Seattle is dying

[Flopper]

KOMO News Special: Seattle is Dying


Unrestricted migration lousy leadership
Everything libs touch

That is not what it's about. As it says in the article and in the TV programs, why aren't we doing more to prevent crime, solve the homeless problem, and deal with drug abuse. These are major issues with liberals. These are homegrown problems and are not the result of migration.

I've lived in Seattle for years and what I have seen is a gross misallocation of resources, 3.3 billion dollars for a tunnel in the downtown section and one sports stadium after another and years of procrastination on the decision to expand light rail which will cost the city hundreds millions of dollars. There is nothing wrong with these projects but the city needs to make crime, drugs, and homelessness a priority.

When you offer disproportionately high wages for low/no skill workers, you encourage those low/no skill types to migrate in. They are not the sharpest tool in the sheds to begin with or they wouldn't be low/no skill types so with them comes crime, drugs and homelessness. People who wing it in life are the right amount of idiot to think "Well I will go there and figure something out once I get there".

That's a good theory but it doesn't match the facts. Most of Seattle's homeless comes from Seattle and surrounding areas. If you know anything about the homeless, you would understand this.

Any type of relocation is a big problem for the homeless. When you loose your job, your home, and you're broke you don't take off across the country seeking a pot of goal. You go to friends and family who can help you, not to a strange city on the otherside of the country.

Unlike the pictures in the video of drug addicted derelicts sleeping and peeing in streets in the downtown section, about half of Seattle's homeless have jobs. Some may live in homeless camps but many pay someone a few dollars to sleep in a garage, porch, spare room, or pitch a tent in the yard.

Inflating the cost of housing with inflated wages will have that effect.

Wage are not the major reason for the high cost of housing in Seattle. The major problem is there's no place to build affordable new housing which Seattle needs desperately. Seattle is hemmed in by Lake Washington on east, Puget Sound on West and other cites to the north and South. The average cost of a 1 bedroom apartment in downtown Seattle is nearly $3,000/mo.

Like other major cities, people that work in the downtown section are either making 6 digit salaries or they they live miles away from the heart of the city. Even if you live 5 or 10 miles outside of the city, you're likely to pay about $2000 for a 2 bedroom apartment. Yet people are still coming, more than 1,000 a week.

 

[Flopper]

KOMO News Special: Seattle is Dying


Unrestricted migration lousy leadership
Everything libs touch

That is not what it's about. As it says in the article and in the TV programs, why aren't we doing more to prevent crime, solve the homeless problem, and deal with drug abuse. These are major issues with liberals. These are homegrown problems and are not the result of migration.

I've lived in Seattle for years and what I have seen is a gross misallocation of resources, 3.3 billion dollars for a tunnel in the downtown section and one sports stadium after another and years of procrastination on the decision to expand light rail which will cost the city hundreds millions of dollars. There is nothing wrong with these projects but the city needs to make crime, drugs, and homelessness a priority.

When you offer disproportionately high wages for low/no skill workers, you encourage those low/no skill types to migrate in. They are not the sharpest tool in the sheds to begin with or they wouldn't be low/no skill types so with them comes crime, drugs and homelessness. People who wing it in life are the right amount of idiot to think "Well I will go there and figure something out once I get there".

That's a good theory but it doesn't match the facts. Most of Seattle's homeless comes from Seattle and surrounding areas. If you know anything about the homeless, you would understand this.

Any type of relocation is a big problem for the homeless. When you loose your job, your home, and you're broke you don't take off across the country seeking a pot of goal. You go to friends and family who can help you, not to a strange city on the otherside of the country.

Unlike the pictures in the video of drug addicted derelicts sleeping and peeing in streets in the downtown section, about half of Seattle's homeless have jobs. Some may live in homeless camps but many pay someone a few dollars to sleep in a garage, porch, spare room, or pitch a tent in the yard.

Ok fine.
Then the ones that are working and have worked something out with family and or friends and have a roof over their head, we leave alone, it's none of our business.
But the ones that are infesting our streets with their drug use and filth need to be removed.

The problem is what to do with them when you remove them. About half of them are seriously mentally ill, but there's no place to put them. The courts send them to local hospitals for evaluation. They keep them 3 days and release them with prescriptions that will never be filled. Despite reports of assaults and murders by the homeless, most of these people are guilty of only petty crimes such as stealing a loaf of bread, a bicycle, or snatching a purse. At most it's 6 mos in a country prison. And that's not exactly punishment for someone who sleeps on streets at night in sub-freezing weather.

Sometimes, I think we should do what the city I lived in as a kid did, buy them a bus ticket to another city, maybe a good republican city like Omaha or Oklahoma City and see what they do with them.

 

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KOMO News Special: Seattle is Dying


Unrestricted migration lousy leadership
Everything libs touch

Seattle is dying because Progressivism is literally a Secular Death-Cult Religion.

Well, it must be a pretty slow death because because a 1000 new people a week are moving into the area and driving real estate prices through the roof.

 

[jehanne1431]

KOMO News Special: Seattle is Dying


Unrestricted migration lousy leadership
Everything libs touch

I watched half of this well produced video. So depressing. And no reason to think they are embellishing the crisis. It also seems pretty certain it is a drug problem more than a homeless problem. They are all addicted or mentally ill or both. I would rather spend tax payer money on trying to put these people in care facilities of some kind than I would wanting to spend money bringing in more countless illegal aliens, or spending money on global warming, or so many other measures. Nor would I give welfare out to able bodied of sound mind people without having them work for it. No American city should have to tolerate such filth and danger and misery, at least make it a top priority to try to overcome.

 

[EvilCat Breath]

Yep, and this is happenning in all large cities across this country, which are all ran by Dimocrats.

Portland is no better, fucking blue tarps everywhere along freeways, underpasses, alleys, downtown, it's disgraceful.

Dimocrats and the god awful ACLU should be held 100% responsible for allowing this problem to reach a boiling point.

LA streets smell like a sewer on a hot day.

On a hot day the shit dries and crumbles to dust. It is picked up by the breeze and swirls about as fecal snow.
You breathe it. When you dine at one of the trendy outdoor restaurants you eat it. There is not one surface that does not have a dusting of fecal material.

 

[EvilCat Breath]

KOMO News Special: Seattle is Dying


Unrestricted migration lousy leadership
Everything libs touch

Seattle is dying because Progressivism is literally a Secular Death-Cult Religion.

Well, it must be a pretty slow death because because a 1000 new people a week are moving into the area and driving real estate prices through the roof.

Newly arrived laughable "asylum seekers" should push that above 2000 a week.

 

[Flopper]

KOMO News Special: Seattle is Dying


Unrestricted migration lousy leadership
Everything libs touch

I watched half of this well produced video. So depressing. And no reason to think they are embellishing the crisis. It also seems pretty certain it is a drug problem more than a homeless problem. They are all addicted or mentally ill or both. I would rather spend tax payer money on trying to put these people in care facilities of some kind than I would wanting to spend money bringing in more countless illegal aliens, or spending money on global warming, or so many other measures. Nor would I give welfare out to able bodied of sound mind people without having them work for it. No American city should have to tolerate such filth and danger and misery, at least make it a top priority to try to overcome.

Well, I don't know about embellishing the crisis but there is a lot they didn't tell you because it would not fit the narrative of the video. The people they showed in the video are not representative of the homeless. They are representative of the worst of the worst.

There are about 12000 people homeless in the Seattle area. This includes nearly 3,000 families with women and children which you did not see. Almost half of the homeless have jobs. Most of the homeless do not live on streets at least not permanently. Of the 12,000 homeless only about 900 live in the tent cities they showed in the video.

By definition a homeless person is an individual without permanent housing who may live on the streets. It is very common for a homeless person to live in as many as a dozen places in a month, sleeping in cars, old RV's, in garages, halfway houses, homes of relatives or friends, etc...

One misconception that most people have about the homeless is they they have no money. As I said, almost half have jobs. Also, a large percent receive money from various sources such as government disability, VA benefits, pensions, and financial help from family or friends. So they have money for much of the necessities of life but not housing. Of course many spend that money on drugs and/or alcohol.

I had two problems with the video. First, it leads the audience to believe that jailing the homeless or dumping them in the mental health system will solve the problem. That's is complete nonsense. Most of them have no real fear of jail and there is no room in mental hospitals for them. Lastly, most of the homeless in Seattle have most of the necessities of life except for a home and that is what the city is trying to provide.

 

[DigitalDrifter]

KOMO News Special: Seattle is Dying


Unrestricted migration lousy leadership
Everything libs touch

I watched half of this well produced video. So depressing. And no reason to think they are embellishing the crisis. It also seems pretty certain it is a drug problem more than a homeless problem. They are all addicted or mentally ill or both. I would rather spend tax payer money on trying to put these people in care facilities of some kind than I would wanting to spend money bringing in more countless illegal aliens, or spending money on global warming, or so many other measures. Nor would I give welfare out to able bodied of sound mind people without having them work for it. No American city should have to tolerate such filth and danger and misery, at least make it a top priority to try to overcome.

Well, I don't know about embellishing the crisis but there is a lot they didn't tell you because it would not fit the narrative of the video. The people they showed in the video are not representative of the homeless. They are representative of the worst of the worst.

There are about 12000 people homeless in the Seattle area. This includes nearly 3,000 families with women and children which you did not see. Almost half of the homeless have jobs. Most of the homeless do not live on streets at least not permanently. Of the 12,000 homeless only about 900 live in the tent cities they showed in the video.

By definition a homeless person is an individual without permanent housing who may live on the streets. It is very common for a homeless person to live in as many as a dozen places in a month, sleeping in cars, old RV's, in garages, halfway houses, homes of relatives or friends, etc...

One misconception that most people have about the homeless is they they have no money. As I said, almost half have jobs. Also, a large percent receive money from various sources such as government disability, VA benefits, pensions, and financial help from family or friends. So they have money for much of the necessities of life but not housing. Of course many spend that money on drugs and/or alcohol.

I had two problems with the video. First, it leads the audience to believe that jailing the homeless or dumping them in the mental health system will solve the problem. That's is complete nonsense. Most of them have no real fear of jail and there is no room in mental hospitals for them. Lastly, most of the homeless in Seattle have most of the necessities of life except for a home and that is what the city is trying to provide.

Who cares if the ones wallowing in the filth in public, is just a fraction of the entire homeless problem. The bottom line is there are scores of them turning our landscape into a landfill, and their irresponsibility and filth threatens the health of thousands.

There has to be ways to deal with this that includes getting the streets cleared of these people.

 

[Deplorable Yankee]

i only watched 10 minutes
and the one says "the cops tell us to vote you out "and see the dochebag smile while theyre bitchin


the thing about the progressives are

they'd go i hate deblazio he sucks, he dosent know what hes doing , hes lazy , hes owned by this one, ...that corporation blah blah blah!! but i cant vote for the guy running with an R in front of his name ....because ...bigotry ....racism ....i care about the poor

derp

so hes probably laughing cause most are gonna vote for him again anyway

 

[blastoff]

KOMO News Special: Seattle is Dying


Unrestricted migration lousy leadership
Everything libs touch

That is not what it's about. As it says in the article and in the TV programs, why aren't we doing more to prevent crime, solve the homeless problem, and deal with drug abuse. These are major issues with liberals. These are homegrown problems and are not the result of migration.

I've lived in Seattle for years and what I have seen is a gross misallocation of resources, 3.3 billion dollars for a tunnel in the downtown section and one sports stadium after another and years of procrastination on the decision to expand light rail which will cost the city hundreds millions of dollars. There is nothing wrong with these projects but the city needs to make crime, drugs, and homelessness a priority.

When you offer disproportionately high wages for low/no skill workers, you encourage those low/no skill types to migrate in. They are not the sharpest tool in the sheds to begin with or they wouldn't be low/no skill types so with them comes crime, drugs and homelessness. People who wing it in life are the right amount of idiot to think "Well I will go there and figure something out once I get there".

That's a good theory but it doesn't match the facts. Most of Seattle's homeless comes from Seattle and surrounding areas. If you know anything about the homeless, you would understand this.

Any type of relocation is a big problem for the homeless. When you loose your job, your home, and you're broke you don't take off across the country seeking a pot of goal. You go to friends and family who can help you, not to a strange city on the otherside of the country.

Unlike the pictures in the video of drug addicted derelicts sleeping and peeing in streets in the downtown section, about half of Seattle's homeless have jobs. Some may live in homeless camps but many pay someone a few dollars to sleep in a garage, porch, spare room, or pitch a tent in the yard.

Ok fine.
Then the ones that are working and have worked something out with family and or friends and have a roof over their head, we leave alone, it's none of our business.
But the ones that are infesting our streets with their drug use and filth need to be removed.

The problem is what to do with them when you remove them. About half of them are seriously mentally ill, but there's no place to put them. The courts send them to local hospitals for evaluation. They keep them 3 days and release them with prescriptions that will never be filled. Despite reports of assaults and murders by the homeless, most of these people are guilty of only petty crimes such as stealing a loaf of bread, a bicycle, or snatching a purse. At most it's 6 mos in a country prison. And that's not exactly punishment for someone who sleeps on streets at night in sub-freezing weather.

Sometimes, I think we should do what the city I lived in as a kid did, buy them a bus ticket to another city, maybe a good republican city like Omaha or Oklahoma City and see what they do with them.

Thanks but it’s your shit so you may keep it.

 

[Dragonlady]

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LOL. Pictures don't lie dude.

Really? Do you think my great granddaughter is sitting on the Iron Throne?

Ever heard of Photoshop?

 

[tyroneweaver]

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LOL. Pictures don't lie dude.

Really? Do you think my great granddaughter is sitting on the Iron Throne?

Ever heard of Photoshop?


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So that's your apologetic for the Seattle situation?

 

[Dragonlady]

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LOL. Pictures don't lie dude.

Really? Do you think my great granddaughter is sitting on the Iron Throne?

Ever heard of Photoshop?


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So that's your apologetic for the Seattle situation?

The United States has an opioid crisis, which the past three administrations have utterly ignored, and this President continues to blame illegal immigration for. All of Trump's time, money and attention for the past year has been focused on building a useless wall, while Trump continues to ignore the fact that 70,000 people are dying of opioid abuse every year, and that death toll contionues to mount.

Violent crime in the mid-west is now at higher levels than violent crime in the inner cities, and that poor, broke, unemployed white people are just as drug addicted and violent as inner city blacks when they lose all of their money and opportunity, too.

At the root of all of this is the failure of successive Republican administrations to deal with the effects of wage stagnation, and off-shoring that began when Reagan gutted the anti-trust regulations put in place during the Guilded Age, and destroyed the unions that lifting working Americans out of poverty for 30 years following WWII.

Republicans have convinced working Americans that despite the lowest wage to GDP/ratio since the Guilded Age, and the highest corporate profits in the history of the world, and the largest, best equipped military force the world has ever seen, American corporations cannot provide the simple assurances of life that all of the other first world nations give to the people who are producing their goods and services:

mandated vactions
maternity leave
universal health care
quality public school education

Americans are frightened, anxious, depressed, and suicide rates are going up. As life becomes more uncertain for middle class Americans in terms of health care, work/life balance, and just having a government that is benefitting ALL of its citizens instead of pandering to the lowest elements among you.

All of the "socialist" crap you rail against, is just the bullshit and lies the Republican Party keeps feeding the gullible to keep Americans poor and dependent on "earned income credits" to eat, instead of living wages to all full-time workers, and to continue to funnel the profits their labour creates, to an every smaller group of people at the top.

Other nations in the world have resisted this transfer of wealth, and are growing their middle class, educating their people, and not getting involved in military build-ups, and useless foreign wars. Our life expectancy is going up, not down. Our qualifty of life is going up, not down, and our countries are pulling away from the USA, because we see where you're headed.

United we stand, and divided you fall. As long as you play the blame game - blaming immigrants, instead of the government policies which encourage illegals to come here, blaming race for inner city crime, not poverty, and not working together to find solutions, the situation will only get worse.

So now,, what are YOU going to do about these issues?

 

[tyroneweaver]

You searched for komo news - Media Bias/Fact Check

LOL. Pictures don't lie dude.

Really? Do you think my great granddaughter is sitting on the Iron Throne?

Ever heard of Photoshop?


View attachment 251177

So that's your apologetic for the Seattle situation?

The United States has an opioid crisis, which the past three administrations have utterly ignored, and this President continues to blame illegal immigration for. All of Trump's time, money and attention for the past year has been focused on building a useless wall, while Trump continues to ignore the fact that 70,000 people are dying of opioid abuse every year, and that death toll contionues to mount.

Violent crime in the mid-west is now at higher levels than violent crime in the inner cities, and that poor, broke, unemployed white people are just as drug addicted and violent as inner city blacks when they lose all of their money and opportunity, too.

At the root of all of this is the failure of successive Republican administrations to deal with the effects of wage stagnation, and off-shoring that began when Reagan gutted the anti-trust regulations put in place during the Guilded Age, and destroyed the unions that lifting working Americans out of poverty for 30 years following WWII.

Republicans have convinced working Americans that despite the lowest wage to GDP/ratio since the Guilded Age, and the highest corporate profits in the history of the world, and the largest, best equipped military force the world has ever seen, American corporations cannot provide the simple assurances of life that all of the other first world nations give to the people who are producing their goods and services:

mandated vactions
maternity leave
universal health care
quality public school education

Americans are frightened, anxious, depressed, and suicide rates are going up. As life becomes more uncertain for middle class Americans in terms of health care, work/life balance, and just having a government that is benefitting ALL of its citizens instead of pandering to the lowest elements among you.

All of the "socialist" crap you rail against, is just the bullshit and lies the Republican Party keeps feeding the gullible to keep Americans poor and dependent on "earned income credits" to eat, instead of living wages to all full-time workers, and to continue to funnel the profits their labour creates, to an every smaller group of people at the top.

Other nations in the world have resisted this transfer of wealth, and are growing their middle class, educating their people, and not getting involved in military build-ups, and useless foreign wars. Our life expectancy is going up, not down. Our qualifty of life is going up, not down, and our countries are pulling away from the USA, because we see where you're headed.

United we stand, and divided you fall. As long as you play the blame game - blaming immigrants, instead of the government policies which encourage illegals to come here, blaming race for inner city crime, not poverty, and not working together to find solutions, the situation will only get worse.

So now,, what are YOU going to do about these issues?

Since when are republicans responsible for a persons behavior?
You sound like a dry drunk. You may not drink but you have all the thinking errors of an alcoholic.

 

[Eric Arthur Blair]

Well, it must be a pretty slow death because because a 1000 new people a week are moving into the area and driving real estate prices through the roof.

Seattle remains a very popular destination for so many The problem is the city's political leadership that refuses to make hard choices so the city remains paralyzed by a relatively small population that is tolerated and to an extent sustained.

 

[WillowTree]

KOMO News Special: Seattle is Dying







Run by liberals of course. Another great American city turns to shit!

 

[WillowTree]

KOMO News Special: Seattle is Dying

Seattle Is Dying. It's a harsh title. Someone on social media even called it a "hopeless" title. I'll admit to you that I wrestled with the name for some time. Too dramatic, I wondered? Too dark? In the end I went with it because I believe it to be true. I believe that Seattle is dying. Rotting from within.





Run by liberals of course. Another great American city turns to shit!

The middle class can not afford to live there anymore!

 

[EvilCat Breath]

Everyone will be much happier when Democrats seize all property and assigns living quarters.

 

[HereWeGoAgain]

KOMO News Special: Seattle is Dying


Unrestricted migration lousy leadership
Everything libs touch

Tough reality is not part of a Liberal agenda, how we sink deeper into denial...

They’re destined too fail with this mentality, and they want to tell you President Trump has no idea what he’s doing with the wall at our Southern Border? This is a case in point that clear demonstrates why you should enforce the laws...

Who is arguing against enforcing the laws? You guys just make this shit up. Or just buy the latest Hannity episode. Vote reps in that will change immigration laws and amend The Constitution.

Didnt watch the video.

 

[HereWeGoAgain]

KOMO News Special: Seattle is Dying


Unrestricted migration lousy leadership
Everything libs touch

That is not what it's about. As it says in the article and in the TV programs, why aren't we doing more to prevent crime, solve the homeless problem, and deal with drug abuse. These are major issues with liberals. These are homegrown problems and are not the result of migration.

I've lived in Seattle for years and what I have seen is a gross misallocation of resources, 3.3 billion dollars for a tunnel in the downtown section and one sports stadium after another and years of procrastination on the decision to expand light rail which will cost the city hundreds millions of dollars. There is nothing wrong with these projects but the city needs to make crime, drugs, and homelessness a priority.

Sounds like Houston

Yeah right.