Kona Kohala Blog

Happy Memorial Day from Hawaii where most of us can still wave the American flag.  It's a sad day when our own government won't stand up and say it's okay to wave our flag, a flag that's been carried around the world to free people from oppression and bondage and to aid those in distress.  And never in all that time of flag waving have we ever taken land, instead, we have completed our tasks, asked only for enough land to bury our dead then return to our homes, lay down our arms and pick up our plows and lap top computers.

I'm so amazed that our president is so ashamed of this country that he has our flag taken down in places like Haiti where we spent so much money and human energy to rebuild the country.  How can that bastard child of foreign parents, we think that's plural, come from no where and elevate himself to the most powerful position in the world and not love this country?  What kind of mental poison must he have been given to hate a country that has given him so much and he's had to do nothing in return.  So many that run this country have never given back, only taken.  How is it that just by moving into that position of power these people can so quickly forget what it's like to be an ordinary citizen of this country?

As a veteran, believe it or not, I was excited to have to go to war in Viet Nam.  My father had gone before during both WWII and Korea and I felt lucky to have my chance to fight for this great country.  I believed the talking heads in Washington telling us about the evils of communism and how they would take over the world one country at a time starting in Southeast Asia.  It wasn't until long after that war that I was to become fully disillusioned.  I still want to believe in our country, I still see us as the ultimate good guys in the world but I so want to pop that festering zit sitting on capital hill made up of the administration and the congress.

I hope we vote them all out come November and anyone left, out in 2012.  We need to have citizen representation once again.  We need people who have had to struggle through the last few years not remain isolated and pampered "on the hill".  It's time for a change, it's time to be proud of who we are as a people and as a country once more.  It is so good to see the average American the tea party people out there raising a ruckus and letting their voices be heard.  It is unfortunate that capital hill is deaf as well as blind to our predicament but that's about to change.

Oh, right, real estate, sorry about that.  Real estate in West Hawaii, both North Kona and South Kohala, is still moving right along.  In fact, sales of condos in North Kona are up 115% over last year at this time and prices are down -23%, how's that for a perfect storm?  Sales of Single Family Residences (SFR's) are up 66% and prices down -8%.

In South Kohala, SFR sales are up just 1.75% but prices continue to drop and are down by -10%.  Condos up there have sales up 97% however, prices have crept up by 0.60% but generally holding steady.

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