As Ronald Reagan so sagely observed back in the day: "No government ever voluntarily reduces itself in size. Government programs, once launched, never disappear. Actually, a government bureau is the nearest thing to eternal life we'll ever see on this earth!" Believing that making it easy as pie for someone to continue taking addictive drugs will help solve their addiction and put them on the road to being a productive member of society works about as well as giving an alcoholic unlimited access to liquor. If you really cared more about the individual than your own ego, you'd force them to instead take the hard road to reaching the bottom that's required before they choose to help themselves, all the while realizing the hard truth that some people will not make that choice. You can't help someone who will not help themselves.
Interesting Wendy Sisk considers detox a big deal, yet when being questioned about MAT someone with the tribe (I don't remember who) said it was too hard on the addict and didn't work. Must not have been a big enough money maker for them.
My thoughts exactly! Somebody is making alot of money..somewhere. We need to stop voting in these same crim..I mean politicians, that do nothing but raise taxes to fund willy- nilly expenditures! Apparently, as Ozias and ilk have shown in the past, ADDICTS TAKE PRIORITY over our kids, schools, vets & hospitals. It's horrible to see money carelessly thrown around when people are struggling. Time to get these clowns out of office...
1-perhaps DOCCUMENTED overdose deaths are down but anyone who listens to local scanners knows overdoses are not down, just getting reversed. 2- CCHHS is manipulating data since they made this claim of reduced overdoses 6 months after the coronorer reported vastly different data and toxicology in this state can run over a year behind so there are many undetermined cases floating around 3- nobody is talking about the hypoxic brain damage from overdose but we sure see it on the streets of PA
And the 'zombie' cocktails...it's not just one thing...but it is 'big business' for govt's and NPO's and 'for profits', like JKT to 'normalize' the cycle out of 'the goodness of their hearts'.
It is part of NWO planning or it wouldn't be happening...the demoralization of a nation is essential for communism to take over...and communism is just the tool for despotism and tyranny. History repeats.🤓
"Commissioner Mark Ozias supported the general concept, calling it “an absolutely appropriate use”"
Based on what evidence, Commissioner Ozias?
If I'm going to extend my integrity to vouch for something I would hope that I can back the claim up. If the people who run this program cannot put a finger on any metrics that support continued use then Commissioner Ozias how do you derive at your assertion?
I do not believe there is any ROI in refusing people the results of their choices; AKA Harm Reduction. Admittedly the choice consequences can be stark; including death. An anonymous, but very gifted basketball star was drafted by the then Seattle Super Sonics with a near unimaginable salary for such a very young man. He was unable to cope with his new found wealth and chose drugs which abruptly ended his promising career. There are measures professional sports could and should take to mitigate this outcome, but the point and the bottom line is that he was legally an adult and it was his choice. When you take the results of one's choice away you deny them the experience they chose. Similar to begging a child to not crawl to the fire, but letting that child learn that fire burns, one's own chosen learning path is disrupted by taking away their chosen path. Further, the advice offered by adults simultaneously gains more respect. Regardless of resources dedicated and efforts made, we cannot save everyone from their choices.
All these issues have been created by the same problem 'incompetent leadership'.We have seen most of these issues created in big cities and have seen how the issues keep growing because of poor leadership.After years of witnessing these problems voters would hope their elected would not make the same mistakes but C.C.elected are doing just that.
Commissioners are ALL IN to spend time and money on HARM REDUCTION but where are they in response to the crisis at Olympic Medical Center (OMC)? They prioritize drug overdose deaths by providing resources like needles, boofing kits, overdose reversing drugs, etc. while ignoring the mismanagement of OMC which has led to six hours plus waiting time at OMC. What about attending to the real threat of closing of the Sequim medical facility? What happens to those of us who will possibly lose our PRIMARY CARE PHYSICIAN? They do not seem to want to address these problems. They just want to rubber stamp expenditures to NGO’s and non-profits to take it off their desks. We should be holding weekly job fairs to search for some real leaders. Maybe we should eliminate the charter county concept and return governance to the Grange.
Not only take it off their desks, but line their pockets- & quite lucratively I’d like to add- which I believe is probably more true to the nature of their motivation than the former.
Well, in progressive world what's bad is good and what's good is bad. By all means create even more harmful situations for the citizens who've been there, some for decades, who've worked their butts off to have what they have and then just tax them to death to give to those who so obviously have not. Clallam County has gotten so good at playing Robin Hood that there's no longer any members of "Sherwood Forest" who've got any loot to take. This isn't harm reduction, it's not harm prevention, it's harm delusion. You keep blowing taxpayer money on grants over issues you haven't got a clue how to prevent or reduce., but don't you feel special for pointing out how badly you've handled this crisis?
Obesity kills more people than fentanyl, so were is my micro-dosing of ice cream, donuts, cookies, burgers, steaks, French fries? Why does someone's irresponsible bad choices become MY problem? I say lock them up, let them suffer the withdrawal, and if they repeat offend, lock them up for longer times, increasing duration with every offense. Harsh? Maybe. But there is a reason that those of us here are NOT addicted to fentanyl, and are leading productive lives. No one forced these people into addiction. They were well warned, as we were, but they didn't heed it. Their irresponsibility, their problem.
I say Bartertown. The Democrats' vision of normalizing hard drug use does not make a community safe. That's a lie. They are just trying to bureaucratize the drug problem. They need to stop at Cannabis. Everything else belongs in Bartertown where their own drug trade picks up the tab and they are isolated from normal people just trying to get some %$#^ing gas at a Safeway.
I don’t read PDN, to scripted. I’ve had a drug addict step son in and out of jail for years. He’s been sent to rehab and walks out the next day. I don't believe a word they are saying especially when you see first hand how it’s not working
1-perhaps DOCCUMENTED overdose deaths are down but anyone who listens to local scanners knows overdoses are not down just getting reversed. 2- CCHHS is manipulating data since they made this claim 6 months after the coronorer reported vastly different data and toxicology in this state can run over a year behind so there are many undetermined cases floating around 3- nobody is talking about the hypoxic brain damage from overdose but we sure see it on the streets of PA
Have you gotten involved with a support group. The recovery rate is higher if there is family involvement and support. Hard stuff I know from experience both with my own recovery and with my children having problems. Thankfully my son who is still alive has recovery and is now doing well.
Seriously?! Handing out drugs to incarcerated individuals so they don’t die after they’re released? So because the overdose death rate has decreased, that’s supposed to be a measure of success??!! How insane of a concept is this?? These people are sick & totally lost in the throes of addiction & they don’t even have the saving grace of forced sobriety due to incarceration to clear their heads & hopefully make better choices upon release? So I’m left to surmise that the message being sent here is drug use is being promoted because you might die if you DON’T use? Isn’t that the opposite of all the studies done to date? Isn’t it stated in the AA & NA preambles that the only end results of active addiction are JAILS, INSTITUTIONS or DEATH?
I’m completely “mystified” by this totally backwoods ideology
It's not really quite that simple. Someone who is legitimately trying to stop using sometimes needs medication (drug) therapy. This is much like drug therapy used for many health (physiological and mental) issues people.
How involved have you ever been in a recovery scenario? Do you have any schooling in mental health and perhaps understand learned helplessness, complex trauma and PTSD? The very first thing these people need is a safe environment and then the paradox is that they feel safe nowhere. What they don’t need is someone who has no ability to be compassionate and sits in judgement of them and even thinks they deserve more punishment and shame. I have lost a son to alcohol and drugs and I also have long term recovery to be an example for my other son. I am for for harm refuction and the programs Brian King is supporting as well.
NIKE® had it right “JUST SAY NO”. At what point if not NOW do we, as tax payers, say NO MORE?
NO MORE to wasteful spending on programs that have no results! (if they had results of success they would be shown.)
NO MORE to Commissioner’s not being open and truthful!
NO MORE to charter review working in secret to fund and propose items not keeping with the public desires. Can we say “reservoir and water steward”.
NO MORE to state money spent on the salmon recover upstream when nets are places at the entrance to the streams.
NO MORE to school boards, not insisting on teaching our kids to help them improve our scores. Low scores reflect on both teachers, and the environment for the teachers. Good teachers can be handicapped by a school board with bad decisions.
NO MORE to a housing project for the homeless with not “DRY POLICY” and washing stations for dogs, and EV charging stations?
NO MORE to to secret meeting on tribal lands that the taxpayers are not allow to enter because they don’t follow the law of the land.
As federal funds under this administration dry up, this county is going to have to have a yard sale to cover expenses. Why, because our leadership does not realize a rainy day is coming and we will not have the cash to withstand the flood. We are hearing the warning sirens going off, and yet there is not rush to get ahead of what is coming.
NO MORE to believing that the native sovereign nation wants the land to be the way it was, when they could fish, and hunt for substance survival. Then it would be advised to rid themselves of the protected monopoly system of casinos and sovereign industries, and mainstream like the rest of us.
As I have been saying, what is unfolding at the American federal US level is going to, in due time, fall on the local criminals of humanity everywhere who have been very intentionally destroying ALL of America that the vast majority of Americans love~! Obama will be executed as a "spy"~!
Its tough. Gallaher and DeFrang are longtime Olympic Peninsula families. I wish their kin all the strength they need to survive Bartertown. We just spent half a million dollars on public defense. We could spend a fraction of that on Bartertown.
Let’s talk about the $320,000 elephant in the room. No, it’s not a reckless cash dump. It’s a modest, targeted investment in the one part of public health we’re actually using: harm reduction.
Critics say it’s enabling addiction. I say it’s acknowledging reality, the reality that people in our community are already using, and pretending otherwise doesn’t make it stop. Harm reduction isn’t about surrender; it’s about survival. Naloxone saves lives. Sterile supplies curb disease. And yes, people who engage with these programs are far more likely to seek treatment. That’s not enabling-- that’s called engaging.
And this isn’t some fringe idea. Harm reduction has deep roots in American history, from the Black Panther Party’s free health clinics to the Young Lords’ acupuncture programs for heroin users in the Bronx. It gained traction during the AIDS crisis, when activists and researchers joined forces to stop the spread of HIV among people who inject drugs. These weren’t abstract policy debates; they were acts of love and defiance in the face of stigma and silence.
The moral case? Harm reduction is grounded in dignity. It says people deserve care even when they’re struggling. It respects autonomy, meets people where they are, and refuses to treat suffering as a moral failure. That’s not weakness. that’s strength.
Now about the budget: $320,000 sounds dramatic until you realize it’s less than 1% of Clallam County’s total budget. Much of it comes from federal opioid settlement funds. You can not legally take that money and plug potholes or pad jail staffing. The money is earmarked for exactly this kind of response. It’s not a buffet; it’s a fixed menu.
We should absolutely ask for metrics and transparency. That’s responsible governance. But let’s not throw the whole toolbox away because someone’s yelling “waste” who clearly does not have any understanding how funding works. Harm reduction is infrastructure. Public health is infrastructure. And if we want a community that treats addiction with both compassion and competence, then we need to fund it intelligently and unapologetically.
It is important to remember that just because something is an acceptable use of funding, it does not mean that it is a must use of funding. The county gets one checkbook. The commissioners have an obligation to make decisions that best serve the county. The Federal government is reducing funding to many services, not just caretaking for those who use drugs. What this reduction in funding should result in is a deep fiscal analysis by those service providers - detailed look at what services are provided and positions in the agency. And, a clear and specific delineated and detailed look at the pros and cons of those services, e.g. are they statistically beneficial. The county should never just replace those funds with out detailed analysis provided by the agency. Real numbers and data. I know it is difficult for the commissioners to say no to the agencies where the people they know work and/or where they feel it would be viewed as uncaring to say no. But, they signed on to make these decisions when they ran for office. The county gets one checkbook. No one is going to bail them out, certainly not the federal government. The county needs to do a deep fiscal analysis, change the way it does business, and serve the entire population, e.g. the working poor, the working/seeking work unhoused, children, teens, etc. There is hard work that needs to be done! And difficult decisions to be made!
As Ronald Reagan so sagely observed back in the day: "No government ever voluntarily reduces itself in size. Government programs, once launched, never disappear. Actually, a government bureau is the nearest thing to eternal life we'll ever see on this earth!" Believing that making it easy as pie for someone to continue taking addictive drugs will help solve their addiction and put them on the road to being a productive member of society works about as well as giving an alcoholic unlimited access to liquor. If you really cared more about the individual than your own ego, you'd force them to instead take the hard road to reaching the bottom that's required before they choose to help themselves, all the while realizing the hard truth that some people will not make that choice. You can't help someone who will not help themselves.
Amen to that. The harsh withdrawal is more of a deterrent than free pizza and boofing supplies.
Interesting Wendy Sisk considers detox a big deal, yet when being questioned about MAT someone with the tribe (I don't remember who) said it was too hard on the addict and didn't work. Must not have been a big enough money maker for them.
💯
What a crock o' shit! I wonder if they do this because it's easy to siphon off money for their own pockets.
Where is my free food, ice cream, burgers, and steaks for Fat reduction??? This absurdity must be stopped!
My thoughts exactly! Somebody is making alot of money..somewhere. We need to stop voting in these same crim..I mean politicians, that do nothing but raise taxes to fund willy- nilly expenditures! Apparently, as Ozias and ilk have shown in the past, ADDICTS TAKE PRIORITY over our kids, schools, vets & hospitals. It's horrible to see money carelessly thrown around when people are struggling. Time to get these clowns out of office...
1-perhaps DOCCUMENTED overdose deaths are down but anyone who listens to local scanners knows overdoses are not down, just getting reversed. 2- CCHHS is manipulating data since they made this claim of reduced overdoses 6 months after the coronorer reported vastly different data and toxicology in this state can run over a year behind so there are many undetermined cases floating around 3- nobody is talking about the hypoxic brain damage from overdose but we sure see it on the streets of PA
And the 'zombie' cocktails...it's not just one thing...but it is 'big business' for govt's and NPO's and 'for profits', like JKT to 'normalize' the cycle out of 'the goodness of their hearts'.
It is part of NWO planning or it wouldn't be happening...the demoralization of a nation is essential for communism to take over...and communism is just the tool for despotism and tyranny. History repeats.🤓
"Commissioner Mark Ozias supported the general concept, calling it “an absolutely appropriate use”"
Based on what evidence, Commissioner Ozias?
If I'm going to extend my integrity to vouch for something I would hope that I can back the claim up. If the people who run this program cannot put a finger on any metrics that support continued use then Commissioner Ozias how do you derive at your assertion?
He doesn't need logic...he has power.🫣
Ya think that Ozias might enjoy some of that free pizza? Or maybe vague accounting that overlooks possible pocketed money?
Thank you MK. Very well put 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼
"Public trust doesn’t come from good intentions. It comes from results."
But they don't want our trust. They want our tax money. And so far it's worked to their benefit. What have we done to change the situation?
More money, no negative feedback, seems to be the protocol.🤔
I do not believe there is any ROI in refusing people the results of their choices; AKA Harm Reduction. Admittedly the choice consequences can be stark; including death. An anonymous, but very gifted basketball star was drafted by the then Seattle Super Sonics with a near unimaginable salary for such a very young man. He was unable to cope with his new found wealth and chose drugs which abruptly ended his promising career. There are measures professional sports could and should take to mitigate this outcome, but the point and the bottom line is that he was legally an adult and it was his choice. When you take the results of one's choice away you deny them the experience they chose. Similar to begging a child to not crawl to the fire, but letting that child learn that fire burns, one's own chosen learning path is disrupted by taking away their chosen path. Further, the advice offered by adults simultaneously gains more respect. Regardless of resources dedicated and efforts made, we cannot save everyone from their choices.
Very well said....and TRUE!
All these issues have been created by the same problem 'incompetent leadership'.We have seen most of these issues created in big cities and have seen how the issues keep growing because of poor leadership.After years of witnessing these problems voters would hope their elected would not make the same mistakes but C.C.elected are doing just that.
Because they’re bought & paid for. That or they’re completely inept. Either way, it’s proper f**ked.
Commissioners are ALL IN to spend time and money on HARM REDUCTION but where are they in response to the crisis at Olympic Medical Center (OMC)? They prioritize drug overdose deaths by providing resources like needles, boofing kits, overdose reversing drugs, etc. while ignoring the mismanagement of OMC which has led to six hours plus waiting time at OMC. What about attending to the real threat of closing of the Sequim medical facility? What happens to those of us who will possibly lose our PRIMARY CARE PHYSICIAN? They do not seem to want to address these problems. They just want to rubber stamp expenditures to NGO’s and non-profits to take it off their desks. We should be holding weekly job fairs to search for some real leaders. Maybe we should eliminate the charter county concept and return governance to the Grange.
You mean real world, common sense governance of, by and for the people?
What a concept!😊
Not only take it off their desks, but line their pockets- & quite lucratively I’d like to add- which I believe is probably more true to the nature of their motivation than the former.
Well, in progressive world what's bad is good and what's good is bad. By all means create even more harmful situations for the citizens who've been there, some for decades, who've worked their butts off to have what they have and then just tax them to death to give to those who so obviously have not. Clallam County has gotten so good at playing Robin Hood that there's no longer any members of "Sherwood Forest" who've got any loot to take. This isn't harm reduction, it's not harm prevention, it's harm delusion. You keep blowing taxpayer money on grants over issues you haven't got a clue how to prevent or reduce., but don't you feel special for pointing out how badly you've handled this crisis?
THANK YOU 💯
https://www.peninsuladailynews.com/news/clallam-jail-program-results-in-fewer-overdoses/
Obesity kills more people than fentanyl, so were is my micro-dosing of ice cream, donuts, cookies, burgers, steaks, French fries? Why does someone's irresponsible bad choices become MY problem? I say lock them up, let them suffer the withdrawal, and if they repeat offend, lock them up for longer times, increasing duration with every offense. Harsh? Maybe. But there is a reason that those of us here are NOT addicted to fentanyl, and are leading productive lives. No one forced these people into addiction. They were well warned, as we were, but they didn't heed it. Their irresponsibility, their problem.
I say Bartertown. The Democrats' vision of normalizing hard drug use does not make a community safe. That's a lie. They are just trying to bureaucratize the drug problem. They need to stop at Cannabis. Everything else belongs in Bartertown where their own drug trade picks up the tab and they are isolated from normal people just trying to get some %$#^ing gas at a Safeway.
THANK YOU 💯
I don’t read PDN, to scripted. I’ve had a drug addict step son in and out of jail for years. He’s been sent to rehab and walks out the next day. I don't believe a word they are saying especially when you see first hand how it’s not working
1-perhaps DOCCUMENTED overdose deaths are down but anyone who listens to local scanners knows overdoses are not down just getting reversed. 2- CCHHS is manipulating data since they made this claim 6 months after the coronorer reported vastly different data and toxicology in this state can run over a year behind so there are many undetermined cases floating around 3- nobody is talking about the hypoxic brain damage from overdose but we sure see it on the streets of PA
Have you gotten involved with a support group. The recovery rate is higher if there is family involvement and support. Hard stuff I know from experience both with my own recovery and with my children having problems. Thankfully my son who is still alive has recovery and is now doing well.
But it keeps the treatment professional's bud light cold..
Seriously?! Handing out drugs to incarcerated individuals so they don’t die after they’re released? So because the overdose death rate has decreased, that’s supposed to be a measure of success??!! How insane of a concept is this?? These people are sick & totally lost in the throes of addiction & they don’t even have the saving grace of forced sobriety due to incarceration to clear their heads & hopefully make better choices upon release? So I’m left to surmise that the message being sent here is drug use is being promoted because you might die if you DON’T use? Isn’t that the opposite of all the studies done to date? Isn’t it stated in the AA & NA preambles that the only end results of active addiction are JAILS, INSTITUTIONS or DEATH?
I’m completely “mystified” by this totally backwoods ideology
It's not really quite that simple. Someone who is legitimately trying to stop using sometimes needs medication (drug) therapy. This is much like drug therapy used for many health (physiological and mental) issues people.
How involved have you ever been in a recovery scenario? Do you have any schooling in mental health and perhaps understand learned helplessness, complex trauma and PTSD? The very first thing these people need is a safe environment and then the paradox is that they feel safe nowhere. What they don’t need is someone who has no ability to be compassionate and sits in judgement of them and even thinks they deserve more punishment and shame. I have lost a son to alcohol and drugs and I also have long term recovery to be an example for my other son. I am for for harm refuction and the programs Brian King is supporting as well.
Fewer OVERDOSES- doesnt say anything about DECREASED drug use!!
Tell someone who’s kid is saved because of Narcan that we don’t need harm reduction programs….;
NIKE® had it right “JUST SAY NO”. At what point if not NOW do we, as tax payers, say NO MORE?
NO MORE to wasteful spending on programs that have no results! (if they had results of success they would be shown.)
NO MORE to Commissioner’s not being open and truthful!
NO MORE to charter review working in secret to fund and propose items not keeping with the public desires. Can we say “reservoir and water steward”.
NO MORE to state money spent on the salmon recover upstream when nets are places at the entrance to the streams.
NO MORE to school boards, not insisting on teaching our kids to help them improve our scores. Low scores reflect on both teachers, and the environment for the teachers. Good teachers can be handicapped by a school board with bad decisions.
NO MORE to a housing project for the homeless with not “DRY POLICY” and washing stations for dogs, and EV charging stations?
NO MORE to to secret meeting on tribal lands that the taxpayers are not allow to enter because they don’t follow the law of the land.
As federal funds under this administration dry up, this county is going to have to have a yard sale to cover expenses. Why, because our leadership does not realize a rainy day is coming and we will not have the cash to withstand the flood. We are hearing the warning sirens going off, and yet there is not rush to get ahead of what is coming.
NO MORE to believing that the native sovereign nation wants the land to be the way it was, when they could fish, and hunt for substance survival. Then it would be advised to rid themselves of the protected monopoly system of casinos and sovereign industries, and mainstream like the rest of us.
I DISSENT:
I wonder what fate will befall the local criminals in and out of our government, when this news becomes known by the general American public~?
https://beforeitsnews.com/alternative/2025/07/trump-obama-faces-military-trial-as-government-documents-expose-citizenship-fraud-and-treason-video-3839866.html
As I have been saying, what is unfolding at the American federal US level is going to, in due time, fall on the local criminals of humanity everywhere who have been very intentionally destroying ALL of America that the vast majority of Americans love~! Obama will be executed as a "spy"~!
Have a great day~!
Sincerely, Mike
Its tough. Gallaher and DeFrang are longtime Olympic Peninsula families. I wish their kin all the strength they need to survive Bartertown. We just spent half a million dollars on public defense. We could spend a fraction of that on Bartertown.
public taxes (and or debt, which becomes future taxes) for the drug trade
Let’s talk about the $320,000 elephant in the room. No, it’s not a reckless cash dump. It’s a modest, targeted investment in the one part of public health we’re actually using: harm reduction.
Critics say it’s enabling addiction. I say it’s acknowledging reality, the reality that people in our community are already using, and pretending otherwise doesn’t make it stop. Harm reduction isn’t about surrender; it’s about survival. Naloxone saves lives. Sterile supplies curb disease. And yes, people who engage with these programs are far more likely to seek treatment. That’s not enabling-- that’s called engaging.
And this isn’t some fringe idea. Harm reduction has deep roots in American history, from the Black Panther Party’s free health clinics to the Young Lords’ acupuncture programs for heroin users in the Bronx. It gained traction during the AIDS crisis, when activists and researchers joined forces to stop the spread of HIV among people who inject drugs. These weren’t abstract policy debates; they were acts of love and defiance in the face of stigma and silence.
The moral case? Harm reduction is grounded in dignity. It says people deserve care even when they’re struggling. It respects autonomy, meets people where they are, and refuses to treat suffering as a moral failure. That’s not weakness. that’s strength.
Now about the budget: $320,000 sounds dramatic until you realize it’s less than 1% of Clallam County’s total budget. Much of it comes from federal opioid settlement funds. You can not legally take that money and plug potholes or pad jail staffing. The money is earmarked for exactly this kind of response. It’s not a buffet; it’s a fixed menu.
We should absolutely ask for metrics and transparency. That’s responsible governance. But let’s not throw the whole toolbox away because someone’s yelling “waste” who clearly does not have any understanding how funding works. Harm reduction is infrastructure. Public health is infrastructure. And if we want a community that treats addiction with both compassion and competence, then we need to fund it intelligently and unapologetically.
It is important to remember that just because something is an acceptable use of funding, it does not mean that it is a must use of funding. The county gets one checkbook. The commissioners have an obligation to make decisions that best serve the county. The Federal government is reducing funding to many services, not just caretaking for those who use drugs. What this reduction in funding should result in is a deep fiscal analysis by those service providers - detailed look at what services are provided and positions in the agency. And, a clear and specific delineated and detailed look at the pros and cons of those services, e.g. are they statistically beneficial. The county should never just replace those funds with out detailed analysis provided by the agency. Real numbers and data. I know it is difficult for the commissioners to say no to the agencies where the people they know work and/or where they feel it would be viewed as uncaring to say no. But, they signed on to make these decisions when they ran for office. The county gets one checkbook. No one is going to bail them out, certainly not the federal government. The county needs to do a deep fiscal analysis, change the way it does business, and serve the entire population, e.g. the working poor, the working/seeking work unhoused, children, teens, etc. There is hard work that needs to be done! And difficult decisions to be made!