Attack of handicap homeless man

[kalakoa]

Recurring theme: "I wish there were jobs."

[leilanidude]

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Originally posted by gypsy69

Randomq, good afternoon to you.
You do make some interesting points. Although a bit insensitive I think, when you start calling or labeling some homeless, bums looking to take advantage or "hussle" others too. Well or better off folks have been known to hussle or take advantage of others too, especially during possible life and death situations.

Would you just stop eating, drinking, and trying to live better, if you became homeless yourself?
And what should the average homeless persons conversations be about?

Can't imagine homeless folks having to many life or worldly positives they would want to converse about. Especially if they must remain hungry and thirsty while conversing about the better off, that do their best to ignore them on an everyday basis. Jmo

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Remember that these homeless all qualify for just over $330 a month in food (EBT) and just over $200 a month in cash benefits to pay for "necessities". Many of them receive cash from panhandling as well.

[HereOnThePrimalEdge]

here is an inspiring article about the island Dr who was attempting to walk around our island "Again"

Doesn't the inspiring doctor spread ROD fungus into our Ohia forests as he walks around the island, his shoes collecting and disseminating spores with every step he takes? Twice?

“There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.”
-Joseph Brodsky

[alaskyn66]

I dont know what the beggars around here make, but google the subject.. panhandling profit

One couple brought in $180 an hour.

..And the people bowed and prayed... to the neon God they made...

[Tink]

Sometimes you just have to go where the money is if money is needed. In other words, not here, because no jobs. I once heard "you can sit on the porch, wishing you had a cold drink, but you can only get one if you get off your arse and go to the fridge". Think that may apply.
If you don't mind the heat, go work seasonally on the Mainland as a wildland firefighter, make bank, fly home for winter fat and happy is one possibility, maybe good work on Oahu another.

Community begins with Aloha

[alaskyn66]

Alaska has plenty of fishing jobs in the summer.
Work May to Sept. Bank 10- 15 thousand ..ride unemployement during winter.

[Tink]

And there ya go...
BTW-- about the same seasonally and pay as a "yellow jacket".
Edit to add: and "benefits" as described.
Community begins with Aloha

[Guest]

I'm glad the Lava Shack was not implicated in this.
I've been there many times and never got any sort of bad vibe or treated with anything other than Aloha. Except for the occasional obnoxious drunk, but they just wanted someone to listen to their story.

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You can't fix Samsara.

[shockwave rider]

Homeless people from Hawaii can't just walk into Alaska fishing or mainland wildfire fighting jobs, you need enough money to get there, money for the right gear, a connection to get you a job, and in the case of fighting wildfires you need to be in really good shape.

I speak from experience on both counts, I got stranded in Alaska one summer, when my brother promised me there were jobs waiting for us that didn't materialize. The airport was full of people sleeping there waiting for someone to help get them home, we all had been sold a bill of goods about "fishing jobs" that didn't exist, at least not for kids from the lower 48 who didn't have any local connections. I also spent a few summers working California wild fires, both as a cook and as a fire fighter, and that work required that I have very specific gear that wasn't cheap, plus camping equipment, and I only got hired because I had a former roommate who was a crew boss. If you weren't in really good physical shape, better shape than most of Pahoa's homeless, you wouldn't get hired, or if you did you wouldn't last the first week.

Here in Hawaii there is work to be had, even without skills or local connections, it may be hard physical and dirty work, but it is out there. I just don't think suggesting working the Alaska fisheries or fighting mainland wild fires is a realistic solution for most of our homeless.

[shockwave rider]

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Originally posted by imagtek

I'm glad the Lava Shack was not implicated in this.
I've been there many times and never got any sort of bad vibe or treated with anything other than Aloha. Except for the occasional obnoxious drunk, but they just wanted someone to listen to their story.

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You can't fix Samsara.

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How can you say that Lava Shack wasn't involved when it was their manager (now former manager from what I hear) who attacked both guys?