government out of control") gave me another laugh to say the least. He sounds like one of the tired old sovereignty crowd that never gets tired of trying to convince people of Hawaii that renouncing statehood would do something good for Hawaii. The truth that he implied but would not come right out and admit is that Democrats have been destroying Hawaii for over 50 years and the people are in such a rut they are afraid of change. Funny how the left wing will skip around the facts and come up with any number of excuses to blame others for the corruption and destruction they cause our cities, counties, states and country! Of course, every time any of us want to make issue of the Democrat destruction, they throw Gov. Lingle in our face - conveniently forgetting that even though we had a Republican governor for a few years, the legislators were still Democrats and did their best to make sure she couldn't accomplish much of value. In truth, most Hawaiians are happy being part of the USA and just don't "rally around the flag" for fear of repercussions from family or friends that choose not to appreciate what they have and refuse to acknowledge what they would lose if they weren't part of the USA. Frank Dickinson Kailua-Kona - --- MAP posted-by: Matt