text: "The assumption by Inouye and others that rail is too big to fail and that the state needs to do whatever it can to help the project is flawed." http://www.civilbeat.org/2017/04/no-more-bailouts-for-honolulu-rail/
  
  I couldn't agree more with the above. We cannot be held hostage to special interests,  intransigence,  and propaganda.
  
  Too many times, bad public policies and projects are shoved down the throats of citizens but we have to be "MOVING FORWARD."
  
  "MOVING FORWARD" is blackmail. It continually allows corruption, ignorance, and arrogance to subvert good public policy and decision-making. The public is simply to forget all past nefarious and capricious behavior but to just accept it and move forward.  Never mind the irreparable damages or future impacts.  
  
   It's a known fact this Honolulu Rail project was based on faulty premises and gross underestimated costs, laced with immense manipulation. The public good and our future generations should not be blackmailed in this manner.