Oh and kudos to the nimrods who even floated an idea to buy them a one-way ticket to the mainland.

Abrignac wrote:

Shipping them to the mainland only puts the problem on someone else, and is not a solution.

cacman wrote:

What a putz.

Oh and kudos to the nimrods who even floated an idea to buy them a one-way ticket to the mainland.

Abrignac wrote:

Funny... I wanted to ship the lawmaker here to SF so he could do the same thing here. This place is lousy with them.

victor809 wrote:

Funny... I wanted to ship the lawmaker here to SF so he could do the same thing here. This place is lousy with them.

victor809 wrote:

What State do you live in??? Let's make sure all the Hawaiian homeless are shipped to your State so you can deal with them. Shipping them to the mainland only puts the problem on someone else, and is not a solution.

There's no easy answer. Many homeless don't want intervention. Many suffer from mental illness. It's a big problem across the US.

cacman wrote:

I'm guessing I should have included the sarcasm smiley. As the farther of a disabled adult child I can assure I'm in no way in favor of shipping any one any where. Unfortunately, all too many people are homeless for reasons that IMHO are nothing if not cruel. I have lost many hours of sleep wondering who will take care of my child when my wife and I are no longer walking this planet because she will never be able to take care of herself.

Abrignac wrote:

What State do you live in??? Let's make sure all the Hawaiian homeless are shipped to your State so you can deal with them. Shipping them to the mainland only puts the problem on someone else, and is not a solution.

There's no easy answer. Many homeless don't want intervention. Many suffer from mental illness. It's a big problem across the US.

cacman wrote:

Here they like to smoke a lot of pot and crack on the street. I'm not sure what disability that counts as, but it seems to be the predominant one.

On an average day, over the 2 blocks I walk home in the evening there are 2 homeless people smoking crack pipes in the open on the sidewalk.
Every morning and evening there is an entire 2 block length of people lined up to get some sort of free meal.
There is consistently daily discarded food containers, cardboard boxes (they sleep on them), and human feces in the street on my walk home.

And this is the city with the most supportive "safety net". Clearly that does not work.

victor809 wrote:

Funny... I wanted to ship the lawmaker here to SF so he could do the same thing here. This place is lousy with them.

victor809 wrote:

most people's interpretation of the world is limited to their immediate surroundings, but I know that you know better.

frankj1 wrote:

That's not fair! Queers got a right to live there if they want! Who's he to bust up their property?!
Besides, push come to shove, some could lick him fair & square!

bloody spaniard wrote:

Stolen property... unless these homeless people own a grocery store.

victor809 wrote: