Posted on 05/20/2014 11:07:11 AM PDT by Kaslin
Take your Indian butt and ways back to India.
I can’t answer that as I was commuting daily to Boeing on a job. I have no idea whether it was Seattle proper or not. The concrete yard was some distance away on the main road, (don’t recall which one) and I was startled that it was there as it seemed wildly out of place.
They also had special cops on bikes (looking stupid in some kind of bright spandex) just to protect the tourists from the homeless. They have so many homeless “services” that they were there in dangerous droves. Also, this was 2004-2005.
My parents live south of there. Two of my daughters and my brother live in condo’s downtown. My third lives in a condo in Bellevue. I enjoy discussing politics with them. They are all conservative but liberal when it comes to Christianity. :-(
Probably East Marginal Way. I seem to remember a concrete place out there...
That's not possible. Christianity is the essence of conservatism.
That’s not possible. Christianity is the essence of conservatism.
If that were true, Hawaii’s experiment in health care would have killed Obamacare. The Hawaii child health care debacle crumbled and was recalled in 9 months.
I have lost any desire to visit Seattle (although only 200 miles away) and can’t afford it anyway. The minimum wage increase will make it even worse.
I bet this guy is a secret lurker here on FR. He sounds like a prototype Freeper.
“Interesting story but I can’t find any reference to it on a quick search. Are you sure this wasn’t in one of smaller communities surrounding Seattle? I can’t think of a concrete yard in Seattle proper anyway.”
There are concrete yards in Seattle.
Salmon Bay Sand & Gravel on Shilshole Ave NW in Ballard.
Cadman on East Marginal Way near the 1st Ave S. bridge.
CalPortland next door to Cadman.
Surecrete just south of Northgate Mall.
No, it will be a slow-motion crash-and-burn like other liberal cities. Businesses will make adjustments, customers will make adjustments, city council will praise how well things are going in the face of all evidence to the contrary -- it will be sustained for longer than you might think.
The bums are still there.
I haven’t lived in Seattle since 1982. Some of those businesses could have been there but I’ve forgotten or had never noticed them. Do they have flowers out in front? All the same species?
I could see Ballard or another Seattle community having that ordinance (if those embedded communities have separate laws/regulations).
Why would it be slow? Unless in the law the current employees in Seattle are guaranteed no job loss? If you tried this in Austin, there would be 100K degreed people knocking the minimum-wagers out of their jobs the same day it was implemented.
Demographically, Seattle and Austin are sister-cities.
High wages force companies to innovate. Through innovation you need less people. I saw an experimental Taco Bell out west that no longer had people up front to take your order - you did it on a touch screen.
Hint, hint, Seattle’s low income workers.... touch screen ordering is comin’ for your job.
A classic example: Before slavery was abolished in the South our farming practices and techniques hadn’t changed much in a couple of hundred years.
Once the large plantation farmers had to put more yearly cash into field hand pay they began to innovate in order to hire less people to do the field work.
Higher pay = less people working, Seattle.
(No liberal I have met has ever been told the above farming story.)
I applaud them too because their stupidity will only enrich the more conservative eastside of King County. Not to mention people who come over the lake will get to do their shopping and dining in a virtually crime free, bum free atmosphere.
Socialist Seattle, led by Kshama Sawant, is doing us all a favor. Detroit went bust because of Black Politics over half a century. Seattle is going to go bust like it’s sister cities to the south and it is a High Tech “with it” City. What a great model it will be for us all to point to!
Single handedly the Socialist’s are destroying this town. And, this is not speculation, Socialism has NEVER worked historically. Pretty soon, no one will be able to give away their houses. That’s next.
I’ve never noticed, but the next time I drive by I’ll look for it.
Libs confuse “minimum wage” with a “living wage.”
16 year olds don’t need a living wage. Nor do they deserve one.
I read that that something like 0.6% of US workers actually make the minimum wage, but even if they do, it is only for 6 months before getting a raise.
All of this is madness. The kind of anti-factual madness that we always get from the left.
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