-> Guess I've not been keeping up. When I was there, Seattle always had
-> resources to ease the pain of poverty. Much of the time an indigent
-> needed to do some sort of nominal "work" to accomplish this... but at
-> least it was there.
Still does, but they are overloaded due to a massive influx of the
homeless.  Along with the tide of homeless you get the undesireables
whose only interest is freeloading off the misery of others.
-> Please keep in mind I differentiate between common "riff-raff" and
-> homelessness... there is a difference.
Unfortunately, they commingle in the street and most of the public who
views them doesn't see a difference.
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