Posted on 04/29/2015 4:27:25 AM PDT by Biggirl
On Tuesday, Barack Obama admitted that the situation faced by the impoverished residents of American urban centers like Baltimore is a hopeless one.
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By Thomas DiLorenzo:
Baltimore Sun columnist Thomas Schaller, a political science professor at the University of Maryland-Baltimore County, cheerfully heralded the state of Maryland as a “liberal paradise” in 2013. Maryland is indeed by far the most left-wing state in America, a veritable showcase of the “liberal” welfare state. It has huge populations of both government employees and welfare parasites; one of the most generous welfare systems of any state; its “public” schools have long been destroyed by belligerent teachers’ unions; is a very high-tax state; routinely wages political war on whatever is left of real capitalism — its politicians proudly boast that the regulation of business is more onerous than any other state, and usually exceeds even federal regulatory dictates; and coddles criminals, endlessly repeating the “liberal” mantra that criminals are not responsible for the crimes they commit, “society” is. And of course the “war on drugs” rages in inner-city Baltimore as much as anywhere, complete with ever-increasing police brutality with an increasingly militarized and federalized police force.
As in many other cities, in Baltimore the black family has been all-but-destroyed by the welfare state (See Losing Ground by Charles Murray for an explanation of how welfare eliminated the stigma that was once attached to abandoning one’s children). The Baltimore Sun reports that, for decades, at least 80% of all black children are born without a father being a part of their life, with white families catching up rapidly. This has created several Lord-of-the-Flies generations. The rotten “public” schools in Baltimore city have destroyed the employment opportunities of tens of thousands of these children, while the war on drugs, which has caused skyrocketing drug prices and profits, lures them into lives of crime (and death by crime). All of this is a recipe for the mindless destruction of small businesses that was on display in yesterday’s riots and looting. With Al Sharpton reportedly headed to Baltimore, things are bound to get worse before they get better. No sane business person would ever invest in these neighborhoods. Once this is realized in a few years, the absence of drug stores, grocery stores, etc. will of course be blamed on the racism of white capitalists. “Paradise” will at last have been realized.
What Republicans actually exist in Baltimore anyway? sounds like a case of blame this tiny local minority for all our problems, rather than analyze what about their lifestyle may actually be worth emulating, and improve our lives for the rest of us.
....Yet for some reason, late last year, voters had sent to the Governorship, a certain Larry Hogan, R. I was SURPRISED by that election.
Please see post number 5. Thank-you.
“I was surprised by that election”
And for what it is worth... he has done an excellent job IMHO. I shudder to think what would have happened if O’Malley was still the Governor. Hogan has even put his office temporarily in Baltimore till all of this is over.
That is what Democrats did when they hated blacks....Democrats blamed black citizens for every problem in their communities.
This is no surprise from the party of no responsibility.
Can someone name me one city in America run by Black leadership where Black citizens are doing well?
Maybe it could be that folks in the rest of MD have had it with that criminal antics going on in cities such as in Baltimore to send a “message” to that city to “shape up.” Just saying.
Of course it’s hopeless. Demon-rats run that city and have for generations.
Sadly, the Dems USE people for their own GAIN.
.....Oh good grief YES!
If memory serves me, a certain “Nancy Pelosi” comes from Baltimore.
Yup. From Little Italy.
Other then maybe, just maybe in the deep south, I do not think so.
Before she headed out to both Cali and to botox treatments.
No Mr. President, we do not need to invest more money into the infrastructure.
We’ve put tons of money into ‘education, job training, etc.’ and while I agree we have to stop the pipeline of school to prison...we have to stop treating this whole community of people as victims.
Lincoln didn’t free the slaves to treat them as victims. He freed them in recognition of their God given Rights as human beings. He freed them to let them pursue their happiness, not victimization.
Yeas ago a teacher said to me, “You don’t have to live this way.” Those simple straight forward words, along with a trust in God, have made all the difference.
No Mr. President, the right words for right now are to tell the youth of urban communities, they and they alone have the ability to choose their path in life. Free them from this foul ideology of victimhood. What holds them back from taking advantage of the opportunities in front of them isn’t a lack of investment, it is the lack of having their own American Dream.
Can someone name me one city in America run by Black leadership where Black citizens are doing well?
How about in the whole world?
I hear what you are saying but, to be frank, I don’t think it has to do with a colour of one’s skin for leadership. I think it has more to do with the person’s values, black or white. I suspect you, like me, believe in an incentive driven economy and children being brought up in a family type environment. The other side, may they be black or white, believes in something else and unfortunately those other people have been running a lot of these problem cities.
“Can someone name me one city in America run by Black leadership where Black citizens are doing well?”
Or ANY one city in the WORLD where you see conservative Christians rioting.
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