"No one wants to be homeless or without a job, without a place to go every day, without a future, that's not paradise."
Who needs a homeless haole, am I right?
The Hawaiian state gov, pragmatists who know the fabled island chain is a magnet for the destitute ‘cause if you’re poor y’might as well be warm instead of freezing to death back home on the mainland, plans to ramp up its program of shipping mainlanders back to where the hell they came from.
“It saves the state millions of dollars in the finite amount of resources we have for our local homeless,” Rep. John Mizuno told Local 8. “We’re getting them back to their family, their support group where the homeless can get back on their feet.”
The program was launched in 2015 to tamp down on Waikiki’s growing homeless problem, with out-of-state JOJ’s swelling numbers. So far 599 out-of-staters have been given seats home on Southwest airline jets.
In a piece for KITV4, two Boston men, Michael McCann and Michael French, spoke of living on the Honolulu streets.
“No one wants to be homeless or without a job, without a place to go every day, without a future,” McCann said. “I mean, that’s not paradise. That’s torture. Everybody needs to have help, absolutely. If you could help anybody here get back home. People are suffering here.”
His pal Michael French, howevs, ain’t going nowhere, free airfare home or not.
“This is going to be my home. I’m going to stay in Hawaii. I have no wants to go back to Boston. I don’t like the cold weather there, can’t push a wheelchair around in the snow too good. I’ll be here until the day I die.”
Dunno about you, but I get a shiver whenever I pass a homeless man, roughly my age, ’cause I know I’m maybe six bad months away from joining him on his cardboard carpet, old paw extended to grasp your offered coins.
I remember, once, a prominent surf magazine photo editor telling me he was living in his car.
Like Orwell said in Down and Out in Paris and London, “the average millionaire is only the average dishwasher dressed in a new suit.”
Anyone done it or doing it tough?
I get around.
Our housekeeper was late the other morning so I had to wait 20 minutes for my scrambled eggs – not happy.
men in grey suits…
low spark
Not really.
No one has been treated better in American history than the ww2 vets . They got incredible Government handout that made life very easy for them. Of course they turned around and screwed the generations after them by removing all those benefits
With free needles for all!
That because Republicans are mean spirited and it darkens everything they do.
These people are being offered a way out of being stuck. When people run out of money in Hawaii they can’t afford to leave and they get stuck in a hopeless situation.
The dems are being compassionate, not being mean spirited and giving people the boot
States with the highest per capita homeless:
California
Vermont
Oregon
Hawaii
New York
They all have one common trait- Run by Dems, so your assertions lack facts around Republicans being to blame BUT you do offer great comedy!
People flock to the states with the most social care and run from the republican states that offer none.
Simple
You’re seriosuly trying to sell this garbage?
THANK YOU FOR THE ENTERTAINMENT!
Thank you for displaying your child like understanding of the world.
I’ll wait for your facts to refute me
It’s actually your turn for a counter argument, but you deflected, so obviously you don’t have one.
The facts are there. a perspective shift might enable you to see more clearly.
I recommend mushrooms 🍄
HMMM, the facts are there you say, but you cannot point to them or quantify a single one and can only assert Republicans bad, Dems good. Start here and focus on Prop 47:
https://siepr.stanford.edu/…
Should you decide to take a balanced, pragmatic look at the real problem you’ll be amazed at the facts around the problem. The facts point to Dem controlled states as having the biggest, self-created problem in this area and it isn’t due to migration to these states BUT nice try! Do your own research!
As for mushrooms, I’m a satisfied customer.
That paper makes a great case for better mental health care and more shelters for the homeless in California . And the paper says that Democratic New York is doing well with the problem
Facts over feelings…spend some time in SFO, NYC and LA just as I do and we can compare notes any time
The homeless problem on New York is well taken care of.
Obviously you have never been there.
Never been there you say? TRY AGAIN! I just worked on Wall Street for many years, still do businesss there and won’t be there for another 2 weeks…YAWN!
Wall Street kook . Definitely can’t surf
*ex Wall Street kook, didn’t start surfing until ’87…keep punching up.
BTW, you’re now my hero as I want to be like you in so many ways. So tell me about your greatness Snark and don’t be shy as I don’t have time for cunts, only the greats like you are allowed in my circle
Homelessness in the first world is almost entirely related to mental illness.
Places like NYC spend BILLIONS on homeless services and shelters and those who can live inside almost always can find a place to sleep.
Now if you want to make a real difference in the number of people living on the streets then you have to consider forced hospitalization and forced medication.
You can thank the Republican Party for defunding health care in America.
If you want to make a difference in that , than vote Democrat
Nice try Snark. How many Presidents from the Dem party have there been since Reagan was President, how many times have the Dems held voting control since the days of Reagan? After you answer the aforementioend Qs, then tell me what the Dems have done to solve the alleged problem you wrongly blame on Republicans? Again, a nice try but an intellectually challenged assertion on your part
The Democrats fought very hard for many years to guarantee health care for all Americans. They eventually achieved that , even though Republicans did everything possible to stop them.
There is nothing intellectual about it.
It’s very simple.
Nice try but that hasn’t solved the homeless problem the Dems have fostered, encouraged and grown exponentially. And here I thought JH was talking about homeless and mental health…
You responded to my comment on JHs comment on mental health being the root cause of most homelessness. JH and i agree on that.
You seem to be failing to grasp it.
if you want to solve a problem than you have to go to the root of it.
There are many causes but also many treatments.
The unfortunate thing is that for the severely mentally ill the only solution is forced hospitalization and forced administration of medication.
New York State and New York City are run ENTIRELY by Democrats.
The State has a $200 billion+ budget and the City is at almost $100 billion.
NY does not have a homeless problem any where near as bad as other large American cities because of government assistance.
New York has over 60,000 homeless people
But only 6% of NY homeless are unsheltered
Thank your Democratic politicians for keeping people off of the streets of NY.
Interesting…that’s not the spin from AOC, Ayana Pressley and the rest of the race batters.
Maybe they should be touting NYC’s success and explains Jordan Neely’s death as the unfortunate cost of doing business.
Meanwhile…are any of the cities whose homeless problems are worse run by Republicans?
AOC is sexy .
There are no large cities run by republicans so can’t compare
AOC would be MUCH sexier without vocal cords and maybe a little less Ritalin in her system.
You know that Bronx rican accent turns on, don’t hide it
Otherwise known as “nails on a blackboard.”
Also known as the inspiration for that scene in Dumb and Dumber.
There are no more sanitariums any more
And THAT is the problem.
The last time I was at CVS checking out I had this non verbal homeless man with no teeth keep handing me this Reeses pieces cup. The bomb ones with the reeses pieces in the cup. I thought the nerve but said fine I will get it for you. $2.69! Cost more than the soap I was buying. Then when we got out of the store he tried to offer me some old pizza he had. I passed on the pizza. I would have rather had the reeses.
Send them to Lowers
Yo Derek, how about a signature stroll through the weekends coronation and how Queen Charles looked?
Ah, poor Harry, banished to the third row of pleb spectators. The humiliation will be expertly captured by Oprah upon arrival back in Montecito. . Poor lad can kill haji’s but can’t catch a royal break as a spare. I’m sure Diana rolled in her grave again.
Thanks beer beef for reminding me.
Reminded me of a Smiths song….
“Charles do you ever crave…”
Only Mr Derek Reilly can truly capture the spirit of this glorious ascension to power.
Step children sit in the third row.
The homeless in Hawaii has always shocked me. That and the beggars.
I support what ever the locals want but suggest you need a forwarding ticket upon arrival from the mainland or anywhere else.
It’s a fucken mess and know one has tried to deal with it in decades.
Hawaiians really deserve better.
Pretty sure the west side of Oahu has an enormous homeless problem with nary a haole
Mo bettah you go home an leave local girls alone.
Poor theoretical Dez with no device to slay lonely housewives 🙁
“Those’s not satisfied at the current snapper sand replenishment plan…break can pay my sushi bill…
no more food stamps? but my crops…
If you bought a bunch of 20 foot containers and put a bed and aircon in it, you’d give someone somewhere safe to sleep. I have spent many nights sleeping in such things. In Australia they are called a donger, and are as sweet as it gets for mining accommodation.
Of course, moving said homeless people away from primo begging spots might not go down well with the people we are trying to help.
hammocks and/or water beds?
Similar to how the homeless were pushed out of the Gold Coast before the commonwealth games and are now being pushed back from northern nsw as a result of the floods.
And let’s not forget the great relocation of housos out of western Sydney to the mid north coast to ensure a successful Sydney Olympics!
They are people, not fucken cattle you move on just because your got visitors coming and they look bad.
Ffs
I remember as a little kid going into the city and occasionally you’d see what we used to call “old derelicts”, old men drinking metho from brown paper bags, before they put that additive in it. They were old war vets. They were older than my grandpa, some might have even been WWI era. Not many slept on the streets, though they did pass out of course. I think they stayed in “hostels”. Dont remember seeing any beg either. They were just chasing away demons with the bottle.
Never saw a junky though I suspect thats because my parents never took me to st kilda or kings cross.
Now the people sleeping rough seem to be sleeping on the streets, seem to be fucked up by drugs and definitely engage in begging. I don’t think many would choose to live in a donger because a safe place to sleep doesnt fix the psych problems nor does it help them get any money.
I bet the homeless in the third world would jump at it though.
3rd world homeless build there own lil cities.
A matson container with AC is a $1000 rental anywhere in or around Waikiki.
We’re all just Eminenent Domain
w/ manifest destiny
Poor people are fools
They should choose to have money
And buy the best stuff
The homeless all suck
Fuck off back to the mainland
And try Mexico
Praise only Royals
They have fast cars and big boats
Bow down before them
Currently listening to this while working.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/progr…
It’s about a Cnut.