Politics is a lot of who likes who. A popularity contest. It often has nothing to do with right or wrong. I don't see any benefit in voting. If it could be like a computer game and you could pick the qualities you want in your candidate, hey, I'd vote.
I keep up with politics because I do some investing. I get the feeling what the economy is going to be like. To me, the Republicans and Democrats are the same. My generation as a whole votes but not nearly as much as my parents' generation. You hear all the radio stations pushing the vote. Rock the Vote. Twenty years ago we didn't need all that. People are fed up and realize that the government has to do certain things regardless who's running. Things like welfare, funding the military, cutting the deficit.
Being in office for such a short time, he's done a lot. Fasi's done a lot over time but you give somebody 30 years to do something, he's going to do something. I'm looking to the future. I don't know much about Morgado. I'd vote Fasi last. His intentions are good but he's just too old.
There is an increasing amount of the extremely wealthy and an increasing amount of the extremely poor. The middle class is dwindling. But its not so much politics. It's culture. We don't progress as fast here as the rest of the world. People don't realize that the globe is getting smaller. We end up shielding ourselves from that fact. But there are just too many people here with not enough dollars. There's not enough sharing of the wealth. With an increase in low incomes there's an increase in crime etcetera.
The way the educational system is structured is too rigid. It's not designed for the work force in the year 2,000. It's very outdated. Without education, you're going nowhere. That's the problem with a lot of people in Hawaii. Our society has created an environment where people just get by. A lot of people don't think ahead.