Posted on 05/10/2016 7:44:27 AM PDT by mainestategop
This is part 1 of a series of episodes I am doing on the Seattle homeless crisis. It illustrates perfectly the problems with big government, the insanity of liberals and the great lengths these red diaper doper baby liberal degenerates will go to get a free lunch off the backs of those who earn their lunch by their own sweat and tears.
This first episode is a prologue of sorts, at focus is the failure of Olympia and city hall in particular a taxpayer funded program, The committee to end homelessness in King county that has gotten little attention but with a little hop and luck will get enough exposure to show everyone why government really is the problem and not the solution.
Seattle Washington and the surrounding areas of King county, Pierce county, Snohomish county and Thurston county all suffer from a major homeless crisis. The city of Seattle and even city of Tacoma have even declared state of emergencies because of the overwhelming amount of homeless. A crisis brought on not only by the state's godless culture and rising housing costs but most of all, by socialism and a dependency on the state. Which of course is the root of all these and other problems.
Washington, along with Oregon, Idaho, Montana and Wyoming consist of an area of the country known as the unchurched belt, it is the most secular region in the country. These states are areas where the majority of the population do not consider religion a part of their life. The only two states that are more secular and godless than the northwestern US are New Hampshire and Vermont. Vermont ranking number one.
These kinds of areas do not believe to much in charity. The only times liberals donate to charity is really either because of collective guilt imposed on them by their leftist upbringing or as a way to somehow make themselves feel good. But everyone depends on the government for a handout. Puritan work ethics and Christian love have no place in the Puget Sound or Willamette valley.
And so the people look to Olympia and to city hall to fight homelessness and la dee da! To no one's surprise except the godless left the problem is now worse. It never occurred to them that raising taxes and fees would lead to higher costs of living! It also never occurred to them that all the spending, all those programs actually attract more homeless throughout the country even other parts of the world to Seattle and King county like flies attracted to turds!
King County's commitee of failure
Democrat eggheads at CEHCK meet to discuss the homeless problem in king county
One of the big highlights of government's failure and a shining example of socialist epic fail I think would have to be the CEHKC committee. (COMMITTEE TO END HOMELESSNESS IN KING COUNTY) Or as I would like to call it, The Comintern of empty promises hopelessness kleptomania and complete failure. Let me know if you can think of better anagrams. But this is the best I can come up with right now.
CEHKC was formed in the 2000s to come up with a plan to end homelessness in king county in 10 years. Thanks to the election of Obama and the economic recession that followed, that plan has failed. It is reported that not only has the CEHKC failed to end homelessness, they are actually worse off than when they were founded! All at a cost of millions of dollars!!
The biggest reason for the homeless crisis that CEHKC and others dont want to face is the outrageous tax rates in Washington state in particular in Seattle! Seattle's tax rates are comparable to New York, Honolulu and Boston! These tax rates place unimaginable burdens on real estate and commerce and have resulted in skyrocketing rents! Add to this, Seattle panders to immigrants especially illegal immigrants who come to steal homes and jobs. The INS wont deport them!
But CEHKC and the king county politicians don't give a darn. They instead act like everything is fine, that its really all the fault of the homeless victims themselves and not the government.
TEN YEARS! No accomplishment! The homeless problem continues to climb, the programs are overstretched and ineffective, the money is doled out faster than it can come in! Yet its the fault of the homeless themselves, the fault of Bush, the fault of Trump, the fault of capitalism. NEVER THE FAULT OF GOVERNMENT!
And the city hall eggheads and Democrats in truth benefit from the homeless problem! The taxes that go to homelessness actually go to the politicians and government workers.
Just like in every other welfare scheme, up to 80% of the money is skimmed from the top to pay for administration and union payrolls. The homeless and the needy, they get chump change! The homeless are the door mat that the city hall uses to leech off the taxpayers.
Don't believe me? At city hall right now as I am writing this, a tent city is set up in the administration building and is supported and protected by the city administration!!
My God... It is insane what goes on in Seattle. I think Seattle now surpasses San Diego and Los Angeles in homelessness. I'm not sure but the city is teeming with homeless.
Not to sound selfish or heartless, I do support needy homeless especially those homeless because of Democrats but most of these people have been on the streets for a decade or more. SHARE/WHEEL makes this problem worse by not addressing the continuation of the homeless problem. I found out that most of SHARE guests do not have a case worker, are not signed up for housing programs, do not do chores or anything. They just loaf.
They got indoor shelters inside churches, churches that BTW are very liberal and usually the pastor is a Womyn. Most of them are in the university area or in Greenwood which has tons of bars and venues for drugs and alcohol.
They also run several tent cities, AKA seroquel cities for homeless people who are outdoorsy types, most of them are vets, good people but many of them are so screwed up they can't handle indoor shelters and responsibilities there. All kinds of stuff has happened in the past.
The worst one of all is called The Bunkhouse. AKA Crackhouse. This is in Rainier Beach which is like the hood in Seattle so to speak. I heard they once shut the place down because the residents threw the dishes out into the street because they didn't want to clean them, the person in charge claimed they didn't have to clean them if they didn't want to. They also had a person there who got kicked out (wow really) for trying to burn the place down.
I spent two weeks there last February. I was in TC 4, Woodland Park United Methodist church and Gift of Grace Lutheran church. I was glad to get out BTW. Woodland Park was the worst one. It was located out in Greenwood near Phiney, which has tons of bars and the church also had a women's shelter upstairs. This guy who stayed with us was found passed out drunk and naked upstairs after midnight and Maurice when he stayed there last year told me that the man in charge, this guy from Holland was always showing up drunk and finally got thrown out literally and violently after causing racial problems.
Now they're out of money and are camping out at city hall sticking their dirty hand out demanding money from the city. Well, I know that a lot of the people at SHARE are good people, many veterans, many with jobs and since its too difficult for churches to get homeless help due to regulations they should hold them accountable in a major way before any money is given out. Have some professionals involved, require sobriety and case management, also have them pay for some of their own stuff. Most of these people get cash assistance, SSI or work and there are food banks all around the place so they should be required to contribute.
Then again who am I kidding! The city lets them stay there because they love it!!! They'll give them the money eventually THEN ITS BACK TO BOOZING AND BAWLING!!!
These folks have no reasoning ability.
I also appreciate how liberals think we need more illegals and refugees when we cannot even support all the homeless now. We have families and veterans that are homeless. Let’s try to take care of these people before taking in more that will be on welfare.
OH! Almost forgot to mention that SHARE houses Illegal aliens. Most of the people I met there work at home Depot.
I live in a small town about 30 minutes away from the Seattlunatics. Our town recently gave the boot to almost two dozen bums who were setting up a tent city along a highway easement.
Why would they want to solve this problem? The homeless problem is a club the leftists wield against the free market.
The leftists have created this problem through their minimum wages, crappy schools, cultural degradation, war against Christianity, and byzantine regulations against private property.
Solve homelessness like we solved the medical “crisis.”
Mandate all homeless buy homes.
Was recently in downtown(Westlake) Seattle for a week. Homelessness and open air drug use are noticeably worse than a year ago, and I don’t just mean pot, although that’s everywhere. Just one train station away in Capitol Hill everything was clean and serene.
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