Seattle Socialists Strangle Golden Goose

[Fife]

Everything is fine here in our city, Theo. You don't see any homeless bums among my art, now do you?

[C-Mag]

The horror, the horror of Seattle living!

Look everyone, everything's fine in Seattle. No problems at all. See, we have a farmer's market.

Does that picture also prove there are no homeless in Seattle?

As long as you don't travel a few blocks to the South, everything is cool in the Fish Market. A bunch of white, snooty, watermelons. Look Mommy, they are throwing Fish, can I have some taffee?

[C-Mag]

Opiodes found in Mussels in Pugent Sound................. DB, time to lighten up on the Oxycotine

[Kath]

Just had a chance to visit with family, for my nephew's graduation. The three from San Diego are the most left leaning people we know. The topic of Amazon came up, so we started getting into the Seattle issue.

The horror stories they told us about the homeless problem in San Diego made me sick. It's a huge problem and growing. My sister-in-law and her husband bought a house three years ago that was nowhere near where the homeless hang out, but now they are literally across the street.

These people are breaking down gates and cutting down fences to walk through yards, steal garbage cans for their stuff, traipsing through yards to get to hoses so they can "shower." Maddening. When they call 911 about active criminal activities, they get immediately routed to homeless services department, so they have learned that they can't say the word "homeless," nor can they just complain that there is a person using a saw to destroy their property. They have to pretend their lives are in danger or the police will not show up. The homeless know they can commit any sort of property damage without consequence.

The homeless problem is growing. The largest percentage of these homeless are people who refuse to play "the man's" game. Many of them have storage units where they go to get clean clothes and store their valuables. These people have money, they just choose not to pay mortgage or rent.

They are setting fires, shitting on people's lawns... needles everywhere. They dump garbage cans on people's lawns to get the garbage can. None of this is considered illegal by the police.

Shameful.

So, back to their being hard-core lefties; they do not give a shit about the homeless anymore and they don't even feel guilty for feeling that way, which is such an anti-lefty position to take. That's how bad it is for them.

They are planning to retire in a couple of years and they've already bought their retirement home near Joshua Tree, because, and I quote, "Fuck San Diego." They don't think throwing money at this problem will fix it. They are pretty convinced that Seattle is just taking people's money and setting it on fire, for all the good it's doing.

[C-Mag]

Where ya been Kath ?
Good to see you.

[Kath]

Where ya been Kath ?
Good to see you.

Nephew's HS graduation. Nice visit with family from all over the country. Good to see you too.

[C-Mag]

I think the homeless situation has reached the critical tipping point, it's part of the reason there's an exodus from California, people are voting with their feet. I think there is a public outcry yet to come.

[Speaker to Animals]

We need to get California out of the union asap, guys.

[nmoore63]

A friend of mine had tweakers in his barn.

Went out there and held them at gun point til the cops came.

Cops came and took them away.
On Monday, we asked what happened to them.
They said the jail was too full so they just let them go once they got back to town.

Hasn't bothered to call the cops since.

Friend says, next one goes in the wood chipper. Should make good fertilizer.

[DBTrek]

It must be a complete coincidence that the state releases felons with minimal to no cash (homeless, tweakers) then jacks tax through the roof for services like .... the police ... who in turn catch and release broke felons ... who damage more property and squat more buildings ... which causes people to call the police ... who need more money to field the calls ... which means more tax raises ...