Posted on 05/30/2014 8:28:33 PM PDT by george76
Homeless campers evicted’
That was the top headline in Friday’s TGI after campers at Anahola Beach Park were told to vacate or face arrest last week. We’re not disputing that these folks weren’t supposed to be there, but we will argue this is a sign of the severity of the homeless problem in Hawaii and specifically, on Kauai
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No surprise that homelessness is a problem. Kauai is a very expensive place to live. Rent, utilities, groceries and gas — all of which hit the shrinking middle class and the rising low-income hard — are among the highest in the nation. Jobs aren’t easy to come by. Jobs that pay well for blue-collar folks are at a premium. There are some who argue if people can’t make it here, then they should leave and go to North Dakota and work in the oil fields. Plenty of jobs there. But if this is your home, it’s difficult to pack up and move on, especially from a place known as paradise. So despite difficult living conditions, people stay. They want to remain in the place they love and there is much to love about Kauai.
Some will argue, the homeless have only themselves to blame. Should have gone to college, learned a better skill. Too lazy to work, some say. They drink, do drugs and smoke. They came here without work and assumed everyone would greet them with open arms and care for them. There’s also the argument, the more you do for the homeless, the more you’ll have. Provide free food, clothes, services, a place to sleep, and you’ll soon have all the homeless men and women you can handle and they’ll keep coming back. There will always be those who take advantage of resources and the kindness of others.
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Kauai is a beautiful place. Paradise. If I hit the Powerball® numbers I’d move there for sure. Gorgeous weather. Theft and petty crime is commonplace there. I think the governor or some official had a plan to offer free plane tickets back to the states if they signed a pledge to never come back but that got shot down on legal concerns.
Mark 14:7 The poor you will always have with you, and you can help them any time you want. But you will not always have me.
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His point was how short a time He would be on earth...but He said twice that we would always have the poor.
That's disheartening.
I once thought that with enough education, food, health care and housing, we could eliminate the poor. Ah me, I was young and idealistic.
Jesus WOULD know that we will always have the poor.
They are on all of the islands-—which was quite a surprise to me.
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However, I found that after too long there I, and many people, succumb to JUNGLE ROT of the brain.
Maybe they could have like a rap session with them, man. That would be so far out!
I remember that other states shipped their homeless off to Hawaii.
Homelessness is not a state of being any rational person would want, and but for the grace of God we could each end up there if life went south.
Could they be chucked into a volcano as a sacrifice?
If you are going to be homeless, Hawaii is probably the best place to do it.
For the down and out put them in half way homes until they can get back on their feet.
For the chronically lazy, terminally drug addled, and just plain crazy, put them on an island where they can live how they want without bothering decent working people.
You had this all wrong. If it were not for uncomfortable circumstance, what would there be to rise above? Being poor should be motivation to change your condition, not look for some bureaucrat to change it for you by tearing somebody else down. The poor serve an important and integral purpose, until they learn they can vote for a living...
“Bottom line — the homeless population on Kauai is going to increase before it decreases. More will arrive via plane, somehow scrapping together ticket fare to get here. “
Somehow they are getting plane tickets to get there, they then expect the govt to support them.
Tough beans! Move to North Dakota and make enough money to come back and visit your "paradise". Save up enough and you can retire back home, in paradise.
I WAS quoting Jesus--Mark 14:7 and Matthew 26:11. HE said that we would always have the poor with us.
But, perhaps you know better than Jesus.
I have to wonder how many here have actually dealt with the homeless. Who has had to tell them they can’t be where they are, but also tell them there is nowhere to go. I have, as a police officer. It’s by the Grace of God that I never ended up there, and I’ve been by the Grace of God financially ok during my lifetime. Don’t ever assume shit can’t happen to you.
So what’s new? I remember homeless people on Kauai more than 40 years ago. Not a bad place to be homeless, I’d say.
I've just spent 60 days in the jail house For the crime of having no dough, no no
Now here I am back out on the street For the crime of having nowhere to go.
Save your neck or save your brother Looks like it's one or the other
Oh, you don't know the shape I'm in.
The Band
Before the black robed tyrants of the Supreme Court ruled otherwise vagrancy was a punishable crime in every state in the Union.
Who has had to tell them they can’t be where they are, but also tell them there is nowhere to go.
Let charities and qualified individuals “host a hobo” and get the check instead, like a foster/group home.
It’s not the quote that is wrong. It is a misunderstanding of the quote. Clearly, your interpretation and mine are the kinds of arguments that divide people on how to believe more than on what they believe. I was pointing out that the poor not only exist, but that they have a purpose. I also pointed out that the progressives in society have perverted that purpose to make the poor into their weapon. I might add that they have no intention of changing the circumstances of the the poor as their power comes from victimization not success.
Making Jesus into a straw dog argument to attack those who have a different interpretation has long been a tactic of religion as opposed to faith.
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