Baltimore’s Rat Problem is So Bad, Roads Are Collapsing

summit ^ | 7/29/19 | Paul Joseph Watson

[mewzilla]

It’s almost like the rats planned it. Almost. I think.

NIMH's HQ is in MD.

Anyone seen Mrs. Frisby lately?

[Joe 6-pack]

"If the GOP would stick with improving these ghettos and actually get off the couch to actually show immediate improvement, they will win."

Both the GOP and Dems have lazily accepted the state of the black vote as a fait accompli. The GOP has been too lazy to pursue it under the assumption it was going dem, and the dems have taken it for granted. Neither ever counted on the Trump Factor, in which somebody would actually work to earn their vote, and now they're both in a panic that the status quo may be changing.

[SkyDancer]

Seems schools these days are more concerned with social issues than basic 3 R’s.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Good analysis, Joe. You are exactly right. The conventional politicians have never encountered a person or force like Trump. He is shaking long-ossified things up from A to Z. He is a true change agent, somebody that happens exceedingly rarely.

The funny thing is the progs / Dems are always yammering about “Change” (c.f. Obama), but they never want to change government itself (except to make it bigger and more all-powerful). Trump is making it change and they hate it. They are hypocrites to the core.

[central_va]

You are full of it. 50% of cars in the USA are made by non union workers. Baltimore could easily support multiple auto/parts manufacturing plants by one of those manufacturers. The union boogeyman argument doesn’t work anymore.

[Alberta's Child]

As is often the case with you, you completely missed the point and responded with your trademark pathological anger to a statement that I didn't even make.

You are full of it. 50% of cars in the USA are made by non union workers.

I was talking about the Ford plant in New Jersey that closed in 1980. How many cars in the USA were made by non-union workers IN 1980?

Baltimore could easily support multiple auto/parts manufacturing plants by one of those manufacturers.

But it doesn't. There have been literally dozens of such plants opened in the U.S. since 1980, and none of them are in Baltimore. Do you think there's a reason for it? I do. And you can be damn sure that every foreign auto manufacturer that has built a plant here since 1980 knew better than to do business in any of these urban Democratic sh!t-holes.

[central_va]

Quit pretending the the unforced economic destruction of Baltimore is the not the core issue here. When Sparrow Point was dismantled the economic viability of Baltimore died. Same with Detroit, Pittsburgh, Philly etc. etc.

[Alberta's Child]

Did it ever occur to you that sometimes industrial facilities simply become obsolete over time? Sparrows Point employed 30,000 workers at its peak in the early 1960s, and had a peak annual production of almost 700,000 tons of steel.

Contrast this with the ArcelorMittal plant that was built in Calvert, Alabama in 2010. It's one of the largest and most modern steel mills in the world, and employs fewer than 2,000 people. It has the capacity to produce more than 5 million tons of steel annually.

Something else to consider is that Sparrows Point was probably in the "wrong" location for more than five decades before it closed. It was originally built at that location when Bethlehem Steel owned iron mines in Cuba and South America and transported the ore to the site by water. Their foreign mines basically subsidized cheaper production costs. Once the company sold off those mines and had to purchase iron ore at market prices, its location on Chesapeake Bay next to a major U.S. city didn't make sense anymore.