There are no atheists in foxholes. FWIW, I’ve always been of the opinion that Amazon’s HQ2 hunt was really about sending a wakeup call to local, county, and state government in WA.
Several years ago while getting dressed in my Seattle hotel I was listening to the local news. This expensively dressed woman was whining, “We clothe, feed and house the homeless. Why do we still have a homeless problem?” I stopped and went over to watch the interviewer slap her down. Instead, he sympathized.
Seattle has an entire separate police force to protect the tourists from overly aggressive homeless. As I walked down the street a homeless guy started walking my way. Two green-dressed pedal bikers shot past me towards him and he immediately changed direction. I asked about them at the hotel desk and was told their entire job was keeping the tourists safe from the homeless.
Hypocrites. They should happy.
One-way bus fare to San Fransisco...
“The bluest skies you’ve ever seen are in Seattle
And the hills the greenest green are in Seattle
Like a spoiled rotten child growing up stupid and wild
Full of dope and full of fears
Full of meth and full of tears
Full of shirt to last the years
In Seattle
In Seattle!”
Politicians defy the public. They Dare the people to rise in opposition to them giving to the undeserving more and more of the money we earn. Our families need and deserve it more.
Socialism in action. Intelligence AWOL.
NIMBYs are the root cause of homelessness. Elites don’t want apt complexes built and use zoning laws.
Hell-of-a-deal...for the city. $162,337.66 per homeless person. And they will collect that tax forever. So, any thought to the nearby homeless who see brand new digs up for grabs coming to Seattle? And when they do, how do you allocated the new beds to those who want them? Finally, who does the City Council think ends up paying the $75 million. Do they really think the businesses won't pass that on to consumers? Finally, finding low cost housing for workers in Seattle is one issue, but not the same one as housing for non-working homeless people. This idea is so poorly thought out, Seattle deserves to try it.
What do you get when you feed rats.
More rats.
Seattle has made itself a magnet for rats.
And as for The Seattle Times, I decided to NOT CONTINUE READING.
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The blockbuster, Oscar award winning hit will be called “Homeless in Seattle”
If there’s ONE THING for us conservatives to learn about ‘the Homeless’ and why they don’t seem to go away, consider what happened in New York City, about 5 years ago:
Back then a new luxury apartment building was constructed, and, as part of the ‘deal’ to get approval, they set aside something like 20% of their units as ‘affordable housing’ (as the Left now calls it), for the ‘poor’. The other 80% went at market rates, in other words, well over $1 Million to purchase.
All good and fine, and everyone was happy...
EXCEPT, except that they had 2 ENTRANCES, and 2 SETS OF ELEVATORS, and the people who lived in the ‘affordable’ units had their one entrance (and elevators), and the ones who paid the super-high price had a DIFFERENT entrance (and elevators).
Now, if the purpose was to simply provide ‘affordable housing’, then no one should care - it was high quality housing, and very cheap. But that wasn’t the case - people, homeless advocates, were MAD AS HELL that the ‘poor’ had to use a different entrance.
So one asks, why? What’s the big deal? Well, the answer is that their REAL priority is not helping the homeless and the poor to ‘live in dignity’, but to shove the homeless IN YOUR FACE...IN THE ELEVATORS...IN THE DOORWAYS. That’s why they were mad - and that’s who we’re dealing with.
Think about it, the next time you drop off your kids at public schools - those teachers and administrators are cut from the same cloth
There’s one best way to gin up opposition to the problems causing homelessness (i.e. liberal policies), and this is it.
LOL! One of the Iron Workers asked the talking head why NONE of the Seattle homeless had applied for a job at his company!!