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2019-10-04 Home Front: Culture Wars
Homeless In Seattle, Part 1: High-Tech & The Homeless
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Posted by Besoeker 2019-10-04 03:28|| || Front Page|| [1 views ]  Top

#1 Wrong. If you can't afford Seattle, try your luck elsewhere.

I've been watching the TV show Fixer Upper lately, in which a couple in Waco, TX fix up old houses and sell them. You can get an old but still quite livable house in Waco with a big lot surrounding it for $200,000 to $300,000.

I'm sure the Texans will request that you leave your loony liberal politics where you came from and it gets hot in Waco. But it's gotta beat the sidewalks in Seattle. You get a job, work hard, get married and raise a family and Waco is probably an OK place to be.

But I think the problem is not what the writer of this article asserts. Homeless people are not homeless because smart people learn to work in high tech businesses and drive up the housing costs. You can't blame those people for working hard and being successful. Homeless people are homeless because they're lazy, drug addicted bums and nut jobs. If you put them in nice, new, taxpayer subsidized apartments they won't get jobs and they won't stop doing drugs and it won't be long before those apartments are not so nice anymore.
Posted by Abu Uluque 2019-10-04 10:47||   2019-10-04 10:47|| Front Page Top

#2 I work in Seattle - I'm not quite stupid enough to live there. While the housing market does indeed price all but the well to do out of the market there is also the homelessness sponsorship of the elite and leftist politicians.
There is the old saying 'give a man a fish and he'll eat for a day, teach him to fish and he'll eat for a lifetime'. In this case the democrats *want* to keep feeding him a fish daily in order to make him dependent - and voting democrat. Its the same model they have been using for generations. With Black America, with women, with Illegal aliens, etc...
The Mentally ill should be helped. The addicts should also be helped if they are truly interested in curing their addiction. But we should not be coddling those who choose, of their own free will, to not be responsible for themselves.
At some time we have to let then suffer the consequences of their choices.
Posted by CrazyFool 2019-10-04 15:16||   2019-10-04 15:16|| Front Page Top

#3 Somewhat north of Seattlestan, but still impacted by their stupidity..... no longer have any compulsion to go there for any reason, but Spousal Unit still buys season tickets to the 5th Avenue; and laltely the shows there are turning more preachy, and less entertaining.
If she dies first I will have some tix available.....
Posted by USN, Ret. 2019-10-04 16:10||   2019-10-04 16:10|| Front Page Top

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