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HomeMy WebLinkAboutCOM 0027.024 2000-2002 i SHIPMAN PRESIDENT ROBERT SAUNDERS ~~RECEIVEfi~ "THE CUSTOMERS ARE I N THE I R CAR n~dti--~>_~~~_:__ BUT FOR HOW LONG---IS THE PROFOUND THAT MUST BE ASKED--HOW LONG WILL THE PRESENT STANDARD OF ECONOMY BE VIABLE GIVEN THE NOW FACTS ABOUT THIS PLANET'S ECOLOGICAL CONDITION AND OUR SOCIETY'S ECONOMIC LEVELS THAT ARE NOW, MORE THAN EVER, BEING SHOWN TO BE DETRIMENTAL TO A SOCIETY AS A WHOLE. ECONOMIC LEVELS WHERE THE MOTTO IS "MORE IS BETTER," A LEVEL THAT SPAWNS ECONOMIC BIGOTRY AND A CULTURE WHERE "FRIENDS" ARE PLAYED NOT MADE. THIS STATE IS UNIQUE, IN THAT IT IS MADE UP OF MANY ISLANDS, THAT IN THEMSELVES ARE ENTIRELY DIFFERENT FROM ONE ANOTHER, BUT ONLY IN TOPOGRAPHY. ECONOMICALLY ALL ISLANDS ARE UNDER THE CONTROL OF MULTI-INTERNATIONAL CORPORATIONS CORPORATIONS THAT, FINANCIALLY HELP PEOPLE GET ELECTED THAT WILL DO THEIR BIDDING. CORPORATIONS THAT SUPPLY THE MONEY TO THIS ISLAND'S LAND RICH, BUT MONEY POOR CORPORATE LAND BARONS (AND WE ALL KNOW WHO THEY ARE) . Comm. Na 27 File No. 1.1..E R,ef. To:2 2~~, Raf. Da• th tt~~y _~G IT WOULD HE NICE TO DO A TITLE SEARCH AND GO ALL THE WAY BACK TO SEE HOW THEY ACQUIRED SAID LAND, HUT I AM SURE THE TRAIL IS COMPLETELY COVERED BY LIES AND CORPORATE MANIPULATION. W.H.SHIPMAN,LTD. KNOWS EXACTLY WHAT IT IS DOING AND HAS PROVEN, THROUGH PAST ACTIONS, THAT IT CARES NOTHING ABOUT THE "PEOPLE" OR THE ECONOMIC HAVOC CAUSED BY IT'S ACTIONS. THEIR, NOT NEEDED, GATEWAY SHOPPING CENTER WILL BRING HARDSHIPS NOT ONLY TO HILO BUT TO KEAAU AND KURTITOWN AS WELL THIS TYPE OF CONSTRUCTION "URBAN SPRAWL" (THANK YOU COUNCIL-WOMAN JULIE JACOBSON) HAS BEEN PROVEN TO BE THE WORST KIND OF LAND USE AND CREATES DESTRUCTION IN EQUAL PROPORTIONS. BUT I AM NOT HERE TO JUDGE, TIME WILL DO THAT, NEITHER WILL I SAY IT IS RIGHT OR WRONG. THERE ARE, HOWEVER, MANY WHO ARE NOW QUESTIONING OUR PRESENT MIND SET AND AN ECONOMY THAT HAS BEEN SHOWN AND CONTINUES TO BE SHOWN AS DETRIMENTAL TO A SOCIETY AS A WHOLE. AN ECONOMY LIKENED TO A PYRAMID SCHEME, YOU KNOW--WHERE ALL THOSE WHO BUY IN AT THE BEGINNING AND DO THE BIDDING OF THE "SCHEMERS" REAP THE HARVEST OF ALL THE "WORKING CLASS HEROES" WHO GATHER UP ALL THEY CAN---ALL THAT "TRICKLES DOWN" THIS ISLAND IS JUST THAT-----AN ISLAND AND SHOULD BE STRIVING TOWARDS A SELF- SUSTAINING ECONOMY AND DOING ALL IT CAN TO BREAK AWAY FROM THE OLD ARCHAIC ECONOMIC GAMES WHICH ADD UP TO NOTHING MORE THAN---ECONOMIC SERVITUDE FOR THE CORPORATE ELITE AND THEIR ENTOURAGE, WHERE HUMANITIES IS ALL BUT FORGOTTON AND CHARITIES CAN ONLY FUNCTION UNDER THE CORPORATE UMBRELLA OF THE UNITED FUND. SO---GATEWAY TO THE FUTURE OR TO THE "HELL" OF THE PRESENT, WITH ALL IT'S PROBLEMS---PROBLEMS WHICH WERE SPAWNED BY THE SELFISH AND ENVIRONMENTAL DAMAGING ECONOMIC WAYS OF THE PAST AND NOW---AND EVEN THOUGH SICK, THESE OLD WAYS ARE STILL TRYING TO JUSTIFY THEIR EXISTENCE-- LIKE SOME DRUNK IN SELF-DENIAL, THEY KEEP KICKING THE "DEAD-HORSE" OF THE LAST MILLENNIUM'S ECONOMY, HOPING IT WILL, IF ONLY FOR ONE LAST TIME, RISE UP AND CARRY THEM INTO THE FUTURE. THIS IS A NEW MILLENNIUM----IT IS TIME FOR NEW IDEAS, TIME FOR NEW ECONOMIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL SOLUTIONS AND ABOVE ALL, KNOWLEDGE TO THE REALIZATION OF WHAT LIFE--,AS A WHOLE--IS ALL ABOUT AND THE INDIVIDUAL'S RESPONSIBILITY TO THE WHOLE. SHIPMAN HAS A STRATEGIC LOCATION AND SHOULD PONDER LONG AND HARD ON HOW TO USE IT,FOR IT'S GREATEST GOOD AND MUST NOT COMPOUND THIS ISLAND'S ECONOMIC PROBLEMS BY BUILDING JUST ANOTHER ROADSIDE ATTRA TION. 3~Qd FAA OUT IN TNt SNIMMfRWO VOID~T16 PLANE7 EAR1H HANGS A[aNNSf 111E gKKDROP OF 711E 4N1W;RSE AND ON T1t GRrk e t S i ~ • Y i 1 1 s IT STA¢TEO /eS AN INSISNIFIGANT 6NT1Ty WNEPFAS IT'~i HEIBNBORS MAINTAINED THE QELIGTE Sr>w4GUN4 FDR LIFE M PD Al17NINEiS ON 141E BALANCE AND RNVMM OF uFE IT EXHIBITED HIyH• FARM Bur w P f~~ »1E FIRSTS IT WAS Ly UNNA7GRAL CHARAC4'ERIyKS .rI A ~ "fI , ~I'~ 1 wy . +r • 1r? 1 i., . ~1. S „ . If CDN54MED ALL IN RIS PATH ~ [1fiflWIN4 AND LINL AlE0.RIELE TIDAL WAVE IT SPREAD OVE0. SPpR~EAOINU W 17N EVER INCREASINy 5PEy4D 11IE EARN LEAVING BEHIND 1~' BLEAK RAVAgED VROOwS DEEP Wk~ER.E~IR 1'~DC~GLV yA1 ~IiSSP wID1E~D I~~A~ANp uiOEW A D~liEl~~ II,E SIMLy,ejT FOOTHOLD DELICATELY BA LACED WNEELCH^ LIFE BE' yAN 10 y1ON0 m ^SHDODERINy HALT' i ~ ' ~ r~~;