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Baltimore Flush With Federal Cash, Can’t Tell Where It All Went
epoch times ^ | 8/5/2019 | BRIAN CATES

Posted on 08/05/2019 9:02:39 PM PDT by bitt

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To: bitt

Does anyone actually expect Rep. Scummingsbag (D-Md) to be an honest overseer of federal money given to Baltimore? Ask his wife about that after checking all her bank accounts.

The Democrats have turned Baltimore into a charnel house all the while raking in millions in contracts/kickbacks and plain old political machine corruption.

I lived there for many years and as a small business operator, (like some many other small businessmen), knew how the corruption and incompetence operated. However, nobody would listen to us because all the leaders were Democrats and up to their crooked necks in that corruption.

I got out of Baltimore and after the death of my sister, literally never went back. Even her homeowners’ association was corrupt and nobody cared.


21 posted on 08/05/2019 10:17:44 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: bitt

Baltimore recently got most of its systems encrypted by ransomware. It’s very likely that they permanently lost untold tens of millions of dollars of financial records.


22 posted on 08/05/2019 10:21:02 PM PDT by JohnBrowdie
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To: JohnBrowdie

Would that be a stroke of intentional malfeasance or just a convenient encryption?


23 posted on 08/05/2019 10:28:24 PM PDT by NoCmpromiz (John 14:6 is a non-pluralistic comment.)
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To: bitt
😱Shocked! Shocked I tell you...
24 posted on 08/05/2019 10:47:31 PM PDT by Pajamajan ( Pray for our nation. Thank the Lord for everything you have. Don't wait. Do it today.)
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To: bitt

The Fed should conduct a forensic audit.


25 posted on 08/05/2019 11:25:05 PM PDT by Cobra64 (Common sense isnÂ’t common anymore.)
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To: morphing libertarian

A billion here, and a billion there, pretty soon you’re talking about some REAL corruption

What bothers me A LOT is that a YUGE percentage of the population has no concept of how much larger a billion is than a million and a trillion is than a billion.

So annual deficits of $1,000,000,000,000 don’t have nearly enough cognative impact on those of us whose pockets are getting picked


26 posted on 08/05/2019 11:55:11 PM PDT by Oscar in Batangas
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To: Oscar in Batangas

The USS Ford displaces about 100,000 tons. Stand next to it or to any modern aircraft carrier....IT WILL TAKE YOUR BREATH AWAY

They are Giants alongside the Pier.

Now imagine 10,000 of them.

That’s a billion tons

Now imagine 1,000 FLEETS OF 10,000 USS Fords each

THAT’S a trillion tons.

MORE than enough to capsize Hank Johnson’s precious little Guam Island


27 posted on 08/06/2019 12:08:00 AM PDT by Oscar in Batangas
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To: All

IS KEEPING BALTIMORE SCHOOL KIDS FREEZING A DEMOCRAT
SCAM TO SCROUNGE MORE TAX DOLLARS FOR THEMSELVES?

<><> NPR reported winter students at Baltimore’s public schools are freezing.....
<><> Baltimore winter classrooms do not have any heat. Kids are freezing.
<><> Baltimore public schools spend a whopping $15,000 plus per student per year,
<><> but Democrat PTB say they can’t afford to heat the classrooms.

Bloviating hypocrite Cummings needs to come clean.

Explain why he doesnt give a damn about the children of his constituents, but gets all riled up about if extra blankets arent available for kids at the border.


28 posted on 08/06/2019 1:12:07 AM PDT by Liz (Our side has 8 trillion bullets; the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use. conclusive)
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To: bitt

Don’t fool yourself. They can tell where it went, but they won’t. It went into the treasury of the DNC and the Democrat politicians bank accounts or pockets.


29 posted on 08/06/2019 4:33:00 AM PDT by sport
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To: Oscar in Batangas
Since “bi” as a prefix usually means “two” as in ... a bicycle has two wheels..., many people think that a billion is two million. That is off by a factor of 500. Pictures of physical objects, such as your image of the aircraft carriers, makes the reality of a billion more clear. Numbers alone are too abstract for most people to fully understand.

When it comes to taxpayer money, either collecting or spending, many who deal with these numbers are happy to keep people fooled.

30 posted on 08/06/2019 4:44:38 AM PDT by Freee-dame (Best election ever! 2016)
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To: bitt

Same old problem. They need a financial overseer on the job at all times. The money is being stolen, plain and simple.


31 posted on 08/06/2019 5:24:45 AM PDT by Rapscallion (If they are not for Trump, they are against him. Fire them.)
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To: bitt

“FLUSH” is the right word........................


32 posted on 08/06/2019 6:21:01 AM PDT by Red Badger (Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain......................)
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To: bitt

Audit both the City of Baltimore and Elijah Cummings.

Make the results public.


33 posted on 08/06/2019 6:41:04 AM PDT by Candor7 ((Obama Fascism)http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html)
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To: bitt; null and void; aragorn; EnigmaticAnomaly; kalee; Kale; 2ndDivisionVet; azishot; rfp1234; ...
The FBI must form a division dealing with massive theft of government funds in black inner city neighborhoods.

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https://i642.photobucket.com/albums/uu148/sfphotojournal/mass-shooters-2019-557x600.jpg

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Picture of Mass Shooters of 2019 (More black faces than white)

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https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3769555/posts

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The perception that mass shootings are a “white man’s problem” lingers around the country because white mass shooters tend to get more publicity.

Around the same time that the media was focused on the mass shootings in El Paso and Dayton, 60 people were shot in Chicago over the weekend. 24 of those people were shot in four hours.

Baltimore reached its 200th murder victim of the year during its “Ceasefire Weekend”.

4 people were killed in 4 days in Kansas City. 6 men were shot in Philly during the filming of a rap video.

Even in Toronto, 15 people were wounded in shootings over the weekend. Over 350 people have been shot this year in the Canadian city which has gun control, no NRA, and none of the usual excuses.

34 posted on 08/06/2019 8:04:38 AM PDT by GOPJ (Trump needs to tell the FBI that 'hate crimes against White people' also needs to be included.)
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To: GOPJ

It will never happen. The FBI is not interested in dealing with the massive theft of Government funds in Black inner city neighborhoods. They are only interested in removing President Trump from Office.


35 posted on 08/06/2019 8:12:41 AM PDT by sport
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To: bitt

$16 billion, equal to the GDP of Jamaica pop. around 3 million , went to his district with 700k citizens. Wow, just wow. In one year no less!!!


36 posted on 08/06/2019 8:15:21 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: bitt; bert

I think times were much better in the past when we paid “overpriced lazy” Baltimorans to build ships, smelt steel and manufacture many desirable things for us. Right Bert?.


37 posted on 08/06/2019 8:19:19 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: GOPJ
Trump must order DOJ to identify the massive theft of government funds in black inner city neighborhoods.

The FBI must form a division dealing with crooked pols get-rich-quick schemes; their feel-good votes
confiscate billions in tax dollars for poor black inner city neighborhoods ....... that never arrives.

Cummings message to Baltimore seems to be "I got mine. You'all gettin' nuttin."

38 posted on 08/06/2019 8:20:50 AM PDT by Liz (Our side has 8 trillion bullets; the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use. conclusive)
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To: central_va

Those times are long gone. There is a big competative world out there.

We no longer can bask in the economic post WW II glory begot by a world torn asunder and unable to function. Others have gone to work and have become competition. We must and are competing.

Americans that don’t live under rocks and can see the real world relish the competition. We thrive on it.

The problems in Baltimore are caused soley by corrupt black politicians

Economic and Cultutal analysis


39 posted on 08/06/2019 8:30:20 AM PDT by bert ( (KE. NP. N.btyC. +12) Progressives are existential American enemies)
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To: Liz

Cummings helps his friends...


40 posted on 08/06/2019 8:55:54 AM PDT by GOPJ (Truth cannot be racist; only evil dishonest reprobates would say otherwise - Mychal Massie)
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