https://www.king5.com/mobile/articl...gram/281-3829571f-4c24-4d2b-b392-f4eee9899dbc "King County Council approved $100,000 in funding Wednesday for a program that would bus the homeless outside the county." Here we go. The politicians in a rich county create an issue, by virtue of their policies. Then, they solve it by exporting it to the poor counties. Is this a brilliant solution, or madness, or a cynical plot to maintain power within the backdrop of an increasingly restive electorate? My thoughts are that it's immoral and unethical. They are pushing their problems off onto those who are less able to cope with them. The plight of those homeless people will be exacerbated by the inability of poor counties to cope with the people and their problems.
Evidently there are none of Dirty Donalds so called booming economy jobs available in King County to pull these people out of dire poverty and the counties willingness to pay to relocate the problem to another county?Not really a solution just a diversion from one location to another.
That's another point. They are being bused fron a rich county with lots of jobs, to poorer counties with fewer jobs.
Hey there, TC. 90-95% of those homeless people around Seattle cannot do any job whatsoever because they are addicted to heroin or meth. But yeah, this is a dumb program. Supposedly it is so the homeless can reunify with their families (as if their families want to reunify with them.) I doubt that people in their 50s and 60s want their 30 year old heroin addicted child to move in with them. And I also strongly doubt that these drug addicts want to leave Seattle and move in with Mom and Dad. Seattle is where their drug connections are, not in Peoria with Mom and Dad.
They can get a bus ticket to anywhere at least two counties away from King county. Any of those counties can't deal with Seattle's problems. They have their own problems and are treading water.
so the town is shipping them to another city, I think all the poor cities should set up busing and ship their problems there then - fair is fair I heard magic mushrooms is actually helping addicts get unAddicted... be interesting if that works - helping with PTSD and many other things
Council approves $100,000 to bus homeless out of King County That's because the latest polls show that the homeless don't vote.
Of the hundreds of homeless people who responded to the county's most recent one-night count, 77 (9%) said a family reunification program would help them obtain permanent housing. Rental assistance and/or more affordable housing, meanwhile, was the most popular option with 629 saying it would be helpful.
It's a number I remember from an article I read or a documentary I watched on the problem. Just quickly googling around just now, I see that the numbers vary depending on what the source is. One said 80%, one said 50% with another 36% who are mentally ill. In any case, it is the leading cause of homelessness. Jobs are available, but most of these people cannot do a job.
Most of our hugr huhuge catastrophic problems of today from homelessness to the destruction of our working middle class to both parties t refusing to represent average people is because of dismantling what FDR democrats created. The spiral downward has a clear cause . Getting rid of the party of FDR and having both parties owned by banking and corporations leads to the insanity of today. Including trump winning.
Or the have drug, alcohol or mental issues. Why don't all those rich King county resisdents create jobs for them or give them a guarantied minimum income, free college and free healthcare?
