Big Island Organizations & Programs Losing Funding

[Punatang]

There is a proposal to change the long standing Endangered Species Act..

Maybe it's time Hawaii, the Hawaiian community, stands up and protect our own. 

Fuck the feds.. Hawaii needs to stand on its own as a sovereign. It don't matter statehood or independent, it doesn't matter white people's rule or native's. We just need to stop thinking someone else should take care of our kuleana.

So.. the ocean needs protecting.. the feds give up.. we need a knowledgeable organization to interpret the dangers from our volcanoes, and the feds give up. We have a substantial swath of our population that lives under the poverty line.. and the feds seem poised to give up on them too. 

Do you really think poor people without healthcare is good FOR YOU? I don't care how much money you got, how high the fence is around your place.. this is our community no matter.. isn't it?

So.. what? Are we suppose to just roll over and go 'oh well' and turn our eyes away from homelessness? Are we to watch the seismos go quiet and just say 'oh well'? Our reserves, our endangered species, is "oh well" really the answer? At what point do these things matter? And, at what point are we, as a society, a state, an island nation, going to recognize these things are our kuleana?

And no, I don't expect Josh Green to get it.. though I have "faith" he's trying. I suspect the Hawaiians are far better suited to the task..

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This is the wisest post I've ever read on Punaweb. Mahalo MyMan. There is hope yet.