05-05-2015, 04:11 PM
Gypsy69,
I'm afraid I am completely baffled by the logic in your last post. Let me try and explain things as simply as I can because I think you do not understand the situation regarding the $1.4 billion.
The funding for the TMT project comes from several governments, research councils, universities etc. This is money already set aside for scientific research and education. That money will not come here if the TMT is not built here. If that happens, the money will be spent on building the TMT elsewhere, or in my opinion, more likely spent on other scientific projects elsewhere, and almost certainly not here. The Big Island will lose the high-paid job opportunities the project will bring along with all the educational benefits the TMT will bring. The TMT has made clear its commitments to education and jobs for locals.
If, on the other hand, you aspire to work as a low-paid server at a restaurant, clean hotel rooms or cook burgers, whether the TMT is built here or not makes no difference at all. The money required to build restaurants, hotels or fast food joints has to come from elsewhere no matter what. So if you want more of those jobs, fine, but you'll have to lobby your representatives to find the money to make that happen or make conditions here more attractive to businesses and entrepreneurs. If the TMT backs out, I hardly think those sort of people will view starting new businesses here very favorably.
Finally, Kalakoa, before you deem to tell us where Puna really starts and ends, several observatory staff live in the Kalapana and Kapoho area as well as Pahoa. However, I have no idea if any of those places are in Puna either.
I'm afraid I am completely baffled by the logic in your last post. Let me try and explain things as simply as I can because I think you do not understand the situation regarding the $1.4 billion.
The funding for the TMT project comes from several governments, research councils, universities etc. This is money already set aside for scientific research and education. That money will not come here if the TMT is not built here. If that happens, the money will be spent on building the TMT elsewhere, or in my opinion, more likely spent on other scientific projects elsewhere, and almost certainly not here. The Big Island will lose the high-paid job opportunities the project will bring along with all the educational benefits the TMT will bring. The TMT has made clear its commitments to education and jobs for locals.
If, on the other hand, you aspire to work as a low-paid server at a restaurant, clean hotel rooms or cook burgers, whether the TMT is built here or not makes no difference at all. The money required to build restaurants, hotels or fast food joints has to come from elsewhere no matter what. So if you want more of those jobs, fine, but you'll have to lobby your representatives to find the money to make that happen or make conditions here more attractive to businesses and entrepreneurs. If the TMT backs out, I hardly think those sort of people will view starting new businesses here very favorably.
Finally, Kalakoa, before you deem to tell us where Puna really starts and ends, several observatory staff live in the Kalapana and Kapoho area as well as Pahoa. However, I have no idea if any of those places are in Puna either.