Seattle Under Siege

[LowDown]

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.

Take pity on stray cats and feed them and more and more of them will show up until you make the news as a crazy cat lady with a thousand cats in her house and cat crap all over the place.

Ok, maybe that's not an entirely appropriate analogy. What if we could increase employment for cats and provide them with housing at reasonable cost?

https://www.city-journal.org/seattle-homelessness

 

[TheParser]

For many years, Oregon and Washington were very liberal states.

They self-righteously lectured other states on how to treat people.

Therefore many people started to flock to those once peaceful and orderly states.

Those naïve liberals are now reaping what they sowed.

"You made your bed, now lie in it."