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<\/p>\nRUSH: In Hawaii they have had a quarantine. No tourism for two or three months now. If you go to Hawaii from the mainland, the first thing that happens, they are told that you\u2019re coming, they have an official meet you when you get off the plane at the airport and they know what hotel you\u2019re staying at, and they follow you and make sure you go there and you have to stay quarantined for two weeks.<\/p>\n
You can\u2019t leave your hotel room for two weeks. So nobody\u2019s going. Why should you when the hotels are not open? They have been closed since March. Hawaii is total tourism. That\u2019s its business. That is its lifeblood. And there hasn\u2019t been any because the Hawaii state government has not allowed any.<\/p>\n
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So a month or so ago the government of Hawaii announced they were gonna open up on August 1st. This led to a lot of people investing a lot of money getting their businesses, like their hotels and their restaurants and their bars and their strip clubs and the pole dancers and all that, ready to go for the new arrival of tourists. They spent a lot of money. People have invested millions of dollars getting their dormant hotels ready to go, polishing the poles in the pole dance places, making sure that the lap dances can occur in a pristine, disinfected way. And then the state came along and announced, nope, sorry, we\u2019re extending the lockdown to September 1st.<\/p>\n
So now people are out millions of dollars that they\u2019ve invested in an August 1st reopen. Now, stop and think, if you own a hotel property in Waikiki or if you happen to own any kind of investment like a hotel property in the Kahala district of Oahu, which is on the southeastern side of Diamond Head, folks, they\u2019re breaking people.<\/p>\n
The state government in Hawaii is destroying itself. It\u2019s destroying the tourism. Now they claim they got great success to show for this. They got a very low count on the number of infections. They got very, very low count on the number of cases. They got a very, very low count on the number of deaths. But the deaths of businesses…<\/p>\n
And Hawaii is a set of islands right out there in the South Pacific. They don\u2019t have any natural resources except for pineapples and coconuts, which is okay for pina coladas. Macadamia nuts, coffee. But no oil. They have to have shipments of oil and food that arrive every day to all those islands. And they come in various ways. They come in cargo aircraft. They come in by oceangoing vessel. Meaning, if anything happens to disrupt the supply line, there\u2019s not much in stockpile.<\/p>\n
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They pretty much use everything that they get. But they haven\u2019t been needing anything. The hotels haven\u2019t been open. The restaurants haven\u2019t been open. I mean, it\u2019s stunning to me. And they\u2019re very proud of their low numbers on the virus and deaths and so forth. But I don\u2019t know how the people that own hotels over there are staying afloat. I know that they\u2019re major, major chains, and I know they have hotels around the world, but they didn\u2019t invest in and build these things to have \u2019em sit idle for four months at a time.<\/p>\n
How do you ever make that up? How do you ever make that back? I don\u2019t know if the people in Hawaii, I don\u2019t even know if they\u2019re complaining about it. I\u2019m not there. Kathryn\u2019s parents lived there, a lot of her family, so we were there a lot. And my golf buddies, we routinely schedule golf trips in Hawaii because one of the guys is Mr. Hawaii, Mike Hartley, and loved it. Just absolutely loved it. And I just shudder to think what\u2019s happened to the place now.<\/p>\n
And the same thing is happening in every other state that is shut down to the max degree. They\u2019re ghost towns in some of these cities. And you wonder, do these people running these states and these cities, to them is money something that just exists? It\u2019s just there and when you need some you put in a phone call and it somehow shows up? I\u2019m not talking about printed. Talking about how it\u2019s actually generated.<\/p>\n
I wonder this about the Millennial generation. Do they understand really where money comes from? Do they understand how you get yours. They don\u2019t understand why some people have more than others. They just think it\u2019s intrinsically unfair, that government needs to fix it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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