Pretty much, yeah. If the tourism industry drops even a little, the entire state of Hawaii is fucked. They produce virtually nothing and they have next to no industry, and courtesy of blindly voting democrat nearly 100% of the time, they're taxed to hell on top of the enormous markups on goods due to needing to be shipped thousands of miles out of the way.
The only reason they're not eating dirt in a grass hut is because of white people (and to a much smaller extent, Japanese people) visiting their island. But I've stopped expecting gratitude a long time ago.
Pretty much, yeah. If the tourism industry drops even a little, the entire state of Hawaii is fucked. They produce virtually nothing and they have next to no industry, and courtesy of blindly voting democrat nearly 100% of the time, they're taxed to hell on top of the enormous markups on goods due to needing to be shipped thousands of miles out of the way.
The only reason they're not eating dirt in a grass hut is because of white people (and to a much smaller extent, Japanese people) visiting their island. But I've stopped expecting gratitude a long time ago.