Dshs has Been the Worst part of my Down Fall, they push you further than you originally were!
Because of Absue I am continuously facing new delimma's. The goverments assistance is unavailable for me for the reason of discrimination, retrailiation is my main bitch today, since I am young and declared DISABLED, since 12/12, and yet I still am so ingtelligent they makeee my life a living hell at the local DSHS office! Robyn Green, Sharon Framton, And a couple other's have been so against policy and violated my rights in so many different ways, I cant wait to let the court no tomorrow. I want my victimization to end here and now! I want reincompastated for my pain, suffering and torment! I cant belive that people such as socail workers and case managers can punish Disabled americans because of there handi caps. I have never been so distrusting of anyone, nor I have been pushed by anyone more than I have to kill myself than by them! I am outraged and feed up, and America I am not going to stand here and simply bow down and take it. Nope this is the 3rd time I am standing up tall, pulling up my skirt and fighting for the rights our Constitution says I have. The civil rights I have been promised is going to be giving to me and the fault will be found on who and what is responsible for my being homeless and left in the streets to get raped! Fucked up thing is, thy work together with the Woman's Shelter and the Hospital and Cowlitz County Guidance to push people down into a place where they either take there own lives or somebody elses, and then they disappear! They put us into coma's and are killing us at the River View Psychiatric Unit, It is a fact and I can prove it! This is not a free COUNTRY IT IS A CONTROLLED COUNTRY, and our rights are not ours to own or practise it''s there for them to say! Fuck that, Fuck theem and they Fucked with the Wrong Vossen now..... What I am going to do about it? Hmmmmmmm.....wait to seee
Following up on my recent posts regarding the lousy deal King County taxpayers are getting from the state ($0.62 back on every dollar paid) compared to the astounding bargain enjoyed by Washington's Republican-leaning counties (an average of $1.40 on the dollar), I thought it time to drive a stake through the heart of at least one widely believed myth: that generous benefits to the urban poor comprise the single largest drain on our state coffers.
Well, according to the absolutely irrefutable chart above... um... not so much.
Yes, in 2008, King County benefited from the largest chunk of Department of Social and Health Services (DSHS) expenditures, over $1 billion, or nearly 24 percent of the statewide total. But King is home to 29% of the state's population (while providing 42 percent of state revenues), so its per capita benefit comes to only $538, right along the lines of the other five "donor" counties. Meanwhile, such bastions of rural self-proclaimed self-sufficiency as Adams, Ferry, Pend Oreille and Okanogan counties consume per capita DSHS benefits of over $900, while Yakima—Washington's "fruit basket"—tops the charts at $1,029 per person.
To put this dependency in perspective, 83 cents of every dollar Yakima sends to Olympia is paid back in DSHS benefits alone, while tiny Ferry County actuallyreceives more in DSHS benefits than the total revenues it pays to the state!That's in addition to schools, corrections and everything else. Really....
Now that's a picture of dependency if I ever saw one.
To be clear, I'm not making a moral argument here. I'm not advocating for cutting off the rural poor from the health and social services that help sustain them. I'm merely pointing out that, eventually, they will be cut off, because that's where a disproportionate amount of our state government costs lie, and thus that's where the savings are to be found.
Unless, that is, our fellow Washingtonians in the red parts of the state take these charts seriously, and start voting their own self interest.
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