Posted on 08/05/2019 9:02:39 PM PDT by bitt
Adding to the barrage of criticism of prominent Baltimore Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-Md.), President Donald Trump recently said billions and billions in federal assistance to the city has been stolen.
Plenty of federal dollars flow to Baltimore every year, but what happens to all of it is hard to determine, since the city has long had a problem tracking its dollars.
What Elijah Cummings should do is, he should take his [House] Oversight Committee, bring them down to Baltimore, and invest all of them and really study the billions and billions of dollars thats been stolen, Trump told reporters upon his departure from the White House on July 30.
He suggested the same should be done for other Democratic-run cities.
Plenty of Cash
In 2018 alone, $16 billion in federal money went to Cummingss 7th Congressional District, said Lynne Patton, regional director for Housing and Urban Development, during a July 30 Fox News interview. The district includes West Baltimore, parts of the citys north and downtown, as well as some surrounding towns and suburbs.
A large chunk of that sum (more than $7 billion) went to Medicaid and CHIP, subsidized healthcare for children and the poor, according to USASpending.gov. Although the funds went to an agency based in Cummingss district, it appears that its the allocation for the entire state. About 20 percent of the money would have been slated for the city, based on 2014 Medicaid enrollment data (pdf).
Excluding Medicaid, Medicare, Social Security, and disability payments, the city received about $5 billion in federal funds in 2018.
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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.
Baltimore recently got most of its systems encrypted by ransomware. Its very likely that they permanently lost untold tens of millions of dollars of financial records.
Would that be a stroke of intentional malfeasance or just a convenient encryption?
The Fed should conduct a forensic audit.
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
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
IS KEEPING BALTIMORE SCHOOL KIDS FREEZING A DEMOCRAT
SCAM TO SCROUNGE MORE TAX DOLLARS FOR THEMSELVES?
<><> NPR reported winter students at Baltimores 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 cant 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.
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.
When it comes to taxpayer money, either collecting or spending, many who deal with these numbers are happy to keep people fooled.
Same old problem. They need a financial overseer on the job at all times. The money is being stolen, plain and simple.
“FLUSH” is the right word........................
Audit both the City of Baltimore and Elijah Cummings.
Make the results public.
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The perception that mass shootings are a white mans 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.
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.
$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!!!
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?.
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."
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
Cummings helps his friends...
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