To each his own...it's a person's choice to live each day like yesterday or think outside the box and try to make tomorrow better.  I know lots of people that have grown up impoverished here and on the mainland that have come out of that area and are successful in what they do.  Don't think it can't be done.  For a community to blame everything on where they live is ridiculous.  Look around the area and think what can be done.  Mr. Kropar is merely pointing out the issues of the community as a whole.  Each family needs to then look in their home.  Are they doing what they need to do to push their family?!  No!  They want everything handed to them on a silver platter thereby enabling the pilau-ness you see in Waianae.  And this so called "trap"...again...to each his own.  There's lots of states that's cheaper to live in and has lots of jobs but we choose to live here so one should choose to live within their own means and hustle rather than sit and be enabled.