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Not enough money? Baltimore got $1.8 billion from Obama Stimulus
American Thinker ^ | 5/04/15 | Thomas Lifson

Posted on 05/05/2015 1:40:52 AM PDT by blueyon

Last Tuesday, President Obama blamed the GOP-controlled Congress for its failure to fund the “massive investment in urban communities” that could “make a difference.” Well, how does $1.8 billion for the 622,000 people of Baltimore sound? Pretty massive – actually, just about $2900 for every man, woman, child, and baby of the entire City of Baltimore.

But that’s the total amount of Obama Stimulus money sent to Charm City, according to an analysis by The Free Beacon:

(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; US: Maryland
KEYWORDS: corruption; housing; obama; riots; stimulus; taxes
Looks like we have thrown tons of money at Baltimore after all......
1 posted on 05/05/2015 1:40:52 AM PDT by blueyon
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To: blueyon

inner city baltimore, where never enough of our federal tax dollars are being tossed into a cesspool.

:-(


2 posted on 05/05/2015 1:48:43 AM PDT by SteveH
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$2900 doesn’t go very far at the strip club these days.


3 posted on 05/05/2015 1:52:05 AM PDT by JohnnyP
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To: blueyon

burn RAT cities to the ground...walk away and dont look back


4 posted on 05/05/2015 2:49:35 AM PDT by rrrod (at home in Medellin Colombia)
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“burn RAT cities to the ground...walk away and dont look back”

Then they will flood cities like mine, like they did immediately after hurricane Katrina.


5 posted on 05/05/2015 7:10:44 AM PDT by dsrtsage (One half of all people have below average IQ. In the US the number is 54%)
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To: blueyon

From what I read, most of it went for “the environment”. In other words, leftist politician’s and their friends pockets.


6 posted on 05/05/2015 7:32:00 AM PDT by vpintheak (Call the left what they are - regressive control-freaks)
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To: blueyon
Not enough money? Baltimore got $1.8 billion from Obama Stimulus

So? Whatever it was, it's not enough.

7 posted on 05/05/2015 7:33:35 AM PDT by Lazamataz (Jeb Bush makes John McCain look like Barry Goldwater.)
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To: Lazamataz

This is reminiscent of all the aid to Africa in money and goods only for it to be confiscated by the warlords and their cronies. The only difference is that the theft is better organized here through government grants.


8 posted on 05/05/2015 12:05:00 PM PDT by NohSpinZone (First thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers)
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