The contracting US economy has hit the State of Hawaii especially hard. The Big Island industry is built mostly on tourism and thus relies heavily on the "trickle down effect" to run an effective market. As non-Republicans well know, this type of economic system has some glaring flaws.
For ordinary Hawaiians, it has exacerbated the downturn and made them more vulnerable to the instability of boom/bust. It has made a proportion of the population exit the market and switch to self reliant "live off the land" hippie lifestyles, burdening the provision of public services. Generally, native residents here are undereducated, in need of medical services, and alarmingly poor. Although dubbed "paradise", this place is considered by many to be a dead zone.
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