Posted on 03/10/2009 11:09:30 PM PDT by pissant
Dori writes...
In these brutal economic times, a lot of people are upside down in their mortgages and are losing their homes. But there's one group of people who don't have to worry about that - the residents of 1811 Eastlake. The housing project for chronic alcoholics in Downtown Seattle. While I support many shelters and job training programs for the homeless, this project has always struck me as misguided - public funds are spent on housing that allows alcoholics to drink in their publicly subsidized apartments.
That's why I found these pictures so disturbing. A Downtown Emergency Service Center van unloading huge quantities of beer for the residents of this building. This program is funded both privately and publicly - taxpayer funds have gone to this project from the City of Seattle, King County, US Dept of HUD, Washington State Housing Finance Commission. and the State of Washington Department of Community, Trade and Economic Development.
Your tax dollars at work.
It's taxpayer-booze Monday on the Dori Monson Show. I also got this tip over the weekend from a listener. The Puget Sound Partnership is a coalition that is supposedly working to clean up and save Puget Sound. It's run by David Dicks - son of Congressman Norm Dicks.
My tipster sent me an invoice - it shows an attempt by the Puget Sound Partnership to bill Washington taxpayers thousand of dollars for booze at their February event at the Convention and Trade Center. An accountant at the Office of Financial Management rejected the invoice with the "do not pay" notation. But why were they trying to bill taxpayers for their booze in the first place?
Apparently Seattle is a colony of Bizarro World.
Heck, that isn’t “huge amounts.” That’s a weekend!
There's the problem - it's being run by a bunch of Dicks.
Give’em Natural Light or expired Yngling.
DOWNTOWN EMERGENCY SERVICE CENTER WINS MAXWELL AWARD OF EXCELLENCE[Excerpt. Emphasis added. Read full press release here. ]WASHINGTON, D.C. On Friday January 25, Fannie Mae Foundation and Partnership to End Long Term Homelessness presented the Downtown Emergency Service Center (DESC) with the 2007 Maxwell Award of Excellence for their 1811 Eastlake supportive housing project for chronic alcoholics. The Fannie Mae Foundation also awarded DESC a $75,000 grant to continue its work in the field of supportive housing for chronically homeless individuals.
Apparently Seattle is a colony of Bizarro World.
Sadly, indeed it is.
Part of the problem can be witnessed at the reader comments area at the original thread link. You have some strident, shrill, holier-than-thou Seattle leftists and 'homeless advocates' arguing, among other things, that they are 'using their own money' to buy the beer. LMAO!
If people are on welfare and living in State-provided housing, it's not their money! It's taxpayer money that's being given to them and then they are being allowed (and encouraged) to buy alcohol with it! It's even delivered directly to their front door!
<<<<banging furry stoat head on desk
This is euthanasia on a whole different level.
So when the residents go into seizure or other alcohol related fatal illnesses does the State of Washington pay the medical care or do they sign a no resuscitate contract to get in the program.
This program not from Obama FYI
Gov Gregoire I believe. And yes a flaming D.
My thought was if they are going to euthenize these poor souls why not do it faster with hard liquor?
One state below Oregon we just had a huge tax added to beer to pay for rehab programs.
Wonder which state funded tax payer program is cheaper? Oregon or Washington.
Wonder also if the place has a waiting list or/and a high turn over rate?
Oh I thought that was her beer belly.
I guarantee you those aholes at Downtown Emergency Services Center will say, “See, It’ Busch beer. It has a lower alcohol content than the High Gravity they usually drink. We’re actually helping them by bringing this stuff to them.”
Holy crap. They’re even too sorry to go fetch THEIR OWN TAXPAYER-FUNDED BEER!
Ah- I’ll bet the multiple-story housing (if that’s what it it) is served by several elevators, too. Wouldn’t want the po wittle drunks to risk a tumble down the stairs, would we? And - AND - I’ll bet there’s an industrial kitchen on site, agleam with stainless steel appliances and utensils, WITH apartment delivery, so the helpless drunks must bestir themselves only as far as from the couch to the door and back in order to feed.
It’s a crazy world. My own state has it’s faults. Still, I’m glad I’m not a *Washington* resident!
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