Seattle Housing and Resource Effort (SHARE) closed most of their facilities, which include two tent cities and sixteen shelters, which are mostly in churches - in protest.
Who are being hurt? The people the organization was formed to help. They closed the shelters to reinforce their demand for more free bus tickets. Who sets policy around here? They intend to.
SHARE receives $400,000 from Seattle to provide shelters. Their spokesman Jarvis Capucion, who has been homeless for three or four years, moved here from San Diego after quitting his job in insurance billing and collections. Because the job wasn't fulfilling.
How does a protest that hurts the people they are concerned about help?
The group said that beginning Monday, it will get $50,000 worth of bus tickets from Metro, about a fifth of what it says it needs for the rest of the year.
SHARE said that by closing the shelters during the warmer weather now, it could use its allocated bus tickets during the cold winter weather.
Asked whether shutting down shelters would generate bad publicity, a SHARE spokesman, Jarvis Capucion, said, "I don't think it can backfire publicitywise. We're doing it out of necessity, not for publicity."
On Friday afternoon, 150 to 200 of the homeless and their supporters marched from Westlake Park, then on the sidewalk along Third Avenue, south to the King County Courthouse.
Having been a regular bus rider for years, I think anyone who can come up with money for drugs, booze, fancy cells phones, and mp3 players can come up with the money for the bus tickets. The free ride zone was not that big and never went to Harborview hospital.
And for those who think I am clueless and don't understand the plight of the homeless, don't even start. I have had relatives taking advantage of the system for years. It's not that they can't work, it's they don't want to. There is a huge different between "can't" and "won't" and it most cases it is "won't".
There are some very worthwhile organizations that have clear goals and expectations to help those who have fallen on hard times. When you get your free tickets from King County, mail your tickets directly to the organization of your choice.
Um, so did anyone tell these clowns it's already nearly October? As for the homeless, it's usually by their choice they're homeless, so I guess I'm "pro-choice" in that area.
Posted by: Rick D. on September 29, 2012 12:16 PMAgreed. But why work when you can have the democrat party wipe your ass for you if you just vote for them? It's a win/win for both even if it's wholly contrary to true American values.
Posted by: Rick D. on September 29, 2012 12:27 PMI really doubt many of these people living in shelters file, so these people would be in addition to the 47% of federal income tax filers that pay no income tax.
Thanks for playing. Maybe you should buy a vowel and get a clue.
Posted by: It Takes a Village to Convene a Grand Jury on September 29, 2012 01:36 PM"in addition"
Why can't Republicans deliver? I'll give you a one word answer: arithmetic.
Math ain't done with textual formatting smart guy.
And when it comes to language you could stand a lesson in mixed metaphors too.
You are the one having an issue with arithmetic, namely set theory and simple addition.
And maybe you should take some language lessons as "ain't" is not an acceptable word to English teachers (at least not before the NEA/WEA asserted their influence so much).
Thanks for playing again. Here's an iPhone, go vote for Romney.
Posted by: It Takes a Village to Convene a Grand Jury on September 30, 2012 02:45 PMIf a theory is "set", is it still theory? Or do you need some language lessons?
Looks like you (and the BSer) need some remedial math lessons as you obviously didn't learn this in grade school like everyone else.
The BSer is implying that these "shelter" people are a subset of (completely contained within) the "47%" while I contend that the intersection of the two sets (members contained within both) is miniscule, if not non-existent.
Remember, Brian, it is better to be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt.
Posted by: It Takes a Village to Convene a Grand Jury on September 30, 2012 05:09 PMFirst, it's a common joke about set theory, for all your assumed familiarity with the subject I figured you would have heard it already, no big...
Second, it seemed like you were just throwing something out there you might have heard before and hoping it would stick, because it really has nothing pertinent to do with the whole 47% nonsense.
Posted by: Brian on September 30, 2012 10:45 PMJust because you and the BSer take delight in "throwing something out there you might have heard before and hoping it would stick" doesn't mean anyone else does.
Your buddy the BSer brought up the 47% in this conversation. I was just pointing out how wrong he was. How is that not pertinent?
Whatever. Typical leftest argument strategy, you can't defend the point so it becomes nonsense or not pertinent and dropped like a hot potato.
Posted by: It Takes a Village to Convene a Grand Jury on October 1, 2012 07:42 PM