Trashy

June 2, 2008
Filed under: Hawaii News, Oahu News, Opinion
Jason

The City and County of Honolulu is looking to ship out its trash to Washington.

Why not? We already ship our prisoners to Texas and Oklahoma. Why not send what’s ours away for other communities to deal with?

And of course it makes sense! It costs twice as much to ship it away then it does to take care of it here. Money well spent if it’s out of the way…

Seriously, I’m at a loss here. The ideas that come in to solve the challenges we face do not seem like they are adequately debated and/or thought through.

Look the rail situation. It gets more clouded each day. You got a 4 billion dollar legacy project that none of the current elected officials are going to have to with deal the endgame repercussions as it’s not going to be fully operational for another ten years. I predict that an Oahu Councilmember will run for a state elected office and get it and then hypocritically come down on the City when the **it hits the fan. Every week, almost daily, something new comes up with the rail. You got landowners that will now be forced out and “given fair market value” which I’d guess is no where near what they’d make if their business stays put and/or they were sell to a private investor.

I suppose that is the nature of politics. Again I ponder and ask, how does the community really get to weigh in? How does the Average Joe and Jill Da Kine’s voice concerns and remain in the know on it all? I never wanted to be a community watch-dog as Malia Zimmerman likes to call herself . But maybe that’s what it takes. More of us voicing our concerns in all media ways possible. I’m willing to bet myself and others in the community could connect better with the everyman and everywoman than some of the douche bags that be.

But then again, maybe I’m just an angry pedestrian.

Shoots.

JMAW

Tags: City and County of Honolulu, Opala, Prisoners, Rail, Trash, Washington