The rep w/ a sledgehammer has given it up...

[dawbs]

idiot.

Because apparently people with (D) after their names are as capable of being assholes without an understanding for social problems as anyone else, the esteemed rep from Hawaii was wandering the streets w/ a sledge hammer, taking shopping carts away from homeless people. If they couldn't be returned, he took a sledgehammer to them and destroyed them.

He's decided his point was made, that a sledgehammer was a bit controversial, and will continue to buy these folks tickets to go somewhere besides his state to be homeless.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/11/2 ... 06368.html

(not breaking because huffpo)

and other news site:

http://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/story/2401 ... r-approach

[snarkyjan]

This reminds me of a line from Life Stinks, with Mel Brooks: "All we got is shit, and now they're trying to take away the shit".

[Savoring Samsara]

My husband's best friend is a former Hawaii resident. I remember him telling us that while he lived there, there was a longstanding rumor that states on the mainland would pay to send their homeless people on a one-way trip to Hawaii. So in a way, I suppose Hawaii is only doing back what was allegedly done unto them. (Which obviously doesn't make any of this okay. I have no idea what any of it is supposed to do to help fix homelessness.)

[gustava]

And the prick is a Democrat!

[Alice_Fraggle]

idiot.

Because apparently people with (D) after their names are as capable of being assholes without an understanding for social problems as anyone else, the esteemed rep from Hawaii was wandering the streets w/ a sledge hammer, taking shopping carts away from homeless people. If they couldn't be returned, he took a sledgehammer to them and destroyed them.

He's decided his point was made, that a sledgehammer was a bit controversial, and will continue to buy these folks tickets to go somewhere besides his state to be homeless.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/11/2 ... 06368.html

(not breaking because huffpo)

and other news site:

http://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/story/2401 ... r-approach

The bolded bit makes me want to cry!

[E Street Fan]

My husband's best friend is a former Hawaii resident. I remember him telling us that while he lived there, there was a longstanding rumor that states on the mainland would pay to send their homeless people on a one-way trip to Hawaii. So in a way, I suppose Hawaii is only doing back what was allegedly done unto them. (Which obviously doesn't make any of this okay. I have no idea what any of it is supposed to do to help fix homelessness.)

I heard a variation of that from a friend of mine who'd lived on Maui for decades and worked in the medical field. She said that when state institutions for the mentally ill closed (early '80s, I think), people would buy one-way tickets to Hawaii for their family members who had been warehoused. The idea was that they'd be homeless anyway, but at least in Hawaii, they wouldn't freeze. Yeah, that didn't "fix" homelessness either.