HI politicians gets some first hand feedback from his constituents.

[Balog]

http://www.staradvertiser.com/news/breaking/20150629_Rep_Tom_Brower_reportedly_injured_in_assault_while_videotaping_homeless.html?1i

I wish more politicians were interacting like this with the folks they govern.

[makattak]

Make sure you don't mention a woodchipper or we'll be getting subpoenas.

[cassandra and sara's daddy]

Could not happen to a nicer guy


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[roo_ster]

Make sure you don't mention a woodchipper or we'll be getting subpoenas.

Naval stores are OK, though.

[never_retreat]

I spent a few days and nights in Waikiki last year. Its a big city with big city problems sort of.
They are more homeless people there then I have seen before. They seem to be very quiet and don't actively beg.
But once it became night there were even more showing up on the sidewalk near the beach. Its like playing frogger around them all.
They cling to the "all beaches are open to anyone" thing to keep up there game.
Its a nice place to be homeless but they do need to start finding out where they are from, crate them up and return them. Not one I saw was native looking.

[MillCreek]

^^^Back when I was running the captive malpractice risk retention group, we were domiciled in Hawaii.  The Hawaii insurance code requires an annual meeting of the RRG Board to be held in Hawaii, so I went to Honolulu six years in a row.  I was flabbergasted by the sheer number of homeless in Honolulu, and this is coming from Seattle, which has a pretty good homeless population.   My Hawaii colleagues told me that most of them were from the Mainland and were drawn to Hawaii by the weather.

[Balog]

If you're homeless. how do you afford passage to Hawaii? Is NY shipping its homeless population up there or something?

[RevDisk]

If you're homeless. how do you afford passage to Hawaii? Is NY shipping its homeless population up there or something?

Absolutely, yes. NYC does in fact give homeless one way tickets. Even flying them out of the country is a tiny fraction of the cost of services. Allegedly, they do employ a bit of common sense and it's a generally one time deal.

Hawaii doesn't want to pay for the expensive flights, apparently not realizing that one ER visit without insurance would easily be more expensive than flying several dozen folks back home.

[never_retreat]

Absolutely, yes. NYC does in fact give homeless one way tickets. Even flying them out of the country is a tiny fraction of the cost of services. Allegedly, they do employ a bit of common sense and it's a generally one time deal.

Hawaii doesn't want to pay for the expensive flights, apparently not realizing that one ER visit without insurance would easily be more expensive than flying several dozen folks back home.

Flights? Load the on a bus, lock the door and put it on a roro ship. Should only take a day or 2 to commifornia.

[erictank]

Flights? Load the on a bus, lock the door and put it on a roro ship. Should only take a day or 2 to commifornia.

3500 miles divided by 15 knots... that's 205 hours travel time, or more than 8 days assuming you've got a roro that can do 15 knots sustained over that period. At 10, which may be a more-realistic figure, you're looking at a little over 308 hours, or nearly 13 days.

[roo_ster]

3500 miles divided by 15 knots... that's 205 hours travel time, or more than 8 days assuming you've got a roro that can do 15 knots sustained over that period. At 10, which may be a more-realistic figure, you're looking at a little over 308 hours, or nearly 13 days.

Meh, I would be happy if they just used shipping containers that can be hosed out at the destination.