Washington / Seattle Looks Like Shit Thread

Homeless usually just keep being homeless. I saw a few get sober and normal but it was only a few. The rest got dead generally. Either by drugs, alcohol or crime. Had a transient that we all liked he worked around the local church and they let him stay there. He was funny. Until one of the other transients stabbed him a5 times and smashed his head in for his SS money…
Need to throw them in jail to clean them up.... but that's mean... he'll Jail would be a step up for these people
 
Christ, how many fucking homeless people are in Oregon? If the deficit is $104 million, the total spend has to be a shitload more.

Would it just cheaper to give these hobos $40 or $50k each and call it good? The “services” aren’t doing shit to solve the issue.
per capita?
More than any other city in the US and by sheer numbers only behind Seattle, SF, LA, Chicago, and NY.
 
This is so fucked up. I find it hard to believe that there are ANY politicians who think this is responsible behavior in a free society. I thank God I don't live under an oppressive city government like Portland has. I would never allow me or family to be tortured like they do to people in Portland.
''The county says the deficit is primarily due to a decline in the predicted vs actual revenue from the Supportive Housing Services tax collected by the Metro tax district from higher-income residents and businesses.
 The fund relies heavily on wealthy earners selling stock and earning dividends which are hard to predict. In past years revenue from the fund has come in a lot higher than expected resulting in carryover.''
The county was unable to provide a breakdown of those other revenue shortfalls. It also did not immediately respond to an email asking why it was relying on unstable one-time funding for long-term programs.
 
After spending hundreds of millions of dollars there are more homeless people in the Portland area than before. If you want more pigeons, put out more pigeon feed.
 
They don't spend the money on the homeless. The grift exists in state and local government too.
 
Things I get to vote on in local elections: Schools, libraries, zoo, parks, fire and police. What I don't get to vote on is money for illegals.
 
These dumb motherfuckers all spent COVID money like drunken sailors and then never adjusted their budgets back to pre-COVID free money times. Same shit happened in Spokane where the city now faces budget deficits.
Just reset the fucking budgets to 2019. It's not fucking rocket science.
 
It's like living in a different country when you're living in unincorporated territory in a SW/C/E county compared to mother fucking puget sound region (outside of like Mason county) in this state.
 
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