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Hawaii sets aside $100,000 to offer 17,000 homeless one-way airfare back to their home states
Daily Mail ^ | 08/01/2013

Posted on 08/01/2013 2:00:24 PM PDT by SeekAndFind

Hawaii is hoping to take the burden off its welfare system by saying aloha to its 17,000 homeless residents.

The state will offer one-way tickets home to any eligible homeless person to anywhere in the continental United States.

Hawaii has allotted $100,000 for a three year trial run of the so-called 'return-to-home' program, which could also even offer participants beds on cruise ships bound for their homes.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Hawaii
KEYWORDS: airfare; hawaii; homeless
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1 posted on 08/01/2013 2:00:25 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
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Libs are all down with the proles until they have to share space with them.


2 posted on 08/01/2013 2:01:36 PM PDT by SpaceBar
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To: SeekAndFind

And the home states should reciprocate.


3 posted on 08/01/2013 2:02:12 PM PDT by Straight8
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NJ realtors got in a trouble a few years ago for (successfully) steering black homebuyers to Altoona PA. Odd story...


4 posted on 08/01/2013 2:02:12 PM PDT by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic war against white males (and therefore white families).)
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Homeless in Hawaii (from Google images)


5 posted on 08/01/2013 2:04:03 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
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I’ll donate to the Hawaiian effort simply because it’ll cheese off the liberals!


6 posted on 08/01/2013 2:04:42 PM PDT by MeganC (A gun is like a parachute. If you need one, and don't have one, you'll never need one again.)
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Great deal! I can save a chunk of vacation money by purchasing a one-way ticket to Hawaii. They will pay for my ticket home.


7 posted on 08/01/2013 2:04:50 PM PDT by NautiNurse (That is retarted, Sir.)
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8 posted on 08/01/2013 2:05:46 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
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Although they are already at the beach,
it would be unkind to ask them to swim home
9 posted on 08/01/2013 2:06:36 PM PDT by HangnJudge
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That will help.

It will reduce the 17,000 homeless to 16,900 and free up some oceanside benches.


10 posted on 08/01/2013 2:07:14 PM PDT by Uncle Chip
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Hang on... Hawaii is setting aside $100,000 for 17,000 homeless one-way airfare?

DIVIDE $100,000 by 17,000 and how much do you have for airfare?

That’s $5.88 per homeless person. I get charged more than that going to and from Manhattan by train.


11 posted on 08/01/2013 2:08:47 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
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$100,000 for 17,000 people?

How far can they go on $5.88 each?

12 posted on 08/01/2013 2:09:18 PM PDT by Michael.SF. (0bama lied, Stevens died, now 0bama covers up the lies.)
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How close do the ships lugging Chinese containers come to Hawaii on the way to the west coast?


13 posted on 08/01/2013 2:09:26 PM PDT by nascarnation (Baraq's economic policy: trickle up poverty)
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GMTA


14 posted on 08/01/2013 2:10:25 PM PDT by Michael.SF. (0bama lied, Stevens died, now 0bama covers up the lies.)
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It’s a trial run. 17k is the assumed total number of “homeless”


15 posted on 08/01/2013 2:11:10 PM PDT by nascarnation (Baraq's economic policy: trickle up poverty)
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To: SeekAndFind

Move them to NObama’s future digs.


16 posted on 08/01/2013 2:11:59 PM PDT by Resolute Conservative
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How many Hawaiian natives would take this offer?


17 posted on 08/01/2013 2:12:08 PM PDT by GeronL
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That’s $5.88 per homeless person.

OMG--that's less than checking one bag on the airline.

18 posted on 08/01/2013 2:13:47 PM PDT by NautiNurse (That is retarted, Sir.)
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I’d guess about zero, unless somebody could convince them that homeless in Cali is a better deal than homeless in Hawaii.
And in a few years they’ll be able to bunk in at the Baraq Hussein Obama Presidential Library / Choom Gang Museum / Homeless Shelter.


19 posted on 08/01/2013 2:15:10 PM PDT by nascarnation (Baraq's economic policy: trickle up poverty)
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I think they’re probably not expecting most of them to take up the offer.


20 posted on 08/01/2013 2:15:45 PM PDT by sinsofsolarempirefan
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