Posted on 05/12/2015 11:56:20 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
This year marks two decades since two important events in the efforts to get Baltimoreans to face hard truths about Baltimore — David Rusk's warning that a city in decline could pull the whole metropolitan region down and the filing of a major class-action lawsuit to end decades of segregative housing policy that left the city with a disproportionate share of the region's poor.
Rusk's book, "Baltimore Unbound,' declared that the city had reached a point of no return in social and economic decline, and that without a new metropolitan approach to governance, the suburban counties would next feel the pain.
By a "point of no return," Rusk meant a combination of population loss, a disproportionately high minority population, and great disparities between city and suburban income levels.
"There are 34 American cities, including Baltimore, that have passed the point of no return," Rusk wrote. "Not one of these cities has subsequently ever closed the income gap with its suburbs by so much as one percentage point!"
Twenty years later, the numbers support Rusk's prediction.
(Excerpt) Read more at baltimoresun.com ...
I bet all 34 of those cities are democrat run also.
The article quoted is an example of liberal group-think. It states that highly concentrated black urban areas are terrible places. True enough, but then it assumes that if you give the denizens of these places more tax-funded money and “choices” to live in better areas, that you fix the problem. As Section 8 experience shows, that’s not what happens—you infect self-supporting neighborhoods with inner-city pathologies.
In other words, you spread the problems.
Obama
You can't give many of these "lost boys" their high school learning opportunity back, nor their family-taught morality back. You have to write them off and start over with the next generation.
-PJ
Has anyone else noticed, that the poster boys for the liberal view that black men are being killed for no reason, are all people who had been in trouble with the law and whose lives were clearly troubled???
Trayvon Martin had been in trouble and was a gang banger in training.
Michael Brown had just robbed a store before his police encounter, and had a juvenile record which we were not allowed to see.
Freddie Gray had a long rap sheet. He was continually in and out of legal trouble.
First sign of a city in decline;
When they elect Democrats to run the city for two consecutive terms.
Final sign of a city that has gone from “in decline” to F***ed Up Beyond All Repair, (F U B A R ) is when the elect balck Democrats to run the city for that third term.
“The point of no return.” It was once called “white flight.” Well, you could get them to return, and fix things up. But then it’s called “Gentrification” and that’s racist.
Proof that the liberal policies of the democrat/socialist party are an insoluble conundrum.
I thought the correct term was “Baltimorons”.
Albert Einstein had something to say about the problems represented by the recent events in Baltimore. The great man said that you cannot solve a problem with the same level of thinking that created the problem.
Unfortunately there are many who say that we have to do more of the same. More of the same! More of the policies and programs that got us to this mess. How could anybody think that treating people as though they are helpless and unable to cope with life would result in anything good and beautiful. How could anybody think that treating people as less than the magnificent and able creature that they are allow them to grow and actualize their potential?
It is widely recognized that feeding wild animals tends to make them dependent and unable to handle life on their own. Now how much higher and more capable are human beings? Infinitely more. And yet we have made people dependent and stunted their growth and development. How much more fortunate are the wild animals. Why are they treated with more respect? Because they have no vote. People, on the other hand, can easily be bought off, easily convince to sell their lives, potential and futures so cheaply.
It has been said, although not by Einstein, that doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results is the definition of insanity. Actually that sounds more like foolishness, In any case, what we have been doing is a crime against humanity. It doesn’t work. The only right and decent thing to do is to reverse course. Now. Before more generations are destroyed. Along with our economy and social order.
Things be so much better if the white Republicans running the city for the past few decades cared about blacks. Oh, wait....
Well put.
Sad but more likely true.
Twenty years ago, the writer Rusk wrote: "There are 34 American cities, including Baltimore, that have passed the point of no return".
And the total malice aforethought of the Left has only metatstasized into the situation we see today...
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And the guy who was shot in the back while running away was late on his child support.
40 years ago, this could have been the script for a satirical comedy.
all of these “poster boys” would have loved to join and and beat a 61 year old white man to a pulp.
Little Sarajevos in the making.
Baltimore’s, and other cities, problems are the direct consequence of black governance through the medium of the Democratic party. For some reason people cannot face this unpleasant fact-Weird!
I didn't know, until you posted that, what "FUBAR" meant. Thanks. Way too many acronyms around here.
I was at F.R. (Free Republic) a couple of years before I knew what "LOL" meant.
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