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Since times are tough, we've considered scrounging together the last of our savings to head somewhere warm -- like Hawaii.

Unfortunately, other people have the same idea -- so much so that Hawaii is considering a new $100,000 program to fly homeless people back to the mainland. The program would target those who have come to Hawaii from the Continental U.S. and then became "stranded." Some critics say the proposal is just a ploy to get the homeless off the island, though the plan would make sense from a fiscal standpoint in that it would save on money put into homeless services.

One lawmaker expressed what we'd been thinking, telling his colleagues that people come to the island thinking they'll just be drinking a "mai tai on the beach." His implication was that this isn't true, so our alternate plan is to roast pigs on the beach and drink our mai tais elsewhere.

Are you homeless and "stranded" in Hawaii? Make yourself heard with clever signs like those in the gallery below.