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  • #91
    Re: Homeless solutions

    Today's SA details how at least 1 out of every 6 children live in poverty http://www.staradvertiser.com/s?acti...1&id=212719661
    This is not how we retain 'greatest nation' status.
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    • #92
      Re: Homeless solutions

      Oh goody, Mayor Compassion is on the job!
      This guy's idea of compassion is greatly underwhelming. Next!
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      • #93
        Re: Homeless solutions

        Tents and signs are nowhere to be seen at/around Thomas Square now and City crews are pressure washing the sidewalks, ooooooooo, it must be time for it's 150th anni. Hopefully the tents/signs/unwanted people/protesters will be back in overabundance asap to continue speaking up for civil freedoms and against unjust practices, just as the park was designed for. Maybe they'll even have the fountain working again?

        http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/...r_no_work.html
        A recent study has 80% of the Nation's adult population, who maybe most have children, already in or facing poverty with no jobs future ahead. This is INSANE, and it's time for the population to explode against our mishandlers in seats of local and DC power before it get's so worse that innocent lives are lost en mass.
        Last edited by Ron Whitfield; July 31, 2013, 11:11 AM.
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        • #94
          Re: Homeless solutions

          Originally posted by Ron Whitfield View Post
          http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/...r_no_work.html
          A recent study has 80% of the Nation's adult population, who maybe most have children, already in or facing poverty with no jobs future ahead. This is INSANE, ...
          The 80% figure may give a somewhat exaggerated view of the problem. The AP story this is derived from says:
          But compared with the official poverty rate, some of the biggest jumps under the newer measure are among whites, with more than 76 percent enduring periods of joblessness, life on welfare or near-poverty.
          This has been criticized for including new high school and college graduates among those "enduring periods of joblessness", simply because they don't have jobs yet. I didn't have a job lined up when I graduated from high school, or from college, either, so I was literally enduring periods of joblessness. Big deal.
          Greg

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          • #95
            Re: Homeless solutions

            Originally posted by GregLee View Post
            The 80% figure may give a somewhat exaggerated view of the problem. This has been criticized for including new high school and college graduates among those "enduring periods of joblessness", simply because they don't have jobs yet. I didn't have a job lined up when I graduated from high school, or from college, either, so I was literally enduring periods of joblessness. Big deal.
            Lot's of kids don't wait until graduating to seek employment, I was working nearly full time at 15 and at 16 was full time during the graveyard shift, and boy was that party central!
            Besides, what kind of job market are HS grads looking at? Pretty much nada for REAL work that pays REAL money that they'll need to advance in society or even get out of their parents house, so I don't see much exaggeration. Even if we say 60% are in/near poverty, that's a woefully weakened nation, one just waiting for any number of major problems to unsettle our democracy, not that our Gmt. needs any help in accomplishing that now... Not a big deal?
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            • #96
              Re: Homeless solutions

              http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/nba-ba...184044842.html

              What happens when this NBA player becomes bankrupt in a few years?

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              • #97
                Re: Homeless solutions

                Originally posted by Walkoff Balk View Post
                What happens when this NBA player becomes bankrupt in a few years?
                He can join the many other overpaid pros that blew managing their millions and start a new league, or start a program that solves homelessness.
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                • #98
                  Re: Homeless solutions

                  In today's Sunday SA it's detailed how former Gov. republican Linda Lingle's draconian cutback of funds to community health services greatly accerbated the already bad problem and left monies for only the most severly impaired to have a chance at case management, housing services, and treatment for various problems. But even worse was the elimination of the successful Assertive Community Treatment teams that provided pro-active outreach, leaving thousands without help or much hope, and since then numbers of afflicted has increased dramatically in all aspects.
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                  • #99
                    Re: Homeless solutions

                    Universal signage for the multi-racial homeless problem in Hawaii?
                    http://www.bizjournals.com/pacific/b...to-create.html

                    I fail to see any significant benefit from this excercise. The Street Beat periodical available island-wide covers way more info on any/all services and such, and anyone who doesn't know where to go for these things isn't trying much. I certainly hope this pow wow is focusing on more important issues that can help the massive problem beyond signs as it seems few if any are.
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                    • Re: Homeless solutions

                      They've gotten rid of all the squatters at Thomas Square and now it looks... just the same as it did when they were there, only without them. I thot it was supposed to be better, what happened?
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                      • Re: Homeless solutions

                        Today's SA reported The City's latest dog and pony show cleanup for Korean dignitaries coming to see the bad sculptures located around Pawaa Park on King St., and mentioned how the sanctioned City marauders come in the middle of the nite without prior notice and force everybody out of the park while allowing ONE trip to take care of everything they have and the rest is quickly confiscated and held for $200 ransom. That's essentially theft, but under Mayor Compassion's juristiction it's OK that people like the article focused on, such as a 62 year old former teacher who's had cancer treatment and needs to use a colostomy bag had $1000 worth of similar critical supplies and medicine taken by City workers and then disposed of because she couldn't pay the insane ransom, are left even worse off than they already were. And some wonder why these folks are in such dire straits.
                        This Mayor and his corrupt council members need to be on the fastest train outta Dodge.
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                        • Re: Homeless solutions

                          News say's Hawaii has the second highest population of millionaire's, second only to Maryland (I think...), so there's obviously tons of money NOT being offerred or tapped in the slightest by greenback hoaders towards any humanity on the homeless issues. Sweet, real sweet, nothing like being greedy and heartlessly stingy.
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                          • Re: Homeless solutions

                            If there is anything that all the homeless arguments have in common, it's that homelessness in Hawaii is an intractable problem, like Lincoln's famous observation that the poor would always be with us. This is unfortunate, because it's a lie. And the worst part of it is that it makes the idea of permanent homelessness acceptable, whether you like it or not – it’s just always gonna be there. A case in point – All those official “tourist helpers” stationed all over Waikiki, cute little somewhat elderly grandmother and/or grandfather types in pseudo-police uniforms (no guns, of course!) standing around on strategic street corners of the district, or tooling around in pairs on multi-speed mountain bikes. They all have those vaguely idiotic smiles on their faces usually seen on Walmart greeters, and a fistful of maps or other helpful information. Tourist helpers? Guides? None of that, although what they mainly do is field tourists inquiries of one kind and another. (Where were these people 40-50 years ago when Waikiki was becoming a tourist hot spot? If they’re so necessary, why haven’t they always been there?) The main function of these people is to act as buffers between the indigent tourist population of the Waikiki area, and the semi-permanent homeless population, many of whom have turned the rest areas, gazebos and other shaded spots up and down Kalakaua Ave. into trash-strewn squats. Angry tourists often approach Auntie or Uncle Pseudo-Cop with complaints of being accosted or importuned in some fashion, of witnessing some act of trash-throwing or public urination, and the reply is always a soothing patter of commiseration and sympathy, as well as assurances from Auntie Pseudo Cop that all will be well soon, that “we’re working on it”, and similar nonsense and outright bullshit. Granny, of course, and the people that hired her, all know perfectly well that that whining tourist will soon be gone forever, hopefully after he’s left most of his money behind in the pockets of Waikiki merchants and professional luau operators, from the North Shore to the Waianae Side.

                            It’s way past time to trash the fiction of the Noble Homeless, the downtrodden and put-upon street people. It starts with the time-consuming and arduous job of segregating the truly unfortunate from the truly mentally ill who need to be permanently institutionalized (and they are legion here, let’s face it) and the genuine screw offs and manipulators who need to rousted on a constant basis until they decide that Honolulu and Hawaii are not for them. This requires policing. For example, when the same people are seen to be taking over one of the tables areas near Kuhio Beach in Waikiki day after day, or even all day long, they have to be moved along, and no screwing around. For that you need not only law enforcement able to do the job, but the will to do it, and the will to tangle with the weepers and hand wringers that will come out of the woodwork to defend them, on the sidewalks and in the courtrooms. The will is not here though, probably never will be, and so it looks like Auntie Pseudo-Cop has what amounts to a guaranteed job.


                            Finally, I post a pic I took this morning on Kaiulani Ave, across from the park. Just FYI - We have witnessed public urination in the Waikiki and downtown areas many times before, and worse, but this bozo is just letting all hang out. A puddle has formed in front of him in the middle of the sidewalk, and after he was done pissing, he lay down on the wall with two friends and went to sleep, his filthy little puddle of piss just waiting like a mine field for some kid to jump in or an unaware pedestrian to walk through. Do not think this kind of thing is uncommon. It must stop.


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                            • Re: Homeless solutions

                              Originally posted by Mista Bumpy View Post
                              It starts with the time-consuming and arduous job of segregating the truly unfortunate from the truly mentally ill who need to be permanently institutionalized and the genuine screw offs and manipulators who need to rousted on a constant basis until they decide that Honolulu and Hawaii are not for them.

                              For example, when the same people are seen to be taking over one of the tables areas near Kuhio Beach in Waikiki day after day, or even all day long, they have to be moved along, and no screwing around. For that you need not only law enforcement able to do the job, but the will to do it, and the will to tangle with the weepers and hand wringers that will come out of the woodwork to defend them, on the sidewalks and in the courtrooms.
                              Thanx for posting, MB.
                              Is there a genuine screw off and manipulator state for them to go to? In fact, there are so many here whom fall into such a category that you might have to create a whole new state for them, even tho most have homes. And who decides who is what and who goes? They might decide someone you care about has to go. Sounds like the courts will be throwing out such ideas, just like with your other solution re Waikiki and a free society. Whenever powers take on such actions it always ends up a disaster because they can't resist overstepping and trampling the rights of anybody to be wherever they wish in a public area. You can't pick and chose, nor can the cops come along and crack ankles with a little 'move along'.
                              As for jackasses like in the pic, the public needs to step up and set them straight, and I'm not adverse to punching a punk like that out, or his friends.
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                              • Re: Homeless solutions

                                Report: Legislator takes hammer to homeless carts
                                http://www.seattlepi.com/news/articl...ts-4991734.php

                                "A Hawaii state lawmaker has been using a sledgehammer to address Waikiki's chronic homeless problem, a newspaper reported. State Rep. Tom Brower, D-Waikiki-Ala Moana, has been seizing shopping carts he says are stolen. If they bear no markings, he uses the sledgehammer to pound them into metal for recycling, the Honolulu Star-Advertiser reported Sunday. He returns carts marked with store logos."

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