Posted on 08/03/2019 11:17:19 AM PDT by jfd1776
BTTT
HOORAY jfd1776! Thanks. I’ve had very similar experiences in Detroit.
PS - Bring disposable shoe covers, Typhus and Bubonic Plague disinfectant and a dust mask to cover the smell of bum shit piled up in front of trendy brewpubs in the Arts District.
This is the preferred democrat lifestyle- to point out FACTS is now racist.
“What are the causes of these problems, what are the solutions? Which politicians are more concerned with listing the problems, and which ones are focused on trying to work toward solutions?”
Why, when I read these questions, I was 100% sure that the elephant in the room was not going to get mentioned?
Free trade and offshoring killed heavy industry and most major cities like Baltimore lost their economic viability. All the other problems followed that original sin.
Re industrialize the USA and all the other social problems will slowly melt away. That will require protectionist import tariffs but the USA is too stupid to do that so thy keep blaming the victim of globalism.
“Free trade and offshoring killed heavy industry and most major cities like Baltimore lost their economic viability.”
Baltimore had employment and poverty problems even in the 1970’s, when most stuff was still made in the USA. My mother’s house, built in 1979, used USA manufactured goods without exception.
Blight was carefully minimized then by government efforts.
I suspect the real estate bust is responsible for most of the current blight.
Twenty-first Century ‘gangster” culture is probably responsible for the level of violence.
I found it startling when I recently saw where the democRAT governed State of Illinois has a debt burden of over $216.8 Billion; while the Republican governed next door neighbor Indiana carries a $1.78 Billion budget surplus.
Reindustrialization will only add a few million jobs.
Industry is highly automated nowadays in the USA.
Perhaps Baltimore should aim to meet federal government needs in software system development, etc.
Building component manufacture would be a good choice too.
Health care, via the Johns Hopkins Hospital system, is probably Baltimore’s biggest private sector source of employment.
Well, that statement is misleading...
Note that the graph does not include Obama's full term. And also note that Trump is on the path to continue increasing the debt, unless he does something significant about cutting costs in his second term. (The improvement in the economy is not near enough to reduce the debt.)
US Debt Accumulation by President (2011)
And yes, I've been for Trump since before he announced his candidacy. Just point out the facts.
There is also the factor that Baltimore is a port city.
With containerization, port cities were hard hit employment-wise. The need for people to load and unload ships decreased by around 98%.
Bethlehem Steel at Sparrows Point?
There is no escape from big city liberalism
They have the brain dead votes. Nothing will change that without serious disruption
Or getting through to enough democrats
The siren song of socialism will never end
What needs to be demonstrated to
children is that - happiness comes from sacrificing for others ; not expecting what others can do for you
No other person no amount of money no amount of things will ever make you happy in this world
Only to love ; and be loved - and to create , and make sacred, life on earth
It’s all in our hands
Baltimore is not a “hellhole”.
It has significantly large outdated housing areas.
Pairs of narrow houses might be combined to form larger houses.
A neighbor of a vacant house might be allowed to buy the vacant house cheaply by paying some of the fines due on the vacant house and showing the ability to renovate the vacant house.
Baltimore’s large underutilzed population might do housing renovation work.
In Savannah, Georgia, many houses on a block get renovated at one time, changing a blighted block into an upscale block.
Brian, don’t be silly. All the statistics - poverty, crime, percentage of dangerous neighborhoods, etc. - confirm that Baltimore is a hellhole.
That’s not to say you’re not correct in the example you give - the idea of changing zoning and labor regs so that people can more easily renovate existing homes or tie them together. Sure.
But that would change only a very small percentage of the town... as long as employers and employees flee, there’s a limit to what you can do with the existing population.
And that’s why I focus on ending the welfare state, fast. As long as welfare works as it does, recipients read a post like yours, think about it for ten seconds, and say “nahh, it’s not worth it.”
Liberalism is the problem - driving employers and population out of the urban centers into the suburbs, driving manufacturing to foreign shores.
The 911 debt that Bush dealt with was being paid off until we elected a Democrat Congress. Of course once that happened, he allowed them to kick him around like a dead dog.
Reagan's debt paid for a peaceful end to the Cold War.
As for President Trump, this is one of my major disappointments with him. He clearly has not hesitatated calling out the Dems and the GOP on anything. I wish he call them out on the current overspending.
I wish he call them out on the current overspending.
The wall consumes what little political capital Trump has.
This sounds very much like what the Communists did in Russia and Eastern Europe.
You pretend to pay me and I pretend to work
All of which lead to high alcoholism and other related human deprivations
LOL. I don’t think 100 graphs could tell the whole story.
I agree with you on every point.
I don’t see how any politician can get elected by saying we need to tighten our belts and pay off the debt.
So we’ll keep kicking the can down the road until some emergency forces us to fix it.
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