Posted on 10/18/2015 12:29:44 PM PDT by PROCON
(CNN)—Hawaii is a place many go to kick back, relax and enjoy the good life.
But for others, it's a land of struggle.
That's why its governor on Friday signed an emergency proclamation to tackle homelessness in the state, saying the measure will help turn around the lives of young and old.
"Homelessness remains a serious issue in every county throughout the state," Gov. David Ige said in a press release.
Hawaii has an estimated 7,620 homeless people, said the governor's spokeswoman Cindy McMillan, citing a 2015 statewide count. This may not seem like much compared with other places -- to this point California has about 114,000 homeless, New York has more than 80,000 and Texas about 28,500, according to the United States Interagency Council on Homelessness -- but it's all relative to the state's total population.
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A question:
Where do these homeless come from?
Are they the victims of Hawaii's high taxes and high cost of living?
And if not longtime residents, where do the homeless come from?
Certainly swimming there is out of the question. Did they all arrive in the wheel wells of incoming jetliners?
What gives?
What’s the problem?
They should just put them all on an Island. Oh wait...
Their plan is to buy the homeless one-way tickets to San Francisco.
They took a Greyhound Bus from L.A.
The Windshield Wipers were go full speed all the way.
A very mild climate and generous benefits, where there’s a will there’s a way.
Little grass shacks in Kealakekua, Hawaii.
Hawaii is an island. Where did the homeless come from. If they are native to Hawaii, then they have family there, and it should be the family’s responsibility to take came of their members.
I'm sure they would do that IF they signed an agreement to never return. If they could get such an agreement to stand up in court it would get the greenlight.
I did some reading on the subject when an employee where I worked, who was making about $60,000/year, declared he was going to commit suicide by drinking himself to death. He became a homeless person. He said, “unfortunately, I ran out of money before I died.” He was writing a blog from the library talking about suicide. Some do-gooders tracked him down and got him an apartment and money. He sold the contents of the apartment and spent the money on liquor.
This was an otherwise successful employee. The homeless problem is largely a mental health and drug use issue. It does not help to give them food or money or even clothing, as they mostly turn it into the drug of their choice or it enables them to continue on the path they’re on.
(To the paper’s credit, they did report on the negative consequences of trying to help this guy.)
IMO ... they were created out of whole (hawaiian) cloth
7,620 homeless people? Is that all? Los Angeles has 50,000 homeless every day. 50,000
Posted Sept 22, 2015 in the LA Times
http://qz.com/507976/los-angeles-teeming-with-homeless-people-declared-a-state-of-emergency/
If I’m going to be homeless anywhere, Hawaii is at the top of the list!
Spoken without tin foil protection
Homeless means on welfare and surfing all day.
Might be a good time to re-open the Molokai leper colony.
Well, we’re always being guilted into returning lands to the natives. Just sounds like they’re living the way they used to, prior to our arrival.
May be like Key West. Tey come down for the weather, but also a lot of people who are working, but can’t afford housing.
http://www.keysnet.com/2015/04/18/502316/inside-key-wests-homeless-shelter.html
In Hawaii any where you are your home!
Sounds like a great place for the Syrians and Somali’s.
A lot of them come from the mainland.
If you’re going to be homeless it is better to be homeless in a place that is warm, has fruit growing on the trees which you can eat for free, has showers and restrooms in the public beach parks.
If I were homeless this is where I would be. I just makes sense.
There has been much speculation that places with harsh winters have bought one-way tickets for homeless people to go to warmer areas. It is cheaper to geographically get rid of them than dealing with them.
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