Baltimore Has Decided Some Neighborhoods Just Aren’t Worth Saving

Business Insider ^ | 02/24/2012 | Yepoka Yeebo

[SeekAndFind]

RE: At least they have Dish Network in that first pic.

The following chart from The Heritage Foundation shows that even poor Americans – those who fall below the official income poverty line – usually have a DVD player, video gaming system, multiple televisions, a computer, washer and dryer, cable TV, dedicated internet, a cell phone, and in a very limited amount of cases, even a jacuzzi.

The figures were taken in a government consumption survey near the height of the financial and economic bubble in 2005.

With “poor” people enjoying the benefits of what would traditionally be considered middle class is it any wonder, then, that the entire debt based system of this country is in collapse?

America, it seems, has the richest poor people in the world.

[I_Like_Spam]

Here in Pittsburgh, I drove up Larimer Avenue to the meat market near the bridge.

It looked like a war zone, very few standing buildings in testament to the war on poverty.

[RJS1950]

Of course they are still voting at those addresses. They may finally have to level the properties but you can bet that the former residents, living or dead, are still voting democrat from those addresses and probably other addresses as well.

[Eva]

The worst areas of the cities have become like the Indian reservations, people living off the government, have little incentive to take care of their surroundings, they don’t know the meaning of responsibility.

Just wait though, the left has a solution for that, too. It’s called environmental justice. it means that the government will take responsibility for making their environment beautiful and healthful, with parks and jogging trails, gardens, etc. It’s all in Obamacare.

[wintertime]

The schools are horrible because of the students. Any school which has significant numbers of children of welfare moms will be horrible.
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One the major points made in the documentary, “Waiting for Superman”, was that the neighborhoods are horrible because the **schools** are horrible! Please think about it.

** If children attend godless and socialist-funded schools they will learn to think and reason godlessly. They must just to cooperate in the classroom. Godlessness begets sin and sin produces poverty.

** If children attend socialist-funded and government run and owned schools there is great risk that the children will learn to be comfortable with socialism and looking to government as their Savior.

** The white middle class is well on its way to circling down the sewer drain as well with three out of white babies being born out of wedlock.

By the way, my husband and I work with the cub scouts in our rural county. The **white** kids here in this bright red county can NOT READ or do simple arithmetic. The **only** children in this red state county that are learning to read and do simple math are those kids whose parents are doing a **ton** of afterschooling. All ( yes, **all**) of the kids spout Global Warming propaganda.

It's like watching a train wreck in slow motion. In one generation our peaceful and bucolic county will look like the Kensington neighborhood of Philadelphia.

If children attend godless and socialist government owned and run schools we will get a nation of sin produced poverty, socialism, and eventual tyranny. Some neighborhoods are there are, already. They rest are only a generation or two behind.

[Yardstick]

Another mural painted in the style of American Soft-Socialist Delusionalism. They look more and more ironic as time goes by.

[wintertime]

Actually, the street in the photo above doesn’t look that bad. There are not piles of torn garbage bags with trash being blown around. There are no sofas out on the side walk with stuffing hanging out. The car in the photo isn’t on blocks with the tires and wheels missing and the windows smashed. Someone has put out flower pots that amazingly haven’t been stolen. The street looks like it has been swept recently. I don’t see any boarded up homes.

[dogcaller]

One day one is looking at a healthy working class neighborhood and, overnight, that darn market comes in and destroys it...and it happens time after time in those progressive meccas run by the most enlightened. Thankfully we have a president who will see to it that the suburbs share the pain.

[Dilbert San Diego]

Maybe I’m out of the loop, but, the people living in these decrepit buildings have satellite TV? What the heck?

well, at least they get entertained as they live their lives and do God knows what in these places. Wonder if they pay extra to get HBO?

[Portcall24]

Does anyone remember the TV series, “The Wire”? This is exactly what happened on the TV show. One of the supervisors said, “Let them deal drugs in these blocks and don’t touch them. Everywhere else hitting hard.” Crime dropped like a rock and the few blocks weren’t any worse than before. Eventually the supervisor got fired as I recall.

[Wings-n-Wind]

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[blueunicorn6]

Thank-you.

[SeekAndFind]

That’s a TV show though. I’d like to see how such a plan works in REAL LIFE, not the way a script writer wants it to end.

[squarebarb]

“Our little street, what a kingdom it was. Oy veh, Oy veh.”

[blueunicorn6]

True. Good quote.

[firebasecody]

It is a real shame. I drove across one of Baltimore’s old neighborhoods, beautiful brick homes with the curved fronts and marble stoops line in a nice row about a mile down to the harbor. Empty. Boarded up. Burned out. The legacy of The Great Society.

[blueunicorn6]

That is a shame. We need a President with courage and conviction and not this empty-headed, “Look at me.....I know how to roll up my sleeves” dipstick.

[Flycatcher]

Not worry.

Maryland has its priorities right. They just legalized homosexual "marriage."

So all will be well...

[Bon mots]

The Chinese always say, "A picture is worth a thousand words.".

[annieokie]

I counted 5, not the norm. Usually just one, and all units tie into that one for free.

I noticed those beautiful doors, love to have them.

To the suburbs now, got to find a new home/neighborhood to infest. You don't mind do you?/s.