Posted on 06/07/2015 4:28:01 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
The federal government has been throwing taxpayer money at Baltimore for more than 60 years — ever since Nancy Pelosi’s father, Thomas D’Alesandro, Jr., was mayor of that troubled city (1947-59) — and what have been the results of that multi-billion-dollar federal investment in “Charm City?” You know the results as well as I do: widespread poverty and rampant violence.
There were nine murders and more than 30 shootings in Baltimore over the Memorial Day weekend, bringing the city’s homicide toll to its highest point in more than 15 years. Baltimore had 41 murders in May, the most in a single month since 1999. And meanwhile in Chicago, another city that has been a major recipient of federal largesse, 12 people were killed and 44 were wounded over the Memorial Day weekend. One of the victims was 4-year-old Jacele Johnson, who was shot in the head as she sat in a car with family members on Chicago’s crime-ridden South Side. What’s going on?
Many “progressives” blame the increasing violence in these big cities on racist and/or trigger-happy cops and believe the solution is to spend even more of our tax dollars on a panoply of social programs designed to lift people out of poverty.
However, that’s exactly what’s been happening in those cities over the past 50 or 60 years, and the result has been more poverty and more violence.
And besides, most of the violence in those cities is black-on-black crime, even though race-baiters like Al Sharpton continue to blame racist cops.
Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings — Blake and Chief Prosecutor Marilyn Mosby, both of whom are young African-American women, blamed police for recent rioting and violence in that city following the death of 25-year-old Freddie Gray while he was in police custody.
Prosecutor Mosby filed felony charges, including second-degree murder, against six police officers, three of whom are black. The mayor is black, the prosecutor is black, the police chief is black and the police force is racially mixed. Nevertheless, city officials left the police department out to dry in the investigation of Gray’s death. And of course the U.S. Justice Department is on the scene “to help.” Good luck with that.
Although some will accuse me of racism for writing anything negative about Ms. Rawlings Blake or Ms. Mosby, it looks as if the mayor is in over her head and the prosecutor is pursuing a personal agenda instead of seeking the truth in the Gray death investigation. After all, she appeared to side with the rioters as she announced charges against the police officers.
Writing about Baltimore in Newsweek (yes, it’s still alive), Michael Tanner of the Cato Institute noted President Obama recently proposed “massive investments in urban communities” to address issues of crime and poverty.
“It’s not a matter of money,” Tanner replied. “We tried that,” adding Baltimore was a major beneficiary of the president’s huge economic stimulus plan.
According to Tanner, Baltimore received $1.8 billion worth of stimulus funding (taxpayer dollars, that is), including $467 million for education and $24 million for “families;” $838 million went to Zip Code 21201, which includes the dangerous Sandland District. Can anyone tell me what we taxpayers received in return for our “massive investments” in the city of Baltimore?
Why don’t President Obama, “Rev.” Sharpton and Baltimore civic leaders start talking about the breakup of families? Two-thirds of Baltimore’s births are to unwed mothers and almost 60 percent of households are headed by single parents, usually working mothers. Where are the fathers? Those difficult questions must be answered before we throw more tax dollars at Baltimore and other troubled cities.
Here is Baltimore, the Musical – what a catchy tune.
Witness some of Baltimore’s ‘finest’ citizens at play.
https://www.youtube.com/v/TepT0Ttwz7M
Good video showing some of the destruction. Thanks for the link.
I was kinda horrified by it. I expect this in Cleveland soon. I don’t know how to start threads here, but I wish someone would do that with this video!
Tha price of socialist, totalitarian, thug, criminal destruction and death is incalculable. We, the innocent, have always paid the price.
http://kxan.com/2015/04/27/watch-live-protestors-and-police-clash-in-baltimore/
Who pays for the Baltimore breakdown? There is probably video footage of most of the perps. Who pays?
Politicians and their operatives fanning the flames are destructive to any civilization.
Hands up don’t loot. Hands up don’t steal. Hands up don’t burn. Hands up don’t destroy. Hands up don’t kill.
Unaccountable individuals cross many of these thresholds in any chaotic situation.
Thanks again Dr. B P. Video BUMP!
I’m glad I saw what there was to see in Baltimore some years ago.
I’m never going back.
I didn’t enjoy my last visit to D.C.
I may never go north of Fredricksburg again.
I went to Camden Yard a few years ago...nice but I’m not going back.
I’m just waiting for the police chief to walk into the mayor’s office and tell her she’s on her own - the whole B’more PD has walked off the job. Uniforms are there for her street hoods to wear and keep the peace ....
After Nancy and her family crapped in their nest in Baltimore, she moved West and started crapping in ours. California is in pretty sad shape today, but we had a lot of help from East Coast Commies like Nazi, Babs Boxster and a whole host of other transplanted Marxist miscreants.
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