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Re going down the drain I told my wife years ago that these problems they are creating are not fixable. Mainly because there "solutions" simply grow the problem bigger.I admit, this election has been heavily demoralizing. I'm young, but I'm not sure if I really want to have to spend the next decade fighting for my rights in a state that I don't have many ties to. I know it's not ideal for state rights but this place has been going down the drain for literally my entire life and it seems it's only going to continue to worsen, between rising cost of living and taxes, loss of job opportunities and increasing crime rates I think that moving east might be the ticket. In many other states my income would be respectable but here i dont even make enough to afford an apartment by myself. Wyoming looks quite nice this time of year, you know.
Fe homeless. Legalizing the new P2P meth creates tons more homeless. Several new taxes such as the 1% business tax and 1.5% personal income tax go toward providing more "services" to homeless. These services enable homelessness by making it easier to live the homeless lifestyle and providing less incentive to get out of homelessness. Creating shelters helps some such as those that want to work but the vast majority won't go there because they cannot live their lifestyle if they do (stealing and drugs). The welcoming culture means more homeless come from all over the nation. Then more taxes for more services, making it more welcoming and so on.
Instead of Filling the swamp they are digging it deeper. Note that I'm talking about those choosing the lifestyle and druggies, and not talking about those
who are legitimately down on their luck and want to work. Imo we should help those get back on their feet and be a productive member of society. Also I don't know what the solution is for the legit mentally ill (not due to the new meth which can make a sane person insane in short order).
Same thing for crime, where they are enabling more crime instead of stopping it, restricting traffic and parking spots for bicycles that never use those streets, which makes it harder to drive so poeple use residential streets because there is no where else to go, etc.
They are making the problems worse with their spending, not better. Pretty soon many houses in pDX will be paying $20,000 per year for property taxes and that is spent on growing the problem bigger, not reducing it. It will be a continuing downward spiral with no way out until something drastic changes. I don't see any responsible leadership in the near future and if we had a responsible leader that tried to fix these problems I don't think they would last long because the voting majority simply does not understand and are incredibly naive. It's completely bass ackwards (speaking for PRX area).
My only hope for Oregon is there are rural communities that continue to use common sense, enforce the law etc. Those places should be good for a long time if they can somehow evade the crazy BS laws that are coming from Salem (Fe if the DA refuses to enable crime and uses common sense). Places like PDX cannot be fixed Imo. We wouldn't be here if we didn't have to for family reasons. I will put up with a lot of crap for my family and extended family. But I don't have to like it.
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