What evidence?

Stop and think exactly what is gained.

Both Rich and Poor burnt. The average house, of majority single home owners, was valued at over a million. More went up higher. Many weren't local natives either. They were yuppies who bought into it decades ago. It was a city with some poor areas.

How much investment is needed to get that return? 100s, of million dollar homes. All paying taxes, and insured. There are courts.

You're talking tourism on a scale of Disney. Not Disney, this year, nobody is buying into that price. Recession, it's dead. They go somewhere cheap. Somewhere cheaper to fly to than Hawaii. How cheap is Latin America? South East Asia? The flight to Hawaii is what price in comparison? Sure there are packages. But then the cost was what? I guess it's much less now it has the active volcanoes infernos on it.

So what was that motive. Tourism would have to make up those numbes. The debt of redeveloping it, the investment of turning it into something generating that return. Meanwhile it's in huge debt. Hawaii is in huge debt and nobody in local office is popular. There will be courts, resettlement. The only people who pay are Hawaiians. How Liberal are they suddenly. Come to Maui get burnt.

If it's sold to redevelopment who are they attracting and how. That motive of sprawling redevelopment for even richer elites is quite ignorant. Unless they've got huge plans to put in a bunch of casinos, water parks, resorts, space age hotels at a price people flock there.

The motive is absurd. It had millionaires, multi millionaires, now it has huge debt.

Until all it's attracting is the Chinese? It has a military base. Seriously. If they turned it into mass redevelopment which tourists would make up its new numbers?

Yawn.

It stinks, but it is quite natural for there to be the human stupidity of that drought ridden, arid, hot, volcanic Island full of kindling. An island depeleting its ground water quicker.