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We distributed to Kaakako on Friday. And I returned to check with my husband on a tour using a Segway. What started out as a Cultural and Historical Tour turned into a Special one. We saw Homeless Areas we didn't know existed. And we will return to every one in time to distribute "Slippahs, clothes, can goods and toys when available. We did not see drug addicts. What we saw was people in need. Human beings who are down and out and can't afford high cost of rents. Human beings many with children.
Be AKAMAI ~ KOKUA Hawai`i! Philippians 4:13 --- I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.
Was at the Capital last nite for a QnA with Ige, Jeff Davis (Lib.), and Kimo Sutten, Duke's Lt. Gov. hopeful. The topics were Kakaako and homeless. Got a new perspective on Ige and Davis but it was obvious Sutten had no desire to engage in serious dialog afterwards and he took flight at the first opportunity when I was rudely interrupted in my futile conversation by some chanter guy. But Ige was quite receptive to the ideas of using the shipping containers for housing and offered some experience with them as office space, and Davis has advocated this all along.
Meanwhile, the sit and lie bills move along and will come to a head soon; http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j...Fw8V6B7fHnNq7w but not opposition.
In today's SA op-ed's there was a head nodding letter that asked how all those who's hair-on-fire allegations that the homeless were responsible for our State's imminent economic demise would be scrubbing the egg off their faces after a truer estimate of how much money is coming into Hawaii via Waikiki shows in '14 they gained 100 million more than stated and probably have for years. http://www.staradvertiser.com/s?action=login&f=y Or will they just pull a 'never mind' and move on to other convenient lines of BS? And doubtful any of that excess money be tapped towards solving the issues. http://www.civilbeat.com/2014/07/the...ess-crackdown/
Last edited by Ron Whitfield; July 15, 2014, 12:33 PM.
Wash, rinse, roll, repeat - http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/b...eless-24638243
We've got incredible mobile facilities available on Oahu, but they sit unavailable at such times of need. Shameful, solutions right at hand to curb the majority of problems yet no willingness from our misleaders.
Amazing how the SA just can't stop misinforming the public via it's Our View column written by head editors. In today's OV they continue claiming there is plenty of "emergency shelter" for all the street people in Waikiki, which is just total BS. Besides, is emergency shelter any kind of humane answer when it's blatantly being misused as permanent warehousing of humans in deplorable environments and subjected to abusive staff/security or worse?
They also perpetuate the stigma of dividing the homeless from "general society". What ignorant pius pukes!
And of course they can't get beyond the feeble at best Housing First joke as some kind of silver bullet solution when nothing else has been considered.
These misguided editors that fuel negative and erroneous public attitudes are part of the problem. http://www.staradvertiser.com/s?acti...y&id=268783071
Ron, maybe you could refresh us on how the city and county can properly deal with homeless persons. I don't recall the solution we should be supporting. Thanks!
[I don't think name-calling on any side of the issue is useful, tho].
Ron, maybe you could refresh us on how the city and county can properly deal with homeless persons. I don't recall the solution we should be supporting. Thanks!
[I don't think name-calling on any side of the issue is useful, tho].
* Oh, you want a new post on it?
The SA could stop misinforming and misleading the public with their editor's perpetuating falsehoods about the issue and trying to seperate the homeless from the rest of society, for starters.
Educating the public of the facts towards what will and won't work so the crying ignorant (oops!) can base their wailings in reality instead of crapping up the discussion.
But these shelters and these unacceptable attitudes of merely warehousing humans has got to go, now. We're talking about 10,000 homeless on Oahu and the need for an entire new city fashioned from shipping containers with bath facilities and wireless and regulated stringently, you can't just let people go wild in this environment, the 'homes' are for singles only and no entry to others, so that eliminates at least 1000 of the worst incorigibles from con-city that will always be in the public eye and many causing the usual problems. The eye-sores and street crims will always be with us where some don't want them, as is their rights like everyone else.
There is no longer a 100% fix, if there ever was, but our society is monstously weak at present with so many indigents and people need to have an easier way to get reestablished, this will rebuild our communities to what we had decades ago, plus provide opportunities for self betterment and incentives to entreprenuerism.
More errant reporting on the issues regarding placing people into shelters http://www.staradvertiser.com/s?acti...y&id=271649921 And Mayor Compassion is equally clueless, or maybe deliberately. Like the 110 person bed space available at shitty IHS is going to make a dent in the 10,000 homeless population on Oahu alone. That space is available at IHS because few wish to pay to be dumped on at a crappy dump.
http://www.staradvertiser.com/s?acti...y&id=274204291
Mayor Compassion's heartlessly clueless efforts of corralling 100 'chronically homeless' for ranking and rating evaluations at Sand Island prior to Housing First eligibility possibilities are now awaiting DLNR approvals. In short, this less than short sighted maneuver will be a mess, not to mention the massive zoo the already insane #s 19/20 Airport/Waikiki City bus routes will become with the island's most promising candidates for craziest dirtbag award piling on with all their garbage on a regular basis. Meanwhile, 10,000 (and counting) Oahu homeless go ignored.
To actually state that security will be in place to maintain a safe environment but there will be no enforcement of laws regarding illegal actives is patently and unacceptably insane and should result in complete dismissal of all officials who have signed off on this. Law suits in waiting, and few success stories. They expect unstable personalities to line up for screening and then sit around in a composed manner for months while being made to do everything they are against, like be calm and normal in a completely abnormal environment full of confounding restrictions and requirements. Hell yes, that'll work!
The article is rife with such absurd considerations and proves the whole homeless issue will continue and worsen while 47 mil goes down the toilet, along with any real solutions, while we watch the jackass mayor strut around praising himself and then run for Governor.
Last edited by Ron Whitfield; September 6, 2014, 10:37 AM.
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