The Collapse of Seattle - Another Dem City Destroyed

[auroraave]

Add it to the list, Portland, SF, LA, Chicago, NY, all crushed and destroyed - all under years, decades of dem 'leadership'. Go back to the manufactured "George Floyd' protests, the 'summer of chaz' for a visual and that moment in time - a perfect microcosm of Dem "leadership" - and remember that moment - the destruction , the lawlessness - add in the millions in lawsuits against the city (that Seattle lost) - but most of all - remember the massive exodus of businesses - and allllllllll that tax revenue that keeps a city afloat - POOF. Gone. It ain't coming back. So, where is it going to come from?

YOUR POCKET.

I've said it before on here - if you do not recognize these patterns, you're doomed to repeat them. Seattle in a $47 million dollar deficit - meaning you're getting a ANOTHER tax increase. You guys are turning into California - that is NOT a good thing. Rioting, homelessness, drug addicts everywhere, criminals possessing more rights than honest citizens and businesses. Didn't a full-on communist just win NYC's Dem nomination? Jesus Christ. The never ending ruination of great American cities through grifting, corruption and complete incompetence - it almost feels like incompetence by design. Burn it down, blame the previous admin and then of course....

Wash, rinse, repeat.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1V-buIi ... el=Timcast

[Donn Beach]

Grifting? Heck, Seattle's history is political radicalism, crime and corruption, it's more law biding now than it's ever been. You weren't around from the 20s through the 60s, those were the days, Seattle was built on bars, gambling, prostitution, vice in general. I remember peaking in the gates of Dave Beck's home which wasn't too far from mine as a kid. Dave Beck was jimmy Hoffa before jimmy Hoffa

David Daniel Beck (June 16, 1894 – December 26, 1993) was an American labor leader, and president of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters from 1952 to 1957. He helped found the "Conference" system of organization in the Teamsters union, and shot to national prominence in 1957 by repeatedly invoking his right against self-incrimination before a United States Senate committee investigating labor racketeering

On a grey winter morning in Seattle, in February 1919, 110 local unions shut down the entire city. Shut it down and took it over, rendering the authorities helpless. For five days, workers from all trades and sectors—streetcar drivers, telephone operators, musicians, miners, loggers, shipyard workers—fed the people, ensured that babies had milk, that the sick were cared for. They did this without police – and they kept the peace themselves. This had never happened before in the United States and has not happened since. Those five days became known as the General Strike of Seattle.

https://monthlyreview.org/product/radical-seattle/

This is the story of one of the youngest county prosecutors in the country whose mission was to finally end the system of vice and corruption that had infiltrated Seattle's police department, municipal departments, and even the mayor's office. In the late 1960s, Christopher T. Bayley was a young lawyer with a fire in his belly to break the back of Seattle’s police payoff system, which was built on licensing of acknowledged illegal activity known as the "tolerance policy." Against the odds, he defeated an entrenched incumbent to become King County Prosecutor (which includes Seattle). Six months into his first term, he indicted a number of prominent city and police officials. Bayley shows how vice and payoffs became rules of the game in Seattle, and what it took to finally clean up the city.

https://www.amazon.com/Seattle-Justice- ... 1632170299

[DavidGee24]

I don't think that I'd say Seattle has "collapsed". On the one hand, Seattle's reputation has taken a serious hit in recent years, especially with the whole CHAZ thing. But on the other hand, when I left in 1987 the city didn't seem to be doing well, especially where I grew up in Rainier Valley and Beacon Hill. There were some serious run-down areas that today look a lot better. When I was a kid in the '70s there was the "Will the last person leaving Seattle turn out the lights" thing. Now it seems to be booming (except Rainier Valley south of Columbia City is still ghetto) and very attractive despite the recent lunacy.

To me it's still a very nice city that just has a large number of weird people.

[auroraave]

David you're not wrong, but Seattle has shown a pattern of self destruction - hugely obvious over the last 5 years - and realistically for about 20 years. Didn't they have a literal communist on the City Council? That craziness aside - they are so poorly mismanaged financially and policy-wise they are driving businesses out in huge droves - all that tax revenue gone - all the employees of those companies - who redistribute their paychecks into the local economy - gone - that's an exponential loss of tax revenue - add in all the lawsuits. Add in companies aren't coming back because it is literally unsafe. Add in the loss of emergency services, teachers, infrastructure upgrades needed - because the city literally shit away all the money through gross negligence. The result? More taxes. More taxes. More taxes. NONE of which would be necessary if the Seattle was even REMOTELY run with a shred of competency and common sense. Again, how can anyone make such staggeringly inept decisions like "let chazz go on!" let the homeless run rampant to the point businesses leave - it goes on and on and on and on and on.

And then look at Portland. Am I the only one that looks at the disaster all the great cities on the west coast have become? Seattle, Portland (ok, that place was never all that great), SF, LA, all collapsing under insane policies, insane taxation rates, insane lawlessness, and insane levels of incompetence that you could not make up if you tried. The dems destroy everything good - just look up and down the entire west coast for the Prosecution's Exhibit A. Seattle is fucked, and seattle taxpayers are about to understand Californians tax burden. I'm not a republican, I am a hard core independent, so it isn't about that, but no one can possibly look at the evidence objectively and not deduce the dems are destroying everything in their path - republican states do NOT have this kinds of lunacy happening - they have problems, for sure - but not like this. It's beyond obvious to anyone being truthful and objective.

[DavidGee24]

David you're not wrong, but Seattle has shown a pattern of self destruction - hugely obvious over the last 5 years - and realistically for about 20 years. Didn't they have a literal communist on the City Council?

You mean the one that sent the libtards over to Mayor Turducken's house? Man, that was funny. The only way it would have been better would have been if Turducken had punched her in the mouth.

[Seattle or Bust]

Yeah Seattle, SF, LA, NY are such liberal shitholes that Amazon, Google, Microsoft, what have you... all have chosen these cities as central hubs.

Weird how they never choose bum fuck Arkansas or any other Republican paradise. Probably because they know nobody in their right mind would ever choose to live in vile, racist, bigoted filth and dust... and they know they have to choose attractive places for people to call home. Hey, Seattle just surpassed a population of 800K for the first time. Weird considering how much a liberal hell hole it is. Seattle's population has grown by over 100K since Trump took office... again, weird...

Complaining about a place you don't even live because they have a budget shortfall due to corporations avoiding a tax meant to supplement housing opportunities and shoring up the budget deficit. It's almost like having your business in a nice area means you may have to pay more out of your billions in revenue... GASP.

Don't you live in Los Angeles lol? Why don't you go find out what work in media is like in Little Rock...

[Walla Walla Dawg II]

eah Seattle, SF, LA, NY are such liberal shitholes that Amazon, Google, Microsoft, what have you... all have chosen these cities as central hubs.

Major Shithole or not;
I hate these cities too, but I work in them all the time......IT'S WHERE THE WORK AND MONEY ARE.

Furthermore, they are MAJOR central hubs for travel and commerce, travel and employment, so they are just GOOD BUSINESS MEN for locating the businesses there.

You know, sometimes you should think before you post.
"it's better to be silent and thought a fool than post and remove all doubt"

[Donn Beach]

eah Seattle, SF, LA, NY are such liberal shitholes that Amazon, Google, Microsoft, what have you... all have chosen these cities as central hubs.

Major Shithole or not;
I hate these cities too, but I work in them all the time......IT'S WHERE THE WORK AND MONEY ARE.

Furthermore, they are MAJOR central hubs for travel and commerce, travel and employment, so they are just GOOD BUSINESS MEN for locating the businesses there.

You know, sometimes you should think before you post.
"it's better to be silent and thought a fool than post and remove all doubt"

So liberals control the centers of where the work and money are located, go figure

[Walla Walla Dawg II]

eah Seattle, SF, LA, NY are such liberal shitholes that Amazon, Google, Microsoft, what have you... all have chosen these cities as central hubs.

Major Shithole or not;
I hate these cities too, but I work in them all the time......IT'S WHERE THE WORK AND MONEY ARE.

Furthermore, they are MAJOR central hubs for travel and commerce, travel and employment, so they are just GOOD BUSINESS MEN for locating the businesses there.

You know, sometimes you should think before you post.
"it's better to be silent and thought a fool than post and remove all doubt"

So liberals control the centers of where the work and money are located, go figure

There you go thinking you are clever again..... not.

That is where the most handouts by government occur, so the useless flock there by the 1,000's. Nothing more.

An other thing about the locations, is that they all have international ports of travel (travel and boat), so it's very convenient for their needs.

[gil]

I would argue that population growth - of any city - is related more to the availability of jobs that the availability of handouts.

Amazon, Microsoft, Google, Apple, Dell Computer are companies that contributed to the growth of their cities/regions via innovation and creating jobs. They didn't just locate where they did because of population, but a trained, skilled workforce certainly helps. Each of these places has a world class research university.

But the fact is, you can track the growth of Austin with the growth of Dell, and of Silicon Valley with Intel, Google, Apple, etc. In that sense, these companies were the CAUSE of the growth, not just businesses reacting to opportunities.