Matson, the unions, and the Jones Act has been sticking it to the people here for years and laughing all
the way to the bank in a kind of inter generational scam benefiting only a small select group.
First necessary step is to negotiate a waiver from the Jones Act which would generate a lot of competition
in the shipping industry here and do away with the ongoing monopoly that the current shippers enjoy
not only here in Hawaii, but on Guam, Alaska and Puerto Rico for starters.  The economy here would
boom if we were exempted from the Jones Act but I suppose that the chance of this happening in this
controlled, banana republic is unlikely given the vested interests who are raking in a huge financial
windfall with no end in sight.  The fight between Matson and the Unions is just about how the spoils get
divided, nothing else.