"A Financial pathetic disaster..." 'James "Kimo" Rosen'

World leaders from Asian countries last week gathered on Oahu for the APEC convention, what was suppose to be an economic boom for the local economy wound up being a huge tax burden for the people. If all the money used to transport all the world leaders to Hawaii and host them for 4 days would had been used to help save the economy, I would be elated, but no, these self serving narcissistic  politicians again show us their real colors.

check out the story on the local news;  http://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/story/16040320/waikiki-residents-bid-good-riddance-to-apec

Honolulu Hawaii hosted the 2011  'Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation conference last week and to the dismay of many felt it was a government takeover with road closures and vehicle searches set-up all around the island. Business's lost money, many lost valuable hours of work and all the world leaders got to see empty streets and business with no patrons... All this at Taxpayer expense...

APEC was a financial pathetic disaster watching the state and federal Government spend millions of taxpayers dollars while giving all APEC members tax exemptions on anything they bought while in Hawaii.

First of all these APEC members are mostly wealthy politicians, why do they need tax breaks? By giving them-tax-breaks how are we going to recoup all the money spent on police, security, roadblocks etc?

Second, many business's prepared for record numbers with buying additional inventories and having additional staff on hand only to find out many streets had been blocked to traffic which translated into loss of business.

Third,with so much funding being lost during this current recession, with cuts to programs such as Head-start, medicaid and medicare only to find the government pouring money into APEC, which consisted of glorified luncheons and dinner parties which only proves again that politicians are self serving narcissists into their own agenda's.

Finally,until the recession is over may I recommend skype conference calls for all future meetings of such.
Last but not least, wouldn't it be pono(righteous) with all the political fundraisers upcoming to use that money to help our economy in lieu of using it for self serving needs?

This blog also appeared as an opinion article in the November 26Th, 2011 edition of the Kauai Garden News; http://thegardenisland.com/news/opinion/mailbag/article_4c5a5052-18b6-11e1-9f23-001cc4c002e0.html

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