Hawaii lawmakers want to buy homeless one-way tickets off island

[Locutus]

via zip:

Great Democratic solution- shift problems to someone else.


Via Fox News:

Lawmakers in the Aloha State want to wave goodbye to their growing homeless population — by buying them a one-way ticket off the island.


Hawaii’s controversial three-year “Return to Home” pilot program launches later this year and is being billed as a way to help the state’s 17,000 homeless residents, while reducing the financial burden the state has in caring for them. Under the plan, the state will pay for a one-way plane ticket for any homeless resident who can find someone on the mainland to take them in.


The program, which has a $100,000 annual budget, is the brainchild of state Rep. John Mizuno, who had unsuccessfully tried to get a similar plan through the past three legislative sessions. This year, the measure was attached to a larger spending bill and squeaked through the state legislature.


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[Cliffy]

Sounds like Ralph Klein's gig when he sent Alberta's welfare recipients to BC with a one way bus ticket.

 

[Durry]

Yep and it worked out real well, a win win situation you might say!!

Many went to Ontario as well because Ontario was paying the highest welfare rate of any of the other provinces !!

Hawaii has more than their share of homeless, they gotta do something, the homeless are driving the tourists away.
And the tourist are Hawaii's biggest revenue stream!!

 

[taxslave]

Yep and it worked out real well, a win win situation you might say!!

Many went to Ontario as well because Ontario was paying the highest welfare rate of any of the other provinces !!

Hawaii has more than their share of homeless, they gotta do something, the homeless are driving the tourists away.
And the tourist are Hawaii's biggest revenue stream!!

Didn't work out so well for BC. We should give every homeless and welfare recipient not born in BC a bus ticket back to where they came from. Airmiles donations anyone?

 

[captain morgan]

Sounds like Ralph Klein's gig when he sent Alberta's welfare recipients to BC with a one way bus ticket.

You might recall that it didn't take long for BC to change it's policy on resident-status once the AB welfare population went West

 

[B00Mer]

Sounds like Ralph Klein's gig when he sent Alberta's welfare recipients to BC with a one way bus ticket.

We need more politicians like Ralph

 

[captain morgan]

We need more politicians like Ralph

Like the guy or not; He said what he did and did what he said.... That there was worth so much

 

[damngrumpy]

It's nice to see ignorance is alive and well in the world. People willing to spend
money to have citizens move to create the same problem over and over again.
The problem is governments and society have not yet figured out the problems
that create homelessness must be addressed and dealt with.

 

[Nuggler]

It's nice to see ignorance is alive and well in the world. People willing to spend
money to have citizens move to create the same problem over and over again.
The problem is governments and society have not yet figured out the problems
that create homelessness must be addressed and dealt with.

I think they know Grumps, they just have this ostrich complex

 

[EagleSmack]

Democrats love the homeless... just not in their neighborhood... or state in this case.

It's nice to see ignorance is alive and well in the world. People willing to spend
money to have citizens move to create the same problem over and over again.
The problem is governments and society have not yet figured out the problems
that create homelessness must be addressed and dealt with.

This is the party you swoon over.

 

[Tecumsehsbones]

Democrats love the homeless... just not in their neighborhood... or state in this case.



This is the party you swoon over.

And he criticises the guy when he thinks he's wrong.

Do you endorse and approve of everything every Republican says and does?

 

[EagleSmack]

The guy?

 

[Tecumsehsbones]

The guy?

Mizuno. The state legislator who proposed this, and has pushed it every year for the last three years.

You should be screaming with joy, since one of "your guys" did much the same. . .

"But Hawaii’s relocation plan isn’t a new idea. It is fashioned after a New York City program implemented six years ago. The Mayor Michael Bloomberg-backed plan bought hundreds of homeless families bus tickets, train rides and airfare so they could leave the city."

 

[EagleSmack]

Mizuno. The state legislator who proposed this, and has pushed it every year for the last three years.

You should be screaming with joy, since one of "your guys" did much the same. . .

"But Hawaii’s relocation plan isn’t a new idea. It is fashioned after a New York City program implemented six years ago. The Mayor Michael Bloomberg-backed plan bought hundreds of homeless families bus tickets, train rides and airfare so they could leave the city."

My guys?

Therein lies the difference between the hypocrites and the GOP.

P.S. Bloomberg is a liberal Democrat

 

[petros]

If I buy a condo in Hilo, will they pay my airfare there?