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Not enough money? Baltimore got $1.8 billion from Obama Stimulus
American Thinker ^ | 05/04/2015 | Thomas Lifson

Posted on 05/04/2015 7:51:13 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

Last Tuesday, President Obama blamed the GOP-controlled Congress for its failure to fund the “massive investment in urban communities” that could “make a difference.” Well, how does $1.8 billion for the 622,000 people of Baltimore sound? Pretty massive, actually just about $290 for every man, woman, child, and baby of the entire City of Baltimore.

But that’s the total amount of Obama Stimulus money sent to Charm City, according to an analysis by The Free Beacon:

 The city of Baltimore received over $1.8 billion from President Barack Obama’s stimulus law, including $467.1 million to invest in education and $26.5 million for crime prevention.

Moreover, that spending was concentrated in Baltimore’s inner city areas:

According to Recovery.gov, one of Baltimore’s central ZIP codes, 21201, received the most stimulus funding in the city, a total of $837,955,866. The amount included funding for 276 awards, and the website reports that the spending had created 290 jobs in the fourth quarter in 2013.

Of this amount, $467.1 million went to education; $206.1 million to the environment; $24 million to “family”; $16.1 million to infrastructure; $15.2 million to transportation; $11.9 million to housing; and $3.1 million to job training.


(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government; News/Current Events; US: Maryland
KEYWORDS: baltimore; baltimoreriots; baltimorestimulus; blackkk; bluecity; elijahcummings; maryland; stimulus
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1 posted on 05/04/2015 7:51:13 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind
$206.1 million to the environment

HUH??

2 posted on 05/04/2015 7:53:36 AM PDT by noexcuses
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To: noexcuses; SeekAndFind

And only $3.1 mln for JOBS....

Can you say “redistribution of wealth”, comrades?


3 posted on 05/04/2015 7:58:34 AM PDT by Old Sarge (Its the Sixties all over again, but with crappy music...)
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To: noexcuses

Criminal slush fund. We live in lawless times.


4 posted on 05/04/2015 7:59:08 AM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: Old Sarge

TWEMTY TWO TRILLION DOLLARS

TWENTY TWO MILLION MILLION DOLLARS

In wealth confiscation and “redistribution” since the War on Poverty began.

ENOUGH.


5 posted on 05/04/2015 7:59:54 AM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: Old Sarge

Were it ten trillion towards jobs, would it matter? I’ve been around these neighborhoods. No one wants to work, they want to hang around bodegas and delis and brag about how they aren’t b...es because they didn’t snitch in jail or visited their child once in the past 2 months, or bought a new piece, etc.


6 posted on 05/04/2015 8:01:55 AM PDT by dp0622 (Franky Five Angels: "Look, let's get 'em all -- let's get 'em all now, while we got the muscle.")
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To: noexcuses

The enviro crony capitalist need paid too.


7 posted on 05/04/2015 8:02:24 AM PDT by Lurkina.n.Learnin (It's a shame nobama truly doesn't care about any of this. Our country, our future, he doesn't care)
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To: SeekAndFind
Well, how does $1.8 billion for the 622,000 people of Baltimore sound? Pretty massive, actually just about $290 for every man, woman, child, and baby of the entire City of Baltimore.

Still mid-morning, but my math says $2,900 per man, woman and child in the entire city.

8 posted on 05/04/2015 8:03:13 AM PDT by Will88
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To: SeekAndFind

TROUBLE IS; The COLD HARD C-A-S-H didn’t go into the MALCONTENT RIOTER’S HANDS.


9 posted on 05/04/2015 8:03:58 AM PDT by SandRat (Duty - Honor - Country! What else needs said?)
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To: SeekAndFind

Only libs think that spend $838 million to create 290 jobs is how to run a government.


10 posted on 05/04/2015 8:05:52 AM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (True followers of Christ emulate Christ. True followers of Mohammed emulate Mohammed.)
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To: dp0622

Most of them wouldn’t work if you offered them $100 an hour to do inventory for a blind liquor store owner.


11 posted on 05/04/2015 8:06:26 AM PDT by CrazyIvan (I lost my phased plasma rifle in a tragic hovercraft accident.)
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To: MrB
"twenty two trillion"

Just one trillion more ought to do the trick. /s

12 posted on 05/04/2015 8:06:31 AM PDT by driftless2
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To: driftless2

Just for a reference,
one dollar is to a million dollars
as
one million dollars is to a trillion dollars.


13 posted on 05/04/2015 8:08:02 AM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: dp0622

Who would want to hire them? No job skills, rotten attitudes.


14 posted on 05/04/2015 8:08:32 AM PDT by driftless2
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To: SeekAndFind

“Baltimore received”

Reminds me of around here when the teachers start lobbying for school bonds (”taxes”) “for the children”.
Once passed, a lot of the teachers buy new cars—one vice-principle a new Corvette.

Baltimore received=local political grifters received


15 posted on 05/04/2015 8:08:47 AM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives.)
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To: SeekAndFind
Just anothe ploy and phony facade in order to STEAL TAXPAYER MONEY.

Obozo and his gang have done nothing more than create divisiveness and turmoil as a distraction to the fact that they are helping themselves and their cronies to taxpayer money.

16 posted on 05/04/2015 8:11:11 AM PDT by VideoDoctor
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To: CrazyIvan

someone related a story of a man in the army
who, being under behavioral discipline,
was sent to the motor pool to sweep the floor.

The guy supervising him said that he walked around,
keeping the broom “just” off the floor in order to avoid sweeping.
This was far more “work” than actually conforming to the corrective labor.

So - with this crowd, there’s laziness, to be sure, but how much of it is simply rebellion to what is perceived as YT’s authority?


17 posted on 05/04/2015 8:11:14 AM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: CrazyIvan

lol. we all know that. But what do we do about it. They give the dems a FIFTEEN point advantage in presidential re. That IS VERY hard to overcome and it pi..es me off.
and Obama wants mandatory voting because then every lazy pos will vote.
We HAVE to get CRUZ or Walker as my second choice to slash and burn welfare.
F em. No say in the new govt. If protesting is the new normal as some say, then violent crushing of the riots is need.
Wish they would try this crap in Texas. or my neighborhood. 300k crazy and ready and eager to fight Italians and irish. .


18 posted on 05/04/2015 8:15:31 AM PDT by dp0622 (Franky Five Angels: "Look, let's get 'em all -- let's get 'em all now, while we got the muscle.")
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To: SeekAndFind
"Baltimore got $1.8 billion from Obama Stimulus"

Baltimore got $1.8 billion from Obama's WEALTH REDISTRIBUTION

19 posted on 05/04/2015 8:16:05 AM PDT by Iron Munro (Oh, yeah. A voluntary internal aWe may be paranoid but that doesn't mean they aren't really after us)
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To: driftless2

they are an infestation. Like I said a million times lol, I’ve worked in their neighborhoods. I’ve told the stories on other boards. They’re not human almost in the way they live.


20 posted on 05/04/2015 8:16:54 AM PDT by dp0622 (Franky Five Angels: "Look, let's get 'em all -- let's get 'em all now, while we got the muscle.")
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