Wow. This one hurts. Port Angeles is going through a 20 year self inflicted suicide. I collect a lot of data and I struggle to find one positive metric where we are outperforming similar sized towns. We are continually lagging in growth in wages, jobs, housing, sales tax collections, and school enrollment and outcomes. The only things growing faster are layoffs, crime, drug use, and vacant and blighted properties. I increasingly find myself wondering if I should continue to spend so much time and money here. Are we a lost cause? Do I have to vote with my feet and move?
It’s the same story in Sequim. The major growth in Clallam County seems to be in the size and scope of government and NGO influence, as well as the power of the tribes to influence and control policy and their own empires — and, of course, our growing property tax bills. The fact of the matter is, you cannot help someone who refuses to take ownership of their addiction and help themselves.
I was wondering why the Health Dept has not taken a more active role protecting the community’s well being. Now I know.
The lack of municipal jurisdiction enforcement has sent us backwards to a new 21st Century definition of Hunters-Gatherers. They are MAT nomads who live a life foraging the territory of Clallam County under Lord of the Flies behavior.
Hunter-gatherer
Peoples who forage or hunt for most or all of their food and life
It takes just one Ginny story and we have people giving harm reduction programs 100% weight and 0% to consequences. We've got a handful of people controlling the narrative and tax dollars to manage walking corpses, the rest of us have no say in this.
Seventy-two in the drunk tank would help. Withdrawls are painful. Help is at the MAT center. A simple “move along. You can’t sleep here” is needed. Cut off the suppliers, cut off the demand, cut off the enablers (county). Enforce the laws. Attack this problem from all angles. City leaders do your jobs so we don’t have to depend on our useless County leadership. Clean up our streets.
When people are addicted to.drugs you can't reason with them.because the addiction controls their mind .You can't reason also to radicals because they too are addicted to a idea .That their way is the only way to see things and the end can justify the means ? They aren't open to see does this work in the real world and maybe if we don't see improvement let's try a different approach ? Radicals won't admit they are wrong so they are fanatics which is someone that is a fan of a ideology .Which is a thought system that says this is how the world should work and we have to keep following this system no matter what happens .
.Instead of using observation ,intuition,wisdom on how things in life really work .Washington State spent 500 million ilast year on jury payout for the mistakes that where made maybe the reason we now can be proud of having the highest gas prices in the country to pay for this ?
So far this year it's 87 million 42 million to a woman that was repeatedly raped by her stepfather as a child .Because the dept of corrections didn't put him in prison ,but let him out ? Her mother was a alcoholic
Can you imagine anybody in their right mind leaving a child in that situation only a system that is run by radicals could do such a thing ?
Ginny has an interesting story to share and we should celebrate her finding a path that worked for her.
Not all can or will succeed on Ginny’s path. Providing multiple paths, including time, is the best method to lift as many that might desire to change their circumstances.
Those on the street could resort to more offensive crimes to feed their addiction..
In the interview, Ginny dismantles the myths we’re fed about homelessness and addiction. She argues that so-called “harm reduction” isn’t compassion—it’s enablement. Real compassion, she says, is about accountability, structure, and helping people build lives worth living.
Unfortunately Harm Reduction is an enabler with no structure and accountability. Clallam County's $$$$$ multiple "Pathways" to success leads to a cliff that has a very high percentage of drug abusers taking the plunge.
Dale I absolutely agree, I misinterpreted your first reply, sorry : ) Yes, I also agree, I don't think we should all have to go broke paying taxes for basically assisted suicide.
Wow. This one hurts. Port Angeles is going through a 20 year self inflicted suicide. I collect a lot of data and I struggle to find one positive metric where we are outperforming similar sized towns. We are continually lagging in growth in wages, jobs, housing, sales tax collections, and school enrollment and outcomes. The only things growing faster are layoffs, crime, drug use, and vacant and blighted properties. I increasingly find myself wondering if I should continue to spend so much time and money here. Are we a lost cause? Do I have to vote with my feet and move?
It’s the same story in Sequim. The major growth in Clallam County seems to be in the size and scope of government and NGO influence, as well as the power of the tribes to influence and control policy and their own empires — and, of course, our growing property tax bills. The fact of the matter is, you cannot help someone who refuses to take ownership of their addiction and help themselves.
I was wondering why the Health Dept has not taken a more active role protecting the community’s well being. Now I know.
The lack of municipal jurisdiction enforcement has sent us backwards to a new 21st Century definition of Hunters-Gatherers. They are MAT nomads who live a life foraging the territory of Clallam County under Lord of the Flies behavior.
Hunter-gatherer
Peoples who forage or hunt for most or all of their food and life
It takes just one Ginny story and we have people giving harm reduction programs 100% weight and 0% to consequences. We've got a handful of people controlling the narrative and tax dollars to manage walking corpses, the rest of us have no say in this.
Seventy-two in the drunk tank would help. Withdrawls are painful. Help is at the MAT center. A simple “move along. You can’t sleep here” is needed. Cut off the suppliers, cut off the demand, cut off the enablers (county). Enforce the laws. Attack this problem from all angles. City leaders do your jobs so we don’t have to depend on our useless County leadership. Clean up our streets.
Cut off funding to the well-intentioned but softheaded altruism at places like TAFY and the “safe parking” program in Sequim.
When people are addicted to.drugs you can't reason with them.because the addiction controls their mind .You can't reason also to radicals because they too are addicted to a idea .That their way is the only way to see things and the end can justify the means ? They aren't open to see does this work in the real world and maybe if we don't see improvement let's try a different approach ? Radicals won't admit they are wrong so they are fanatics which is someone that is a fan of a ideology .Which is a thought system that says this is how the world should work and we have to keep following this system no matter what happens .
.Instead of using observation ,intuition,wisdom on how things in life really work .Washington State spent 500 million ilast year on jury payout for the mistakes that where made maybe the reason we now can be proud of having the highest gas prices in the country to pay for this ?
So far this year it's 87 million 42 million to a woman that was repeatedly raped by her stepfather as a child .Because the dept of corrections didn't put him in prison ,but let him out ? Her mother was a alcoholic
Can you imagine anybody in their right mind leaving a child in that situation only a system that is run by radicals could do such a thing ?
Ginny has an interesting story to share and we should celebrate her finding a path that worked for her.
Not all can or will succeed on Ginny’s path. Providing multiple paths, including time, is the best method to lift as many that might desire to change their circumstances.
Those on the street could resort to more offensive crimes to feed their addiction..
Dale, I agree and disagree:
In the interview, Ginny dismantles the myths we’re fed about homelessness and addiction. She argues that so-called “harm reduction” isn’t compassion—it’s enablement. Real compassion, she says, is about accountability, structure, and helping people build lives worth living.
Unfortunately Harm Reduction is an enabler with no structure and accountability. Clallam County's $$$$$ multiple "Pathways" to success leads to a cliff that has a very high percentage of drug abusers taking the plunge.
Jennifer, some don’t want to change, as a matter of fact many want to die for their own reasons.
Suicide can be accomplished fast or slow. Who am I to say that they have to continue to exist in misery?
Life is complicated.
Dale I absolutely agree, I misinterpreted your first reply, sorry : ) Yes, I also agree, I don't think we should all have to go broke paying taxes for basically assisted suicide.
It is tough, I remember those addicts used to confront and even rob people on the street in the 1970’s and 1980’s.
Some get arrested intentionally to stay in prison to live an institutionalized life - again society pays the bill.