Trash collected from a single 'homeless encampment'.
BTW, the red brick building in the background is the Muni Public Library AKA inside homeless shelter.
Posted on 11/27/2017 9:30:02 AM PST by DFG
Columbia Sportswear may be the next business to flee downtown Portland after a series of frightening encounters with the city's homeless population, including car break-ins, human waste dumped by the office's front door and threats to its employees.
In an op-ed piece published earlier this month by The Oregonian, Columbia Sportswear President and CEO Tim Boyle said he is concerned he made a mistake when he opened a headquarters for the company’s Sorel footwear brand downtown, calling the situation "outrageous and unacceptable."
"In fact, I am so concerned about the safety of our employees at the Sorel headquarters that we are taking the next 90 days to re-evaluate our location decision," Boyle wrote.
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Columbia Sportswear is one of the most leftist companies out there. What hypocrisy to even think of fleeing the consequence of leftist policies they have championed forever! They vote for extremist Democrats, flee, then vote for extremist Democrats somewhere else! I say stay there and change Portland. After all, you’re partly responsible for the way it is now!
Portland is just another liberal hell hole.
Try to find a difference between Satan’s agenda and City or State agenda.
I was in a hotel on the river in 2010 and usually walked west toward the square, but one night I decided to walk around the river side of the building, and there were homeless sleeping in every doorway, out of sight. But get this, they all had brand-new beautiful sleeping bags. I don’t know what the answer is, but buying them expensive sleeping bags doesn’t seem to be it. The problem was worse when I went back in 2016.
Very well said.
It seems that we have more homeless and they are found in more places now.
I’ve had some discussions with some more liberal people on this, and ask, how is it compassionate to just allow people to live in the streets? And they say homeless should not get arrested because they aren’t hurting anyone. And I ask why do some homeless resist the homeless shelters and other help being rendered to get people off the streets?
I just had a variation of this discussion with some liberal types at Thanksgiving dinner.
You bring up excellent points, which all too often get ignored when liberals discuss homeless issues.
Yep to think, that thousands of years ago, our ancestors knew enough to keep human waste away from where we do other activities of life. We need to relearn certain lessons.
Same thing happening in Seattle; long term businesses moving out because of the filth and human debris caused by liberal social policies.
Remember, there were not too many “Homeless” Stories between January 2009 and January 2017.
Nowadays they are becoming a daily event.
Just sayin’...
Trash collected from a single 'homeless encampment'.
BTW, the red brick building in the background is the Muni Public Library AKA inside homeless shelter.
You can bet that if Columbia Sportswear moved to a functional city, their employees and management would immediately begin working to bring Portland-style chaos to their new home.
They are like locusts.
The first thing Portland needs to do is to invest money to tear down Confederate and other American monuments.
Didn’t t their CEO Tim Boyle rip President Trump on the travel ban. The guy is a jerk. Yeah stay there Columbia Sportswear and breath in your liberal politics and its fallout. Will do you some good.
I used to live in Portland for a couple years. Left because it was so anti-business and worse. They used to have a mayor from Germany, never drove a car, insisted on 10s of millions of dollars for bike paths in a city where it rains 300+ days a year and no employers have showers or facilities to even embrace people riding bikes to/from work. Such a stupid waste. Not surprising they are still having problems, even more problems. Surprised there are any significant businesses left in that cesspool.
No, even Berkeley is not this bad! I was in Berkeley in early 80s and over the years less and less frequently return. Having lived in Portland, there is no comparison. Portland is a cesspool of stupid policies leading to unsurprising results. Never seen anywhere in California as bad as Portland—policies or reality.
They’ll move less than 20 miles.
“rather homelessness is a complex combination of mentally unfit and liberals”
Don’t know how old you are, but the way I remember it is that the left destroyed our mental health care system and turned the unfortunate patients out into the streets. That was the beginning of the problem.
Since then, as a result of the XlinBushBama economy, the Invasion of the Border Crashers, our moral collapse, and affirmative action, the number of damaged souls has only increased.
The way to correct this is to turn the clock back. Stand up state and county institutions that will allow us to keep the mentally ill in safety, and keep us safe from them.
The leftard buzzword was “warehousing.” That was a bad thing, according to them. Since schizophrenics cannot be treated, but only medicated, the Susan Sarandons said it was unconstitutional to deprive them of their liberty. Their solution was to turn them out on the streets to commit murder and other crimes, and to become victims of other criminals.
We must always remember: the leftist solution is *never* the right solution. Everything they have done must be undone.
Time for a little “street justice”. If the “homeless’ start to disappear, who will notice?
Darn, I like Columbia stuff.
"Sorry, I thought I was being attacked."
“And I ask why do some homeless resist the homeless shelters and other help being rendered to get people off the streets?”
Before you reject this, please reflect that these shelters are run by liberals.
One reason they don’t go to shelters, perhaps the major one, is that they’re not willing to sacrifice their dignity.
“Dignity? How could they lay claim to dignity? They’re crapping in doorways.” And I see that, but every man, however debased, yet clings to a shred of self-respect, and the liberals at the shelters want even that last shred.
Down under the bridge they may be cold, but at least they have their liberty, and don’t have to put up with some SJW acting like drinking a beer threatens to end the world.
I was born and raised in Portland, left the state in 1985, and haven’t even visited Portland since maybe 2005. All of my family has died or moved elsewhere, so I’ll probably never go there again.
About 40 years ago, in the mid-to-late 70s, was when Portland was at its best, I think. The Willamette had been cleaned up to where salmon were running again, traffic was mostly not too bad, and the city had yet to sprawl to where it is now. Not many homeless (called “bums” in those un-PC days), and a lot fewer obnoxious hipsters, too.
The deterioration was starting by the time I moved away, though.
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