Hey, you know what else is a "sad testimony to the aloha spirit"?  Taxing struggling families' food, rent, clothing, shoes, and medicine to pay for a wasteful, out of control mess of a project whose proponents  consistently lie and make false promises to keep the gravy flowing.

Do you think $100,000 month rent for luxury high rise office space and a staff who were hired a decade too early makes sense while children sleep on sidewalks?