Where is the compassion? That’s what we conservatives have been
accused of lacking as long as I can remember.
But the real heartless bastards are blue cities and states. It seems that compassion has wiped its feet
on the homeless in these bastions of liberalism. These proselytizers of humanity have
established a “get your homeless ass out of here, you stinky bastards” fund.
Hawaii's
controversial three-year “Return to Home” pilot program launches later this
year and is being billed as a way to help the state’s 17,000 homeless
residents, while reducing the financial burden the state has in caring for
them. Under the plan, the state will pay for a one-way plane ticket for any
homeless resident who can find someone on the mainland to take them in.
The program, which has a
$100,000 annual budget, is the brainchild of state Rep. John Mizuno, who had
unsuccessfully tried to get a similar plan through the past three legislative
sessions. This year, the measure was attached to a larger spending bill and squeaked
through the state legislature.
Critics, though, say the
program is a quick fix and does nothing to address the root causes of
homelessness.
Patricia McManaman,
director of the Department of Human Services – the agency tasked with
implementing the program -- told lawmakers she had reservations about the plan
to send the state’s homeless away and questioned the program’s funding. She
also had a problem with language in the bill that suggests homeless people are
in need of “sufficient personal hygiene” in order to travel – something she
calls an “unnecessary and inappropriate stereotype.”
But Mizuno argues it’s
time the state get on board with a plan that he claims can help up to 100
homeless Hawaiians a year.
Baton Rouge, New York
City, San Francisco, Ft. Lauderdale and a host of blue counties have also
implemented operation “Exodus Stinky Riff Raff.”
If there was a color
called passion blue, I wonder what it would look like.
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