Comments by "Auntie M" (@auntiem873) on "KOMO News" channel.

  1. This is how history is made - like the Great Fire of Seattle back in 1889. This keeps up and there may be another one. I would find out if any of these people were bussed to the area. There was a company that approached some Texas cities that said for c amount they would take care of the homeless and they did, they bussed them to San Francisco. Once the cities found out they canceled the contracts. Well, if these people were bussed in, find out where from and contact that city. That city and their contractor needs to pay for these people.
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  2.  @dannmarceau  - so did I. My community wasn’t perfect but it was still a community. Left our doors unlocked until 1999. Crime just became too much. Lived through Bundy, the Green river killer, not once did the feel unsafe. But then a new breed of people started moving in. A bright told my Mom when she could and couldn’t let our dogs out. It might disturb their child’s sleep. Or the ones who went through our trash and recyclables then knocked on our door to tell us we drank too much milk and not enough wine (we were kids still). My Moms property tax : she had fines attached to it because she had dandelions in her yard. It was mowed and edged and hers was the only one on the block that way. Everyone else turned their yards into mini eco friendly yards. They were over grown with weeds but they were allowed them because they used the term natural. I left in 97, came back in 99 for a visit and just those few years I knew I did not want to move back.
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  3. This is so sad. The city spent millions cleaning up that area in the 80’s. Just to make it a prime tourist attraction. Police went in a got the hookers out of the area (pushed them down the street, to pioneer square, the shop owners chased them away from there), The closed the X-rated theaters. Got rid of flip houses and turned them into apartments or offices. Made it a safe place for everyone to go and enjoy, not just tourists. All that work, gone. Seattle was dying till they did that. Down town is going to die if the city doesn’t do something to get rid of addicts and mentally unstable people. It will require people’s rights to be violated. Loose a few to help the future. In the 80’s it was hookers and porn, no one cared about that. Today it’s addicts who for some reason people care about but not enough to help them get clean. The money to help these people needs to stop coming in. Once people stop getting paid to care about them, the police can come in and clear them out. Some will make it and get clean others will not. But they aren’t getting the help now either. How about spending the money on work houses? Gather the people up, get them sober, teach them a job and they work in the factories until they realize they can do better elsewhere. They will have a roof over their head, 2 or 3 meals a day as long as they work. If not they can get out and do what they want and risk jail next time. The city makes good to sell cheaply and the consumers get necessities cheaper. Bolts of fabric can be produced cheaper, clothes can be cheaper. Lawnmowers can be made of good quality but produced cheaper so they can be sold cheaper. You work force isn’t slave labor but they don’t get paid much either. Same as if they were in prison. What they are getting is a place over their head, a skill, food, medical, dental. They just have to work for it and they can leave at any time. It’s just if they get caught passed out from drugs in the street, they will not be given a chance to get clean in a workhouse but in prison instead. This should eliminate over crowded prisons from non violent crimes such as drug possession or prostitution, shoplifting. Serve their time in the work house and they are free. It’s harsh, it is what worked in the past though. In time they will shut down as the need for them goes away.
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  4. The west coast has become the Joke that the East coast was in the 70’s. They are still on their downward slope. All they are missing are the projects. Once they get those , the city’s, in this case Seattle, will have high crime the likes they have never seen before. And only after a decade of it will they turn themselves around. I grew up in Seattle, I will never go back. The East coast is more like my childhood in Seattle than Seattle is now.
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  5. @Seymour Butts - the natives got greedy. They saw their modest homes go from $100,000 to 1 million. All because of a zip code or being near Bill Gates.
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  6. @Seymour Butts - the natives got greedy. They saw their modest homes go from $100,000 to 1 million. All because of a zip code or being near Bill Gates.
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  7.  @windsofmarchjourneyperrytr2823  - when they go out to play I’m sure they do. It’s normal for them to make noise outside cause they know they can’t inside. You learn to tell the play sounds from the danger sounds. This lady though wanted us on her schedule. We had to abide by her rules even though we didn’t know her, we didn’t live together and had nothing in common. I don’t think anyone then or today would agree with letting someone else tell you what and when you can do anything.
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  8. The west coast has become the Joke that the East coast was in the 70’s. They are still on their downward slope. All they are missing are the projects. Once they get those , the city’s, in this case Seattle, will have high crime the likes they have never seen before. And only after a decade of it will they turn themselves around. I grew up in Seattle, I will never go back. The East coast is more like my childhood in Seattle than Seattle is now.
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