Only to defenders of failed policies. False relativism is the last refuge of people taking a stand for the indefensible.
"Charging taxpayers $580 per Big Mac to feed 20 people isn't a failed policy for the twenty people who wouldn't have otherwise received a free lunch."
No. That's still failure, even though twenty people got a single cheeseburger for $11,600. Anyone defending that policy on the grounds that it was "better than nothing" for twenty people is clearly lacking intelligence or politically supportive of he scoundrels defrauding the taxpayers.
The part of my article you took great pains to cut around:
Seattle spent $17,000 for every man, woman, and child in the city on homelessness. We only have 10k homeless. Where's the results?There is a new movement in Seattle and it’s demanding accountability for all the money city leaders have spent on homelessness.
“Two hundred million (dollars) was spent in King County last year, $17,000 for every man woman and child, and the problem got worse. I beg you take a step back,” Matt Dubin told the Seattle City Council on Monday.
"This pie chart says 34% went to permanent housing support and 50% to the emergency category" is not a meaningful answer. It's a massive waste of taxpayer funds that an unaccountable city council is trying to justify with a meaningless graphic. The fact is Seattle just imperiled over 8000 high paying jobs to create 900 affordable housing units that will do little to nothing to address the 10k homeless in our streets (who aren't helped by rent control, as they don't rent).
That's a failed policy by any objective measure.
Nothing "relative" about it.
