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Podcast: News For Reasonable People
Episode: Seattle MELTDOWN: $150M Deficit But Spending HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS On Failed Programs
Description: Seattle's Mayor Bruce Harrell just dropped a budget that's more delusional than a Seattle Seahawks Super Bowl prediction. Despite facing a staggering $150 million deficit, he's proposing to spend hundreds of millions more on the same failed policies that turned downtown into a real-life thriller video. We're talking $350 million for "affordable" housing (that costs three-quarters of a million per unit), $225 million for homelessness programs that have increased street population by 23%, and now they need $10 million just to clean up graffiti and hire park rangers because lawlessness is so out of control that people are literally jumping stolen cars over drawbridges...