Kona Kohala Blog

Can we please forget about the health care bill for a while, at least until we solve the economy problem?  If the congress and the president and all his men would put as much energy into the jobless problem as they're putting into this health care bill that almost no one cares about, we might make head way towards getting people back to work.

This country is falling apart and no one is doing anything about it.  What a waste.  The average person on unemployment has been there for 8 months and the number of new people joining them continues to climb.  This increase seems to always be a surprise to those in the know; have we hired too many idiots to manage our country, it seems so.

We're all concerned about the housing industry, the consumer confidence, the Gross Domestic Product and on and on but who's worried about health care?  I know lots of people are but not to the degree they're worried about jobs.  Reducing our unemployment from near 10% to 6% or so would put a lot of people back on company health insurance plans.  Encouraging new business would do the same.

The problem was never a lack of health insurance, it was a problem of affordable health insurance.  If the government would tackle the cost of health insurance and work on tort reform so the health providers could afford their insurance we might see some positive change.  It's all about putting people back to work and not at some government agency.

I'm watching our housing market turn around here in Hawaii, especially in North Kona and South Kohala.  I know it's a limited turn around.  It's being fueled by those wise individuals who have always saved a part of their income.  Those who have lived below their means.  Those who have strived to live without debt.  These are the people buying homes now.  They're the ones who saved for their retirement and didn't rely on the government.

They now see great deals on homes in paradise and they're going for them.  Unfortunately, we only have a small number of such people.  We live in a society that relies on someone else to take care of them.  If things don't go right, they blame someone else.  These people are like our politicians who are so quick to claim credit buy reluctant to claim responsibility.

Forget the health care people in Washington and work on some effective taxation that will put this country back to work.