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From: DLR <br /> To: W PCtesti mons <br /> Subject: Testimony <br /> Date: Tuesday, May 7, 2024 8:10:39 AM <br /> All you have to do is look at our history.How did all those tourists jobs help us in the past?The neighbor islands <br /> have been saturated with hotels and tourists related jobs.Oahu has lost the beauty is once had and the local people <br /> can no longer afford to live there.Do we want the same for the Big island?We have been pushed out of our lands <br /> and many of our families have had to move away because we keep relying on tourism to survive.A'ole.We were <br /> self sustaining before tourism and we need to move in another direction before there are no Hawaiians left here.The <br /> past is prologue and if we keep doing the same thing we will keep getting pushed out and have no Aina left for our <br /> Keiki and the generations to come. <br /> Sent from my iPhone <br />