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Big Government failure for decades;
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The riots still raging in Baltimore after protests against the police-custody death of Freddie Gray aren't happening in a vacuum. The violence and destruction are in no way justified but they can be partly explained by decades of failed governmental attempts to rejuvenate Charm City's fortunes. Predictably, these efforts fail, even as they squander public resources and taxpayer dollars on useless projects that benefit well-connected politicians and business interests.
Like many older American cities, Baltimore's population peaked at about 950,000 in 1950 and since then has settled into a long and virtually uninterrupted decline, even as the surrounding areas gained in people and opportunities. Currently about 622,000 people call Baltimore home and there's every reason to expect more people to move out as a result of recent events.
While Baltimore's police department has a long and sordid history of abuse—and the details surrounding Freedie Gray's death in custody only embellish that history further—the city's misfortunes can't simply be laid at the feet of law enforcement. The simple fact is that Baltimore's city government has made mistake after mistake for decades when it comes to pursuing the Holy Grail of "urban renewal" and redevelopment. In this, as in its history of population decline and tensions with police, Baltimore is less the exception than the rule.
NOPE. This is squarely on the Dems not "a long history" of anything.
They are completely and solely responsible for this....
Liberal/ Democrats have been desperately attempting to depoliticize this by making it about something other than themselves.
Need I say it again...
You have a Black Democratic Female mayor
You have a Black Democratic Majority City Council
You have a Black Police Commissioner appointed, approved and handpicked by the Black Democratic Mayor and Black Democratic Majority City Council. You have Black Police Chiefs to assist him.
You have a Black Democratic liberal minded voting block and population.
from TOP to BOTTOM you have Dems running the chess board.
The Dems were elected because they made promises...
"Hope and Change" was the slogan...you have a Democratic African-American president who appointed his SECOND Black African American Attorney General.
The examples of achievement and greatness are THERE. The leadership that you have been begging for is THERE.
White People are OUT of the way....republicans are OUT of the way, Black Republican "sell outs" have NOTHING to do with this.
NOPE. This is squarely on the Dems not "a long history" of anything.
They are completely and solely responsible for this....
Liberal/ Democrats have been desperately attempting to depoliticize this by making it about something other than themselves.
Need I say it again...
You have a Black Democratic Female mayor
You have a Black Democratic Majority City Council
You have a Black Police Commissioner appointed, approved and handpicked by the Black Democratic Mayor and Black Democratic Majority City Council. You have Black Police Chiefs to assist him.
You have a Black Democratic liberal minded voting block and population.
from TOP to BOTTOM you have Dems running the chess board.
The Dems were elected because they made promises...
"Hope and Change" was the slogan...you have a Democratic African-American president who appointed his SECOND Black African American Attorney General.
The examples of achievement and greatness are THERE. The leadership that you have been begging for is THERE.
White People are OUT of the way....republicans are OUT of the way, Black Republican "sell outs" have NOTHING to do with this.
So what are the excuses?
You have a White Republican Governor (who has been in office for 5 months).
I kid you not..this is what someone posted in another thread.
You have a White Republican Governor (who has been in office for 5 months).
I kid you not..this is what someone posted in another thread.
Yeah I saw that in another thread.
The liberal logic never ceases to amaze me.
In that poster's mind...a newly elected Republican Governor who has been in office for 5 months...has had MORE impact on the state of Maryland than the PREVIOUS Democratic Governor (Martin O'Malley) who has been there for 8 years LOL!
The only looney left wing logical thing to do is to make him President.
The problems in Baltimore have nothing to do with who is governing. Repugnicans are always quick to blame democrats for any evil. The problems in Baltimore are purely sociological, and no one ... no member of either party ... can solve them without massive amounts of money, time, and education, including the changing of attitudes on the part of idiots like Rand Paul, who, instead of offering up even one sensible thought or idea about why riots are occurring after the death of a young man who did nothing other than run, says, "It obviously is a local problem, primarily. But you do have to have enough show of security, enough of show of a police force, to deter the kind of action. Once that happens, it sort of spirals out of control. It's depressing. It's sad. It's scary. I came through Baltimore on the train yesterday. I'm glad the train didn't stop."
The problems in Baltimore have nothing to do with who is governing. Repugnicans are always quick to blame democrats for any evil. The problems in Baltimore are purely sociological, and no one ... no member of either party ... can solve them without massive amounts of money, time, and education, "
Actually, they have tried that. Massive amounts of government money have failed for decades.
The problems in Baltimore have nothing to do with who is governing. Repugnicans are always quick to blame democrats for any evil. The problems in Baltimore are purely sociological, and no one ... no member of either party ... can solve them without massive amounts of money, time, and education, including the changing of attitudes on the part of idiots like Rand Paul, who, instead of offering up even one sensible thought or idea about why riots are occurring after the death of a young man who did nothing other than run, says, "It obviously is a local problem, primarily. But you do have to have enough show of security, enough of show of a police force, to deter the kind of action. Once that happens, it sort of spirals out of control. It's depressing. It's sad. It's scary. I came through Baltimore on the train yesterday. I'm glad the train didn't stop."
"Young man" that ran. You mean the drug dealing career criminal with a warrant for his arrest? Are you leftist simply incapable of defining things as they actually are? Are you so numbed by the suspension of reality required by your ideology that you can only distort in defense of your serfs?
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