Flashback: President Obama Describes The Woes Of Baltimore

The Daily Caller ^ | 7/29/2019 | Amber Athey

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After the Baltimore riots in 2015, President Barack Obama spoke about communities in the major Maryland city that are struggling with “abject poverty,” “no investment,” and drugs.

Obama partially blamed the riots on the lack of opportunity in Baltimore communities, pointing out the high rates of crime, substandard education, and drug abuse. (RELATED: Obama Refers To Baltimore Rioters As ‘Criminals And Thugs’)

Riots are more likely to occur “if you have impoverished communities that have been stripped away of opportunities, where children are born into abject poverty, they’ve got parents — often because of substance abuse problems, or incarceration, or lack of education themselves — can’t do right by their kids,” Obama said at the time.

He continued his statements by lamenting that there are “no fathers who can provide guidance to young men,” and that “drugs are flooding the community.”

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That’s racist, Obama! Wait....

Uh, um, uh, oh, nevermind....

Obama - thugs, drugs but he left out rats, lots of rats...

[mplc51]

O’BUNGHOLE IS A RACIST!

[Charlemagne on the Fox]

Sounds like his grandmother—”typical white person” . . .

[SunkenCiv]

(RELATED: Obama Refers To Baltimore Rioters As ‘Criminals And Thugs’)

Gosh, it's almost as if the rioters all over the country knew they had a fake POTUS who always had their back and/or would do nothing (his wheelhouse move) no matter what he may have said. Line in the sand? BS. You can keep your doctor? BS. Born in Hawaii? BS.

[SunkenCiv]

"Yeah, I remember well, how President Obama and I would rewind and watch those kinds of things again and again, and laugh and laugh, up there in that ultimate consequence-free environment."

[Boomer]

[Intolerant in NJ]

Riots are more likely to occur “if you have impoverished communities that have been stripped away of opportunities, where children are born into abject poverty, Oh and by the way, seventy percent are born out of wedlock they’ve got parents — often because of substance abuse problems, or incarceration, Oh and by the way, they're involved in fifty percent of the violent crimes in this country or lack of education Oh and by the way, fifty percent drop out of high school before getting their diploma themselves — can’t do right by their kids,” Obama said at the time - except he left out the information included in the italics - but then that would have been called blaming the victims - I would have called it putting responsibility where it belongs....

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If impoverished urban communities used the tools Trump has given them they could turn their cities around. I think this is part of Trump’s 2020 strategy. Force the democrats and media to focus on the shit holiness of the democrat cities, illustrate the failed democrat politicians, give them an alternative (use the damn tools). He’s getting the traction so far he needs to pull this off.

[spintreebob]

There are many jobs in NC, GA, FL, TM, TX and other states. Here in GA I see large number of PA and OH license plates in the brand new apartment complexes. These workers are clearly coming from Rust Belt cities. Not from suburbs. Also from All Rust Belt cities from Rockford IL to Hartford CT.

But I can’t remember ever seeing a license plate for MD. They are not going where the jobs are.

[spintreebob]

Who is Msgr Geno Baroni? Why does nobody remember that this Alinsky disciple created the Baltimore model and brought the Baltimore model to Jimmy Carter’s HUD to spread to all the Baltimores out there?

Baltimore’s direction (downhill) can be traced directly to Msgr Geno Baroni.

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My son just sent me this.. Amazing, if its true...

https://static.wixstatic.com/ugd/65db76_d0731c7799784020a8c45a5615b8b3f3.pdf

[ronnie raygun]

8 years he did nothing for anyone but himself and the people who got him there

[Liz]

(NFL LINEBACKER) Asked Trump to Call Out Cummings Over Baltimore (concerns about black kids raised)
townhall.com ^ | Aug 15, 2019 | Leah Barkoukis / FR Posted by Liz

Successful businessman and onetime NFL player, Jack Brewer called out Cummings directly for being "front and center" when it's politically convenient and questioned his lack of action in his own city. Referencing the two horrific mass shootings this past weekend that took 31 lives, he questioned why the 51 people shot in Baltimore and Chicago the same weekend went unnoticed. "We look and see all the hype over El Paso, my heart goes out to them, my heart goes out to Dayton, Ohio. But the same weekend, 51 people were shot between Chicago and Baltimore and no one says anything and these are the same lives." (FoxNews.com)

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President Trump recently called out Cummings’ disrespect of Border Patrol agents while drawing attention to the conditions in Baltimore. “Rep. Elijah Cummings has been a brutal bully, shouting and screaming at the great men & women of Border Patrol about conditions at the Southern Border, when actually his Baltimore district is FAR WORSE and more dangerous. His district is considered the Worst in the USA,” the president tweeted.

[Liz]

“We found Baltimore drowning in taxpayer dollars,” Open the Books CEO Adam Andrzejewski wrote in a Forbes editorial Wednesday.
<><> Baltimore reportedly has 13,522 employees with a combined payroll that exceeds $821 million annually.
<><> The mayor’s office paid $7 million for 111 employee salaries in 2018;
<><> The mayor paid $1 million for (cough) public relations fees.

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But can Baltimore explain this?

Baltimore’s schools pay another 10,770 employees a combined payroll of $619.3 million—
<><> $79.1 million is spent outside the classroom,
<><> $11.4 million on psychologists, $16.4 million for social workers, $7.4 million for counselors,
<><> $2.7 million for bus drivers,
<><> $41.2 million for assorted principals and assistant principals.

AND THIS
<><> NPR reported students at Baltimore’s public schools are freezing.....
<><> Baltimore winter classrooms do not have any heat. Kids are freezing.
<><> Baltimore public schools spend a whopping $15,000 plus per student per year,
<><> but Democrat PTB say they can’t afford to heat the classrooms.

IS KEEPING BALTIMORE SCHOOL KIDS FREEZING A DEMOCRAT
SCAM TO SCROUNGE MORE TAX DOLLARS FOR THEMSELVES

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Cummings is on-record, allocating $4.6 billion for illegal immigrants but homeless people are right there in West Baltimore — two blocks from his district. One man said-"I haven’t seen Elijah Cummings in ten years, noting that the last time he was around was following the death of Freddie Gray, which was quickly politicized.