Martha's Vineyard residents lament lack of resources, even as island is flush with cash and beds

Fox News ^ | 9/18/2022 | Kerry J. Byrne

[simpson96]

Martha's Vineyard, Mass. – Playground of the powerful Martha’s Vineyard lacked the resources to care for the 50 migrants who landed there unexpectedly on Wednesday, local residents told Fox News Digital this weekend.

But real estate data and Massachusetts state resources show otherwise. Island towns are flush with cash and plenty of extra beds to help needy people.

Edgartown, for example, boasts $9.8 million in free cash — budget surplus — according to the Massachusetts Department of Revenue.

It would have cost only $9.1 million to give all 50 migrants their own room for an entire year at Edgartown’s swanky $500-per-night Harbor View Hotel.

Martha’s Vineyard "is not the best place for them to start fresh," artist "Z" Leach told Fox News Digital on Saturday during a street fair in Oak Bluffs, a town celebrated for its colorful Victorian "gingerbread homes" overlooking the ocean.

"There’s no place to live here," she said. "Housing is bad."

"We have a major housing crisis as it is," echoed Rachel Hines, who works for the nonprofit Vineyard Preservation Trust.

She also helps run a new Oak Bluffs eatery called TigerHawk Sandwich Co.

[Billthedrill]

Edgartown, for example, boasts $9.8 million in free cash... It would have cost only $9.1 million to give all 50 migrants their own room for an entire year at Edgartown’s swanky $500-per-night Harbor View Hotel.

Hey, for another measly $219,000 you could throw in toast at the Tigerhawk for breakfast all year! Come on, people, give 'til it hurts!

[PsyCon]

Martha’s Vineyard Invasion Song

https://twitter.com/i/status/1570888430112116738

[Allegra]

Hey, for another measly $219,000 you could throw in toast at the Tigerhawk for breakfast all year!

Bwahahahaha!

[beethovenfan]

Those poor, poor billionaires.

[PCPOET7]

actually, we are not hearing anything from the billionaires. they don’t care one way or the other about the public reaction to this.

We are hearing from the servant class on the island. They are so class oriented that they don’t recognize that all their reasons they give for getting rid of the illegals are bogus.

The reasons given why the illegals can’t be on the island is indicative of how the resources on the island are being used to cater to the whims of the billionaires.

Question? Other than politicians and servant class has any of the super wealthy landowners said anything about the 50 illegals sent to the island.

[Songcraft]

That's a great song!

(Some of the older Martha's Vineyardians were heard singing this song too.)

"Keep A-Knockin'"
(Little Richard)

[Mears]

Servant class ?

I find these FR Vineyard bashing threads pathetic.

Time to move on.

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