> I need to know how to pay my bills

You, uh, get a job and use the money your employer gives you.

>do you have a phd in political science

PhD stands for 'Piled Higher and Deeper' and yes, I am pretty sure I qualify.

Being serious for a second, I get it. Shit's hard right now and appears to be getting worse. But like I said before, do you know who writes the laws? It's not you, it's not me. It's whoever has access to the most money to pay a lobbyist to convince their senator that their bill will make things better for them. Because then that person will donate to their representative or senator's re-election campaign.

>It's dangerous to walk around anywhere outside now!

I'd argue it really isn't any worse than last year, or the year before, and so on. Sure, you see homeless camps everywhere. But people experiencing homelessness aren't a threat to your personal safety. Sure, property crime has gone up. But what law(s) do you propose to fix that? Because if it isn't tax the shit out of the tech sector and the wealthy and give homeless people housing it won't solve anything.

But because the tech sector and the wealthy are the two most powerful lobbyists right now, they get their way and Olympia writes laws that give them huge tax breaks on the promise of "creating jobs and growing the economy."

And we've all seen how only a portion of the people benefit from that "economic growth" otherwise I-5 wouldn't be riddled with homeless camps from Shoreline to Downtown while SLU glitters with giant glass towers full of tech-bros with Herman Miller recliners they never sit in.

And if you or anyone thinks I'm wrong and my ideas are stupid, fine. Just recall when Boeing held the entire state hostage for HUGE tax breaks on the thin promise of "more jobs and economic growth for everyone!" and then reneged on their word and fled the state. They got their tax breaks, and they took the jobs away.

Edit to add: You see, that was Boeing's threat all along. "If you raise our taxes, we're leaving for the low-tax Heaven of South Carolina. So give us them tax breaks!" And sure enough, our lawmakers caved in to Boeing's bluff, and gave the Lazy B huge tax breaks. And Boeing still fled to S. Carolina. Chumps. We should just call every corporation's bluff when they squeal they need tax breaks, and instead raise their taxes through the fucking roof.

The state sued them, and collected a settlement, but big fuckin' whoop, the damage was done. And there's the problem. That collectively our entire state lawmaking body fell for Boeing's bait-and-switch act because otherwise they would lose that sweet campaign donation money tells you all you need to know about how politics works, here at the state level, or nationwide. Money has power.

Can't fix that by writing a letter.