This is a very heartening story from Hawai'i, and proof why government should never become too large. These people were depending on government to help save their livelihoods, and because government becomes more inept as it grows, the bureaucratic red tape tied up this small repair that took volunteers only 8 DAYS to fix. It had already been in discussions for several months, and had a projected cost of $4 million dollars.

It's great to hear that people are doing great things with volunteer work and pitching in to make their homes, businesses, neighborhoods, and even STATE PARKS better -- maybe if all of America went back to this type of "Work Together" mentality instead of depending on a hand-out or the government to do everything but eat and sleep for them, things would improve.

http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/04/09/hawaii.volunteers.repair/index.html