How to Make Hawaii A Better Place to Live in 2025 (if I were Governor of Hawaii)

[@HelloFromHawaii]

So how would you make Hawaii a better place in 2025? I had a lot of fun with this topic. Always nice to open up the discussion and talk about real ways we could see positive changes in Hawaii. 🤙

[@garythompson-u2g]

maybe send all of your money to the global warming morons ,al gore, LIVES ON THE OCEAN, BILL GATES, SAME, OBAMA, SAME KEEP PUTING DEMOCRATS IN OFFICE AND YOU WILL KEEP GETTING SCREWED!

[@mikeh-p7q]

You know you are home when you get out of the airport building and feel the light humidity.

[@SuiGenerisAbbie]

Feels like a lovely velvet blanket, doesn’t it? This haole from Seattle loved feeling warm and cosy. I even wore my wool sweater in February - March first thing in the morning and sometimes a light jacket in the afternoon.

[@HelloFromHawaii]

I used to start sweating up the ramp at the gate. So hot! 😅

[@sojuand7]

You know when you're back home when a dozen eggs cost $7.99, a loaf of bread $6.99, and a gal of milk $7.29.😉

[@garythompson-u2g]

FACT, STOP VOTONG FOR INCOMPITANT DEMOCRATS !!! California would be in the same shape as Lahina, sit and do nothing, typical. The people there have not even ligted a finger to recall the idiotic gov. with his global warming bullshit, fact!

[@malu1034]

This was great, Chris. All good points for the State to focus on and I appreciate the specificity of each one. The roasting was fun (and accurate), too. 😂 People like you make Hawai’i a better place to live! 🤙

[@HelloFromHawaii]

Mahalo. I had a good time with this video 🤙

[@wMerlinw]

Crazy that we ship banana from Ecuador. We can grow them here. We could easily grow all of our own produce. Proteins/grains may be a different story. It would take a change in diet preference. Lots of ag land isn't even used for ag. Maybe force people to grow food on ag land or make them sell? That would probably solve a lot of problems, including foreign real estate speculation.

[@silversleuth007]

Hemp seeds are full of protein.

[@SuiGenerisAbbie]

As a tourist from the mainland, I was shocked by the fruits and vegetables that your lovely state does not grow on its own, lush, verdant aina, so that the grocery stores can be supplied. You guys get bananas and avocados from overseas, yeah? And, fruits too? Wow.

[@SuiGenerisAbbie]

You can grow your own fruits and veggies.

[@miyakegaijin]

My brother does his part. He drives 50 miles to Waialua to grow apple bananas and cooking bananas for the Hawaii Asian markets. People think he’s financially crazy because he’s a medical doctor and could make way more money practicing medicine more but he makes $200 per truckload after 6 months of growing bananas. He also needs to pay for his farmland and water. It takes a special kind of crazy to be a farmer in Hawaii.

[@HelloFromHawaii]

We do grow some fruit, but I was surprised how little we grow. I grew up by some banana farmers. Thought those were the ones we bought at the store.

[@tomp9447]

Great thoughts Chris, hope the governor sees this. I especially appreciate the support for tourism, I think you had 4 or 5 suggestions all which were spot (for tourism). There’s a lot of necessary government functions as enablers, hopefully they will focus more on them. Unfortunately the surplus is going to go to skyline rail I suspect.

[@HelloFromHawaii]

I'm not sure where the surplus will go. Perhaps to cover the lower income tax revenues we are expected to collect with the upcoming changes.

[@vickihiggins1580]

Good job, BUT what you’re describing is that every state department is falling way short - and I totally agree. Your dividend idea is brilliant. I ran for state senate in 2020 and promoted UBI cause if any state needs it, it’s us!!

[@HelloFromHawaii]

I'd like to see a dividend at least discussed. I know that there are other mechanisms to help low-income families, but a dividend would go a long way since it's directly tied into tourism, at least in name.

[@vickihiggins1580]

@ Unless I missed it, the other huge issue is HOAs. This really needs a solution for homeowners. Corrupt Boards and management companies with no oversight.

[@chasethe808]

Dr. Green needs to figure out what his legacy will be. There is no reason that we couldn't have the best schools, best infrastructure, best agricultural output, best tech hubs, best healthcare etc. Even though times have changed and our Islands have become more gentrified, I still believe in the Aloha Spirit and our Kama‘aina to move our Islands forward while respecting our culture, people and ‘āina.

[@HelloFromHawaii]

Mahalo for the comment. Great point about legacy. I'm not sure what he wants his legacy to be. He was active during the pandemic as LG. As Gov, we'll have to see what he wants to do.

[@JeanneFerrariamas-sr5ml]

Great ideas and presentation

[@HelloFromHawaii]

Mahalo 🤙

[@KingDrewPhilip]

Run for Governor. Maybe I can be Lieutenant Governor in your second term and run for Governor when you’re done after serving two full terms. As your successor, I could continue the successful policies you have implemented and also add more with my own vision for the state as well.

[@HelloFromHawaii]

🤙

[@ichigobankai2343]

Hawaii needs to be self sustainable. We separated from the mainland we shouldn't always rely on imports. The problem is those in charge like political relations with other countries like China for imports.

[@SuiGenerisAbbie]

Truth!

[@HelloFromHawaii]

Unfortunately, the reliance on outside is because of the isolation. It's both good and bad. I thought the State had goals to become more self-reliant, especially in food. 30 or 40 percent self-grown crops? Not sure how that's going.

[@chasethe808]

@@ichigobankai2343 as humans and society, I wish we would learn our lessons like the one from the pandemic. You are so correct! We need to be self sustainable.

[@chasethe808]

@@ichigobankai2343 isn't it like 90%, now?!

[@ichigobankai2343]

My grandfather told me that before time had choke fruit trees in the forest but the people in charge when chop em all down cause they no like people growing their own food because the grocery markets going lose a lot of profits.

[@suzydupuis4841]

I'd like to see a push for eco-tourism. Your very best video. Let's continue to talk about solutions to Hawaii's problems.

[@HelloFromHawaii]

Eco-tourism is an interesting industry. Not sure how it would do with the Japanese market, but maybe popular with the US and western markets.

[@Atestinal]

I do agree about teaching financial literacy, though as you mentioned there is the issue with lowering teacher retention, so I do wonder who they could even get to teach it, and if they could teach it well enough. And I say this as someone who thinks economics in general might be worth considering as a required course. If not in high school, then in college. It's so important and prevalent in everyone's life, and with crypto on the rise and inflation continuously eating your wages/savings, I think econ is becoming increasingly important to learn. There was a Civil Beat article last year in May about the BoE finally taking a more serious look at the topic of teaching financial literacy, though it sounded like we're still a ways away from having it as grad requirement.

[@rickrutledge9363]

I'm heading again to the big island in a week! I enjoy the Kona airport 🛫

[@HelloFromHawaii]

I've never been a fan of the airport in Kona. Pretty small and all outdoors. Glad you enjoy their airport, though.

[@rickrutledge9363]

My wife and I are considering taking a jaunt up to Honolulu while we're there this time around. Maybe we'll see the airport up there!

[@MrBoodie1]

I'm from papakolea, moved to Kaneohe n den Moved to Waterford california, I never imagined Dat I would leave O'ahu, but looking back at things, I c Hawaii cannot survive on its own, jus to much population n cost of living, Hawaii is very dependent on other states to support with food n other things, O'ahu is still my home, but I bcame accustomed to were I live now n dats my home now! love n Aloha

[@HelloFromHawaii]

Mahalo for sharing. Things are tough here, but we try to make due with what we have. There are challenges here and beyond. Just different problems. 🤙

[@1dash133]

The one thing that I wish the State of Hawaii would do is to take the State Auditor's reports more seriously. Back in the days when I was working (I've been retired for 7 years), DAGS would audit other state departments for their business management practices. From my perspective as a middle manager in the Department of Transportation, State Auditor Marion Higa's reports summarizing weaknesses and inefficiencies were spot on. Unfortunately, no one bothered to pay more than lip service to her critiques. Oh, departments would make a big show of responding to every point ... contriving ways to justify deficiencies and promising to implement "meaningful" improvements ... but sadly nothing ever really changed. In part that was because it was in the department's best interest to protect its own image, rather than to accept criticism. In part, that was because effecting meaningful change was very difficult in the process-oriented bureaucracy.

[@HelloFromHawaii]

That's a great point. I'm not sure how those auditor reports are perceived, particularly if it makes the State look bad. But it's interesting stuff and maybe it just takes the media and others to highlight what are in those reports.

[@re_yn01]

I want to be a part of your administration 😂

[@HelloFromHawaii]

😆 🤙

[@miyakegaijin]

Actually I don’t think they should teach finance in high school because (drum roll) they kind of already do. From my understanding for my entire long life, I remember my class talking bout that financial stuff. I think it was actually in a history class(?) where our teacher tried to show us various charts of salaries and what is the estimated take home pay, expenses, interest and retirement. But at 15 years old, kind of in one ear and out the other. We also learned about interest in high school math but in one ear out the other. I even was given financial advice freshman year in college but I still couldn’t pull off the financial advice. The reason for my failure was advertisements. If we can get rid of need for students and families to keep up with the Jones then we have a fighting chance of people moving towards more financial freedom. If we cannot get rid of our desires for nice things then telling 10,000 middle class/poor public high school seniors that they should set aside $500 a month in a 401k for the next 30 years of their life is meaningless. They actually probably already heard that in high school and will hear it again in their 20’s but they’ll be like me and say, I can’t let my $500 a month disappear for 30 years and get it back later. If you can teach students to be frugal first and be vigilant against the material world then they have a fighting chance at being financially secure. Most of their struggles will be at losing in the shopping psychology game when they make credit card purchases and losing at the game of buying a car they shouldn’t have purchased. I am certain every single Hawaii high school student has been told several times that credit cards can be dangerous and don’t waste money on cars you can’t afford because cars are a horrible investment. Yet a truckload of young adults make the same mistakes over and over. They need to overcome the emotional side of their decisions which is that they don’t want to look poor. Actually, looking poor is that actual solution that would have fixed 80 percent of their troubles and they can then throw that 20 percent into their 401k then their financial problems will be truly solved.

[@HelloFromHawaii]

I don't think financial literacy is an actual priority. I remember they taught us about the stock market in the context of the Roaring 20s and then the Depression, but that was it. I know that STEM gets a big push, but again, without basic financial literacy, all that STEM salary with disappear.

[@elizabethmcgann4513]

Love all the analogies....CRB needs to be addressed at the State level

[@HelloFromHawaii]

I believe it's a priority this year. Hopefully they can get the funding and personnel.

[@MokuleiaVibes]

Please run for Governor. Guarantee you would win.

[@HelloFromHawaii]

lol. Looks like a tough job. Green is doing fine. 🤙

[@bchibana]

Chris for governor!!!

[@HelloFromHawaii]

Maybe Governor for a day 😆

[@late_bloomer_1973]

It just seems like local and state leaders drop the ball everywhere. The judicial system is atrocious. Money is wasted on unnecessary things. Hawaii just needs to catch up to the 21st century. Maybe legalize gambling and add casinos to the hotels. Can you imagine the money and jobs brought in for that?

[@HelloFromHawaii]

I believe they proposed a casino idea, but it never materialized. Too bad. Maybe in the future.

[@gk29194]

Are you plan to run for governor?

[@constantineandreu9377]

Nailed it Killah......seconds in😁 I know I said buy Matson? Thought about it nah! Nobody would appreciate all the syndicate and political BS I'd have to go through! And not just fireworks? You know👍 My final thoughts....Ala Moana Shopping Center😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 and ABC Stores😁

[@HelloFromHawaii]

🤙

[@gilbertahsam643]

Do away with safety check. 2 Grow more food and raise more pigs and cattle,chickens.

[@HelloFromHawaii]

Getting rid of the safety check would be an interesting one. Maybe extend it so we only need once every few years.

[@brokeheartwolf3733]

🤙🏽🤙🏽🙏

[@derekho6750]

The people of Hawaii needs to vote out Josh Green … He is a terrible person & a corrupt governor..!

[@HelloFromHawaii]

Mahalo for sharing your thoughts. I wouldn't agree with that, but appreciate you sharing. Election is in a couple of years.

[@rivertonhigh-v4t]

Gov Smiley just managed to escape Josh's fate by the skin of his tooth. Whew!

[@JKSmith66]

Hawaii is doomed, I moved 5 years ago and have zero regrets. People need to move en masse to force any change.

[@HelloFromHawaii]

I don't think Hawaii is doomed. I still like to think we have hope with good government and a strong local population.

[@rivertonhigh-v4t]

@@HelloFromHawaii H2O

[@rickchapman3051]

808 check. 😅 Hawaii never ever gives only takes. Neva happen. Not even $8.08.

[@HelloFromHawaii]

I'd like to see a check one day. It could help add more to the economy. And like I mentioned, if people are upset about tourism, they can always give it back or donate it.

[@kenw3938]

Sad thing is Hawai’i has gone more and more downhill 😢 all we can do is hope things will change but most likely not

[@HelloFromHawaii]

We'll have to see what happens come May.

[@blackbelt2000]

you guys keep voting for the same policies and the same parties so you guys got yourselves into this mess.

[@HelloFromHawaii]

Which is why I think we need new ideas and more open discussions on these issues. Maybe that will encourage the current leaders to reexamine things, which could lead to change.

[@lonestarintn9137]

Hawaii is about the people and their relationship with the islands or land. Unfortunately that was taken away from them a long time ago. Totally different way of thinking. Your examples while enlightening are not what Hawaii is about. But hey progress huh - that is what Hawaii is now. More Hawaiians live elsewhere than Hawaii cause they were driven out by progress. Sad but Love the Aloha that still may found in pockets here and there.

[@HelloFromHawaii]

I'd hope that these small changes could add up to larger changes that could keep more locals here, native Hawaiian and non-native Hawaiian. The big policy changes, while nice, take a while to trickle down to most of the general public.

[@royhi1809]

RAISE ALL FRUITS AND VEGETABLES ON THE ISLAND. RAISE MOST LIVESTOCK ON THE ISLAND. ALL EGGS SHOULD BE FROM THE ISLAND. ALL INFRASTRUCTURE SHOULD BE ELECTRIC AND POWERED BY EARTH SUSTAINABLE SOURCES. THE OCEAN NEVER STOPS MOVING, THE SUN IS OUT ALMOST 365 DAYS A YEAR... PURE WATER CAN BE MADE THROUGH EVAPORATION TO SUSTAIN FARMING AND TOURISM.

[@HelloFromHawaii]

There aren't a lot of egg farms anymore, which is too bad. I'd think that would be a great industry, but I'm assuming that the cost of feed is high.

[@rivertonhigh-v4t]

About 90% all produce bought and consumed in Hawaii are shipped in. Some 83% of Hawaii's ag land (873,241 acres) are dedicated to cattle pasture. In 2021, Hawaii's ranches had a total of 144,000 heads of cattle, a 1.4% increase from the previous year. And about 44k heads of cattle are shipped annually California, Texas, where they are made into burgers, BBQ, tacos, burritos. And the _Paniolos,_ dockworkers, truck drivers are happy to keep it that way -- if anything, expand the system.

[@EricJamieson-d8w]

in 'n out, trader joe's, dispensaries, .. done

[@cesarcanete3402]

I love you, but I only agree with you on teaching financial literacy in schools and agriculture. Everyone else I don't. Sorry dude, no disrespect to you man, but most of your ideas only look good on paper, but are terrible for our state. Implementation of AI would only raise our absurd electricity costs even more and overwhelm our power grid (which really needs to beef up). If anything, our state needs to lower our electricity costs by completely eliminating that dangerous all renewable energy by 2040 or 2050 bill that David "Kermit" Ige signed when he was Governor and bring back the coal plants. The Climate Change agenda is only scam/crooked infomercial to sell solar panels, windmills and electric cars made in China to make them rich and screw us over. The Tourism dividend disguised as Universal Basic Income that just makes people enslaved and dependent on the government. If you really want change in our state, lower and cut as many taxes possible, eliminate the state income/personal income tax & property taxes, work with congress to eliminate the jones act, beef up agriculture and establish manufacturing for us to grow and produce our own food and goods, make our state a business friendly state by lowering the fees to start a business and build up and establish the film/tv/entertainment industry and the cryptocurrency mining. Both complement and help strengthen the tourism industry. Again, please don't take this as disrespect or anything, just stating my opinions on what will help our state. That's all. Love your content and what you do. Really do mean that. Keep on doing you and producing content. I'll still watch and support you whether I agree with you or not.

[@HelloFromHawaii]

Mahalo for the comment. Appreciate the feedback. To your points, income taxes are already in the process of being lowered. So everyone should be receiving more take-home pay at this point. I do agree that the State could do better to create a business-friendly environment. 🤙

[@Cheeseburger-c9t]

It's impossible to get sleep in Hawaii. And, the people are weird like the guy making this video. Not worth the visit.

[@HelloFromHawaii]

Thanks for watching 🤙

[@haircole]

More golf courses.

[@HelloFromHawaii]

Just gotta maintain the ones we have. I've played at most of them. Miss the ones out in Makaha.

[@kelvinyschun]

Great explanation for all the various departments. Huge topic … Just one department will be lengthy. The organization chart is top down … Federal- State - Citizen. Focus on a department example: Department of Education State Office - Curriculum, Fiscal, Technology, Human Resources, Facilities, Student Support Services, etc District Offices- Oahu - Honolulu, Windward, Leeward, Central Neighbor Islands Each district has components similar to the state office School level Support Service- Administration, Teachers and Staff Finally the “student “ @@@@@@@@@@@@ Do a Paradigm Shift! Flip the top down chart and the “Student “ is at top Support by: School District State Do the same for state offices The “Citizens “ at top! How to support citizens? So many years of kicking the can down the road till retirement…

[@WolfSlumbersblackpilled91]

Only native hawaiians should live in hawaii or the very least be in power, and hawaii should be its own country and free from the United States of America. Im a decent from military haoles myself.