Posted on 08/07/2019 8:18:08 AM PDT by Kaslin
Here's what President Donald Trump tweeted about Baltimore's congressman and his city: "Rep. Elijah Cummings has been a brutal bully, shouting and screaming at the great men & women of Border Patrol about conditions at the Southern Border, when actually his Baltimore district is far worse and more dangerous. His district is considered the worst in the USA."
"As proven last week during a congressional tour, the border is clean, efficient and well run, just very crowded," Trump added. Cumming's "district is a disgusting, rat and rodent infested mess. If he spent more time in Baltimore, maybe he could help clean up this very dangerous & filthy place."
President Donald Trump's claims suggesting that Rep. Elijah Cummings' Baltimore-area district is "considered the worst run and most dangerous" has been called racist. But whether Trump's claims have any merit is an empirical matter settled by appealing to facts. Let's look at a few.
In 2018, Baltimore was rated one of the "Rattiest Cities" in the nation by pest control company Orkin. According to Patch Media, although there has been progress in the last few years, Baltimore ranks ninth in rat infestation, down from its sixth position two years ago on Orkin's list.
What about safety? In 2017, St. Louis had the nation's highest murder rate, at 66.1 homicides per 100,000 residents. Baltimore came in second, with 55.8 murders per 100,000 people. The unpleasant fact is that predominantly black and Democratic-run cities have the worst records of public safety. The Trace, an independent nonprofit news organization, using 2017 data from the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting program, listed the 20 major U.S. cities with the highest homicide rates. After St. Louis and Baltimore, Detroit was third, with 39.8 murders per 100,000 people. Other cities with high murder rates included New Orleans; Kansas City, Missouri; Cleveland; Memphis, Tennessee; and Newark, New Jersey. With 24.1 murders per 100,000 residents, Chicago ranked ninth in the nation, followed by Cincinnati and Philadelphia. Washington, D.C., was 17th.
What about education in Baltimore? In 2016, in 13 of Baltimore's 39 high schools, not a single student scored proficient on the state's mathematics exam. In six other high schools, only 1% tested proficient in math. In raw numbers, 3,804 Baltimore students took the state's math test and 14 tested proficient. Citywide, only 15% of Baltimore students passed the state's English test. Money is not the problem. Of the nation's 100 largest school systems, Baltimore schools rank third in spending per pupil.
Baltimore's black students receive diplomas that attest that they can function at a 12th-grade level when in fact they may not be able to do so at a sixth-, seventh- or eighth-grade level. These students and their families have little reason to suspect that their diplomas are fraudulent. Thus, if they cannot pass a civil service exam, they will accuse the exam of being racist. When they get poor grades in college and flunk out, they will attribute their plight to racism. The information that these black students have is that they, just as white students, have a high school diploma and the only explanation they see for unequal outcomes is racism. The same story of poor education outcomes can be told about most cities with large black populations.
The problems that black people confront are immune to who is the president of the United States. Those problems were not ameliorated when Barack Obama was president. Those problems are not going to be ameliorated by Trump's presidency, though the black unemployment rate is considerably lower. The lesson for black people is that politicians and government handouts are not solutions. If they were, at a public expenditure that tops $22 trillion over the past half-century, black people would not be confronted with today's problems.
Absolutely. Black Democrats are realizing that the politicians they have been electing for decades have done nothing for them.
The Dems ALWAYS know exactly what they are doing. They run their cities and districts the way they do for a reason.
While the “horror” is the front cover of the stories of these cities, the back story is the HUGE amounts of graft, corruption and skimming off the Federal Funds being sent to these cesspools to “bail them out” ;
The graft runs BOTH ways-back into Congress-back into the pockets of those in DC that pass the legislation authorizing bailouts, and also into the local pols pockets that created the mess. Its a “wash-wash” both ways which you and I pay for.
This is the PRIME reason there are such messes. Democrat “stupidity” is the cover under which they operate.
Nancy Pelosi and her 190 million dollars are not stupid. Neither is Elijah Cummings and his scheming wife.
We may be gullible because our minds just do not work that way. They expect us to remain supine and now have potentially enough power to incarcerate or even kill those bold enough to individually attempt to get in their way.
baltimore is the pits, as are several additional once-pretty-great American big cities
it is not a person’s race that’s the problem...
it is racism by persons of all races...including blacks
And what about the $15.7 Billion sent to Baltimore by the Trump admin since 2017? Nobody seems to know where a large portion of that money went. Cummings is chairman of the committee that should try to find out, and he is not interested.
Yes Trump was right...as usual...
Never underestimate Donald Trump. I’ve been telling you people that for the past 4 years, since the day he announced he was running for President...Just don’t underestimate this guy.
Preach It, Brother Williams!
This guy is a National Treasure. Everyone should listen to him. MAGA! :)
There is no incentive for Rats to make their cities safe to live in.
“Absolutely. Black Democrats are realizing that the politicians they have been electing for decades have done nothing for them.”
“What do you have to lose (by voting for me)?”
~ Candidate Donald J. Trump, August 19, 2016
Yes.
More than a billion dollars went to Baltimore SINCE Trump's been elected.
Money that went down the liberal rat-hole of corrupt black democrat activists (the ONLY people the press ever talks to...) Money funneled to them by corrupt white liberal activists in power...
Why are democrats doing everything they can to shut conservatives up? To force us to look away from their corruption?
Because there's big money on the table... money they're stealing from inner city black residents and from taxpayers. Lucky for the crooks that the FBI is controlled by the democrat party and 'looks away' like they're told.
Sadly this is nothing new. I invite you to read the Malcom X speech on education, in it he says many important things these got him killed back in the 1960s.
But Cummings and his crew conveniently failed to note that at the time,
<><> the mayor of Baltimore was black;
<><> the majority of the city council was black;
<><> the police chief was black;
<><> the prosecutor against the police was black;
<><> three of the charged officers in Gray's case were black;
<><> the congressman for the district was black;
<><> the president of the United States was black;
<><> and the attorney general of the United States was black.
BTW a black prosecutor had them coppers tried for murder......they were found innocent.
Emails Show IRS’ Lois Lerner Fed conservative “True the Vote” Tax Info to Democrat Elijah Cummings twitter
feed.
Did Cummings request this info?
For what reason?
What did he do with it?
What did he intend to do with it?
Dead on Right!!! “Charm City” is now “Harm City” . Most of the Caucasians I know will not go into Baltimore For fear of problems .
I live in Carroll County just west of B/C and just watch the local news to get the daily body count .
IS KEEPING BALTIMORE SCHOOL KIDS FREEZING A DEMOCRAT
SCAM TO SCROUNGE MORE TAX DOLLARS FOR THEMSELVES?
<><> NPR reported 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
The conclusion drawn is that Pugh and Associate Black Charities colluded in secret to tap the fund to enrich her.
Might also conclude the greedy Cummings and his wife have their greedy fingers in this money pot, too.
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The new audit cites several concerns about the black charity:
- The awarding of grants is not always consistent
- Grant decisions weren't always documented
- There were no onsite visits
- The audit makes no mention of political influence
- The audit makes no connection to Pugh...or the Cummings.
The little Milk Dud is deep in thought. Can Baltimore City Hall falsify enough back-dated vouchers
for $16 billion in bogus community projects in time to keep the Cummings out of jail?
The Cummings colluded to shakedown business before Cummings’ oversight committee. They strong-armed these businesses to pay up---or else. The businesses also were forced to hire Cummings wife as a “consultant” for millions more. Her only consulting expertse was being married to the man who could make it hard for them to do business.
The findings are shocking. According to the report, the Cummings nonprofit group was “cutting deals” with special interest groups directly tied to Cummings’ House Oversight Committee.
Maya runs her non-profit “Global Policy Solutions” along with a separate for-profit venture. The watchdog alleges her group “received $6.2 million in grants from various corporate backers including Google, JP Morgan, Prudential & Johnson and Johnson.”
The IRS complaint also highlighted that the Cummings made no attempt to camouflage their shakedowns......Mrs. Cummings’ separate organizations overlap in leadership, addresses, facilities, projects, and clients.
In addition to this, according to the report, a complaint has been issued to the Maryland Attorney General.
No amount of money will ever change any of these turd world dumps. The only thing that will change them is personal responsibility.
bkmk
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