12-11-2007, 12:30 AM
It seems to me there is only one direction Puna will take and that's faster and faster growth and here's why.
Since the Oprah & Trump revelation on Puna, the demographic has been involved in basic plateau building where the first thrust of the onslaught relocated based on the news. Now they're here and we see them daily (and for the most part they're productive and a positive addition to the area on the whole.) But now the word IS getting out since people know people, just in time (or in sequence with) the leading edge of the baby-boomers born after September of '45 - who just happen to be turning 62 (which is the age when one can receive Social Security - which includes Medicare.) These individuals have assets - and their kids are grown and out of the home so they are free to live almost anywhere. In addition, even though the real estate market has moved down, this group bought well before, or during the appreciation cycle, so in a sense the market is sill 'up' for them ... and the Dow, S & P, and Nasdaq are positioning for reapproaching the highs we saw this summer, so their investments seem solid. The group is highly mobile with deep pockets. In my opinion all indicators tell me that the Big Island, and Puna, are about to enter a growth cycle which county government isn't even remotely capable of handling. For instance, millions can be spent on a new administrative building in Hilo yet not even one life-saving stoplight has been installed on the highway in years and of course there are many other examples and perhap I'll go into them later. To say that county government seems jaundiced is a veritable understatemt. The good news is that there are people with appropriate answers to such a potential problem in terms of populaton increase and that's where agencies like 'The Friends of Puna' should prove invaluble. The bottom line is that county government is highly unimaginative and has become purely functionary and needs to be led by private concerns more up to the task.
It's not going to be an easy path but hopefully it will be the best path possible.
JayJay
Edited by - JayJay on 12/11/2007 04:35:56
Edited by - JayJay on 12/11/2007 04:42:47
Since the Oprah & Trump revelation on Puna, the demographic has been involved in basic plateau building where the first thrust of the onslaught relocated based on the news. Now they're here and we see them daily (and for the most part they're productive and a positive addition to the area on the whole.) But now the word IS getting out since people know people, just in time (or in sequence with) the leading edge of the baby-boomers born after September of '45 - who just happen to be turning 62 (which is the age when one can receive Social Security - which includes Medicare.) These individuals have assets - and their kids are grown and out of the home so they are free to live almost anywhere. In addition, even though the real estate market has moved down, this group bought well before, or during the appreciation cycle, so in a sense the market is sill 'up' for them ... and the Dow, S & P, and Nasdaq are positioning for reapproaching the highs we saw this summer, so their investments seem solid. The group is highly mobile with deep pockets. In my opinion all indicators tell me that the Big Island, and Puna, are about to enter a growth cycle which county government isn't even remotely capable of handling. For instance, millions can be spent on a new administrative building in Hilo yet not even one life-saving stoplight has been installed on the highway in years and of course there are many other examples and perhap I'll go into them later. To say that county government seems jaundiced is a veritable understatemt. The good news is that there are people with appropriate answers to such a potential problem in terms of populaton increase and that's where agencies like 'The Friends of Puna' should prove invaluble. The bottom line is that county government is highly unimaginative and has become purely functionary and needs to be led by private concerns more up to the task.
It's not going to be an easy path but hopefully it will be the best path possible.
JayJay
Edited by - JayJay on 12/11/2007 04:35:56
Edited by - JayJay on 12/11/2007 04:42:47
JayJay