Simple lesson in aloha

It boggles the mind why all these moralizing nannies and business-owner millionaires are so obsessed on a few impoverished people. Have they nothing better to do? Why do they care about a few citizens who can’t make it on $7 and hour.

There are some long-haired kids sitting on the seawall enjoying the the sun, and a handful of guys minding their own business in the industrial area. That’s the big homeless problem.

As far as those asking for money, in all of Kona from downtown to Costco, there are about six people with cardboard signs asking for help. I’ve been here for years and have counted them, there are only six. We know who they are, we see them every day.

There are many more homeless and thousands on welfare, but they are all unseen or living in their houses, all out of sight. So for these indignant letter-writers to fixate on five or six poor people in a town of 50,000 shows they are abysmally petty and have nothing in the world to do all day.

There is no homeless problem, but there is a bigot problem, a prejudice problem and a curmudgeon problem. When you see someone in need, you help them, it’s called being human.

There is a Hawaiian word that means the same thing, if these complainers want to live here they should learn it, the word is aloha.

Dennis Gregory

Kailua-Kona