Baltimore Burning: It's Not A
Matter Of Money. We Tried That
Newsweek,
by
Michael Tanner
Original Article
Posted By: earlybird,
7/29/2019 12:44:08 PM
With the surety of night following day, the Baltimore riots have been followed by calls for more government spending to fight poverty in our distressed inner cities.
President Barack Obama says "massive investments in urban communities" could "make a difference right now." Representative Elijah Cummings, who represents Maryland in Congress, says, "We have to invest in our cities and our children." And House Democratic Whip Steny Hoyer, who also represents the state, says, "But we're going to have to as a country invest if we're going to have the kinds of communities we want."
But the idea that we haven't been "investing" in Baltimore is nonsense.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
Upright2 7/29/2019 12:49:50 PM (No. 137053)
Cleaning up your yards and disposing of trash properly is the first step.
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Cummings does not represent Maryland in Congress. He represents most of Baltimore City in a district that somehow snakes its way west into Howard County and then northward into the horse country of northern Baltimore County. Which demographic group is his true constituency?
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
seamusm 7/29/2019 1:00:43 PM (No. 137069)
Throwing money at problems related to broken families won't help - especially when the black family was destroyed by government 'help' in the first place. Face it. Our social collapse is way beyond being fixable by man alone. Until we return to God nothing will work.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
jalo1951 7/29/2019 1:13:29 PM (No. 137080)
Just because you are poor does not mean you have to be a low life. Until the black community changes nothing is going to improve. Baltimore has a 70% out of wedlock birthrate. Think maybe that might be part of the problem? Do not have children if you are not married. Stay in school and participate in your own education. Get a job, any job, and work hard. Take extra classes (I am sure most of you will qualify for some kind of assistance), Join the service. Don't hang around with people who do drugs (use or sell), drink too much, carry guns, or like to steal other people's property. Clean up your own property and dispose of waste properly. Help each other out. See if a church group will help organize some of the people in the neighborhood. Go to city hall seeking answers not just engaging in a shouting match. Have some respect for yourself and your family and how you choose to live It starts with you. This goes for any neighborhood (city etc.) that has strayed off the path of being productive citizens. Making babies, ingesting drugs and alcohol, remaining ignorant. Those are choices you must make to become a better person.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
fayebeck 7/29/2019 1:27:09 PM (No. 137094)
Massive "investments?" Does this include Amazon or Walmart? Probably not.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
DVC 7/29/2019 1:55:40 PM (No. 137141)
Competence, education and ultimately CULTURE. If you have people who are happy living in a sewer, then you will have a sewer.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
HerbVA 7/29/2019 1:58:45 PM (No. 137146)
It’s not a problem of lack of money, its a problem of the urban jungle culture.
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#2 - If one subtracts the votes from Baltimore City from Cummings' 2018 election totals, counting just the Howard and Baltimore suburban counties' votes, he wins re-election by only 50,000. He may not "represent Maryland in Congress", and then again he does.
With two relatively sparsely populated areas the exceptions, Maryland is a deep navy blue where people live. "Republicans" can only win by being inoffensive, such as Gov. Larry Hogan or ex-Howard County Executive Kittleman. And traditionally that's one "popular" term and out, such as Bob Ehrlich. NeverTrump Hogan is an exception, and it's not due to any conservatism or honest stands on any issues. He's a jellyfish, probably dead politically after he leaves office...unless Mitt gets his presidential campaign off the ground.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Chuzzles 7/29/2019 2:10:33 PM (No. 137167)
When you have a toxic and corrupted government made up of many dark forces, combined with a huge portion of the population who have been told they don't need to make any effort whatsoever to succeed, why should we pour more money down that rathole?
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
hershey 7/29/2019 2:38:22 PM (No. 137193)
Yep, that's the answer...throw more taxpayer money down the rat hole....
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Krause 7/29/2019 2:46:27 PM (No. 137203)
How do you fix dysfunctional families?
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Laotzu 7/29/2019 3:17:49 PM (No. 137234)
Dysfunctional humans living in dysfunctional cities. I'm sure it's all my fault.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
oldmagnolia 7/29/2019 3:41:47 PM (No. 137259)
Investment for a demRat is more taxes. Oh, I forgot, is always "for the children".
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
Cindiana 7/29/2019 3:43:31 PM (No. 137261)
Bravo #4!
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
Daisymay 7/29/2019 4:03:20 PM (No. 137273)
If he's implying the rest of the country should PAY to clean up Baltimore, forget it! You created that mess, you clean it up! Start with locking up the young Hoodlums bred in that Hell Hole. Kick everyone off Welfare and make them get jobs. No more welfare for moms that pop out babies, with every man they meet, and don't take care of any of them. More often than not, grandma gets to raise them. I could go on and on, but I think a lot of folks feel the same as I do! No MONEY for Baltimore!
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
Strike3 7/29/2019 5:16:26 PM (No. 137328)
This defines the typical dim plan to create a failed city. 1) Spend all of your money on stupid, wasteful projects and overpay all city government people. 2) Ask the feds for more money to bail you out of the hole in which you find yourself. 3) Restart at step 1.
It may not be a good plan but it has consistent results.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
red1066 7/29/2019 6:30:39 PM (No. 137400)
Corruption in the state is massive. In the city it's worse.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
MickTurn 7/29/2019 6:33:51 PM (No. 137404)
As usual Follow the Money...How much Fed money was dolled out to Democrap Cronies and thereby screwed the city of needed changes/Improvements?
How about a Federal AUDIT on where the money went? I keep hearing of these scams but seldom do the Feds audit!!!!!!!!!
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"We have to invest in our cities and our children." What Barry meant was black children and black communities.
Why would anyone want to leave the ghetto if that's where the "free stuff" is delivered? I see it everyday. I hear it. The discrimination of low income whites vs low income blacks is in your face.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
PChristopher 7/30/2019 1:36:58 AM (No. 137654)
Massive investments in urban communities? Why? So the Indigenous Personnel can rob and shoplift them out of existence and then burn them to the ground? Ain't gonna work.
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How about $2.4 billion from the fed and another $1.8 billion in state aid…and about $1.8 billion in federal stimulus money, most of which this writer says has been spent. And then there is all the welfare money that goes directly to Baltimore residents. Money down a rathole...