02-08-2008, 01:41 AM
Hotzcatz got it right with the break down of housing to income ratios. How can you swing a house payment of $2k a month plus all the other bills on $10 an hour? Housing cost have gone out of control all over the country. For example, Houses on the "number streets"(42nd, 54th, 101st, 39th) in Los Angeles are 500K. Houses that are right on top of each other, so close you can here the neighbors pots & pans making noise at super time. Homes for 500K that are run down former crack cocaine shops. $500K for a home where gang bangers hang out all day and and fire guns and commit crimes. It's crazy to think anyone who could afford a $500K home would live on 43rd & Main st in LA, but they do.
As far as the exodus, why would a family live with two other families in a 2 bedroom house in Waipahu?, when they can have a home in Henderson Nevada thats damn near 3K square feet for less than rent on Oahu and have a decent job to pay the bills?
Migration is a better word than a displacement in this case. Why would you want to suffer just to hold on to a dream of what Hawaii used to be? Hawaii "makes" very little in the area of industry. The economy is based on consumption and not production. If you want to get the foot off the working peoples necks, repeal the Jones Act. That single peice of legislation adds about %30 mark-up on all imported goods in Hawaii. Agriculture could save Hawaii But it's an effort that would take the help of the state to accomplish.
As far as "rich people" taking over Hawaii thats not a fair statement either. In this country when you go to school, work hard and live a law abiding life you will be rewarded. It's just a cop out. Playing the blame game instead of doing a "life skills" inventory and figuring out what are you doing wrong, is much easier for some folks to do. I'm not going to feel any shame in the life I live, because i know I paid my dues. Don't be jealous of the things that I have or the place that I live. Don't be mad because your barely getting by with your highschool dipolma and 4 kids under 4 years old and a "babby momma" who is preggers now. I depend on ME and my children depend on ME. I will take them where I feel we have the best chance to have a "good life". When I consistantly hear employers state "we can't find people to pass a drug test" that irks me. Now a drug test to flip burgers is dumb, a drug test to drive a tour bus is smart. Still you have choices to make, be a loser who smokes weed all day and cry's foul when a guy making things happen comes by or change your life.
So your saying you love weed and crank so much you can't quit to pass a piss test? really does that pass the smell test ?
Stop blaming people with money for the ill's of Hawaii and start trying to figuring out why your a loser.
As far as the exodus, why would a family live with two other families in a 2 bedroom house in Waipahu?, when they can have a home in Henderson Nevada thats damn near 3K square feet for less than rent on Oahu and have a decent job to pay the bills?
Migration is a better word than a displacement in this case. Why would you want to suffer just to hold on to a dream of what Hawaii used to be? Hawaii "makes" very little in the area of industry. The economy is based on consumption and not production. If you want to get the foot off the working peoples necks, repeal the Jones Act. That single peice of legislation adds about %30 mark-up on all imported goods in Hawaii. Agriculture could save Hawaii But it's an effort that would take the help of the state to accomplish.
As far as "rich people" taking over Hawaii thats not a fair statement either. In this country when you go to school, work hard and live a law abiding life you will be rewarded. It's just a cop out. Playing the blame game instead of doing a "life skills" inventory and figuring out what are you doing wrong, is much easier for some folks to do. I'm not going to feel any shame in the life I live, because i know I paid my dues. Don't be jealous of the things that I have or the place that I live. Don't be mad because your barely getting by with your highschool dipolma and 4 kids under 4 years old and a "babby momma" who is preggers now. I depend on ME and my children depend on ME. I will take them where I feel we have the best chance to have a "good life". When I consistantly hear employers state "we can't find people to pass a drug test" that irks me. Now a drug test to flip burgers is dumb, a drug test to drive a tour bus is smart. Still you have choices to make, be a loser who smokes weed all day and cry's foul when a guy making things happen comes by or change your life.
So your saying you love weed and crank so much you can't quit to pass a piss test? really does that pass the smell test ?
Stop blaming people with money for the ill's of Hawaii and start trying to figuring out why your a loser.