Posted on 04/11/2009 10:41:01 PM PDT by WayneLusvardi
Here's a timely story. Polihale State Park on the Island of Kauai, Hawaii, has been closed since December when flooding damaged a small bridge at the entrance to the park (for Wikipedia link on Polihale State Park see here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polihale_State_Park).
It would have taken $4 million and 2 years for the State to repair the bridge. But the State of Hawaii, like other states, is out of money. So when the bridge could be repaired and the park re-opened was anybody's guess.
A bunch of the vendors and residents whose livelihoods depend on the tourist trade from the park got together and repaired the bridge in 8 days at no cost to the public. Now that is a real "shovel ready" stimulus project. Read story and see photo slide show here: http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/04/09/hawaii.volunteers.repair/index.html?iref=newssearch#cnnSTCText
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That figures!
Government at work equals wasted time & money!
SHOVEL Bump!
-PJ
There is some great community spirit in Hawaii...and it’s not the result of government stimulus, it’s just neighbors and a shared destiny. The country used to have much more of this. You see it during disasters, and in some parts of the country more than others, but it’s usually fleeting. I think we’ve lost so much of the ‘can-do’ American spirit that we used to have...but then I’m in California so I may just be a product of my jaded environment.
look to OSHA undoing whatever work they did... “safety violations”
The state: Its going to take two years and 4 million to build a bridge over a ditch. Bunch of locals with borrowed equipment: 8 days.
Talk about a total embarrassment. Its on the same level of what Donald Trump did when he watched the Wollman ice rink in Central Park shutdown for years while the city and union thugs farted and wasted millions doing nothing. He got so vocal about it, the city dared him to go ahead and fix it if he thought he could do a better job. He brought in his own construction crew and had it fixed in a month.
The only thing I fear is that the C&C union thugs of Hawaii will push to keep the bridge from being certified because its a threat to their shakedown racket.
Capitalism works.
Step one — open the jar of the ointment:
http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/04/09/hawaii.volunteers.repair/index.html?iref=newssearch#cnnSTCText
Step two — Find the fly:
“Pleas says they have only to get the new bridge certified and do minor cleanup.”
Or when someone trips over the white line in the road lawyer set up stand next to road.
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