For a look at how some of our tax dollars are being misspent go to:

http://www.seattletimes.com/news/local/html98/sexx_19991024.html

Its about a program called Community Protection. This program cost $18.4million a year and supposedly helps 204 people. That works out to 89320.39 per person.

Here are a few choice quotes:

"It costs $80,000 a year - about $225 a day - to watch a single resident. That's more than three times the cost of keeping someone in prison. But it's nearly $50,000 cheaper than keeping someone in an institution for the developmentally disabled.

"We're paying that $80,000 so people won't get hurt," Fairley said. "That's the bottom line, isn't it? Well obviously it hasn't worked, and we have in essence thrown that money away."

"State Sen. Fairley thinks the money spent on Community Protection would be well spent, if the program worked. She said the program should be examined."

Ed - no explanation needed

-- Ed (ed_brigdes@yahoo.com), October 24, 1999