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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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To: SeekAndFind

Audit?
How much went to a few at the top?


21 posted on 05/04/2015 8:19:50 AM PDT by hoosiermama (Obama: "Born in Kenya" Lying now or then or now?)
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To: dp0622

” Of this amount, $467.1 million went to education”

And dats the trut!


22 posted on 05/04/2015 8:22:33 AM PDT by stephenjohnbanker (My Batting Average( 1,000) (GOPe is that easy to read))
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To: Will88
Still mid-morning, but my math says $2,900 per man, woman and child in the entire city.


In practice, it's more like millions of dollars for well connected, mostly Black politicians and cronies and little or nothing per every ordinary man, woman and child in the entire city.

Check out the Clinton's scams in Haiti to show us how it's done

23 posted on 05/04/2015 8:34:35 AM PDT by rdcbn
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To: SeekAndFind

sounds like their priorities were .. and are ass backwards..


24 posted on 05/04/2015 8:36:48 AM PDT by NormsRevenge (SEMPER FI!! - Monthly Donors Rock!!)
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To: stephenjohnbanker

My mother had nothing I 1940. Used newspaper for shoes. Schools spent 50 cents on students, lol, but she managed to become a nurse. HOW DID THAT HAPPEN without spending 20 thousands dollars a year oh her.
oh yeah, and after her abusive Mafioso father left and they were on welfare, the men use to come around and count the silverware!!!! one set for each person. And they got MAD when there was an extra box of cereal! That’s welfare.


25 posted on 05/04/2015 8:39:07 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: MrB

No amount of money will ever be enough. After the extra trillion(s) fail, they’ll say it wasn’t enough. They’ll always want more.


26 posted on 05/04/2015 8:40:52 AM PDT by driftless2
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To: SeekAndFind

Obama is a turd. He’s sending a signal to rioters that it’s ok to riot because of the big, bad Republicans.


27 posted on 05/04/2015 8:46:00 AM PDT by Steve_Seattle
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To: SeekAndFind

What a Waste; What a Fraud; What an Abuse...

That is all the progressive liberal democrat communist party knows how to deliver, tax payer dollars for naught.


28 posted on 05/04/2015 8:46:05 AM PDT by PoloSec ( Believe the Gospel: how that Christ died for our sins, was buried and rose again)
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To: rdcbn

Yes, but the math is wrong and it should be $2,900 per person in Baltimore rather than $290. Quite a difference, either a typo or calculation error by the author.


29 posted on 05/04/2015 8:47:09 AM PDT by Will88
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To: Will88

Only $2900? That’s not quite enough for one pack of smokes per day. What are the two pack per day smokers supposed to do? < / sarcasm >


30 posted on 05/04/2015 8:59:26 AM PDT by Vigilanteman (Obama: Fake black man. Fake Messiah. Fake American. How many fakes can you fit in one Zer0?)
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To: Will88

Yup, they stole $2900 from every many woman and child in Baltimore, not $290.


31 posted on 05/04/2015 9:03:39 AM PDT by rdcbn
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To: SeekAndFind

Go to this site to see the funding for every state:

http://www.recovery.gov/arra/Pages/default.aspx

Amazing!


32 posted on 05/04/2015 9:06:15 AM PDT by joemsewi
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To: noexcuses

Slushfund...likely went to campaigns around the country, Baltimore, pensions and SEIU union pensions and the like. The job training? $3.1M for community organizing training.


33 posted on 05/04/2015 9:34:56 AM PDT by CincyRichieRich (We plan to endure. 3%)
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To: SeekAndFind

Well the mayor can dress better now and think of all those shoes ready to be sold.


34 posted on 05/04/2015 9:46:28 AM PDT by Vaduz
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To: SeekAndFind

Hillary,Chelsea and Bills foundation got millions from the stimulus package.


35 posted on 05/04/2015 9:57:14 AM PDT by ballplayer
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To: dp0622

Great comparison with today’s “standards” od poverty.


36 posted on 05/04/2015 10:41:14 AM PDT by stephenjohnbanker (My Batting Average( 1,000) (GOPe is that easy to read))
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To: stephenjohnbanker

should be plastered everywhere. Giuliani used to TEL these stories to black kids who cried about how they were going to pay for college. Rudy would say “get a job”

you guys only get to see the (I don’t know why) the left wing insane side of him. That’s a shame how could someone be so right on some issues and so wrong on others


37 posted on 05/04/2015 10:47:02 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: CrazyIvan

Ha, ha, no kidding.

stuffblackpeopledontlike.com


38 posted on 05/04/2015 9:00:15 PM PDT by Pining_4_TX (All those who were appointed to eternal life believed. Acts 13:48)
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