"'It's fractional,' state Representative John Mizuno told Hawaii News Now. 'It's not for 5,000 homeless people. It's going to be a handful of homeless people that we send home … to their support unit.'
Units is units, I guess.
The news is sounding more and more like the 1950's and 60's SciFi paperbacks.
And I can tell you, THIS USAPennsylvania unit has no desire to become homeless in Hawaii
“Why would they leave a guaranteed check and great weather?”
Appalled by Sarasota’s “homeless” problem the local paper (as I recall) hired a private detective to investigate. They actually published the results, which surprised me. A large percentage of the homeless were not penniless, as they expected. Many had retirement incomes, plastic money and stayed in motels when the weather was bad. Many had an income from begging that equaled the equivalent of regular income adjusted for taxes of $30k. 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. Now, this isn’t to say there are no homeless who are just folks down on their luck with no family or help. It also doesn’t address the large number of drug addicted mentally ill who can’t hold a job because they spend every penny go get high.
But I’d be surprised if very many people take up Hawaii on their offer. If they do, they’ll be back when their government paid vacation is over. Homelessness, for many, is a lifestyle and they like it.
Some of them likely scraped up the money to get there to begin with...I have to say if I was homeless Hawaii would look like a pretty good place to be. Nice weather year round and liberals to take care of me.