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I expect you would have to spend some period of time "homeless", living in a tent or in a shelter, before they would offer you a return trip home.
I don't think it is as dumb as it sounds. This is targeted at people that have family or other support in the continental US, but don't have the means to return to the mainland. They can't stand on the side of the highway in Honolulu with a cardboard sign labeled "Chicago".
Somebody 'splain to me how that works...
ah...the liberal govt of Hawaii is feeling the pain of those that depend SOLELY on the govt...well, the liberals created them - let them take care of them...apparently they are taking up space that the Japanese want to buy!
Fly them all to Detroit and give them an extra dollar to buy a house
They’ll have to pay them more than that to leave paradise.
And it will only work until mainland cities buy them tickets to send them back.
Mariel boatlift
Would be pretty funny if the other 49 states set aside funding for 1,000 each in one-way flights to Hawaii.
If I was homeless I would want a ticket TO Hawaii! Get me out of NYC or Chicago ASAP!
How can this be? HI is supposed to be a liberal mecca overflowing with compassion for the downtrodden.
They create over 17,000 new homeless every month. This would be like pouring sand in a funnel.
At $5.88 per person it’s not going to work out too well anyway.
I’d just be ecstatic to purchase airfare to Hawaii for $58.82.
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.
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.
Wow ... a “let them be someone else’s problem” plan. Nice.
“Greyhound Therapy.” Cops have used it for decades...
California has been doing this for a while.
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.
What airline is ging to sell them a ticket for $5.88?