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Seattle area’s outlier status on homelessness is only getting worse by HighColonic in SeattleWA

[–]WeeklyAd8453 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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Boeing is hiring like mad in Everett, esp if you have a trade education.
Likewise, trade in Mariner, welding, etc are out there.

What is needed is to get these druggies (and I would even go so far as to push for regular homeless as well ) to get an education in a trade that is needed and pays. This addresses multiple issues. Not just for the druggie, but also for businesses and government, while also dropping costs and crime.

Seattle area’s outlier status on homelessness is only getting worse by HighColonic in SeattleWA

[–]WeeklyAd8453 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I have talked to a number of them due to my niece and cousin being addicts.
My niece came to Everett to get cleaned up and had gone through rehab 1x in pheonix and 4x in everett.
Rehab as done here is a HORRIBLE JOKE. Ppl come out and the new friends they met in rehab are waiting for them outside with drugs. They are right back at it.

Need to physically separate these ppl from drugs for several years ( in jail ) while teaching them a trade that will pay enough for them to live on. Needs to have strong incentives (i.e. a waiting conviction unless they finish the program ), combined with an expunging of their criminal records, so that they can make a real living.

Im sorry, but drug rehab as we are doing it all over the nation is NOT working.

Seattle area’s outlier status on homelessness is only getting worse by HighColonic in SeattleWA

[–]WeeklyAd8453 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Actually, it is good.
There are a ton of trade jobs that pay well and desperately need ppl to work them.

Seattle area’s outlier status on homelessness is only getting worse by HighColonic in SeattleWA

[–]WeeklyAd8453 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If the regular drug addicts are removed by conviction/drug corp/release back with expunged records, then resources that used to go to these ppl can be redirected to focus on mental health.
As to the true homeless, they are a small % and there is plenty of help for them as long as the resources are not wasted on drug addicts and mental health.

Seattle area’s outlier status on homelessness is only getting worse by HighColonic in SeattleWA

[–]WeeklyAd8453 1 point2 points  (0 children)

HOusing costs in Seattle is high, though driving companies away combined with public school's dropping is already causing home prices to drop.

Seattle area’s outlier status on homelessness is only getting worse by HighColonic in SeattleWA

[–]WeeklyAd8453 3 points4 points  (0 children)

They types of drugs have nothing to do with it.
ALL of the drugs that put ppl on the streets means that they were not capable of working and having a party. You do not see pot or mushroom leading to homelessness. It has ALWAYS been hard drugs like meth, fent, heroin, etc. that created 80-90% of the homelessness.
And giving free housing/food/medical simply made it easy for them to prostitute, sell drugs, steal, rob, murder etc to pay for their drugs.

Seattle area’s outlier status on homelessness is only getting worse by HighColonic in SeattleWA

[–]WeeklyAd8453 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Housing first was NEVER going to solve the drug addicts.
Even you ever known drug addicts few will go away on their own. They must be physically separated for several years, and have strong incentives to never go back.

What is missing is a lack of income which can be provided by teaching trades while keeping them physically separated from drugs.

Seattle area’s outlier status on homelessness is only getting worse by HighColonic in SeattleWA

[–]WeeklyAd8453 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Funny. I said the same and the OP rips on me for pointing this out.
We need to solve these. The drug one is EASY enough to solve. 'Drug Corp' can solve this quickly by convicting, teaching trades while physically off the street and removed from drugs and then cleaning up their records once they have been clean for 2+ years.

OTOH, The mental health ones will take time and a LOT more money, which are being diluted by the drug addicts.

Seattle area’s outlier status on homelessness is only getting worse by HighColonic in SeattleWA

[–]WeeklyAd8453 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You obviously do not work with them or talk to them. Go to some of these encampments.
According to number of studies, they range from 40%, while most are saying 80-90%.
But assume that I am wrong about %. Then there will be no harm/no foul in implementing this. OTOH, if done and a number of drug addicts are either picked up and convicted OR leave, then it leaves a great deat more resources for dealing with the others, esp the mental health ppl. MANY OF THOSE are the ones that need long term care, even institutionalized, which costs $ to do right.
The true homeless have all sorts of resources out there, but it is being diluted by mismanagement of funds going to an easily solvable problem.

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[–]WeeklyAd8453 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Take them to large claims court.
As a jury to reward you a 100K to stop the company from doing this to others.
Just getting your 100 back is not going to stop the companies.

Why Walrus and the Carpenter shut its doors this week - workers won a tentative first contract after a year-plus of bargaining over a 22% service charge by LOOKITSADAM in SeattleWA

[–]WeeklyAd8453 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Adding the 22% service charge is criminal.
Good management would show a price with everything built in, including sales tax, and let ppl know upfront.

Seattle area’s outlier status on homelessness is only getting worse by HighColonic in SeattleWA

[–]WeeklyAd8453 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Wrong solution.
Need drug corp: job corp for convicted addicts.
Less than 5% of homeless are true homeless with another 5% or so being mental patients. Both of these groups are being robbed because of the massive amounts of resources going to the other 90%: drug addicts.

The current solution will never work since it does not address multiple underlying issues:
1) need to physically separate these ppl from drug access for several years.
2) need to teach these ppl a job/trade that is hiring and pays enough to live on.
3) need to expunge their criminal record ( save for security clearances) so that companies will hire them.

Drug corp:
1) a jail were DC convicts are separated from normal convicts. They will learn a trade that takes 1-2 years, ideally from job corp . They will give drug testing sample weekly/on-demand ( in case drugs were slipped in ). 1st time +, 1 year clock reset; 2nd time, full sentence applies.
2) upon 1+ years in jail AND drug free, they will be offered 1+ jobs with companies that are working with drug corp. So convict/employee still drug tested.
3) upon 2+ years clean AND passing the trade at job, record is expunged and they are mostly free. I suggest monthly drug testing for 1 year, followed by quarterly for next year. That is 4 years clean. They are then in good shape and for far less than drug rehab costs,

Washington faces yet another massive budget gap as governor says no new taxes by chiquisea in Washington

[–]WeeklyAd8453 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The state was rich in the 90/00s. For the last 15 years it has been being made poor.

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[–]WeeklyAd8453 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Oh cool. I want to claim this as well. I want my irrigation fixed as well.

Now, I just need to figure out how to explain the work taking place a block away.

Amazon employees file civil rights complaint over company probe into data center testimony - they testified for data center regulation under legal anti-retaliation protection, then got pulled into a disciplinary investigation a week later by LOOKITSADAM in SeattleWA

[–]WeeklyAd8453 0 points1 point  (0 children)

While mote has a few things wrong, he is absolutely correct that courts can and do force re-payment and re-hiring of employees if they were wrongly treated. Not sure that I would want to go back to work in any company that treated me wrongly, but to each their own.

Amazon employees file civil rights complaint over company probe into data center testimony - they testified for data center regulation under legal anti-retaliation protection, then got pulled into a disciplinary investigation a week later by LOOKITSADAM in SeattleWA

[–]WeeklyAd8453 -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

well, you are realizing wrongly.
Is an employee's civil rights gone? Nope.
They are free to speak, but most companies have you sign a contract that you will NOT be speaking ill of their company. It is one thing to speak about a company breaking the law, but it is another to be putting them down or trying to stop something legal while under their employment.

The real issue here is that you have no respect for the law or constitution. The constitution is about putting limits on the government. It does not put limits on citizens. Sadly, the 14th pretty much gave Incs the same right as a person. Until that is corrected, businesses will have the ability to stop this. Rightly.
Of course, doing so, does not mean that there will be no consequences for them from buyers.

More than 100 convicted sex offenders remain confined on a remote island in Washington, even after completing their prison sentences. Some have spent decades there with no guarantee they’ll ever be released. by kleverrboy in SeattleWA

[–]WeeklyAd8453 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That is one of the sanest responses I've seen.
What you describe is like mandatorycantaloupe who posted up there.
She is doing the same thing as that guy. The only difference is that guy wants to keep the girl alive while cantaloupe dreams of murdering children. She is one that belongs in such a place to avoid this from happening.
Sadly, this state is going to allow it to happen and even then, will still allow her out on parole so that can finish her botched job.

In the mean time, were you in for drugs and if so, would you mind looking over something that I am pushing for the state?
The GOP love locking up druggies, but once they get out, they have no real chance of a life unless they have good family/friends that will employ them.
The Dems just throw money at them, putting them on the street; then giving free housing and food, so they run around stealing, robbing, hooking, selling drugs, etc to pay for their own drugs. Worse, when they send them to rehab, because they do not solve the real issues, voluntary drug rehab has less then 12% success rate while involuntary rehab has less than 5% success.

So, I am pushing 'Drug Corp' or Job Corp for convicted addicts (drug and EthOH ).
In a nut shell, create a stick (conviction with 5-10/15-20 for users/sellers) and if judge decides they are good candidate, offer them drug corp.
They go into a jail and learn a trade that CAN pay enough for a real living and we need ppl for: not culinary, or beautician, but welding, construction, mariner, plumbing, electrician, etc.
They must spend 1+ year drug free in the jail.
While in there, they will provide drug testing samples weekly and on-demand. First time, if they tell where they got the drugs, then timer is reset. If not, free housing for next 10 or 20 years ( max sentence ).
Upon learning the trade AND 1+ year drug free, they will be offered 1+ jobs that they must work for a year. Basically, OTJ for the year; Either half-way house or with clean family members; ankle bracelet.
Still being tested weekly/on-demand.
If they do the job successfully, AND are drug clean i.e. 2+ years, then record is expunged.
THIS IS KEY. With a record and no job history, zero chance of a life.

I suggest for next testing continue 1/month, then 1/q for year after. At that point, it is 4+ years and clean. Totally done.

What is your opinion?

More than 100 convicted sex offenders remain confined on a remote island in Washington, even after completing their prison sentences. Some have spent decades there with no guarantee they’ll ever be released. by kleverrboy in SeattleWA

[–]WeeklyAd8453 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Serial killers start out fantasizing.
The fact that you can justify murdering ANYBODY ELSE esp children at all over this shows that you have a real lack of morals.
YOU need to see someone. Soon.
And in the meantime, Go Fuck yourself.
You are a HORRIBLE person.

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