Hilo song: 31/2 minutes

Hilo Song hilo.mp3 Copyright / Artist Jerry Schneyer

03-15-2006

Ladies and Gentlemen:

First, I want all to know that I am not trying to break any copyright laws. However, this song sums up the frustration that is being experienced by the West Side of the Island of Hawaii. We, Kau, North and South Kona, North and South Kohala and the Hamakua Districts pay the majority of the taxes and North and South Hilo and the Puna Districts get the majority of the services. This is not an exaggeration. All one has to do is to review the infrastructure on our side, shall we call it the Kona side, of the Island and then compare it to their side, shall we call it the Hilo side, of the Island and you will understand what we are saying. We are disenfranchised, we don't have the population to get our fair share of the taxes paid spent on infrastructure on the Kona side. Case in point is the widening of Kuakini Highway. Kuakini Highway, is but one of our bumper to bumper roads on the Kona side from 6:00 AM to 6:00 PM five days a week. Kuakini Highway is being widened from Palani Road to Hualalai Road. This is a distance of about seven city blocks or around 2,000 feet. When finished, you'll enter this four lane, seven block long improvement from three, two lane feeders on the Palani Road side which will be joined by another four lane feeder at Henry Street and continue to Hualalai Road where this four lane improvement will again become three, two lane feeders on the Hualalai Road side. It is taking two years to do this, a union job of course, we are not allowed to use the fastest and cheapest in the Peoples Republic of Hawaii, and many millions of dollars, the total of which I'm sure no one knows yet. What do we get, the answer is a seven block long aneurysm. We have solved nothing. Traffic is bumper to bumper entering this seven block long improvement and bumper to bumper exiting this seven block long improvement. All that I can say is that I pray for the repose of the souls of the Governmental Officials on the Hilo side as God will surely condemn them to the everlasting fires of Hell when they pass from this life for what they have done and are doing to the Kona side of the Island of Hawaii. You are receiving this E-Mail in hopes that I/we can generate some interest on the part of the media to assist I/us in leveling this very hilly playing field. I/we know that we are but a small part of these Islands, but a part I/we are and we deserve better than what we are receiving.

Sincerely,

Richard B. Leander, Jr., C.P.A.