Baltimore
I'm guessing illegal drug purchases are not included in those totals.
Like I said, Detroit with crabcakes.
Most American cities have gone to hell. Wasn’t always like that. In the 50’s, downtown was the place to be. No one worried about their safety. Nice stores. Decorated at Christmas.
Not now. Most American cities are hell holes. Producers are nowhere to be found. If one strays into the city for some unknown reason, he is on the front page of the news the next day. The cities survive only with money from the state, which takes it from the producers and gives it to the parasites, calling it “aid to cities.” Rents are subsidized or paid for through “Section 8,” a stupid name for “government-paid housing” compliments of the producers.
Wouldn’t be so bad if they didn’t hate us producers and blame us for all their problems!
Baltimore once had a huge employment engine located at the industrial Sparrow Point region of Baltimore. Globalists never protected American heavy industry, selling it out to the third world and others, which destroyed Sparrow Point as an economic engine and caused great social/political upheaval. This was the turning point (in a bad way ) for Baltimore and many other cities. Read this: A Brief Economic History of Modern Baltimore
If the GOP and Libertarians like Rush want to play blame the victim don't count me in. There is a lot of blame to go around.
Baltimore is home to Johns Hopkins and other well renowned hospitals (remember Ben Carson?)
The ‘drug’ problem has traveled into other Maryland suburbs, by black and white addicts.
My worst experience was a home invasion and theft by a young white male. (Mixed blessings - I was out of town).
Life can be repaired, but it will take all citizens to pull together and make it happen.
It is a sad reality, but the good folks in any bad city (regardless of “race”) leave when they can, and that leaves the city with even less producers than bwfore those folks left, and down it continues.
If there should be any “federal help” for such situations (not saying there should), the only help that makes sense to me is for internal migration to states with job creation rates above the national average. And if that were a federal policy, then I would also end all immigration for a period of time, or risk defeating the assistance with internal migration.
Nancy Pelosi wrecked 2 cities. Baltimore and San Francisco.
LBJ’s and the Democrats’ War on Poverty has destroyed every city, which were sold into the WOP by the democrat leaders in every city.
This War on Poverty was a new form of economic Slavery of black Americans living in the big cities, by the democrats.
The politicians in control of these cities have gotten rich while their cities became rat infested $hitholes with increased poverty for the citizens in these cities.
The War on Poverty Wasn’t A Failure — It Was A Catastrophe
57,390 viewsMar 19, 2014, 11:52am
Louis Woodhill Contributor
I apply unconventional logic to economic issues.
Has the War on Poverty been a failure? Well, of course it has. If you devote 50 years and $21.5 trillion (in 4Q2013 dollars) to anything, and people are arguing about whether it was a success or a failure, then you can be sure that it was a failure.
Have you noticed that, 50+ years from its inception, no one is suggesting that the Apollo program was a failure? The Apollo program was an unchallenged success because it accomplished its stated goal: “…to land a man on the moon, and to return him safely to the earth.”
The stated goal of the War on Poverty, as enunciated by Lyndon Johnson on January 8, 1964, was, “…not only to relieve the symptom of poverty, but to cure it and, above all, to prevent it.” Measured against this objective, the War on Poverty has not just been a failure, it has been a catastrophe. It was supposed to help America’s poor become self-sufficient, and it has made them dependent and dysfunctional.
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