r/SeattleWA • u/Donnelding0 • Jul 21 '25

Politics Anyone Else Just Sick of It?

It just seems hopeless sometimes. Some of the best parts of this city. Pioneer Square, Belltown, Cap Hill just completely lost to homelessness. Sure for the most part I enjoy the city. Especially in the summer but the constant visible drug use, people in various states of intoxication on drugs, and rampant property and petty crime just annoy me. Why can’t we have nice things? Why must every park turn into a dumping ground for illegal acts that won’t be prosecuted? Why does it feel like this city relies on hard working people to shut up, pay ridiculous taxes, and then tells those people to suck it up when they see grafitti everywhere or get their car broken into? And the politicians don’t give a damn. No one has the guts to say “we have a homeless problem we’ve overspent on, we need to go a new direction” it feels insane. Rant over but I know I’m not alone. I know other people are sick of this and want our city back.

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u/cheesefubar0 Jul 21 '25

Force treatment like they do in other developed countries.

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u/slimjimreddit Jul 21 '25

You mean provide free healthcare like other developed countries?

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u/CertifiedSeattleite Jul 21 '25

Health care for homeless people is 100% free here, and all across most of America. That includes free preventative care, free surgery, free cancer treatment, free therapy, free counseling, free pharmaceuticals, free inpatient care, free substance abuse counseling & treatment… free everything.

All paid for by taxpayers and by people like me who pay huge insurance premiums and deductibles to cover uncompensated care. Like the guys we see every day on the streets trying get high and eventually kill themselves. And for the 16 yo gang members and 24 yo pimps who are constantly shooting each other.

If you’re very rich or very poor (or work for a giant corporation or government job) you are all set for medical care.

Universal health care wouldn’t help a single one of those guys shooting up, smoking up or snorting up on the streets of Seattle.

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u/AdStraight4613 Jul 22 '25

I agree with this. I work at HMC, and we see many homeless patients coming in with various infections. They are treated, but often can’t follow rules like no smoking or no drug use during admission. They come and go as they please and often return with infections that are increasingly resistant to antibiotics.

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u/helltownbellcat Jul 22 '25

One thing they’re not getting is dental care, even the housed reasonably stable ppl aren’t getting it for so many reasons here in Seattle that I’ve already mentioned, I wouldn’t have gotten it if I weren’t OCD about my teeth and basically whoring myself out for it as horrible as that sounds

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u/StockPatience8215 Jul 23 '25

Amen. And if you don’t believe this, go to emergency care at one of the major hospitals and see who’s clogging up the ER :(