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reads like a scare tactic to me.... anyway, having lived in unincorporated King Co., I can tell you they're just fine taking care of themselves and most have firearms already.
The police are not publishing the article. I have a huge problem with a writing style that perpetuates that absurd "us against them" mentality regarding red and blue. It only serves the interests of the true "them" in the equation...a corrupt government. I am just sick of the whole "keep the citizens angry, ignorant, and blaming their neighbor (because of the letter D or R after their name) so they never unite and solve the real problem" game.Martini and Penguin, to clarify whom are you guys aiming your thoughts at the OP who is the author of the article or the police who think that the world will end because we didn't give them enough money? I for one embrace the idea of less police involvement and more self sufficiency.
Martini and Penguin, to clarify whom are you guys aiming your thoughts at the OP who is the author of the article or the police who think that the world will end because we didn't give them enough money? I for one embrace the idea of less police involvement and more self sufficiency.
That is just typical extremist malarkey. Short on facts and full of inciteful rhetoric. It is clearly just written to frighten people without educating them about the issue at all. Who even pays attention to such garbage?
The police are not publishing the article.
Dave, you call it a ploy and I call it a scare tactic... so what's the difference? I lived on FinnHill.
Well, the ploy becomes a scare tactic when our elected officials don't get the amount of tax revenue they want and tell us they're going to cut the funding of those that protect us (LEO). Problem is most of us know LEO don't protect us from anything (but rather help bring suspects to a court of law afterwards).
I have no problem with your article and don't doubt the facts you present but tire of the typical cause/effect aforementioned. I remember when they cut the car licensing from over 300 per year down to 35. Some fire chief was interviewed and asked what he thought of it and said something to the effect, "i hope you like your houses burning down with nobody to come help"...
Really? Who made this allegation about having it out for police? Could you cite your source? Can you point to any minutes or documents where this allegation is made?Oh, where to begin?
First..Penquin.. there was not a single thing in that piece that isn't factual. Democrats run the majority on the King County Council, they set up the budget, there is an allegation floating around now that the council chair has it in for the cops because their union didn't endorse her..and the police guild rejected the idea of putting off their 5% pay increase.
You believe what you want. A lot of people believe that underfunding the sheriff's department was a ploy by the Democrat majority to entice King County voters to approve a 0.2 percent sales tax increase to pay for police services. It was just another attempt to bump up taxes and the voters were having none of it.
I don't need to divide R and D people. They do that quite well on their own and I just write about it.
Second...Martini...I don't know where you lived in unincorporated King County but nowadays a huge number of people don't have firearms, but they do have a piece of their personal Utopia, or so they think.
It's not a scare tactic at all to explain what's happening and why, and to offer fair comment on it.
Can you name the "democratic programs" that would have been cut if the pay increase had been given or are you just speculating? And what constitutes a "democratic program?" Are road projects or school funding "democratic?" If a program has support from both republicans and dems does it count?
You said that to pay the officers programs "favored" by democrats would have to be cut. What are these programs and what are your sources?I said Democrats control the county council. They set the budget priorities.
If you can't handle that, too bad.
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