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Hawaii sets aside $100,000 to offer 17,000 homeless one-way airfare back to their home states
Daily Mail ^ | 08/01/2013

Posted on 08/01/2013 2:00:24 PM PDT by SeekAndFind

Hawaii is hoping to take the burden off its welfare system by saying aloha to its 17,000 homeless residents.

The state will offer one-way tickets home to any eligible homeless person to anywhere in the continental United States.

Hawaii has allotted $100,000 for a three year trial run of the so-called 'return-to-home' program, which could also even offer participants beds on cruise ships bound for their homes.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Hawaii
KEYWORDS: airfare; hawaii; homeless
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To: nascarnation

RE: bunk in at the Baraq Hussein Obama Presidential Library

Is he planning to build it in Illinois or Hawaii ( or maybe Kenya or Indonesia )?


21 posted on 08/01/2013 2:17:29 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

I hear Caliph Baraq will be the first to have three branches, all with gold fixtures:

Hawaii, Cali, and NYC.


22 posted on 08/01/2013 2:19:53 PM PDT by nascarnation (Baraq's economic policy: trickle up poverty)
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To: SeekAndFind
Buy a one way ticket to Hawaii...vacation....then go to Government headquarters and tell them you are homeless and would like to return to the mainland...Am I the only one to think of this?!!
23 posted on 08/01/2013 2:21:58 PM PDT by maineman (BC EAGLES FAN)
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To: GeronL; All

1933 Hooverville

2013 Obamaville


24 posted on 08/01/2013 2:24:11 PM PDT by stephenjohnbanker (K I L L T H E B I L L !!)
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To: Resolute Conservative

One of the government officials quoted in the article pretty much admits that “this is an open invitation for people to buy one-way tickets to Hawaii”.


25 posted on 08/01/2013 2:25:02 PM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: maineman

...see post #7...


26 posted on 08/01/2013 2:26:16 PM PDT by fhayek
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To: stephenjohnbanker

Poor Hoover.
He had no idea that Fed Reserve created bogus minibucks could purchase the affection of the voters.


27 posted on 08/01/2013 2:27:35 PM PDT by nascarnation (Baraq's economic policy: trickle up poverty)
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To: SeekAndFind

Doesn’t look like they got it too bad. If all else fails, I’d go “homeless in Hawaii” for my retirement plan.


28 posted on 08/01/2013 2:31:30 PM PDT by Boogieman
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To: nascarnation

LOL....

Hoover was a victim of the depression

Obama planned an executed ours.

(assist by Bernanke)


29 posted on 08/01/2013 2:32:22 PM PDT by stephenjohnbanker (K I L L T H E B I L L !!)
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To: kearnyirish2

Well, that can be serious federal trouble if they do that. The regulators don’t play around when it comes to “housing discrimination”.


30 posted on 08/01/2013 2:33:08 PM PDT by Boogieman
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To: SeekAndFind

Wouldn’t it just be cheaper to ship them all to Kahoolawe?


31 posted on 08/01/2013 2:34:59 PM PDT by PAR35
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To: Michael.SF.

You get a Mae West and a map.


32 posted on 08/01/2013 3:23:27 PM PDT by beelzepug (if any alphabets are watchin', I'll be coming home right after the meetin')
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To: Michael.SF.

“How far can they go on $5.88 each?”

About two miles offshore, I think. Maybe Hawaii thinks that’s far enough.


33 posted on 08/01/2013 3:42:28 PM PDT by Steve_Seattle
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To: SeekAndFind

Geez... that’s less than $6 per person... cheap folks, there in the islands.


34 posted on 08/01/2013 4:11:40 PM PDT by ataDude (Its like 1933, mixed with the Carter 70s, plus the books 1984 and Animal Farm, all at the same time.)
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To: nascarnation
How close do the ships lugging Chinese containers
come to Hawaii

Aye, that might do it, or perhaps the return trip to China

35 posted on 08/01/2013 4:27:06 PM PDT by HangnJudge
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To: nascarnation
with the Baltic Dry Index as low as it is
You could probably get a good price
They may need to forage for food along the way


36 posted on 08/01/2013 4:34:10 PM PDT by HangnJudge
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To: SeekAndFind

I’ve seen these massive camps of homeless myself...biggest in the nation.


37 posted on 08/01/2013 4:49:27 PM PDT by what's up
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To: Boogieman

“The regulators don’t play around when it comes to “housing discrimination”.”

I’m sure of it. Fortunately, we’ve become so overwhelmed with Hispanics that I don’t think the towns around me will be required to diversify anymore (unless it is to bring Americans back).


38 posted on 08/01/2013 5:23:39 PM PDT by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic war against white males (and therefore white families).)
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