KKK outfit? I’m offended.
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[QUOTE=Bobby Stainless;5634522]I just dont really care that much to investigate it. I just posted that Seattle was a shithole to rile people like yourself up.
I was educated in New England btw.
Little school called Vanderbilt here in Nashville. Buncha dumbasses.[/QUOT
Be careful calling out a city that's already seen 25 years of gentrification, Nashville is quickly on it's way and you'll see all the issues that go with rapidly increasing real estate value soon enough. Mix in a highly unsegregated divide of the uneducated and you'll be having all the homeless/addicted/mentally ill coming to the city to camp and buy their meth in your zip code. Unless you can use that fancy "Vandy" education to solve a social issue that NO metropolitan area in the US has been able to fix be thankful you have a good life due to winning the parental lottery.
Was that wrong? Should I have not done that? I tell you I gotta plead ignorance on this thing because if anyone had said anything to me at all when I first started here that that sort of thing was frowned upon, you know, cause I've worked in a lot of offices and I tell you people do that all the time.
RE: taxes, Brit's right. WA has some of the most regressive tax policies in the country.
Bill Gates just needs to drink enough sugary drinks.
This article seems timely regarding San Francisco limousine liberals blocking a homeless shelter
https://gizmodo.com/america-s-most-e...-sh-1833640853
Let's be honest, the political polarization of left vs right has masked the fact the very rich people across the political spectrum are just assholes. Most people of means feel like they have made it on their own and don't want to help out. Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos could build shelters all across the pacific northwest and fund untold programs, but instead they vaccinate kids across the globe and pay off dick picks. In relative terms we are all wealthy having disposable means to ski and be on the internet, but it becoming much to big a problem for even half hearted attempts to solve.
it is American to not help people up and down the financial ladder - they can bootstrap themselves goddammit
one of my clients is a doc who had a conversation with a perennially homeless guy who said he was for universal health care until he realized his taxes would be paying for other people -- then he was totally against it (not that he paid taxes or his hospital bill...purely speculative conversation)
His reaction to your point which is put to him often is "All life has equal value"
and last I heard his foundation has saved over 120m lives worldwide.Quote:
Most people of means feel like they have made it on their own and don't want to help out.
The soon to be ex-Mrs Bezos is already involved in the Seattle homeless problem, hopefully she'll be empowered and motivated to do even more.Quote:
Bezos
Back in the day of passenger rail travel(until the 1990's), lots of places solved their homeless problem with oneway rail tickets. Most of those routes have faded away, replaced by a greyhound bus. It's a lot easier to get off a bus at the next stop then jumping off a train in the middle of nowhere.
Then kick the ladder away once at the top.
That right there is the quintessential poor American lie: "I'm not paying for someone else's _______!"
Dude, unless you're at least what could be called lower middle class you're not paying for shit.
You can make all the "right" decisions and still end up poor.
That's awesome, and I wish her well. Amazing what can happen with private charity, especially since they have the power and freedom to think more outside the box. See: Bill Gates. Dude really has done a lot of good in this world. He's spent an absurd proportion of his private wealth toward his charitable efforts.
Will be interesting to see what Ms. Bezos comes up with! Seriously. I hope whatever they come up with actually sees some tangible results.
And then there was the hobos
https://www.collectorsweekly.com/art...obofamily1.jpg
No, fuck you buddy!
idk guys, living in seattle is great if you want to feel like you’re still in college every day. fountain of youth, i say.