The situation in Baltimore points directly at the Liberals and they refuse to accept the responsibility. Same thing happened in Detroit. Baltimore has declined in every way since the Liberals took over several decades ago. It has been downhill ever since then.
If the Liberals have been politically in control all this time why did this situation occur. They have a black liberal mayor, a black police commissioner, and a black state attorney. All this happened under their watch. Three of those charged are also black. Yet they blame everyone but themselves.
So what is the bigger problem. In a city that spends $16,000 a year on each student in their system it just proves that throwing money at problems is never the answer. Their dropout rates and testing scores attest to that. Education is the biggest stairway to success there is. But all of these socialistic maneuvers are shallow and mostly for show only.
Economic success is what separated this country from others and is exactly how this country rose to the top so quickly. You have to reward exceptionalism and socialists just don’t get it. When a city accepts ghettos they blame the economy and lack of economic development. Neither can be developed successfully in a socialistic way. Individualism is what makes this country tick. Education should be the catalyst and if you spend $16,000 a year per student there is something wrong if that community does not reap the benefits. But that is Liberalism in a nutshell.
What happened in Baltimore is being blamed on the idea that everyone is to blame but those who live there and who politically control it. That is absurd. Protesting is one thing, rioting is another. Rioting exploits an incident and allows those who feel oppressed to take out their frustrations in an aggressive and destructive manner.
Liberalism destroyed Detroit now Baltimore so who is next. Racism is not the cause that is just an excuse. Baltimore is dominated by Liberal blacks and look what happened. They blame 6 policemen and policewomen, half black, and split by gender. The fuse has been burning for over half a century and those in control refused to acknowledge it. What happened in Baltimore had nothing to do with race. What happened in Baltimore was inevitable. The unfortunate victim was 25 yrs old and already had 20 arrests. Give me a break. He resisted arrest (no reason to die) but was this going to be his last arrest had he lived, hell no.
I feel sorry for the people of Baltimore don’t get me wrong. But anyone who cannot link all of this turmoil to Liberalism is also part of the problem.
If the Liberals have been politically in control all this time why did this situation occur. They have a black liberal mayor, a black police commissioner, and a black state attorney. All this happened under their watch. Three of those charged are also black. Yet they blame everyone but themselves.
So what is the bigger problem. In a city that spends $16,000 a year on each student in their system it just proves that throwing money at problems is never the answer. Their dropout rates and testing scores attest to that. Education is the biggest stairway to success there is. But all of these socialistic maneuvers are shallow and mostly for show only.
Economic success is what separated this country from others and is exactly how this country rose to the top so quickly. You have to reward exceptionalism and socialists just don’t get it. When a city accepts ghettos they blame the economy and lack of economic development. Neither can be developed successfully in a socialistic way. Individualism is what makes this country tick. Education should be the catalyst and if you spend $16,000 a year per student there is something wrong if that community does not reap the benefits. But that is Liberalism in a nutshell.
What happened in Baltimore is being blamed on the idea that everyone is to blame but those who live there and who politically control it. That is absurd. Protesting is one thing, rioting is another. Rioting exploits an incident and allows those who feel oppressed to take out their frustrations in an aggressive and destructive manner.
Liberalism destroyed Detroit now Baltimore so who is next. Racism is not the cause that is just an excuse. Baltimore is dominated by Liberal blacks and look what happened. They blame 6 policemen and policewomen, half black, and split by gender. The fuse has been burning for over half a century and those in control refused to acknowledge it. What happened in Baltimore had nothing to do with race. What happened in Baltimore was inevitable. The unfortunate victim was 25 yrs old and already had 20 arrests. Give me a break. He resisted arrest (no reason to die) but was this going to be his last arrest had he lived, hell no.
I feel sorry for the people of Baltimore don’t get me wrong. But anyone who cannot link all of this turmoil to Liberalism is also part of the problem.
Very good article from the Baltimore Sun on the police investigation of how Mr. Gray died.
Of course the prosecutor lied about this not being a quick investigation. It wasn't complete and the article notes that an investigation that typically takes months was cut off after 2 weeks (by her).
"They had not expected the state's attorney's office to act so soon."
Of course the prosecutor lied about this not being a quick investigation. It wasn't complete and the article notes that an investigation that typically takes months was cut off after 2 weeks (by her).
"They had not expected the state's attorney's office to act so soon."
[h=2]Baltimore Received $1.8 Billion from Obama’s Stimulus Law[/h]City burned despite ‘massive investment’ implemented by president
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BY: Elizabeth Harrington
May 4, 2015 5:00 am
The city of Baltimore received over $1.8 billion from President Barack Obama’s stimulus law, including $467.1 million to invest in education and $26.5 million for crime prevention.
President Obama claimed last Tuesday that if the Republican-controlled Congress would implement his policies to make “massive investments in urban communities,” they could “make a difference right now” in the city, currently in upheaval following the death of Freddie Gray.
However, a Washington Free Beacon analysis found that the Obama administration and Democratically-controlled Congress did make a “massive” investment into Baltimore, appropriating $1,831,768,487 though the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA), commonly known as the stimulus.
According to Recovery.gov, one of Baltimore’s central ZIP codes, 21201, received the most stimulus funding in the city, a total of $837,955,866. The amount included funding for 276 awards, and the website reports that the spending had created 290 jobs in the fourth quarter in 2013.
Of this amount, $467.1 million went to education; $206.1 million to the environment; $24 million to “family”; $16.1 million to infrastructure; $15.2 million to transportation; $11.9 million to housing; and $3.1 million to job training.
ZIP code 21202 received $425,170,937, including a $136 million grant to “improve teaching and learning for students most at risk of failing to meet State academic achievement standards.”
Twenty-nine other ZIP codes listed in Baltimore city received a total of $568,641,684.
The Free Beacon calculated the total amount of stimulus funds disbursed to all ZIP codes in Baltimore City, as reported on the stimulus website Recovery.gov. The analysis includes the totals of awards to prime recipients in Baltimore, plus sub-recipient awards to Baltimore organizations and companies that conducted stimulus projects located outside the city.
The projects included $26.5 million from the Justice Department (DOJ) to combat gang activity and provide community support for at-risk juveniles.
“The State of MD Governor’s Office of Crime Control & Prevention (GOCCP) goals and objectives of this project are to create and retain jobs to bolster Maryland’s faltering economy, and make resources available to law enforcement and other public safety agencies to help protect Maryland citizens,” the project’s description states.
Among the listed goals are “to curb the growth of criminal gangs in Maryland, and to effectively dismantle existing gangs.”
Funding also went to “Operation Safe Kids,” which sought to “develop and implement an effective community-based supervision model for at-risk juveniles to minimize residential placements without compromising public safety.”
The project also included criminal justice reform, to “identify non-violent substance abusing offenders who may be amenable to treatment, and place them under community-based supervision with intensive drug treatment combined with strong judicial oversight and support.”
The stimulus also gave the city $26 million for the “Healthy Neighborhoods, Inc. Neighborhood Stabilization Program,” to “redevelop residential foreclosed, abandoned, or vacant properties in designated neighborhoods in Baltimore, Maryland.”
Roughly $9.5 million went towards homelessness prevention.
A total of $5,644,792 of Community Services Block Grants went to Baltimore meant to “promote the economic and social well-being of children, youth, families and communities.”
“The funding is used for activities that contribute to the reduction of poverty, revitalization of low-income communities, and empowerment of low-income families and individuals,” a description of the project said. “These activities include, but are not limited to; emergency services, shelter programs and services, job training and job readiness training, Head Start and Early Head Start programs, nutrition programs, as well as medical assistance programs and services.”
“Working through a network of non-profit community action agencies and other neighborhood-based organizations in rural and urban areas, this wide range of programs and services is implemented to help clients become fully self-sufficient,” it said.
Another $548,100 project, which reported creating 15.41 jobs during its most productive quarter, was devoted to the “preservation of jobs that are threatened by declines in philanthropic and other support during the current economic downturn.”
Baltimore’s unemployment rate currently is 8.4 percent.
Following the violent riots on Monday evening that resulted in over 235 arrests, 15 torched buildings, 144 destroyed vehicles, and 20 injured police officers, President Obama spoke on the issue.
Obama called for more early education programs, criminal justice reform, and “making investments so that [youth] can get the training they need to find jobs.”
“There’s a bunch of my agenda that would make a difference right now in that,” he said.
The president then proceeded to blame the Republican-controlled Congress for not implementing his agenda.
“I’m under no illusion that under this Congress we’re going to get massive investments in urban communities,” Obama said.
The left-wing comedian Jon Stewart and the ABC News anchor George Stephanopoulos made asimilar argument on the Daily Show on Tuesday.
“You just wonder sometimes if we’re spending a trillion dollars to rebuild Afghanistan’s schools, like, we can’t build a little taste down Baltimore way,” Stewart said. “Like is that what’s really going on.”
“This is what drives me crazy, you just got applause when you said that line,” Stephanopoulos said. “Any single politician in the country gets applause when they say that line. Yet it doesn’t happen.”
Peter Wehner of Commentary Magazine pointed out that the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) only invested $885 million in education projects in Afghanistan over a ten-year period, less than the amount that Baltimore received from the stimulus law.
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BY: Elizabeth Harrington
May 4, 2015 5:00 am
The city of Baltimore received over $1.8 billion from President Barack Obama’s stimulus law, including $467.1 million to invest in education and $26.5 million for crime prevention.
President Obama claimed last Tuesday that if the Republican-controlled Congress would implement his policies to make “massive investments in urban communities,” they could “make a difference right now” in the city, currently in upheaval following the death of Freddie Gray.
However, a Washington Free Beacon analysis found that the Obama administration and Democratically-controlled Congress did make a “massive” investment into Baltimore, appropriating $1,831,768,487 though the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA), commonly known as the stimulus.
According to Recovery.gov, one of Baltimore’s central ZIP codes, 21201, received the most stimulus funding in the city, a total of $837,955,866. The amount included funding for 276 awards, and the website reports that the spending had created 290 jobs in the fourth quarter in 2013.
Of this amount, $467.1 million went to education; $206.1 million to the environment; $24 million to “family”; $16.1 million to infrastructure; $15.2 million to transportation; $11.9 million to housing; and $3.1 million to job training.
ZIP code 21202 received $425,170,937, including a $136 million grant to “improve teaching and learning for students most at risk of failing to meet State academic achievement standards.”
Twenty-nine other ZIP codes listed in Baltimore city received a total of $568,641,684.
The Free Beacon calculated the total amount of stimulus funds disbursed to all ZIP codes in Baltimore City, as reported on the stimulus website Recovery.gov. The analysis includes the totals of awards to prime recipients in Baltimore, plus sub-recipient awards to Baltimore organizations and companies that conducted stimulus projects located outside the city.
The projects included $26.5 million from the Justice Department (DOJ) to combat gang activity and provide community support for at-risk juveniles.
“The State of MD Governor’s Office of Crime Control & Prevention (GOCCP) goals and objectives of this project are to create and retain jobs to bolster Maryland’s faltering economy, and make resources available to law enforcement and other public safety agencies to help protect Maryland citizens,” the project’s description states.
Among the listed goals are “to curb the growth of criminal gangs in Maryland, and to effectively dismantle existing gangs.”
Funding also went to “Operation Safe Kids,” which sought to “develop and implement an effective community-based supervision model for at-risk juveniles to minimize residential placements without compromising public safety.”
The project also included criminal justice reform, to “identify non-violent substance abusing offenders who may be amenable to treatment, and place them under community-based supervision with intensive drug treatment combined with strong judicial oversight and support.”
The stimulus also gave the city $26 million for the “Healthy Neighborhoods, Inc. Neighborhood Stabilization Program,” to “redevelop residential foreclosed, abandoned, or vacant properties in designated neighborhoods in Baltimore, Maryland.”
Roughly $9.5 million went towards homelessness prevention.
A total of $5,644,792 of Community Services Block Grants went to Baltimore meant to “promote the economic and social well-being of children, youth, families and communities.”
“The funding is used for activities that contribute to the reduction of poverty, revitalization of low-income communities, and empowerment of low-income families and individuals,” a description of the project said. “These activities include, but are not limited to; emergency services, shelter programs and services, job training and job readiness training, Head Start and Early Head Start programs, nutrition programs, as well as medical assistance programs and services.”
“Working through a network of non-profit community action agencies and other neighborhood-based organizations in rural and urban areas, this wide range of programs and services is implemented to help clients become fully self-sufficient,” it said.
Another $548,100 project, which reported creating 15.41 jobs during its most productive quarter, was devoted to the “preservation of jobs that are threatened by declines in philanthropic and other support during the current economic downturn.”
Baltimore’s unemployment rate currently is 8.4 percent.
Following the violent riots on Monday evening that resulted in over 235 arrests, 15 torched buildings, 144 destroyed vehicles, and 20 injured police officers, President Obama spoke on the issue.
Obama called for more early education programs, criminal justice reform, and “making investments so that [youth] can get the training they need to find jobs.”
“There’s a bunch of my agenda that would make a difference right now in that,” he said.
The president then proceeded to blame the Republican-controlled Congress for not implementing his agenda.
“I’m under no illusion that under this Congress we’re going to get massive investments in urban communities,” Obama said.
The left-wing comedian Jon Stewart and the ABC News anchor George Stephanopoulos made asimilar argument on the Daily Show on Tuesday.
“You just wonder sometimes if we’re spending a trillion dollars to rebuild Afghanistan’s schools, like, we can’t build a little taste down Baltimore way,” Stewart said. “Like is that what’s really going on.”
“This is what drives me crazy, you just got applause when you said that line,” Stephanopoulos said. “Any single politician in the country gets applause when they say that line. Yet it doesn’t happen.”
Peter Wehner of Commentary Magazine pointed out that the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) only invested $885 million in education projects in Afghanistan over a ten-year period, less than the amount that Baltimore received from the stimulus law.
1800 million dollar payments resulting in attitudes like we saw this past week and Obama and bleeding liberals want more. Sure.
The only thing those funds should have been targeted for is sterilization.
No father families have to be stopped.
No ability to pay for your kids welfare (without the state) should mean no kids.
The only thing those funds should have been targeted for is sterilization.
No father families have to be stopped.
No ability to pay for your kids welfare (without the state) should mean no kids.
I love hearing all these liberals talk about how to improve inner city life - no one really ever says anything of substance - like starting with mandatory family value classes - pound it in their heads that knocking up a girl and not being a father makes u not a man - and pound it in girls head not to get pregnant unless ur in a real relationship - use fucking birth control - and do not have 4 kids with 3 different last names
Only cut the rest in the interest of saving space...but an upper deck shot by you on your post.
The dimocrap party has abandoned all semblances and notions of centrism. The fat grandma, for example, is running against some of the very policies her husband helped support and enact. The "New" Left has ALL of the power now within that party.
And to support your point..the Left will not only refuse to take responsibility for Baltimore, they will now viciously attack anyone who dares to stand in their way (Walker, Rubio, Cruz, et al)...because they're thiiiiis close to electing people who are hardened socialists and communists to run every single branch of government. A true socialist welfare state. Bernie Sanders is an admitted socialist. Free to run as a dimocrap. Hell, embraced even.
Maybe it works out. Maybe Sanders makes Hitlery run so far left that she can't lie her way to victory in the general (and the Clintons are expert liars as we all know).
The point being, however, is the radical Left...the communist Left has been emboldened and the monster is now out of the cage. It's traded places with what's left of the moderate dimocrap party...that's pretty much withered away to nothing. That's why dimocraps will attack any opposition whatsoever with such venom and force. The situation in this country is going to eventually turn very, very ugly IMO.
As if you have the mental capacity to even grasp the slightest inkling of what either of us are talking about.
Whenever you finally check out one day there will be only two reactions: complete indifference and uncontrolled laughter/jubilation. It can't happen fast enough as far as I'm concerned.
You two old fools think you're connecting dots when neither of you can find your own ass with a gps.
You both are laughed at everywhere outside your right wing bubble at the rx forum.
Every single person that knows either of you....gets thrilled when you leave the room. Both of you are "that guy". The one nobody wants around ever because you try to talk like you know things when everybody else knows you're an idiot who knows nothing.
Competence:
Freddie Gray arrest documents drawn up for wrong people
An attorney for Lt. Brian Rice said his client's information was also entered incorrectly when prosecutors filed charges, but declined further comment.
On Friday evening, Tammy and Brian Rice of Brunswick, Md. said they were receiving multiple calls from reporters looking for the lieutenant. Brian Rice of Brunswick is a plumber, they said.
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#1 Truncated Investigation
#2 No Grand Jury
#3 Sloppy, inaccurate work
I'm sure this is going to turn out swell for this prosecutor.
Freddie Gray arrest documents drawn up for wrong people
An attorney for Lt. Brian Rice said his client's information was also entered incorrectly when prosecutors filed charges, but declined further comment.
On Friday evening, Tammy and Brian Rice of Brunswick, Md. said they were receiving multiple calls from reporters looking for the lieutenant. Brian Rice of Brunswick is a plumber, they said.
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#1 Truncated Investigation
#2 No Grand Jury
#3 Sloppy, inaccurate work
I'm sure this is going to turn out swell for this prosecutor.
When she declared Freddy Gray's arrest "illegal" she was just making shit up
While Mosby said Friday that the officers had made an illegal arrest because a knife Gray was carrying was not a "switchblade," a violation of state law, the police task force studied the knife and determined it was "spring-assisted," which does violate a Baltimore code.
Apparently she also doesn't understand that whether or not the knife was legal under Maryland law is irrelevant to the fact that it is illegal in Baltimore. She also can't grasp that even if the knife was legal in Baltimore, it isn't relevant to probable cause.
This woman is not that bright and this trial will be a shit show.
While Mosby said Friday that the officers had made an illegal arrest because a knife Gray was carrying was not a "switchblade," a violation of state law, the police task force studied the knife and determined it was "spring-assisted," which does violate a Baltimore code.
Apparently she also doesn't understand that whether or not the knife was legal under Maryland law is irrelevant to the fact that it is illegal in Baltimore. She also can't grasp that even if the knife was legal in Baltimore, it isn't relevant to probable cause.
This woman is not that bright and this trial will be a shit show.
