Posted on 04/29/2015 4:27:25 AM PDT by Biggirl
On Tuesday, Barack Obama admitted that the situation faced by the impoverished residents of American urban centers like Baltimore is a hopeless one.
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Absolutely! Once the Dems give amnesty to 20 million illegals and secure the majority of their votes for the long-term, watch how Democrats abandon blacks and turn on them.
Brooklyn, NY
Yes, but they are West Indians or recent African immigrants. Who by the way are on par with everyone else on the socioeconomic ladder. For some reason racism never seems to effect these two groups very much, I wonder why.
Let me add, had two Republican mayors, granted not everyone’s cup of tea, for 20 years.
“What Republicans actually exist in Baltimore anyway? “
The Governor?
Republicans are to Obama what Jews were to Nazis and ‘counter revolutionary capitalist roaders’ were to Mao Tse tung - the boogyman conjured whenever their own miserable failures became apparent.
With my reference as The Wire, I know the Governor, the Republican governor, is in Annapolis and doesn’t really much like the corruption in Baltimore city.
I recommend getting and watching all five seasons of The Wire. The mother we see in the yellow top slapping her kid spouts the language typical of west Baltimore
The theme of the series is that in spite of the efforts of several to induce positive change, the momentum always drags the city back to the corrupt status quo and misery
The series examines the drug trade, the failure of unions, the schools, the perfidy of the news paper over five seasons.
Obama...I’m pitting the blame on the main cause of rioting — the liberal Democrats in Baltimore along with liberal Dems and RINOs nationwide.
The reason is Martin O'Malley.
Rush accurately predicted yesterday that the dems would figure out a way to blame republicans. Sure enough, Obama steps right up and blames repubs for not “investing” in “communities”. Huh??? What the heck does he thing the Great Society programs have been doing for 50 years? The problem is TOO MUCH give away programs and the resultant dependency.
...and if memory serves, her daddy and her brother were also mayors of the great city of baltimore in the not-too-distant past.
yeah, what a family.
IMHO... last night was interesting to say the least. We have seen how other cities deal with riots. I guess there are all sorts of “viewpoints” as to the best way. What last night showed.. not only to Baltimore or Maryland.. but the entire nation... is not to blink. See the threat as a threat and not an “expression of economic rage”. Last night was not a repeat of the night before.. Thank God. The reason was a strong show of force and the repeated message (verbal and physical) that Monday night’s “purge” wasn’t going into a second round.
As to the city.. what a lot of people don’t know is how many Baltimore folks came out Tuesday morning and worked all day cleaning it up. Brooms, bags of trash etc.. getting carted away not by the city.. but by regular Baltimore citizens. If you really knew the city, this wouldn’t surprise you. Are there “bad” sections? Yes, definitely. However, there are a lot of good sections as well.
That being said, I will not breathe a sigh of relief till after this weekend. Lots of talk about people being brought in. Hopefully, it is just talk.
No, it’s not the Republicans IN Baltimore, or any other failing urban cesspool, that are causing the problems.
It’s Republicans ELSEWHERE that are resisting to transfer the wealth from productive people into these cesspools that are the problem.
Get it?
Baltimore is the home of Nancy Pelosi and her criminal Democrat machine family!
In order to “prove” the failure was race related,
we’d have to find an example of a community or country
that adheres to Judeo-Christian / Western Cultural values,
that is predominately “black” in leadership,
that is failing.
IE, you’d have to normalize for culture.
Studies that do that here within our country come to the same conclusion:
It’s the culture, not the color, that determines prosperity.
So, the obvious solution is to shovel another $22 Trillion down this rat-hole and keep the same criminals in office and maybe we'll get a different result or at least we'll keep the blacks on the Democrat Plantation so they can continue to vote 95% for Democrats?
Isn't this the very definition of insanity, or what?
You can call the arson and looting and violence we are seeing on our television screens, rioting. That’s one way to describe the chaos. Another way to describe it is Democrat infighting. This is blue-on-blue violence. The thugs using the suspicious death of Freddie Gray (at the hands of a Democrat-led police department) to justify the looting that updates their home entertainment systems, are Democrats protesting Democrat leaders and Democrat policies in a Democrat-run city.
Poverty has nothing to do with it. This madness and chaos and anarchy is a Democrat-driven culture that starts at the top with a racially-divisive White House heartbreakingly effective at ginning up hate and violence.
Where I currently reside here in Watauga County, North Carolina, the poverty level is 31.3%. Median income is only $34,293. In both of those areas we are much worse off than Baltimore, that has a poverty rate of only 23.8% and a median income of $41,385.
Despite all that, we don’t riot here in Watauga County. Thankfully, we have not been poisoned by the same left-wing culture that is rotting Baltimore, and so many other cities like it, from the inside out. We get along remarkably well. We are neighbors. We are people who help out one another. We take pride in our community, and are grateful for what we do have. We are far from perfect, but we work out our many differences in civilized ways. Solutions are our goal, not cronyism, narcissistic victimhood, and the blaming of others.
One attitude we don’t have here is the soul-killing belief that somebody owes us something, which, of course, is a recipe for discontent. Because if you’re not getting what’s owed to you, how can you be anything but angry?
Democrats and their never-ending grievance campaigns; their never-ending propaganda that government largess is the answer; their never-ending caves to corrupt unions; their never-ending warehousing of innocent children in failed public schools — that’s a Democrat problem, not America’s problem.
I might believe Baltimore was an American problem if the city was interested in new ideas and a new direction under new leaders. But we all know that will never happen. After Democrat policies result in despair and anarchy, Democrats always demand more of the same, only bigger.
And the media goes right along.
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