Posted on 01/15/2017 2:14:24 PM PST by madprof98
The front page of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution Sunday blasts President-elect Donald Trump with the headline "Atlanta to Trump: Wrong."
The accompanying front-page article reacts to Trump’s criticism of Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.), after the incoming president said Saturday the longtime congressman does nothing for his district, which Trump said is in "horrible shape and falling apart (not to mention crime infested)."
“The district that Trump described as in ‘horrible shape’ includes Emory University and Morehouse College, as well as Spelman College and Georgia Tech. The Coca-Cola headquarters is just one of that district’s many, high-profile corporate residents,” the AJC article declares.
(Excerpt) Read more at origin-nyi.thehill.com ...
This is success?
About 1 in 6 families in the district live in poverty. The same dataset estimated the national rate to be about 1 family in 9.
The unemployment rate in the district was about 8.2 percent by the American Community Survey’s 2015 one-year measurement. The same data set estimated the national unemployment rate at 6.3 percent, and the Georgia state rate at 7.1 percent.
Atlanta landed at No. 14 in the nation for its rate of violent crime when the Federal Bureau of Investigation released statistics this year that applied to 2015.
Numbers don’t lie.
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Clayton County, Forest Park, College Park, Hapeville, Jonesboro, South Fulton County, Fairburn, Hwy 70 Fulton Industrial Pkwy, East Point, Bankhead, APD ZONE 6, H.E. Holmes, MLK, Memorial Drive, Moreland Ave, Lee Street and Magic City, Powder Springs, Clarkston, Chamblee...
There are many campuses located in unsafe areas. University of Chicago, Yale, USC, VCU, ... I could go on. However, Trump is correct about much of Atlanta. The latest crime wave there involves carjackings at convenience stores; hundreds in the past few months.
He’s like a Kardashian; famous for being famous.
Lewis is no longer a legitimate Congressmen.
The beltway referred to as ‘ring around the Congo’ apparently more descriptively than derisively.
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