Posted on 07/31/2013 4:55:46 AM PDT by Makana
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.
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There are tons of bums in FL for the weather. Go to Daytona Beach. There was a tent city two miles from me in Gainesville, FL.
There are people who choose to separate themselves from the “normal” everyday issues/bills/responsibilities so they choose to wander around. They have some money that they use for the occasional hotel room.
Take all of America’s homeless people, and ship them all to Cuba.
I don’t think it’s dumb at all. If Hawaii gets away with it, I’d like to see more states try it. It would be interesting to see how that would go.
my former brother in law went to Hawaii on a one way ticket and lived on the beach.............anything to get out of Victor, Colorado.
Thought-Obozo is going to retire there. He probably wants the place cleared up before he settles in. He and the left are trying to clear out the spaces they prefer to live in, and foist the welfare-sucking criminals on middle class flighters who fled those areas to the suburbs. Section 8 vouchers, HUD, Agenda 21-they’re going to do what it takes to force diversity on the rest of us while the very bottom and the very top collude in the destruction of the middle.
Wow ... a “let them be someone else’s problem” plan. Nice.
I read about some of the punk kid runaways who aggressively panhandle people places like San Francisco and Portland. They really think they have a right to what’s in your pocket just short of taking it from you. If they weren’t punked-out scrawny kids, they’d probably try that too.
homeless and I like it
like it love it like it love it
isn’t there a song like this?
when we were there on vacation, a panhandler (white guy) stopped us with this sad tale.... he lost everything in hurricane Katrina!
Really? I told him he was lucky to have ended up on Oahu.
Having visited Victor, CO in 1978, I don’t blame your former brother-in-law one iota. I’d do the same thing.
Living on the beach in Hawaii? Hell, yeah!
“Greyhound Therapy.” Cops have used it for decades...
I can’t speak to San Francisco, but I recall some of the youthful panhandlers in Portland, OR as being pretty damned aggressive, and that would’ve been in the mid to late 1990s.
I’ve heard from friends still living there that the streetkid panhandlers are even more aggressive now, just shy of outright mugging people.
California has been doing this for a while.
>>> If Hawaii gets away with it, I’d like to see more states try it. It would be interesting to see how that would go.
Well, like I just said, California has at least a 12 month jump on Hawaii... They’ve been trying to export their homeless for a while now.
Of course nobody talks about it.
I wonder how California will deal with homeless imports from Hawaii... and vice-versa?
If I were homeless on state welfare programs, I would be shopping for more handouts... not less.
Sounds like the makings for a great state exchange program, where states can actually compete for homeless vagrants.
Fortunately for the red states, implementation of Obamacare will play a key role i’m sure.
“When they went to the next level and started interviewing “homeless” they found that they were people who didn’t want to be tied to a house and traditional values. They just wanted to live free from all the normal constraints.”
I have worked with homeless folks. There are very few truly ‘homeless’ people. There was a time when I nearly became one myself. However, because I had no desire to stay there and was almost there due to bad circumstances, I got out.
Everything old is new again.
I remember moving to San Diego back in `85 and seeing a bunch of homeless people hanging out near the beach wearing Cubs, White Sox, Bears and Bull gear. I thought it was odd until a local told me that Chicago had been rounding up their homeless and putting them on greyhounds to San Diego with one way tickets.
According to what I read, a lot of them are from middle class families in suburbs. They don’t have to be there by any means, they want to be there. I just cannot fathom that. Wanting to sleep on sidewalks where the concrete is the toilet. They set up in front of businesses and the clients and customers have to pick their steps through urine and feces, the cops can’t make the panhandlers leave.
Haha, that could be a new growth industry, shipping entitlements cases from state to state. A never-ending musical chairs.
yeah, he never wants to see snow again lol
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