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Does anyone recall what happens to a community when thousands are out of work?
I recall Boeing laying off 10,000 workers. People went into the western Washington forest to shoot deer, not for sport, but for food. This went on for months.
Elon Musk and Donald Trump lack foresight. Ask what they will do when many thousands of fired federal workers have no income. And then the polar vortex arrives. This could be an inevitability.
We are lucky here in Hawaii. We won’t freeze or starve, and are close to nature. But the 48 states will be shredded for the sake of money.
That’s Mammon, y’all.
Beverly Kai
Kakaako
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