[silverleaf]

$1.2 BILLION + per year for the school budget

[clamper1797]

Why in the world would an sane investor invest ANY money in a neighborhood where there is even an outside chance that their investment will be looted / burned (see CVS) in a riot such as we saw in Baltimore. These cretins bring this on themselves.

[Albion Wilde]

Socialists.
Alinskyites.
Democrats.
Know-it-alls.
Waste.
Corruption.
Failure.

“Hey, let’s do it all again!”

[CptnObvious]

It's interesting to watch Democrats trash Democratic cities and Baltimore certainly a fine example. And more dollars go down the sinkhole there than you can imagine.

When I lived in Maryland, folks used to complain about the high local taxes to supported Baltimore. I lived in Montgomery County NW of DC and the local income tax was 1/2 of the MD state income tax.

When I moved to Georgia, there was no local income tax (it was like a raise).

Yep, the Liberal Democrats are trashing Liberal Baltimore and the police force that they run there.

[tflabo]

Excellent thread and eye opening historic information on Sandtown. Thanks—— its what the FReeps do— shine the light on a controversial topic with facts and insights.

[driftless2]

Einstein said the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again but expecting a different result. By that definition "investing" more money in those neighborhoods is the ultimate definition of insanity/stupidity.

Can anyone name ONE!!! neighborhood like the ones in Baltimore and other similar 'hoods that have benefited from the billions/trillions "invested" in them?

[SMARTY]

“We’re going to have to as a country invest, if we’re going to have the kinds of communities we want.”

THAT is f’n unbelievable!

After DECADES of money thrown at that s*&^hole.... MORE will be squandered.... AS IF it has worked SO FAR??!!!

[Dilbert San Diego]

Is this right? 10% of Baltimore’s population are drug addicts??? That many??? Wow. Just wow.

[Oldeconomybuyer]

Just like the U.S. government cannot build democracies out of dysfunctional states overseas, we cannot build thriving cities at home. Liberty must come from within the hearts and minds of the locals.

[dowcaet]

Surely those wealthy Dems in Montgomery County and in Prince George’s County, which have grown rich due to DC’s financial generosity (our money of course), would gladly share some of it with their less wealthy fellow Dems in Baltimore? How about you wealthy Maryland lefties of those two counties show the country the benefits of the wealth redistribution concept your party always talks about? Is that the sound of crickets chirping?

[Dqban22]

Democratic control of Baltimore city is the main cause of the riots and racial division in spite that all the power is in the hand od Black democrats for several generations.

Baltimore need as mayor the mother that took his son from the mob.

Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke: Obama ‘Quietly Enjoying’ Unrest in Baltimore

therightpundit ^ | 4/29/15

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3284576/posts

Not holding back one bit. Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke says O is “quietly enjoying” what’s going on in Baltimore because he’s a ‘promoter of division’ and has ‘benefitted politically’ from ‘dividing’ people.

Sheriff Clarke points out all the times President Obama has pitted one group of Americans against another. He also questions why Obama didn’t come out and speak about the Baltimore riots earlier. He was interviewed here on the Mark Levin Show

Clarke: Change In Baltimore Should Start With "Failed Liberal Democrat Policies"

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3284755/posts

Breitbart.com ^ | April 30,2015 | Ian Hanchett

Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke (D) blasted “failed liberal government policies” for miring people in cities like Baltimore in “generational poverty” and argued that change in Baltimore “needs to start in the politics, the failed liberal Democrat policies” on Wednesday’s “Hannity” on the Fox News Channel.

[BitWielder1]

A private person invests his hard earned money into things that are likely to succeed, in the hope of getting his money back and more.
Government "invests" tax payers money without any concerns of it being fruitful. Except maybe to get votes.

[rbg81]

Who in their right mind is going to invest now? Only the Federal government and any corporate stooges it is able to pressure (e.g., Starbucks). But whatever $$ “invested” will just be flushed down the toilet. Everyone knows this.

[onedoug]

I wouldn’t set foot in Baltimore, no less invest there.

[HarleyLady27]

In the hood, the school budget has nothing to do with education, it has everything about providing jobs for the folks

____________________________________________________________

Where is Senator Cummings on this point?

Seems to me that when o was elected, certain people thought, ‘oh good now I can get what I want and stay home and watch t.v.’

Well that’s not how you maintain a life style. You find a job, it might not be in ‘the hood’ so leave Baltimore and go find a job, get an apartment, a savings account, and end up ‘being somebody’

You can pour mounds of money into something, if there aren’t people to work it, its going to fail....can you tell me why Senator Cummings is that stupid NOT to see this?

[2nd Amendment]

Has anyone blamed Republicans or George Bush for the mayhem in Baltimore?

[Mr. Jeeves]

Now it will be.

[Albion Wilde]

Ping to an article about the 25-year redevelopment efforts in the Baltimore riot zone.