"For Hawaii, defense spending in fiscal year 2014 was $7.8 billion, amounting to nearly 10 percent of the state’s GDP."

Military spending in the state, isn't free money, it comes with a huge environmental cost and places a stress on the limited social infrastructure of Hawaii.
The US has chosen warfare as it's national export, and those who criticize are mocked, as the war machine marches on to the cheers of the many intoxicated with military might looking for a fight in the comments colosseum.