Posted on 05/06/2018 8:45:08 AM PDT by grimalkin
Reaction to a proposed Seattle business tax for housing and homeless services jolted elected officials this week as flare-ups of opposition revealed deep frustration with the city’s handling of its homelessness crisis.
If Seattle City Council members were surprised by the reaction — including a raucous town-hall meeting in Ballard and an unexpected protest by construction workers — the response of many residents and business owners seemed to be, what took you so long?
“They’re hearing the whole story now,” said Erin Goodman, executive director of the Sodo Business Improvement Alliance, which is holding its own town hall on the tax Friday morning. “They have been listening to a very small subset for a long time and have not been listening to their actual constituents.”
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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 last time Seattle was a nice place to live was in the early ‘60’s when it had a Republican mayor.
Not a single one since, and it’s gone down the toilet at an increasing rate ever since.
The last few years, the rate is almost straight down.
We left King County in 1993 and never looked back.
Any chance moonbeam will ship a few thousand freshly arriving border jumpers up there, after he fills up his Manson with a couple hundred?
Perhaps Air dropped maps directing them to free stuff would aide their travel.
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
“...in the early ‘60’s when it had a Republican mayor.”
Just as it was 1984 when the last Republican governor left office. I left Seattle in 1985 and it’s just about time for me to get out of Washington. Hope to be gone soon!
There’s one best way to gin up opposition to the problems causing homelessness (i.e. liberal policies), and this is it.
Unfortunately, I believe they may have wandered down the freeway to my town, where a "Homeless" facility has been built, which is a draw. They are living in some overgrown and wooded areas in the town.
LOL! One of the Iron Workers asked the talking head why NONE of the Seattle homeless had applied for a job at his company!!
Excellent point!! The same thing with civil rights. Legitimately all men (and women) of all colors should be equal. Then you start to see the evolution of ‘empowerment’ as stated by MLK Jr. turned to Black Lives Matter (WAY MORE THAN WHITE) ‘empowerment.’ HA!!!!! This is what tells me it is evil that is the nugget here and not need and consideration. Also communist redistribution of wealth is what drives much of these ‘kind taxes’—lol. Oh so very, very KIND!!! /sarc
“We feed, clothe, and house them...”
Stop feeding seagulls, and they leave.
This, of course, escapes the mush-brained liberals’ ability to realize the obvious.
Either that, or they willfully ignore it.
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