Imagine how us locals feel when the Americans come from the mainland and tell us how to run things here.   For example, "Hey State of Hawaii, why not a monolithic Rail to solve your traffic gridlock?"  "Imagine HONOLULU's modern skyline to the world!"  Americans just stir up old interisland rivalries with their grand Mainland ideas that they put into the heads of our far less mentally equipped politicians.  Americans with their contractors and engineers feed upon our backwater culture of inept politicians to position themselves to suck local money to their mainland bank reserves.  They offer faddish stone soup, and then provide the faddish stone on condition that we locals provide the plain ol' water, pot, stove, meat, vegetables, herbs, salt, and pepper.  While all the islands fight O'ahu for the soup, the Americans drain our moneys to their mainland banks.  Deja vu?  Kamehameha I and then Annexation?