For my family and friends who really like KNOW:I read and lately I have read the Wall Street Journal online and was not surprised to read that according to a quarterly report from economists at HIS Global Insight and PNC Financial Service Group that home prices have fallen to the point that the typical household can afford to buy.It does not end there. If you read the report in its entirety you can see patterns.If you read the report itself here http://s.wsj.net/public/resources/documents/WSJ_Housing_ValuationQ4_2008_Report.pdfyou can see on page one as follows:"The sharp price declines in California have now pushed San Francisco out of the top spot in a ranking of home values across metro areas, and Honolulu HI has regained the number one position it last held in 1996."This tells me that there has been some decline in home values but the land STILL APPRECIATES over time. They do not teach this to us at the Kamehameha Schools for obvious reasons but IMHO it is extremely important for Hawaiian children to know this because they need to and/or should know that some people will literally run them over because they want the land which is an APPRECIABLE ASSET.If I die that is the number one thing that I would want Hawaiian children to know because when they know that chances are they will not try to slit other Hawaiians in the throat and instead will be conditioned to HELP each other instead of HURT each other as in help their COUSINS through Wakea, Papa, and Haloa.In fact I tell my middle niece Mahinaokalani everything that I want her to remember in case anything bad happens to me. I preface it with, "If anything bad happens to me if you remember one thing about me remember that land is an appreciable asset and some people unfortunately will run you over in order to get it." Of course my parents are surprised that I speak so bluntly to her and have been ever since she was a baby. Then again she is the top scoring kindergardener throughout the HISTORY of Virginia and she is HAWAIIAN!!! I would like to think that I had a part in creating a mini-genius LMAOOn page 2 of 21 you can see a graph of the appreciation though they do not state the obvious that land is an appreciable asset while homes (i.e. structures) are not. I notice in Hawai'i though that some people use Hawaiians as scapegoats because it makes it easier for them to separate us from our land and ultimately when WE lose OUR land WE lose OUR roots.How does this report apply to Hawaiians???THIS shows they want to kill us for our land which I personally think is pilau.I really do not like to be blunt but I like to read things so I am dismayed that some Hawaiians advocate the Akaka Bill which is really the Native Hawaiian LAND REorganization Act. They just use a lame tag line to try to sell it to us trying to play mind games with us that somehow the "Akaka Bill" is Hawaiian.See how annoying some people are LOL but this kind of data should not make people mad. I think that when people are emotional they become weak but when they think of it as transactions they are STRONG.However I notice that we Hawaiians are very emotional people and I don't blame us considering that it is our motherland and fatherland that we are talking about so of course we WILL be emotional LOL They KNOW this though... that we WILL be emotional.But I hope to see a conscious effort to try to stop ourselves from being emotional about it because when we do our emotions cloud our actions and it ends up paralyzing us partly because we are hurt, sad, and/or mad. For me land is diametrically and radially opposed to EVERYTHING and EVERYONE that I value but I view it as transactions to donate to my causes. A part of me is very emotional about land though so I struggle every day with it because of how I was raised so once in awhile I have to go to the beach and speak to Kanaloa or else my head will burst LOLAnyway this report is telling. Telling us exactly why some people are so pilau to us!!! Do you read this in the local B.S. media? Of course not. They love to suppress the truth for personal gain. However I am reposting this here since IMHO this data is important because it applies to Hawaiians.Latahs!
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