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 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
If I’m going to be homeless anywhere, Hawaii is at the top of the list!
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
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.
I’m wondering, somewhat cynically, if tourism is part of the equation here. Tourism brings in billions to Hawaii each year, and a large upward trend of homeless people is probably seen as a threat to that industry.
Is Reagan the Governor?
Hawaii has a HUGE meth/heroin problem.
Combine that with great weather, and an overly-generous welfare program, and untreated mental health issues, and it creates a big “homelessness” problem.
Of course, the Politically-correct Democrat answer is NEVER to actually go aftre the drug problem, or address how generous Democrat Fee Schit Programs contribute HEAVILY to it.
The Democrat answer is ALWAYS “Affordable housing! Affordale Housing! Outreach Programs!!”, which really means giving your tax money to Democrat Cronies to funnel back into Democrat Campaigns.
“Specifically, the emergency proclamation allows the spending of over $1.3 million to fund homeless services and help set up permanent homes for families and the chronically homeless.”
If you pay them, house them, feed them, they will come. Watch the “homeless” population balloon.
I’ve been told that Hawaii pays at least $700 a month in welfare benefits (cash) to any homeless person who applies at a state social services office. So, thousands have flooded the island to collect a check and become squatters on the beach,
Was also informed that welfare departments in other states used to offer the homeless a one-way airline ticket to Hawaii, with instructions on how to apply for benefits once they arrive (not sure of the accuracy of that claim).