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Xithras

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11. Hawaii is a bit of a special case on this.

Reply to xchrom (Original post)

Wed Jul 31, 2013, 10:36 AM

Jul 2013

Anywhere else in the country, if you go broke and end up on the streets, and you have family elsewhere who can get you back on your feet, it's simply a matter of thumbing a ride, getting a cheap bus ticket, or doing a lot of walking to go see them. In Hawaii, you have to fly. The cheapest ticket I could find from Honolulu to Los Angeles was $450 one-way, which is an insurmountably large sum of money for someone who is living on the streets.

I see no problem with helping people leave if they WANT to leave. Thanks to that big ocean surrounding them, government assistance provides the only practical way that they CAN leave.

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Hawaii Is Giving Homeless People A One-Way Ticket Off The Islands [View all] xchrom Jul 2013 OP

how much is an airline ticket? Deep13 Jul 2013 #1

yeah but its a one time expense for the state, kind of makes sense to get people home if they cant loli phabay Jul 2013 #2

Sure, if those people want to go back to the mainland. nt Deep13 Jul 2013 #3

yeah, all the states can trade their homeless -- and then what? HiPointDem Jul 2013 #6

simple idea seems beyond your comprehension. loli phabay Jul 2013 #10

I repeat, once all the cities have sent their homeless off to some other city, effectively trading HiPointDem Jul 2013 #20

its simple they are two different subjects, i am for them giving someone who is homeless loli phabay Jul 2013 #23

$5-600 Jesus Malverde Jul 2013 #13

Early on some legislators were using their own wallets to reunite people with their families. dkf Jul 2013 #4

Prior to the 1980s, many big city homeless programs consisted of giving them a meal FSogol Jul 2013 #5

prior to the 1980s, homeless were few and far between, because of post-war housing policy. HiPointDem Jul 2013 #7

You mean prior to Reagan closing the Federal Mental Hospitals. n/t FSogol Jul 2013 #8

the reason for homelessness appearing in the reagan admin had little to do with mental hospitals. HiPointDem Jul 2013 #21

Salvation Army does this too. Viva_La_Revolution Jul 2013 #9

Hawaii is a bit of a special case on this. Xithras Jul 2013 #11

Yes, I don't see a problem with this. Incitatus Jul 2013 #12

Gee, what a love fest for exorcising people from an island. Great Democratic values! Safetykitten Jul 2013 #14

yeah people who want to leave, people seem to miss that part. loli phabay Jul 2013 #15

Well, I will get a one way there, and ask Hawaii to pay my trip back, when I feel like it... Safetykitten Jul 2013 #16

no idea on the parameters of the program but i presume you have to be in their welfare system loli phabay Jul 2013 #17

Oh, so it's just POOR PEOPLE. Got it. Safetykitten Jul 2013 #18

kind of obviously its poor people if they are homeless and on welfare loli phabay Jul 2013 #19

(Am I really the first to say this?) Aloha means Good-bye cthulu2016 Jul 2013 #22