Posted on 05/01/2015 7:40:14 AM PDT by all the best
Baltimore is burning and the book most relevant to the tragedy, and to that of Ferguson, MO, Detroit, MI, and many other cities in the US is Friedrich Hayek’s Road to Serfdom.
The media will pimp the idea that racism caused the rioting, looting, and burning, but racists live in every city in the US that is not on fire. Baltimore and Ferguson have more in common with the Arab “Spring” and the frequent rioting in Paris and London than with the civil rights marches of the 1960s. Cairo and Tunis erupted a few years ago because they had armies of unemployed young people with no jobs, many of them with worthless university degrees.
Both countries had been socialist for decades and had guaranteed a free education to any student who wanted one. Most of the time the state created new jobs in the bureaucracy to absorb the graduates. They were “rubber stamp” jobs because the state would add jobs by requiring more stamps for the myriads of licenses they required for everything from driving permits to selling water. Eventually, the states had to stop fabricating worthless jobs because they couldn't pay for them any longer. That caused the army of unemployed to surge. The Arab “Spring” blossomed when an out-of-work college grad in Tunis set himself on fire because the government refused to give him a permit to open a hot dog stand, his last hope for an income.
The socialist government in France has created similar armies of hopeless people on welfare. They are Muslim for the most part and will never be able to find a job because businesses don’t create jobs in France. Labor regulations that amount to extortion and ridiculously high taxes ensure that businesses fail or leave unless protected from competition.
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The stupid, it burns.
Marilyn Mosby the State Atty for Baltimore in the presser just said that she is “sworn to uphold the justice”
What happened to UPHOLD THE LAW ???
Quit the Baltimore publicity and it will all die down in a few days.
Why Baltimore burns?
Same reason as the wheel of fortune answer to “People who annoy you”.
And I’m referring to cultural tendencies, not skin melanin content.
Now known as Baltimogadishu.
Sooooo many ways to bring hell to earth... and 'liberals' know them all...
Sounds like an Obama action plan except he will have to substitute Hispanics until he can import a lot more Muslims.
Spot on, but there are other things at play here. Guess why the crime rate in Montpellier VT is extremely low and Baltimore, Chicago, Detroit, etc is so very high? Hint; While gun control or lack of it has a definite effect, the main reason is that places like Baltimore have something Montpellier does not; A large poll of available criminals.
Baltimore City is as far away to me perceptually as it is to those many states away.
Just another TV freakshow. I gave up going there decades ago.
The more normal and nicer areas are far West (Frederick) and North West (Carroll county). Northern Baltimore county is nice too,.
Someone should be asking why the rioting is happening in the showcase cities for socialism and not in the southern cities like Atlanta and Dallas? Not that those cities are examples of pure laissez-faire. They’re far from it, but in comparison to Baltimore they look very free. Are there no racist police in the south?
So why doesn’t socialism work like the “progressive” or “liberals” or Democrats or socialist-light conservatives claim it will?
We're starting to ask the right questions...
Yes, every state has its physical beauty. I “lived” in MD for 30+ years. The LIB presence and majority is deadening to the soul. Free at last! Thank God...Free at last!!!!!
And spreading thanks to the democrat party and the MSM fifty years in the making and now the goal is near 100% socialism.
The demographics and people are much different in some of these other parts of the state. Certain counties vote Republican.
Dems win elections here because the most populated areas are w gov contracts and government) near Baltimore, DC, and eastern Howard county (which votes Dem.
i couldn’t care less
this is the inevitable destiny of all progressive cities.
baltimore... welcome to detroit
Like I said...I “lived” there for 30 years. What you say is true, but you lose because of demographics. I felt the best strategy was to leave that rat (DIMocRAT) hellhole and let it fester in its own pathetic juices. These LIB fools will tax you to death to support their lame-brained ideas off governing. Best of luck in a losing game.
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