Letters to the editor for Dec. 30
Tired of the garbage, in more ways than one
When we first moved into Western Washington, I used to love the beauty and cleanness of it. Unfortunately that’s changed, as more often than not it resembles a garbage dump. So much of our tax dollars seem to be spent on the homeless to find them housing, feed them and pass laws so they don’t get arrested for drugs.
Are you people (the ones that come up with these idiotic ideas) out of your minds? Some folks will accept the help, but many seem to want to keep living in a garbage dump. Our government officials seem to keep throwing tax dollars at them then tax the taxpayers even more when they come up with yet another plan. I, for one, am tired of paying for them.
The police can’t help much as our elected officials have taken the authority out of their hands. We are now living in a state where criminals are allowed to do what they want and police tell taxpayers “Sorry, but we can’t help” because of the rules they are forced to uphold.
If the homeless don’t want the help, then give them a bus ticket out of Washington state. It’s time to take our state back and clean it up permanently. It’s overdue!
Bonnie B. Lindsey, Elma
An open letter to landowners
Dear Olympia Owning Class,
I recently received notice that my lease will be terminated in February. We’ve paid our rent and met every requirement; based on comments made, I believe our landlord is lying about moving in so she can assert her “freedom” to discriminate against Section 8 and disabled tenants.
Due to a deep lack of affordable housing, in my daughter’s senior year of high school, and in my son’s kindergarten year of elementary school, we will become indefinitely homeless.
In a few months, you will see us on the streets and tsk about how I’m lazy, promiscuous, a bad mother, mooch, and liar. You won’t see the entrenched pain of body and heart that I push through daily to tap the resiliency necessary to raise my children. We’ve had to work harder and wiser with less to make the most of every moment. Were you aware that every houseless person that you look at with disgust looks right back at you? To us, you seem entitled, loveless, and delusional.
Mother Earth herself is showing us how fragile we all are. You’re not immune to disability or disaster, and when you fail to see others’ humanity, you sacrifice your own. I’m acutely aware that more than money, more than stuff, more than the “freedom” to be a jerk, love is what matters. If you can’t hear that from me, the escalating environmental disasters will show you that love is sometimes all that we have. Please heal your hearts so that future generations may survive.
TT Jax, Tumwater
Today’s two-party system
I’m leaning towards Steven Colbert’s take on our two-party system: the Democratic party and the anti-Democratic party. Everything is politicized right down to a helping hand that bites.
Republican states refused to give their unemployed an extra $300 per week approved by the Biden administration. Their collective response was: Get a job. We’re not paying you extra to sit at home.
Uncle Sam helps Wall Street, big oil and big pharma with subsidies while their profits soar. But never mind.
Recently President Biden imposed vaccine mandates on companies with over 100 workers. Some don’t want to get the vaccine, so they’re laid off.
Laid off for resisting Bidens vaccine? You now qualify for additional unemployment compensation.
Breaking news on conservative media highlights how inflation is the highest in decades and eating away paychecks.
Need extra money for higher gas, food, rent and cost of living? Sorry Charlie. That isn’t a good political reason.
Why don’t red states expand Medicaid services for the elderly and affirmed? Republican states can’t help their constituents for humane reasons, only for their political benefit.
The Democratic party is doing what they can legislatively without help from the anti-Democratic party. They’re too busy doing what my grandmother called doodle squat. Also known as nothing.
We are overpaying the anti-Democratic party to sit around and do nothing but moan and groan about how terrible the Democratic party is, and they can do so much better. I think grandma was right, again.
David Cahill, Olympia