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Seattle Under Siege
« on: December 26, 2018, 12:18:42 pm »
Seattle Under Siege
Record numbers of homeless people are occupying the city’s public spaces, despite massive government spending to fight the problem.
Christopher F. Rufo
Autumn 2018 The Social Order

Seattle is under siege. Over the past five years, the Emerald City has seen an explosion of homelessness, crime, and addiction. In its 2017 point-in-time count of the homeless, King County social-services agency All Home found 11,643 people sleeping in tents, cars, and emergency shelters. Property crime has risen to a rate two and a half times higher than Los Angeles’s and four times higher than New York City’s. Cleanup crews pick up tens of thousands of dirty needles from city streets and parks every year.

At the same time, according to the Puget Sound Business Journal, the Seattle metro area spends more than $1 billion fighting homelessness every year. That’s nearly $100,000 for every homeless man, woman, and child in King County, yet the crisis seems only to have deepened, with more addiction, more crime, and more tent encampments in residential neighborhoods. By any measure, the city’s efforts are not working.

https://www.city-journal.org/seattle-homelessness
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Re: Seattle Under Siege
« Reply #1 on: December 26, 2018, 03:04:20 pm »
They - the people and elected officials of Seattle - pretty much invited this "siege," inflicting it upon themselves.
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« Reply #2 on: December 26, 2018, 03:17:46 pm »
Quote from: mountaineer on December 26, 2018, 03:04:20 pm
They - the people and elected officials of Seattle - pretty much invited this "siege," inflicting it upon themselves.

It is like San Francisco with out the poop on the sidewalks.
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Re: Seattle Under Siege
« Reply #3 on: December 26, 2018, 03:28:04 pm »
Just another example of how unchecked liberalism eventually ruins everything.
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« Reply #4 on: December 26, 2018, 03:42:18 pm »
Reaping what they sowed, I have no sympathy for them.
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Re: Seattle Under Siege
« Reply #5 on: December 26, 2018, 03:49:23 pm »
Quote from: The Ghost on December 26, 2018, 03:17:46 pm
It is like San Francisco with out the poop on the sidewalks.
Give it time.
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Re: Seattle Under Siege
« Reply #6 on: December 26, 2018, 05:21:03 pm »
From the title....
“Record numbers of homeless people are occupying the city’s public spaces, despite massive government spending to fight the problem.”

They have a homeless problem  because of massive government spending to fight the problem not despite government massive spending
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Re: Seattle Under Siege
« Reply #7 on: December 26, 2018, 05:29:23 pm »
Quote from: LMAO on December 26, 2018, 05:21:03 pm
From the title....
“Record numbers of homeless people are occupying the city’s public spaces, despite massive government spending to fight the problem.”

They have a homeless problem  because of massive government spending to fight the problem not despite government massive spending

Yeah, that is pretty funny.
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« Reply #8 on: December 26, 2018, 05:47:23 pm »
Quote from: LMAO on December 26, 2018, 05:21:03 pm
From the title....
“Record numbers of homeless people are occupying the city’s public spaces, despite massive government spending to fight the problem.”

They have a homeless problem  because of massive government spending to fight the problem not despite government massive spending

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Re: Seattle Under Siege
« Reply #9 on: December 26, 2018, 11:30:57 pm »
From the article:
"At the same time, according to the Puget Sound Business Journal, the Seattle metro area spends more than $1 billion fighting homelessness every year. That’s nearly $100,000 for every homeless man, woman, and child in King County, yet the crisis seems only to have deepened, with more addiction, more crime, and more tent encampments in residential neighborhoods."

Well, if you spend $1 billion "for the homeless", you can only expect more and more of them to "appear" to take advantage of such largesse.

"By any measure, the city’s efforts are not working."

No.
The initiatives ARE "working".
Subsidize something, and you get MORE of it.

Seattle's "homeless program" seems to be doing very well !!
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Re: Seattle Under Siege
« Reply #10 on: December 26, 2018, 11:40:09 pm »
This past summer my sister and my mom took a cruise to Alaska. On the return trip they spent the night in Seattle before they flew home to JFK. They were raving how awesome Seattle is.

Keep in mind my sis lives and works in the big Apple
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« Reply #11 on: December 27, 2018, 04:57:16 am »
My daughter worked in Seattle CPS as a social worker and could last only a few short months.

She felt unsafe and extremely isolated.  CPS policy was to send in social workers prior to the police in domestic disturbances.

Seattle is broken due to liberal policies.
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Re: Seattle Under Siege
« Reply #12 on: December 27, 2018, 06:41:55 am »
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At the same time, according to the Puget Sound Business Journal, the Seattle metro area spends more than $1 billion fighting subsidizing homelessness every year.

There, fixed it.  If you subsidize something, you get more of it.
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Re: Seattle Under Siege
« Reply #13 on: December 27, 2018, 01:59:16 pm »
Quote from: Freya on December 26, 2018, 11:40:09 pm
This past summer my sister and my mom took a cruise to Alaska. On the return trip they spent the night in Seattle before they flew home to JFK. They were raving how awesome Seattle is.

Keep in mind my sis lives and works in the big Apple
The area is awesomely beautiful. I can imagine any New Yorker would just be blown away by the mountains, immense pine trees, etc. I know we were - but we didn't see the vagrancy, just Pike Street and the Boeing aviation museum. It's just the filthy underbelly described in the article that's so hideous and ugly.
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Re: Seattle Under Siege
« Reply #14 on: December 27, 2018, 03:15:01 pm »
Quote from: The Ghost on December 26, 2018, 03:17:46 pm
It is like San Francisco with out the poop on the sidewalks.

Seattle has poop. Local news here in Seattle has done stories on the problem of the homeless taking dumps everywhere, particularly a Stairway near city hall. And the motor homes there are no RV sewage dump locations in the city, so it's cousin Eddy "The shitter is full" scene for real.

I live outside Seattle, have vowed to stay out of the city, the whole family has. It's a horrific scene.
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« Reply #15 on: December 27, 2018, 03:18:12 pm »
Quote from: NavyCanDo on December 27, 2018, 03:15:01 pm
Seattle has poop. Local news here in Seattle has done stories on the problem of the homeless taking dumps everywhere, particularly a Stairway near city hall. And the motor homes there are no RV sewage dump locations in the city, so it's cousin Eddy "The shitter is full" scene for real.

I live outside Seattle, have vowed to stay out of the city, the whole family has. It's a horrific scene.

I did not know that.

Looks like they better start a "Poop Patrol" like San Fran.
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« Reply #16 on: December 27, 2018, 03:28:15 pm »
Quote from: Freya on December 26, 2018, 11:40:09 pm
This past summer my sister and my mom took a cruise to Alaska. On the return trip they spent the night in Seattle before they flew home to JFK. They were raving how awesome Seattle is.

Keep in mind my sis lives and works in the big Apple

From the Puget Sound sailing in on a cruise ship or ferry, Seattle is still a beautiful jem. But take a stroll though town or a road trip up or down I-5 and you are hit square in the face with the ugliness these vagrants have brought. Thousands of tents and piles of garbage. Truly a sad sight for someone like me who remembers 60 years of Seattle history.
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Re: Seattle Under Siege
« Reply #17 on: December 27, 2018, 04:04:00 pm »
Quote from: The Ghost on December 26, 2018, 03:17:46 pm
It is like San Francisco with out the poop on the sidewalks.

Yet
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