05-14-2009, 01:54 PM
Unfortunately with the lack of good studies, or questions, or thought, it seems personal revelations is what we've been working on almost exclusively for most of a decade.
Do "it"?
Which is what?
End up on public assistance? Break the back of the state drawing entitlements? The average baby boomer is dead broke, and was so at the height of the bubble.
Do you have numbers for that? I was asking specifically for the 80th percentile. That's the richest 4 of 5. I know the rest can't afford it, and the 5 of 5 crowd can move anywhere they please, which won't be here. All in all, I DON'T have numbers for it, I freely admit, but numbers exist in the early 2000's and I think we can perhaps interpolate. Actually I don't believe numbers currently exist but would enjoy seeing them if they credibly do and someone can find them
These aren't foo foo silly numbers. Nor ideology. Nor agenda. They impact our future and how we plan. If again, and again--we talk in numbers rather than adjectives we'll craft better policy.
I don't want to see kids go hungry because we build a road. That's my agenda.
Please, let's move the conversation about roads into a good discussion, credible, about a demographics and research based analysis of where Puna will be in 2020. Really. Demonstrate conclusively that a 50 million dollar road is needed, and the rest is details. That's what I'd love to see. We can't talk about roads fairly unless we do. If no one wants to talk about it fairly, well, we can learn from that too.
Frankly, if I feel I can demonstrate that alone progress can be made.
Do "it"?
Which is what?
End up on public assistance? Break the back of the state drawing entitlements? The average baby boomer is dead broke, and was so at the height of the bubble.
Do you have numbers for that? I was asking specifically for the 80th percentile. That's the richest 4 of 5. I know the rest can't afford it, and the 5 of 5 crowd can move anywhere they please, which won't be here. All in all, I DON'T have numbers for it, I freely admit, but numbers exist in the early 2000's and I think we can perhaps interpolate. Actually I don't believe numbers currently exist but would enjoy seeing them if they credibly do and someone can find them
These aren't foo foo silly numbers. Nor ideology. Nor agenda. They impact our future and how we plan. If again, and again--we talk in numbers rather than adjectives we'll craft better policy.
I don't want to see kids go hungry because we build a road. That's my agenda.
Please, let's move the conversation about roads into a good discussion, credible, about a demographics and research based analysis of where Puna will be in 2020. Really. Demonstrate conclusively that a 50 million dollar road is needed, and the rest is details. That's what I'd love to see. We can't talk about roads fairly unless we do. If no one wants to talk about it fairly, well, we can learn from that too.
Frankly, if I feel I can demonstrate that alone progress can be made.