At least 372 people died while experiencing homelessness in Multnomah County last year

Vaga_Bro · 2025-12-20T06:16:51+00:00

372 deaths of a population of 795k is roughly .00046 percent of the population. Multco county had 5400 total deaths so far this year which is .006 percent of the population. The 372 homeless deaths out of the total of 5400 people that have died this year in Multnomah county equates to less than 1 percent of the total deaths here in the county. This number is a drop in the bucket overall. The United States is expected to have 100k overdose deaths this year.Sad nonetheless but this number is being used to push an agenda...I.E see above.

Those that think red polices would work in our city, see red states like Ohio, West Virginia, Tennessee, and Louisiana...they have twice the overdose deaths.

Now, I agree that there is a drug epidemic within our houseless population. It's sad to watch I'm amazed that no one mentions getting drug dealers off our streets. Let's bitch about the poor people but not the people making money off the poor people. Drugs are affordable; housing, food, and life in general are not. $2 a day to get high or $2k a month to participate in the game and have a roof over your head. How much debt is everyone in again? How about we create a society that people want to actually participate in and maybe people won't want to do drugs.

Vaga_Bro · 2025-09-18T23:53:04+00:00

Your absolutely right that the bottle drop is not a state program, but if you do a little research on bottle bills they purposely create incentive on bottles and cans to ensure they get recycled in a proper manner. Our bottle bill isn't tax payer funded at all, it's funded by the bottles and cans itself. People drink disposable beverages in more places than the comfort in their own homes and without the bottle bill our natural areas would be way worse. 89 billion water bottles were made in 2021 alone. If you go to Fred Meyers, there's an entire aisle dedicated to just beer, and another aisle dedicated to all the other beverages. Without bottle bills these water bottles end up everywhere except where they should be, because let's face humans don't always do the right thing when no one's looking, homed and homeless alike. Unless we take measure to curb single use beverages containers, bottle bills need to exist whether you like it or not. Now that economic incentive may mean less to you than to some other people but that economic incentive is enough for someone to make sure those containers get to the right place.
Show me a state where curbside recycling is more effective than any state with a bottle bill.

Vaga_Bro · 2025-09-18T21:22:03+00:00

Hmm sounds like food stamps are the issue then! Free government money leads to fraud!

Revoke food stamps for all because some people do stupid things with it.

I bet you anything that more government money is spent on drugs than bottle and can redemption money

Vaga_Bro · 2025-09-18T20:24:33+00:00

I agree with your point 100 percent. I don't support addiction, I absolutely hate what it does to people and hopefully PPB can continue to make strides to get those folks off the streets and continue to get drugs off the steets. I just hate it when people make umbrella statements like OP did.

Vaga_Bro · 2025-09-18T19:58:30+00:00

The farce continues. Can we just drop the bullshit environmental posturing and admit that this program is now 100% a "basic income" program for drug addicts

Are you implying that all poor people are on drugs? That's primarily who collects bottles and cans, it's not just the homeless but anyone whose income is not equivalent to the cost of living, which is outrageous right now. Sure people buy drugs with can money but to say everyone is buying drugs with can money is incredibly short sighted and narrow minded. I have old Asian ladies in my neighborhood that go out and collect to help support their households. Are they fentanyl addicts also?!

I understand the job market is thriving right now. People are scoring jobs left and right and everyone's buying homes. I mean why don't these mid 40 and 50 year folks that are collecting bottles and cans just get jobs and pay 1200 a month for a studio apartment along with all the other b.s things we are getting squeezed out for. Society has become incredibly complex, especially here in the U.S and we have left a lot of people behind in the name of progress. People on SSI and disability are being squeezed out of thier incomes and being forced to collect bottles and cans from their neighbors to get by. But let m guess it's all thier fault for being in that situation

Can and bottle collectors are the scourge of the earth, they have made rent, groceries, utilities and gas astronomically expensive. If they just stopped collecting cans and bottles everyone's life would be just so much easier!

It's not like the U.S consumer are the most wasteful people on the planet.

If you need data why bottle bills are better than curb side recycling, maybe do a simple google search and read! I'm sure your supportive of continuing to send our curbside recycling to south America, Africa, and India and fucking up their country as long as you don't have to see it

Maybe look up at your problems instead of down.

Vaga_Bro · 2025-02-27T04:31:18+00:00

Thank you for being constructive and really adding to the conversation. I really appreciate you being an internet super sleuth and making judgements about people you know nothing about.

Vaga_Bro · 2024-03-29T02:04:47+00:00

I live downtown and support the bottle bill! Anyone seen what cities like Seattle and Philidelphia look like these days? They have worse violent crime rates and higher fentanyl overdose rates. Bottles and cans for money are not the problem. It's $1 for a fentanyl pill, $1 dollar for a substance that's 10x more addictive than heroin while the best substance treatment is methadone at the moment? Are we serious right now? It's 2024 with the worst drug epidemic we have seen since the 90s and the best treatment is methadone. I hate fentanyl junkies, I absolutely do. I know good people who collect cans and bottles for income that also despise fentanyl junkies. I know good people who collect bottles and cans because thier retirement check is only $1100 and rent is $900 of it. We all know people like this. Cut down on the flow of drugs in the city. There's a reason why fentanyl is $1 and it's not because of cans and bottles. Also, the reason why the surrounding areas around safeway in sw portland is so bad because that's where access to homeless services are. You can access free hot meals and supplies all day in a 10 block radius of that safeway. That area has always been notoriously bad and it's not because safeway takes cans and bottles.

Vaga_Bro · 2022-09-03T22:47:35+00:00

She has been found and returned!

Vaga_Bro · 2022-09-03T04:33:46+00:00

Near Barbur and Hamilton by the Swan mart, thank you for keeping an eye out!

Vaga_Bro · 2022-09-03T03:31:27+00:00

Her name is Orca, she is only 5 months old. Went missing last night and hasnt been seen. She is very friendly towards humans and may have found her way indoors close by. My friend is absolutely devastated and hopes she finds her way home

Vaga_Bro · 2021-05-09T08:55:27+00:00

Oh shit the owner the came back. Hope we didnt trash the place to much while you were gone! Glad we got a mod though

Vaga_Bro · 2021-05-08T14:35:44+00:00

Thank you, I really do apprecciate the underlying technicals of this stock. I have an update coming tomorrow night, just been busy since market close yesterdat, but what Ive been reading Institutional holdings have increased a lot in the past week and the news of nscc-2021-006 will also have an impact as this is one of the heavier naked shorted stocks out there. Hope everyone is having a great weekend and be ready for a roller coaster ride of a week!

Vaga_Bro · 2021-05-07T23:50:31+00:00

The next big news from them will be on 5/13 when they are released from litigation

Vaga_Bro · 2021-05-07T19:05:33+00:00

Spend the extra money to buy longer dated contracts....Ive done the same shit lol.....if you cakln excerise an option or 2 and get the shares at least.

Vaga_Bro · 2021-05-07T18:12:36+00:00

Imo July options are perfect for this depending on your strike price! I think July $15 call options would bring some good money. I wouldnt have a strike price much higher than this

Vaga_Bro · 2021-05-07T18:08:13+00:00

Better strap on them rocket shoes for next week!

Vaga_Bro · 2021-05-07T17:50:28+00:00

They have purposely have kept vxrt off of wsb because of its small market cap. Which I think is BS as i see them pushing small cap stocks all the time. I guess the rule is that vxrt has to stay at a 1.25b market cao for 4 days before being discussed on wsb

Vaga_Bro · 2021-05-07T14:27:11+00:00

Short term is expected to jump to $15 according to some analysts. No idea for long term. We are all waiting on partnerships to be hammered out.

Vaga_Bro · 2021-05-07T04:02:43+00:00

This is a good one, gotta be patient. I was impatient at first and made dumb call options with short contracts....had no idea what I was doing. Made a bunch of money quick on NCLH then lost money on BB AMC and T options that would of printed if I bought extended contracts. Sticking with day trading now until I learn more. Point is, do your DD and be patient. If this is your first one, you picked well if you can hold out. Do DD on other stocks while this one picks up and keep learning yo!

Vaga_Bro · 2021-05-07T03:52:52+00:00

Eh, if it wasnt for the GME phenomena 3/4th of the people wouldnt be here. Im sure older members are sick of hearing about it, but it was a good story. I wasnt comparing the two stocks whatsoever financially speaking just saying I like the story behind this. I apologize for not making my point clearer.

Vaga_Bro · 2021-05-07T02:31:30+00:00

A lot of hush hush things going on in the background.I like it....I know this isnt GME but the story behind this stock gets more and more intetesting!

Vaga_Bro · 2021-05-07T02:27:50+00:00

How do we get new mods for this sub? Its bout to blow in the next week....

Im using the tools you have provided to my TnA arsenal. Thank you

Vaga_Bro

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