The soft underbelly of Seattle - and many other seemingly prosperous cities - is being eaten away by the cancer of heroin and meth —
https://komonews.com/news/local/eric...gly-reflection
The soft underbelly of Seattle - and many other seemingly prosperous cities - is being eaten away by the cancer of heroin and meth —
https://komonews.com/news/local/eric...gly-reflection
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“You can vote your way into socialism, but you have to shoot your way out.” — Too fundamental to have an attribution
My niece and nephew are doctors in Seattle. What they wanted most this year has happened - the rains have returned.
I'm not making light of the drug issues there. For, we face the same burdens here in Utah. Mostly because of opiates, we're seeing far too many people dying young.
Hunter
I don't care if it hurts. I want to have control. I want a perfect body. I want a perfect soul. - Creep by Radiohead
I don't know anywhere in this country that has not been invaded by this epidemic.
"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity, an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty” ---Sir Winston Churchill
"Political extremism involves two prime ingredients: an excessively simple diagnosis of the world's ills, and a conviction that there are identifiable villains back of it all." ---John W. Gardner
“You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.” ---C. S. Lewis
While that is true, I think the flotsam from the epidemic cluster in certain places, which choose to foster & fund the phenomenon. For instance, while I am certain the drug wave is here in San Antonio, I have seen no indication of filthy homeless camps here. Why stay here, when they can go someplace where welfare is so much better to support a habit? “Build it and they will come.”
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“You can vote your way into socialism, but you have to shoot your way out.” — Too fundamental to have an attribution
Dying maybe to strong but what I do know is that Seattle is losing convention business at an alarming rate. I have friends who live in the suburbs who tell me they don't even think about going to the city because of the cesspool it has become because of the local governments inaction or inability to deal with the drug and homeless crisis.
OPINION....a view or judgment formed about something, not necessarily based on fact or knowledge.
Seattle and Portland... And pretty much the whole Cascadia coast are on borrowed time. When the Cascadia subduction zone ruptures, the resulting earthquake will have a massive underwater vertical component. The quake will be bad enough, but it will be followed roughly 5 minutes later by a 200 foot high tsunami.
1 in 3 chance in the next 50 years...
They have the little roped off areas for the junkies. And there are a lot of them. Its repulsive and heartbreaking at the same time. The locals dont even seem to notice them. I always assumed heroin and meth. There are needles laying around.
"Back after 5 years. I thought you had died.
don"
Splitting my time between the montane and the mesas
The woods are lovely, dark and deep.
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep.
Yes.. I went to visit my kids in Bellingham and the drive through Seattle sucked... My Brother who work downtown hates it.... Bum City!