[ April 24, 2024 ]
Further proof, not that we needed anymore, that government doesn’t solve problems but creates them. Stealing (taxing) productive Americans for the sake of moochers and looters is socialism and it is evil. Who can forget the promise of Lyndon B Johnson’s “Great Society”, his War on Poverty, expansive social-welfare legislation introduced in the 1960s. It didn’t cure poverty. It increased it. Democrat cities, bankrupt, filthy, failed are the result of such policies.
“High taxes and especially higher taxes imposed on the rich (and the semi-rich) do not come out of their consumption expenditures, but out of their investment capital (i.e., their savings); that such taxes mean less investment, i.e., less production, fewer jobs, higher prices for scarcer goods; and that by the time the rich have to lower their standard of living, the standard of living for the less fortunate will be gone, along with their savings and their jobs—and no power in the world (no economic power) will be able to revive the dead industries (there will be no such power left). We have seen this time and time again ins America’s failed cities like Detroit.
The alleged goals of socialism were: the abolition of poverty, the achievement of general prosperity, progress, peace and human brotherhood. The results have been a terrifying failure—terrifying, that is, if one’s motive is men’s welfare.
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Instead of prosperity, socialism has brought economic paralysis and/or collapse to every country that tried it. The degree of socialization has been the degree of disaster. The consequences have varied accordingly.” Ayn Rand
Democrats Run All Of The Dangerous And Rodent Infested Cities
Crime-Plagued Baltimore Received $1.8 Billion of Obama’s 2009 Stimulus
Baltimore received $1.8 billion from former President Barack Obama’s American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA), but the city has largely failed to see significant improvements from the massive investment.
By: Hannah Bleau, Breitbart, July 329, 2019:
The Obama administration allocated $1.8 billion of its 2009 stimulus to Baltimore, including $26.5 million to address crime prevention, $26 million to revamp abandoned properties, and $9.5 million to address homelessness.
According to The Washington Free Beacon, which conducted an analysis of the investment in 2015 after Obama decried Republicans for stiff-arming attempts to make “massive investments in urban communities,” the city received $1.8 billion, with $8.4 million going to a single zip code.
Free Beacon reported:
According to Recovery.gov, one of Baltimore’s central ZIP codes, 21201, received the most stimulus funding in the city, a total of $837,955,866. The amount included funding for 276 awards, and the website reports that the spending had created 290 jobs in the fourth quarter in 2013.
Of this amount, $467.1 million went to education; $206.1 million to the environment; $24 million to “family”; $16.1 million to infrastructure; $15.2 million to transportation; $11.9 million to housing; and $3.1 million to job training.
ZIP code 21202 received $425,170,937, including a $136 million grant to “improve teaching and learning for students most at risk of failing to meet State academic achievement standards.”
Twenty-nine other ZIP codes listed in Baltimore city received a total of $568,641,684.
A significant amount went toward crime prevention efforts, an estimated $26.5 million going to a project aimed to “make resources available to law enforcement and other public safety agencies to help protect Maryland citizens.”
However, the city has been plagued with violence in recent years following the hefty investment. Baltimore had the worst murder rate per capita in 2017, years after the Obama administration’s massive stimulus.
As Breitbart News reported:
Chicago gets a lot of press for its high murder rate and the city did, indeed, have far more murders than Baltimore in 2017. But Chicago is also far larger than Baltimore (about 3 million for Chicago versus 615,000 for Baltimore), so on a per capita basis, Maryland’s largest metropolis was far more dangerous for its citizens than even the blood-soaked Windy City.
CBS Baltimore noted that Baltimore’s 342 homicides resulted in a homicide rate of 56 per 100,000 people of cities with more than 500,000 citizens.
The violence continued, with Baltimore hitting a violent milestone last December–300 homicides. That made 2018 the “fourth year in a row where the dangerous city’s murder rate passed the 300-mark.” It appears to be on track to surpass 300 for the fifth year in a row, with 171 murders as of July 11, according to CBS Baltimore.
According to the report:
The first half of 2019 has been full of deadly gun violence, with often multiple shootings daily throughout one of Maryland’s most violent cities.
Baltimore City Fraternal Order of Police released their year-to-date homicide rate from the last two years Wednesday morning but updated it Thursday after three more homicides occurred throughout Wednesday and overnight Thursday.
This time last year, there had been 147 murders. This year, the number has already hit 170, a 16 percent increase.
A Breitbart News analysis of 2018 homicide rates found that Baltimore’s homicide rate – 51 per 100,000 residents – was “higher than Honduras and nearly the same as in El Salvador.”
Violence is not the only issue plaguing the city. About $26 million went to the “Healthy Neighborhoods, Inc. Neighborhood Stabilization Program,” which aimed to “stabilize” communities “that have suffered from foreclosures and abandonment” by revamping “residential foreclosed, abandoned, or vacant properties in designated neighborhoods” in the city.
However, a recently resurfaced video shows former Baltimore Mayor Catherine Pugh touring a neighborhood in East Baltimore and remarking on the rough shape of the area.
“What the hell? We should just take all this shit down,” she said on the tour.
“Whoa, you can smell the rats,” she exclaimed, adding “Whew, Jesus” and “Oh, my God, you can smell the dead animals”:
FLASHBACK: Fox 45 news report in September 2018 with Baltimore Mayor Catherine Pugh:
Mayor Pugh:
"What the hell? We should just take all this shit down.”
"Whoa, you can smell the rats." pic.twitter.com/BqhsL2Dsx7
— Steve Guest (@SteveGuest) July 28, 2019
According to the Free Beacon, another $548,100 project focused on the “preservation of jobs that are threatened by declines in philanthropic and other support during the current economic downturn.” It reportedly created 15.41 jobs in one quarter.
Baltimore’s unemployment rate sat at 7 percent when Obama left office in January 2017. It has dropped nearly 2 percent since Trump took office and was 5.1 percent as of May 2019.
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28 Comments
4 years ago
Mayor Pugh or is it Phew…?
4 years ago
I do not claim to have any answers for Baltimore or anywhere else. But, while the congressman was wailing at Trump and homeland security and the border patrol. Does not the good congressman understand that money to administer, feed, cloth, school, house and water could be used to help the good citizens of Baltimore rather than illegals flooding the borders. Trump 2020.
4 years ago
Reply to
Rlb
It’s all about population replacement and demographics. The Dems don’t give a crap about citizens, white or black. It’s about turning the red states blue like California, Texas, Florida with illegal “immigrants” and then granting them the vote. The Republicans will never win another election if that happens. That’s the plan.
4 years ago
Anyone who hears the word ‘infested’ and immediately thinks of black people is a racist. Hand down.
4 years ago
The communist Demoncraps are using the capitalist monies to just throw around. Greedy pigs in a feedlot. Everybody lives off of the capitalist and the Christians yet despise them both.
Communist, Leftist, Liebs, Mouslems, atheist, pagans, Chinese, Russians, TURD world countries, Negroes and women all live off of white man.
Yet, all these types DESPISE him the most and want to kill him off.
4 years ago
Reply to
Alleged-Comment
Democrat demographics tell the whole tyrant story
– the demographics consist of two main groups
– prosperous professionals who form the tyrant oligarch power circle
– and poor, sick, ignorant urban dwellers
– who are the subjugated peoples
4 years ago
Reply to
Alleged-Comment
The devils’ plan all along was to destroy those made in the image of God (humans). Through Demoncrats and leftist LGBTQs, the courts and other political punks, they will come perilously close to succeeding.
Divine intervention/judgment awaits them, no matter how long they loudly and proudly deny it..
4 years ago
The billions ended up in the swollen bank accounts of the parasites that infest Baltimore. Let the rats take over… Oooops looks like they already have.
4 years ago
Enriching the Corruptocrats.
4 years ago
Do you remember the Islamist site Loonwatch which target Pam Geller?
Lo0nWatch was run by CJ Werleman who was calling himself“Danios” at that time. He suddenlydisappeared one day after urging his readers for money and promising them a book about Robert Spencer, though he kept writing under the name “J Spo0ner” for Lo0nWatch. He ran away with all the money.
read more about this Danios of Loonwatch aka CJ Werleman
https://disqus.com/home/discussion/channel-saywhateveryoulike/testing_testing_123/
4 years ago
what I wanna know is if spartacus will take a knee during the anthem at the debates…LOLOL
4 years ago
Have no fear, help is on the way.
4 years ago
Reply to
Bill
Well you remember more than I do if you remember their names. I liked it because of the military Jeeps. Would love to have one of those now.
4 years ago
Crime in Baltimore is very high compared to the rest of the country, and it has the third highest crime rates per 100,000 per year in America compared to other cities, apparently:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime_in_Baltimore
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime_in_Maryland#Baltimore
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_cities_by_crime_rate
4 years ago
They were supposed to use the money to get RID of the rats, not get more of ’em.
4 years ago
Audit and arrests……
4 years ago
Nice article. If I could add to that?
I remember that arguments were made before legalizing gambling and casinos or expanding those options, that crime would go up.
sample article picked from a fairly random search:
“And while expansion of gambling has raised more money overall both for casinos and the education fund, the money in the Education Trust Fund has replaced — not added to — general fund revenues normally spent on schools.”
https://cnsmaryland.org/gambling/casino/casino.html
I think that if your hopes are on winning from gambling the chances are higher that you won’t have as much as what it takes to work for it.
Offering no solutions, not my problem.
In some cases. Atmosphere.
4 years ago
Elijah Cummings said it best, “C’mon, man!”. Or was he just auditioning for a job at ESPN?
4 years ago
And exactly what did the Negroes do with it?
4 years ago
And exactly what did the Negroes do with it?
4 years ago
The Trump 2020 Campaign needs to focus on all of the many,many Commiecrat hellholes where they rule over the filthiest, most crime ridden,polluted, communities in America,and how electing them will bring this same destruction to your neighborhood. Need to flood the airways, TV, internet with well documented and presented videos of the destruction Commiecrats ALWAYS bring with them.
4 years ago
Reply to
John Acord
Yes, and there should be plenty of large pictures prominently displayed of the filth on the streets of every one of these democrat run cities. Loved that broadcast of a rat running out of a junk pile on live news the other night. If the democrats only had a brain and far less hatred in their hearts they might be able to comprehend what a disaster they’ve created in parts of America.
4 years ago
OBAMARAT!!! :))))))))))))
4 years ago
4 years ago
Reply to
AR154U☑ᵀʳᵘᵐᵖ DEPLORABLE 2020
RACIST IDIOT……… black people owned thousands of slaves too in the south……so only reparations from white people?
4 years ago
Why cant anyone just be HONEST…..Black kids need a mass immersion in the English language to compete in the new highly educated world…
“improve teaching and learning for students most at risk of failing to meet State academic achievement standards.”
