sending homeless back home...

[sputnut]

I heard that Hawaii was sending 17,500 of it's homeless back where they came from with one way tickets... A joke, right?

comin' your way soon!

[DanielP]

I think that it is an offer, and legit.

[okedokey]

Saw it on the news. Not sure what the motivation will be for the homeless to leave, even with a free ticket.

[HereOnThePrimalEdge]

It's a $100,000 program. Let's say they have 1 worker to run the program at a $50,000 a year salary (booking tickets, filing out applications, etc.). That leaves $50,000 for tickets. Average ticket cost to the mainland is, let's say $650, that's about 77 plane tickets. So instead of 17,500 homeless in Hawaii, we now have 17,433. Problem solved.

[ourdoc]

A lot of the homeless came from the mainland the same way. Many States used to give them a month of support and a free ticket to Hawaii if that was their last check from that State.

[Cagary]

Cite?

Or are you just making this up?

-Veritas odium parit”(Terence 195–159 BC))-"Truth begets hatred".

[Kapohocat]

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Originally posted by HereOnThePrimalEdge

It's a $100,000 program. Let's say they have 1 worker to run the program at a $50,000 a year salary (booking tickets, filing out applications, etc.). That leaves $50,000 for tickets. Average ticket cost to the mainland is, let's say $650, that's about 77 plane tickets. So instead of 17,500 homeless in Hawaii, we now have 17,433. Problem solved.

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It wouldnt take me a yr to book 77 tix to mainland. I would say about a month at most to do apps and book tix.

[kalakoa]

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Originally posted by HereOnThePrimalEdge

Average ticket cost to the mainland is, let's say $650, that's about 77 plane tickets.

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No, the guy running the program will collude with his buddy the booking agent, so you'll see this listed as 50 tickets at $1000/each in the accounting reports that nobody bothers to read.

[Kapohocat]

One other thought - if there are homeless that would prefer to go back to their mainland state, with a tix and a few bucks I think this is a great program. I would add a caveat that you could not return here within 5? 7 ? yrs and collect social welfare again until that time has elapsed.

This should not be the send you home to visit mom for a month program and back here homeless and on welfare again.

[HereOnThePrimalEdge]

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Originally posted by Kapohocat
I would say about a month at most to do apps and book tix.

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It's a government program, so I assume it'll take them months just to organize and set up the office before they can start accepting applications from the homeless. If it did only take a month, it's doubtful any worker would apply for a one month state job, and from what I've seen in other departments, they're not going to ask a reluctant existing worker to accept extra responsibility. Sometimes I can barely get a state or county worker to answer a question that's clearly within their job description.