Tuesday, September 17, 2013

WHY DO MORE AND MORE PEOPLE WANT THE ILLEGAL U.S. OCCUPATION OF HAWAI'I TO END ?

Hawai`i imports two-thirds of its food from the US and locally-grown food is expensive due to high land prices.

Although a relative scarcity of farmable land exists in the islands, some economists have concluded that land prices are artificially inflated through manipulation by the Big Five, giant land-holding companies owned by descendents of the five most influential missionary families who settled in Hawai`i two centuries ago.

But critics argue that even the food imported from the mainland shouldn't cost as much as it does.

One supermarket manager admitted candidly that Matson Navigation shipping adds an average of only 18 per cent to the cost of imported food.

Yet prices range between 30 and 40 per cent higher than California where the Matson ships pick up the food for delivery to Hawai`i.

Meanwhile, the situation grows worse daily for the vast majority of people in paradise and it's unlikely to reverse direction anytime soon.