One of the foundational points, in my mind, of convincing people you are like everyone else is that you don’t need to ask for or have others advocate for increased taxpayer support for you. Any taxpayer support. Normal means you are a tax benefit, and if you are in Seattle, the normal taxpayer pays lots of taxes on all sorts of things.
Seattle’s LGBTQ Commission sent a formal letter to Mayor Katie Wilson requesting a civil emergency declaration in response to what it describes as a growing influx of transgender people relocating to the city from other states. Commission representative Andrew Ohufu stated publicly that “more trans people and families are relocating to Seattle for safety, care, and support.” The commission argues that a formal declaration would unlock emergency or contingency funding and trigger coordinated resource-sharing across city departments.
There are so many things wrong with this statement, not the least of which is framing these migrants as refugees arriving with nothing. Are they? Families? Is the only thing they are good at demanding that everyone else accept them for who they are when their inability to do that with themselves is what caused all their trouble in the first place?
Safety?
In 2024, Seattle was the fourth most dangerous city in the nation, with crime rates triple the national average.
Seattle was ranked fourth out of the 30 largest American cities for total crime in 2024. The study provided Seattle’s total crime rate per 100,000 residents was 5,782.7. Additionally, Seattle’s total crime numbers in comparison to the national average were 172.9% higher. …
Seattle was nearly double the national average, with a violent crime rate of 775.1 per 100,000 residents in 2024.
Welcoming is not safe. Welfare handouts are not either.
Mayor Wilson acknowledged the need for a coordinated city response but stopped short of declaring an emergency, instead announcing plans to form an interdepartmental team to assess services this summer.
Another issue, unaddressed, is that any money has to be laundered through executive branch agencies and again through local NGO’s who, after sucking most of the life out of whatever is left, still need to kick some back to the politicians.
Seattle taxpayers either don’t understand how the grift works, don’t mind, or assume that is how government works. Pro Tip: ask the rich people racing to get out of “Dodge.” That machine is Audrey from Little Shop of Horrors, and it’s the same everywhere it’s built. There is no such thing as enough, and long before they run out of other people’s money, most of the social and financial support they promised will have been gutted or cut completely.
Government salaries and benefits must be protected at all costs, so while it sounds like nutjob Mayor Katie Wilson will find someone to cough up something for this emergency, the people paying should be asking why? If the only thing they can bring to Seattle is their mental health issues, while they will be in good company, why do some of the mental health patients have to work more to support them?
