Tear down that toll booth, Hilton Head Island | Letters
I don’t like hearing or reading irritating complaints about stuff we can’t control (like why isn’t a golf hole 7 inches in diameter?). But I would like to editorialize about something that maybe we as a community can control.
Has anyone noticed that U.S. 278 on Hilton Head Island is crumbling? It must be the snowplows and salt, right? I have some experience with gravel and dirt roads, but am not sure 3 million visitors know about throwing rocks.
Not to be one without a solution, can I ask the Town of Hilton Head Island to offer to buy the Cross Island Parkway? It would seem to me to be a great deal. An almost unused highway, bridge and land for a couple million?
The question we must ask ourselves is, “Would tearing down that toll booth free up traffic on U.S. 278 on the island’s north end, where voters live?”
Please don’t tell me that the state of South Carolina won’t accept some “right now” money.
Russell Chandler
Hilton Head Island
Good reasons to go vegan
Thanks to The Packet and Gazette editors for running in the Feb. 29 online Saturday edition the column “Black America is going vegan for good reason” by Zachary Toliver from PETA.
The author makes an interesting argument that it especially makes sense for the black community to go vegan. But he also references reasons why all of us should go vegan, or at least sharply reduce our consumption of meat and dairy.
For example, animal agriculture plays a major role in accelerating climate change and has a devastating effect on the environment in general.
For me, Mr. Toliver’s most powerful argument is the ethical one. I am confident that future generations will look back on us with disgust and dismay that we so heartlessly subjected many billions of sentient creatures to lives of cruel confinement followed by inhumane slaughter.
Kay Oliver Hodnett
Hilton Head Island
Trump doing what U.S. needs
Liberals think President Donald Trump has done something wrong.
Why is it incorrect for him to act like a businessman? We elected him to clean up a corrupt government, and he is trying to, but he has the misfortune to follow a president who had a socialist soul.
Is it wrong to be a tough guy with another nation’s leader, especially if they want something? If the United States is going to give them money and/or military aid, shouldn’t we expect them to behave in a supportive manner? Joe Biden did.
U.S. citizens were getting disgusted with our past president for his “subservient” demeanor, and the way he would let other countries steal American resources. The United States became a money-tree for the world. The Democrats are still willing to sacrifice the U.S. economy for European welfare.
The United States lost all international respect. Instead of being a world leader, we willingly started walking behind others with our heads lowered.
However, let Trump display a strong leadership policy and the liberals go nuts. Try getting a loan from any institution and see if they don’t lay a few rules on you, and then see what happens when you don’t comply with their conditions. You don’t follow their rules, you lose.
Clifton Jester
Bluffton
Fact check on Trump and the pandemic
In response to a recent letter, President Donald Trump disbanded the pandemic response team in 2018 to save money. Easy fact check.
If we are not in a pandemic, we are very close.
Warren Goddard
Lady’s Island
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