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Guest Post: What's Really Burning In Baltimore - 50 Years Of Liberal Welfare State Policies
Submitted by Jim Quinn via The Burning Platform blog,
I’ve seen the liberal lying MSM pondering how 'we' could allow the riots, looting, burning and lawlessness to happen, as if it is our collective fault. Obama stands before his teleprompter and pontificates about the need for us to end the poverty that supposedly led to Purge Night in Charm City. That term cracks me up. The city has so much charm, its football team once snuck out of town overnight and headed to Indianapolis. It has so much charm its baseball team was forced to play a game with no fans in the stands.
I think most people can agree that Freddie Gray, a petty drug dealer, was killed in police custody for the crime of looking suspicious. The policemen who killed him deserve to go to jail for murder. As usual, the powers that be circled the wagons and intended to exonerate the hero first responders. The people of Baltimore had a right to be pissed. They had a right to protest. They didn’t have a right to burn businesses and cars. They didn’t have the right to riot, loot, and injure others.
It is the police department created and controlled for decades by Democratic progressive politicians that has committed the atrocities against the people who have been electing these progressives year after year. Baltimore has a corrupt, reckless, out of control police department enabled by a crooked and incompetent Baltimore politicians. The rap sheet for Baltimore’s finest is long:
- Police commissioner Ed Norris was sent to prison on corruption charges (2004)
- Two detectives were sentenced to 454 years in prison for dealing drugs (2005)
- An officer was dismissed after being videotaped verbally abusing a 14-year-old and then failing to file a report on his use of force against the same teenager (2011)
- An officer was been fired for sexually abusing a minor (2014)
- The city paid a quarter-million-dollar settlement to a man police illegally arrested for the non-crime of recording them at work with his mobile phone.
The cries of racism and white oppression ring hollow. It’s a tired storyline. Facts are always inconvenient to race baiters with an agenda to extract more money from whites with a guilty conscience and the inability or unwillingness to speak the truth. Let’s examine some facts about good old Charm City, USA.
- The fine citizens of this metropolis have not elected a Republican as mayor since 1963, before the War on Poverty began. That mayor’s 4 year term is the only interruption in Democrat rule since 1947. They have had Democrat control for 64 of the last 68 years, and sole control for the last 48 years straight.
- Their mayor is black. Their previous mayor, Sheila Dixon, was black. She was convicted of embezzlement in 2010 and couldn’t finish her term. They had a white mayor (current Democratic Presidential hopeful Martin O’Malley) for eight years. The mayor before him was black.
- Their City Council consists of 15 members. All fifteen are Democrats. The Council President is black. Democrats have had control of legislation in Baltimore for the last 50 years. Every program, policy, initiative, or school curriculum that exists in Baltimore was enacted by liberal Democrats.
- The Police Commissioner is black. Approximately 50% of the police force is black.
- The School Superintendent is black, along with the School Board. The district has an annual budget of $1.32 billion to teach 84,000 kids. The Baltimore school system ranks second among the nation’s 100 largest school districts in how much it spent per pupil at $15,700 per student. Only NYC spends more. Only two thirds of students graduate high school, despite this high level of spending.
- The average SAT scores of Baltimore City public school students are: 379 in Reading; 376 in Math; 381 in Writing. These are the scores of the best of the best in Baltimore schools who actually think they should get into college. The average scores in the country, which still suck, are around 500. Students with these scores have about a 15% chance of graduating college. This is the ROI you get after spending $188,000 per student over their 12 year academic career.
- The population of Baltimore is 623,000 and 63% are black. Median household income is $41,000, with 24% living below the poverty line. The home ownership rate is 48%. The percentage of college graduates is 27%.
- The population was 950,000 in 1950, so it has fallen by 35% in the last 65 years. The population was 24% black in 1950. Decades of liberal Democrat policies drove most of the white population out of the city.
- Baltimore’s violent crime rate is 370% higher than the U.S. rate. They have over 200 murders, 300 rapes, 3,600 robberies, 4,600 assaults, 7,800 burglaries, and 22,000 thefts per year. These are all 2 to 4 times the U.S. averages per 100,000 people.
- Over 35% of all Baltimore residents get food stamps. Over 85% of the kids get free breakfasts and lunches at school. More than 60% of Baltimore residents are receiving some form of government assistance.
- Baltimore’s welfare paradise is paid for by outrageously high taxes. It’s income tax rate of 3.2% is on top of the state rate of 4.75%. It’s property tax rate is more than double the other counties in Maryland. The sales tax rate is 6%. Corporations pay an income tax rate of 8.25%.
- The percentage of out of wedlock births to black women in Baltimore exceeds 72%. Baltimore and Detroit are the two cities with populations over 600,000 with the highest percentage of single parent households – 59% to 61%.
- The reported unemployment rate for Baltimore is 8.2%, one of the highest in the country. In reality, 42% of the working age population is not working. Young black men between the ages of 20 and 24 have a reported unemployment rate of 37%. But in reality, it is north of 60%. The number of employees in 1990 totaled 475,000. Today they total 365,000, down 23%.
It doesn’t take a village to raze, burn, and loot a village. It just takes 50 years of liberal economic and social policies. Of course the liberal media, liberal politicians, and liberal voters don’t think anyone should be blamed for the disaster that Baltimore and every other Democrat controlled urban shithole (Detroit, Philadelphia, St. Louis, Atlanta, Cleveland) have become over the last 50 years. Community organizer Adam Jackson, living up to the standards of Organizer in Chief Obama, declared that in Baltimore “the Democrats and the Republicans have both failed.” At least progressive community organizers have a sense of humor. How can Republicans have failed if the mayors and City Council have been 100% Democrat since the mid 1960s? I wonder how many Republicans were among the youths burning, looting, and destroying the city this week.
No Republican, and definitely no conservative, is responsible for the poverty, crime, educational failure, and disintegration of this lesson in Democratic rule. Baltimore’s police department is the product of the progressive wing of the Democratic party, enabled by black identity politics. This is entirely a left-wing Democratic creation. They get all the credit for what Baltimore has become. The mayor of Baltimore is an incompetent bumbling fool. These corrupt, arrogant left wing boobs are incapable of running a school system, police department, or economy.
They know how to play race politics to get elected. They know how to increase taxes on the few remaining producers in order to redistribute it to their black voters. They know how to destroy businesses and jobs. They know how to create a welfare mindset among black people, enslaving them in poverty, dependency, and ignorance. Blacks have suffered the most from Democratic black rule. These riots will result in less businesses, less jobs and less taxes for the city. Blacks will be hurt the most, but they will continue to vote for Democrats. Insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result. Believing liberal welfare policies will fix the problems created by liberal welfare policies is insane. Liberalism is a disease of the brain and has infected a vast swath of America, especially in urban enclaves across the land.
Baltimore and every other Democrat controlled urban enclave in America are destined for decline, destruction, and civic decay. Baltimore cannot be fixed by spending more money on welfare programs. The country has spent $22 trillion on anti-poverty programs since LBJ declared his war on poverty. They haven’t moved the dial on poverty one iota. They have created generations of dependent black people, trapped in urban ghettos like Baltimore. If you can’t educate children for $15,700 per year, then you won’t educate them any better for $18,000 per year. Liberals will never admit their policies, programs, and corrupt practices created this national disaster.
Liberal welfare policies have encouraged and rewarded out of wedlock births. The 72% black out of wedlock birth rate is the single biggest cause of Baltimore’s long-term decline. Children without fathers are destined to be uneducated, unemployed, and underachieving. Children raised by married working parents who provide good role models are not on the streets. They are studying. They are not looting, killing, robbing or having kids when they are teenagers. There are no guarantees in life, but being stupid, lazy and ignorant guarantees a life of poverty. Liberal welfare policies pay these people to have more kids out of wedlock in order to maximize their welfare payments. There have now been three generations of black people entrapped by these demented welfare programs.
There is no will among the recipients or distributors of race based welfare payments to change their policies or programs. Therefore, every time a white cop kills a black person or a white store owner kills a black thief in Baltimore or any urban ghetto, the potential for riots, looting, and burning of businesses will rear its ugly head. The only guarantee is the liberals running the urban ghetto will not accept blame for what they have wrought. Farewell to the America of personal responsibility, work ethic, marriage, family, and valuing education.
The esteemed mayor of Baltimore Stephanie Rawlings-Blake (of course a liberal black woman must hyphenate her name) summed up the disease of liberalism after her peeps had destroyed their neighborhoods the night before:
“It’s a very delicate balancing act, because while we tried to make sure that they were protected from the cars and the other things that were going on, we also gave those who wished to destroy space to do that as well.”
You reap what you sow America.
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"The percentage of out of wedlock births to black women in Baltimore exceeds 72%. Baltimore and Detroit are the two cities with populations over 600,000 with the highest percentage of single parent households"
This stat, is the main cause. No need for a man in the house if you got the Gov't acting as the bread winner. But some how this will be turned into we just need moar welfare "benefits" to solve the problem caused by them.
Palin propped up an unwed Teen Trollop and was exalted. Even praised.
Democrat leadership thinking - "Why teach a person to fish, when you can give them one every month and make a slave out of them.
Boehner just needs a little more time.
Folks who have nothing have nothing to lose...
An update on manufacturing jobs in America makes it clear unskilled labor has nowhere to go...not pretty and that's before we really see the impact of the strong dollar or the slowing global economy...this is likely as good as it gets and down from here...
http://econimica.blogspot.com/2015/05/manufacturing-recovery-or-manufactured.html
This post by Mr. Quinn is so severly wrong that it should wipe out whatever credibility he ever had.
In fact, the city of Baltimore is severely constrained by Maryland state law regarding police oversight. The main strategy of the police union has been to enlist the support of white suburban state legislators to enact a police bill of rights at the state level which makes them nearly unaccountable. Individual cities have no choice in the matter. The Baltimore mayor had been working on a federal task force in an apparent attempt to get federal muscle to displace state muscle and give cities more power over their own police forces.
What Mr. Quinn could have read if he weren't an idiot:
https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/05/01/police-union-influence-mar...
http://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2015/04/29/baltimore-and-bolstering...
Oh SNAP, it's a war on the poor... http://www.huffingtonpost.com/news/snap-cuts/
Hope you got your Ghetto Rage survival kit folks....
Can someone please explain why zero hedge, ostensibly a financial news aggregator, publishes a bunch of editorials from old conservative butthurts regarding racial relations in america? And since there is a disproportionate number of them, why does not one of these writers ever side with the minority striving for change?
I don't appreciate having someone's agenda and beliefs, especially of one specific group, shovelled down my throat as financial news.
Can someone please explain these fucking trolls who don't have to read an article if it does not suit their fancy?
You made one (arguable) point about local control over police. As if the feds have any ability to prevent locals from firing corrupt cops. You said nothing about the shit stain that Baltimore has become under pinko control.
I do aver on one point: Baltimore is so black and liberal that the race card shouldn't play a big part in the elections. so, scarily, these leaders may have been elected because of faux competence. They may be the best Baltimore's pinkos can do.
Quote from Spiro Agnew, a Baltimore native;
"There are people in our society who should be separated and discarded. I think its one of the tendencies of the liberal community to feel that every person in a nation of over 200 million people can be made into a productive citizen. Im realist enough to believe this cant be. Were always going to have our prisons, were always going to have our places of preventive detention for psychopaths, and were always going to have a certain number of people in our community who have no desire to achieve or who have no desire to even fit in an amicable way with the rest of society. And these people should be separated from the community, not in a callous way but they should be separated as far as any idea that their opinions shall have any effect on the course we follow".
@MillionDollarBogus
And "were" always going to have uneducated, self-righteous white idiots like you around - quoting, of all people, Spiro Agnew!!! That fucking crook!!!
Interesting that Agnew was talking about psychopaths outside of government but totally ignored the fact that government consists of psychopaths.
Both types of psychopaths need to be excluded from civilization.
buyingsterling you amurrican flag clad retard why did you not back up your ASSumptions and idiocy yesterday? http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-04-30/16-signs-economy-has-stalled-ou...
Do it in this thread you godbothering genius...
Awhile back I came into contact with the typical know-nothing, aliterate or illiterate, Ameritard.
He explained to me that the problem with American employment was that they didn't know how to use computers (I didn't explain my background to the douchey, sounded toooooo stoopid for words).
Geeezzzz.
Detroit (Palin had nothing to do with its decades long spiral into economic disaster....more agitprop distraction tho')
Chicago.....thousands of young black males slaughtered as the police knew/know the dealers had/have the inside track on the local (state ? ...ala The Departed) governing class and 'reporters' know there is a certain 'outcome' if one moves beyond local etiquette in news reporting. Black on black crime .....no problem ......not a peep from anyone anywhere...... as all serve the interests of the 'voting bloc'. No outrage ....no conscience....nothing..... And Putin/China/India et al suffer lectures from the USofA
Name your favorite Amerikan large urban area...........Richard Nixon, Mitt Romney, GWBush, Barry Goldwater and RReagan (and let's throw in Ron Paul) are clearly to blame for the local governance travesty that is carbon copy. No one can seem to see or utter the commonalities
Al Sharpton = Tawana Brawley & unpaid taxes with own MSNBC show as a bonus. So why shouldn't the Kardasian's be celebrities.
Okay ....now for some real passion ..... fantastic series between the Spurs & paperClips....fantastic basketball..too bad one team has to lose
"Why teach a person to fish, when you can tax middle class working sheeple to pay for food stamps, housing subsidies, and all manner of other free services for that person and his eight out-of-wedlock children, whose births prove what a "virile street-smart stud" he is.
My neighbor, a white 50 year old progressive, stated to me exactly why he votes for Democrats and social welfare. It is, according to him, to keep that riff raff in the projects and away from our suburbia. Welfare - to keep them on the reservation. Hell, at least he is honest about it.
Exactly right Dr., the people with money want it just as it is. The comment that the Democrats worst nightmare is " a thinking back man" is spot on as the white liberal is their true enemy.
The crown is calling, their coffers are a bit low, so um someone will have to like starve, thanks, that is all, keep rioting and carrying on...
Makes me think of that zombie movie where a smart zombie realized he didn't have to breathe, so he could simply wade across the harbor to the island where the rich live people lived. So all the other zombies followed him, and they made it to the island, where, of course, they ate the rich live people. :-)
It goes both ways. You can take a man out of the country but you can't take the country out of the man.
Can you spare just $2? Leroy is a nine year old boy living in Detroit. He has only one leg, one arm and one eye. Each day he has to ride seven miles to school along a narrow road on a rusty bike with bent wheels, no brakes and only one pedal. If you send us just $2, we will send you the video – it’s fucking hilarious.
I read the bottom and started laughing. Deja Vu. When I lived in Chicago the media interviewed this like 20 year old black guy that had about 8 children with different women. When asked why he had so many kids he smiled and positioned "He had strong sperm".
Democrats live for moral hazard policies. Financial system, social systems, justice system - it just doesn't matter to them. They get to play Santa Claus even while they are increasing poverty, encouraging fraud, increasing social decay, and looting the middle class. Democrats are all neo-Marxists now.
Unfortunately, the Rebubs are now old school fascists. Their brand of welfare is military government make work.
Both aisles lead to the slaughterhouse. Choose wisely. Demographics is destiny....
Give a negro a fish, and he will come back every day for another fish.
Teach him to fish and he will come back and steal your fishing tackle.
If so, then that's your fault. You shoulda told him to stick his dick in the water, to function as both hook and bait. Works really good at catching gators, I hear. ;-)
(phuck 'em if they can't take a TGIF joke)
p00k1e you do realize that the teen "trollop" did NOT get welfare right?
Or are facts like that just confusing to you?
Some unwed Teen Trollops are more equal than others to you.
That's fine.
Fuck you for implying racism. He is referring to the Free Shit Army, not "black bad, white good". Why is it those quick to see racism don't see themselves as being racist for assuming racism.
Once you realize the free shit army is really the ones at the top getting rich off of the backs of everyone else, THEN JUST MAYBE you would sit down and have a nice tall glass of STFU you stoopid idiot....
Hope you're not talking to me, that was my point (that, and the hypocracy of the left who constantly look for, and shout down with "RACIST!") =D
I'm talking to educate. :D
Str8 learnin cunts
This is what I like:
"Baltimore’s welfare paradise"
Holy shit. Some fucking paradise....
I don't write a check to them every quarter.
The skimming at the top is not the cause of the growing FSA, it's just a contributing factor. And it's the dislocations caused by the whole free shit/welfare state system that has enabled the money printing that enriches the very top. (you don't get trillion dollar deficits without socialism).
And do you realize that most people that get benefits such as food stamps also work full time?
Oh look another one who still blames Regan.
At least Palin family have money and doesn't need welfare.
Sure, but to be accurate and intellectually honest (if otherwise perhaps biased), Palin did pimp her image and family on national TV, and then coached her daughter to go on the Hypocrisy Circuit, to extoll the virtues of avoiding Teen Pregnancy.
/ Maybe if American teens learned to take it up the butt, before they get deflowered on their wedding night, i.e. do it like Greek and MENA girls/women, then they wouldn't have this problem. It's also a good way for them to determine beforehand, if their boyfriends are Front-door or Back-door kind of guys. / sarc
LOL!!! Someone "thinks" that Sarah Palin (wasn't she a politician in a very sparsely populated state about a decade ago?) is relevant to the discussion. Please put down the hallucinogenic drugs and back away from the keyboard...
Wha's "burning" is 30 years of trickle down economics and crony capitalism...the SHIFT IS TO LEFTIST POLICIES and AWAY FROM RIGHTWINGNUT POLICIES......
BECUASE RIGHTWINGNUT POLICIES HAVE FAILED ON THE PROMISES....THE WELFARE STATE ISN'T THE CAUSE, IT"S THE RESULT OF FAILED "FREE MARKET" CAPITALISM.
You realize that you're a fucking idiot, right? First, it was family welfare which should be the only kind. Second, she propped her up until she could get her married.
Just go play with yourself, and keep it quiet.
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Thank god. Something on ZH that isn't man hating, commie, parasite, dip shit, America bashing, urban fool.
Maybe there is hope.
So we are just going to ignore everything the angry people of Baltimore are saying and decide who is to blame?
Yes.
When peeps vote for liberalism, I like it when they get their liberalism good and hard.
Regardless of what they call themselves, or what lies they utter, the politico class are all puppets of money controller class.
In this case a ring of international gangbangkster terrorists wearing expensive suits.
"Give me control of a nations money and I care not who makes the laws"
-M.A. Rothschild, Elder of Zion, founder of the ponzi system of inequity we all endure today; from a pawn shop with a red shield out front in Frankfurt Germany.
Ssssssssshhhhhhhh!
Nobody in Amerika is supposed to understand that the number one Entitlement Program in history has been the control of the creation of money!
And so far, they have been quite successful in that regard.
Remember, they aren't psychopathic thieving scumtard robber barons,
they are PHILANTHROPISTS!
more idiotic thoughts from the mighty Jimmy Quinn of the university of penn. been a while since jim has graced our pages. the last i remember was his complete lack of control with anyone that disagreed with him. lets see if he can stay away from the booze drugs or both.
they call this shooting the messanger.
That last time?
I thought he was mixing PCP and Ecstasy?
That LBJ, he declared a few wars, did he not?
The root cause is democracy, which is nothing but deep and rigid communism disguised by a meaningless quadrennial or Quintennial ritual of pulling a lever.
You might as well pull your pud, even for....wait for it...Dr. Rawn Pawl...or his liberal, progressive..eeeeerrrrmmhhh.. son..Rand (Golden Boy?).....
The world's natural division is probably between well walled in safety seekers under a ruler and wandering bands of nomads or semi-nomads that had much more tribal styles of being.
This mountain of crap, especially since the sufferage (look at that word ladies, Universal Sufferage, say no more, say no more).....is teetering because the ones at th etop are now all equally vicious white collar thugs.
Music...guitar...
https://youtu.be/aP4NGb8HJbk
The root cause is democracy
No, the root cause is Universal Suffrage (check your spelling, son). Giving the vote to anyone with a pulse sounds like a good idea, but in fact, votes should only be awarded to people who've actually DONE something - pay taxes, started a business, signed other people's paychecks, etc. The actual mechanics might be a bit of a sticking point, and I don't have a complete answer, but ANY restriction of the FSA's 'right' to vote themselves MY (and YOUR) money is a good thing.
I don't believe in restrictions based on race (there are smart black people and dumb white ones), or sex (same thing), or even age (if you're 16 and you started a multi-million dollar Internet company, you get a vote in my world). It's based on results - you make a contribution, you get a say in decisions. You sit on your ass and just want to take from other people? No votes for you.
Demockracy as the root cause it spot on. Through diffuse costs, and concentrated benefits, Demockracy allows the evasion of reality by the powerful, and by minority collectives whose causes are exploitable (poor, old, sick, gay, women, children, etc.)
Voting is simply a suggestion box for slaves.
It's amazing how conservatives think that capitalism = freedom while democracy = slavery.
It's almost as if conservatives never read Adam Smith, David Ricardo or any classical economist, while also not learning anything from political history.
Conservatives can read?????
Yup, and the jackholes go out and elected Nixon, Reagan and the Bushies!
Progressive liberal democraps mantra: "gimme all your money cuz we know how to spend it better than you and who cares if it does any good." And "dont talk about facts cuz they don't matter." "And ur a racist."
More White Devil bullcrap --- blaming it on the Negro Problem!
Sorry, sonny, offshoring of jobs began in the 1950s, took off with the insurance companies with Prudential offshoring to Ireland in 1978, and exploded across the spectrum with Jack Welch (GE) offshoring 80,000 jobs of the scientific, engineering, programmer and technician levels in the mid 1980s!
All your bullcrap to the contrary, sonny! (Referring to author of this blog post.)
If you go back a bit further:
From Ferguson to Baltimore: The Fruits of Government-Sponsored SegregationI'm sure the republicans were in charge when these policies went into place in 1910. :)
Socialism IS War.
So is monopoly capitalism.
otherwise known as corpro-fascism, spread around the world by multinationals
it's been fun watching the morning joKe handwringing about all the problems, the terrible statistics, the despair and searching SO hard for a reason.....
Yeah, because the offshoring of American jobs in the last 25 years by both racist assholes in the Democratic and Republican party had nothing to contribute to the decline in these cities.
BTW, "The Democrats" aren't liberal. They just aren't. Just like Republicans are not conservative. They are both corporate communist organizations that only ideologically split on social issues.
They are center-right folks to pander to ignorant white folks who call themselves liberal, and aloof people of color who only settle for the bullshit party because the Democrats act like they give two shits about them, while Republicans give exactly no shits about them.
#garbage
I went to the trouble of logging in specifically to say something similiar to your comment.
Garbage article.
Hmmm... I see now, so the problem is free trade. Nothing to do with only being able to do unskilled labor that a third worlder would do for 1/10th of the cost.
I'm with you comrade, end free trade, bring back that lovely protectionism that helps so much the American consumer. Those capitalist pigs!!!!
I went to the trouble of logging in specifically to say something similiar to your comment.
Garbage article.
let me guess....you're a victim
and you're not?
There's no coming back from NAFTA/GATT. That was a bipartisan sellout that sealed the fate of the US.
Yep, anyone else remember "that giant sucking sound"?
Everybody that was against NAFTA was a narrow minded "isolationist".
That drumbeat came from "both" sides of the aisle.
NAFTA and GATT was the real window into how the world really works, ALL political parties in every G7 country sells out to the multinational corporations and sell it to their constituents as a great new form of job creation. remember when we were being sold this pile of shit, jobs, jobs, jobs out our asses.......look what really happend.....the multinationals played each country off on who could race to the bottom on wages, taxes and environmental protections
NAFTA = thirdwordification, disguised as globalization
ross was right.
Anyone who fell for that is an imbecile, should be immediately sterilized and have their voting 'rights' revoked.
Good old Ross Perot was the vote I cast when I was first eligible to vote. Ron Paul in the Republican primaries of 2012 was my last ever vote.
...and my vote for Perot helped elect a sexual predator to office.
There have been many sellouts that sealed the fate of the US. After the sellout by Clinton repealing Glass-Steagal in 1998. After the sellout by Nixon in 1971 closing the gold window. After the sellout by LBJ and the Great Society BS. After the sellout by FDR confiscating the US gold in 1933. After the sellout by Wilson in 1913 creating the Federal Reserve and giving them power to create the US currency as debt. After the sellout by Congress in 1873 to de-montize silver and establish the USA as a corporation. There's a whole lot more backstabbing happened along the way than just Nafta.
There will be much more to come. Its a long term strategy. They got big plans for us....
You're right and there's no arguing it anymore.
For example: we're being told now that we're in a "recovery" and nobody, no matter how partisan, believes it.
Americans sold themselves out by voting for it and shopping at Walmart. I campaigned for Perot. No sympathy from me.
BTW, "The Democrats" aren't liberal. They just aren't. Just like Republicans are not conservative. They are both corporate communist organizations that only ideologically split on social issues.
They are both, more properly, neo-fascists.
Shizzmoney, you on tha money.
Thank you shizzmoney. At least someone has a clue here.
Time for another Paradigm Shift... I'll argue that all this talk of Liberalism or Socialism is based on and rooted in Christian Principles and Values, regarding poverty and our 'Brothers'.
I contend that all Christian agenda and policies have been compromised centuries ago, and that "predator cultures" have recognized this centuries ago also, so they can exploit that weakness. This has been going on since the Roman Elite/Nobility, the Feudal Lords and Nobility in Europe for 1500 years, and the Globalist Cabal of Banksters the last 150+ years: all Predators and Cling-ons ('Clingons')
The Flaw/Weakness in Christianity goes back to the Roman times, at the Council of Nicaea in 325 AD, which was forced and hosted by Emperor Constantin. The bishops of the day decided what to keep and what to chuck out -- and burn, if possible (if not hidden).
The whole "Sermon On The Mount" was a TOXIC PILL, injected by Rome. It made Christianity into sheep, to be ruled by shepherds. It made it into an Organized Religion Of and For Slaves. Everything smacked of bondage, slavery and submission.
Exhibit 1: "Blessed are the poor"; Are you fucking kidding me? There is NOTHING 'blessed' about being poor, asshole.
Exhibit 2: "You are your brother's keep; Turn the Other Cheek; Forgive those who persecute you". What a crock of horse-shit! Quick, more chill-pills for slaves and servants. "Religion = Opiate of the masses" is right.
Exhibit 3: Given that "poverty is good", "wealth is bad", it makes it clear that the real or mythical Jesus (or whatever his myth morphed into by 325 AD) did not want you to steal from the rich. How convenient!
The Roman elite must have pissed their pants with laughter, ROTF LOL, when they read that one, and that it was going to be in the New Testament. To believe that people still believe this shit 1700 years later. Unbelievable! But then, these are the same adults who tell their kids stories about Santa, the Easter Bunny and the Tooth Fairy. Dumb sheep deserve everything they get: butt-shagging, shearing and fleecing.
Partisan hackery in 1500+/- words.
What a douche.
Sure, and 50 years of crony capitalists going along for the ride and not defending the Constitution nor the rule-of-law, and banks and corporations buying the government, and countless mandarins looking the other way, and people pursuing prurient ways of living.
The FSA does care about any of this. Just give us more Free Sh!t!!!
awww...does it hurt your feelings that you don't get any free shit? aww you're such a victim. you should get your mommy to kiss your wee-wee and make it all better. if only blacky weren't such a dick...my country would be a better place.
if you're such a fucking man...and NOT a victim - then do something about it. why don't you get in your car, drive to baltimore, and start beating up some "niggers" for taking your tax money??? why don't you? because you're a pussy just like all the other fucking pussies that sit behind their keyboard complaining how blacks play the race card and the victim card. yet here you are...doing the same exact fucking thing. if you don't like it - do something about it and stop fucking whining like a little fucking baby.
take your country back and stop being such a victim.
shit - you don't even have the balls to say NIGGER even though that's what you really wanna say - cause you're afraid you'll get kicked off this site. so instead - you think you're clever and call them the FSA - Free Shit Army.
PUSSY.
but if you REALLY wanna take your country back...there's probably a different group you should be focusing your energies on...AND NO it aint the Jews.
here: i'll give you some hints - read the following:
The Great Deformation
The Secret World Of Money
Tragedy and Hope
The Creature From Jekyll Island
These are all titles I learned here at ZH. I realize that 'blaming' it on my fellow peasants is probably not the best use of my energy.
Up voted you because you're right, white people aren't going into Baltimore to fight because there is no reason to commit suicide.
more importantly, there's a bigger enemy: the squid.
Playing the red team/blue team card isn't much better than playing the race card.
chunga: Playing the red team/blue team card isn't much better than playing the race card.
A concept lost on almost everyone. If I could up arrow you 1000 times I would.
If true, the free Viagra must be what keeps the Senior Citizens from rioting.
"Baltimore and every other Democrat controlled urban enclave in America are destined for decline, destruction, and civic decay."
Vote Republican for a new era of rainbows and a unicorn in every pot. Ok, we got it...
My white ass was born 37 years ago to a home without a father and I was still able to cobble together a 26 on the ACT (about a 1770 on SAT).
Obama scored 30.
/sarc
On the front 9 of a par 3.
don't be a doofus. he got a 60
That's all? Man, I wouldn't admit that at gun point...
It's not that fucking horrible. Lordy...
Moonbat Pelosi's father and uncle used to run Baltimore, those must have been the good old days!
What a dump!
Please, please tell us how Republican "conservative" policies of punishing the poor would solve urban decay? I eagerly await proof of how Republican mayors and city councils have neatly solved the problems of inner cities.
American gun culture and Hollywood violence fantasies contribute to making America the leader in killing minority "suspects." WE DON'T EVEN KNOW HOW MANY WE KILL, because we don't give a damn.
40 years ago we stopped killing Vietnamese. The total score was over 2 million. There is no memorial on the Washington Mall for them. We are still killing people in the Mideast. This country is full of angry, bloody-minded "conservatives" who think the way to deal with inconvenient people is to murder them. Not everyone shares this view.
Some valid points, but when you dropped the 'gun culture' canard, credibility went south - and Fast...
I don't think that was the point of the article to clear up how Repubs would make it better. I think that the point of the article is that all these retard pols strutting in front of the camera clamoring about how this is all somebody elses fault need to take responsiblity for what they created in their corrupt POS community.
Or we could just fedealize the police Stasi-style.
well said.
It's not my fault. It is someone else's fault and let me say one more thing. I'm really tired of being victimized by people always playing the victim. I'm going to curl up in a ball and cry and blame it on the liberals or the conservatives or the blacks or the whites or the Jews. Not sure exactly who yet but god damn it, I'm gonna blame it on someone before the day is out.
You forgot to ask for more money. That is the key. I need federal funds to feel better!
The sad thing is that AIG, and the "private" FED, and GM, and Hank Paulson and his Goldman butt buddies, and Halliburton, and a whole shitload of other organizations get Federal Funds and not a lot of people HERE on ZH seemed to be as outraged by that as they are when some other people get federal funds.
shit, maybe the muppets on this site but not the core.
'the bankers need to repay us'.
Dude! This fools you are speaking to can't handle simple arithmetic, and certainly cannot fathom arithmetical relationships!
Nope, I've only heard of one commodities trader who realized what it was about: that a limitless number of commodity futures can be purchased against a specific entity, and what that entails in the realm of financial manipulation and fraud.
Likewise, I've met few who realize the same about the credit default swap.
No wonder Erin Arvedlund's recent book, Open Secret, isn't on the best seller list!?
I also forgot to abrogate any personal responsibility for the way things are.
So you are looking for a memorial to Vietnamese people in the US? I'd bet they have one in oh shit I don't know Vietnam.
Don't somehow overlook the millions of far-seeing progressives (currently "in charge") who eagerly join the bloody conservatives in their global killing spree. For the children, no doubt. I agree that not everyone shares this type of view.
You can always count on some fuckwit claiming that the "progressives are in charge" ---- WTF to the max!
So Jill Stein was elected president without me knowing it?
So Cynthia McKinney was elected president without me knowing it?
So Dennis Kucinich wasn't really voted out of the House?
So Ralph Nader was a previous White House occupant, and somehow I was in a coma during all this effing time?
The commenter I'm responding to has probably never served in any branch of the US military, nor done any serious work in their pathetic lives.
Nader, (Ron Paul), Kucinich and McKinney are hated, marginalized and despised by all the members of the ruling clique. The war-bangers like Reid, Feinstein, Boxer, Biden, Kerry, Clinton etc are still there, more powerful, influential and wealthier than ever.
With your lashing out you seem overly sensitive about another commentor's observation. Get a grip!
It's the modern ghetto nuclear family: mommy, babies and uncle sambo.
"Uncle sam is my baby's daddy!"
-some Nigro Bitch
Thank you Obama, for being my baby's daddy - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bH1ltKsfi_Y
Blacks in America govern themselves and their communities much the same way as Blacks do in Africa. That's not racist, that's a stone-cold fact. And the results of such governance (or failure of same) speaks for itself. It's only too damn bad we can no longer 'call a spade, a spade'...
You'll are missing the big picture. All the bullshit is leading to one thing. A national police force. Watch and see. That's what this is all about. Do you honestly think that cops have just all of a sudden become so bad? Nope, this is engineered to bring on a national police force, diminish states rights. Watch and see and be prepared to fight
28 U.S.C. § 1441 et seq.
If the federal gestapo stomps your ass, they're ain't no jury of your peers handing out big money checks at the expense of taxpayers. There is, however, a federal judge, protecting his turf and his henchmen from the dirty local rabble.
The unmitigated stupidity of self-identified liberal and progressive "little people" in the USSA is as limitless as the notional value of the big banks' derivatives.
While Berspankme makes excellent sense, it is really silly to speak such here.
Most of the douchetards at this site have no understanding that it was Napoleon's grandnephew, Joseph Bonaparte, who was originally responsible for the creation of the Bureau of Investigation, later renamed the Federal Bureau of Investigation, meant to be a secret police force to stamp out the growing number of socialists and anti-capitalists in Amerika!
I don't like the way the author used facts in his argument. Facts are creation of racists.
“Socialism” as defined by “The other guy’s government check.”
define monopoly capitalism.
Monopolcy Capitalism is when none of you douchetards can name any owner of any major bank or corporation, and don't understand that when everything is owned by cross-stock ownership, not only is that illegal under the so-called laws of the land, it guarantees nobody will know who owns anything.
So Bank of America owns a chunk of AXA and State Street Corporation, and State Street Corporation owns a chunk of Bank of America and AXA, and AXA owns a chunk of BofA and State Street.
And Blackrock owns a chunk of them, and they each own a chunk of Blackrock.
And the top banksters and their oil companies own all the financial exchanges and clearinghouses.
Beginning to get the picture, chum?
we Cloward and Piven'd some folks
WHAT
THE
FUCK???
Just read the ZH article yesterday:
Baltimore As A Microcosm Of Americathat features an interview with David Simon, creator of the HBO series "The Wire". He desribes what Mayor Martin O'Malley did in order to shine up his crime statistics and at the same time destroy the Balimore Police Department.
Just go back 2 pages on ZH.
It is more than one person fault. It take a village to destroy a city
also interesting - the article was archived and commenting has been disabled.
Here is Seattle we have a socialist magazine called "Real Change". Occasionally I pick up a copy to have a peak what the looney left is saying. Over the last 2 years the Seattle City Government has enacted free sick leave, $11/hr min wage, and they are asking for $900M property tax increase for "affordable" transportation infrastructure. The state is about to pass a .12 / gal gas tax increase and we have recently had mandatory employer health care premiums foisted upon us. These are but a few of the examples of the government increasing cost without adding any significant value, the list is endless.
The front page article of Real Change was about "affordable" housing and how this was becoming very difficult in this city. Their solution of course is to build nice housing and subsidize the rent so people can "afford" to live here. Mr mayor, get on that “affordability” thing please.
This affordable word ... when the government passes laws to increase the cost of something, why do they expect it to become more affordable?
sschu
If Charmin wasn't so soft, I would pick up that magazine myself.
Yeah, what's with socialist Seattle, with Democratic mayors since the 1960s, not having riots like Baltimore? Liberal social and economic policies are supposed to CAUSE riots, right? WTF?
Well, we did have tanks in the streets --- that's army tanks, not think tanks from the Koch boys --- in the early 1900s.
And there was the Battle in Seattle, but that was international in scope, so you were as likely to be next to a French lady or Asian gent, although when I witnessed a Delta Force jackhole get the living shit stomped out of him (he started it, BTW), it was by a reasonably tough American demonstrator.
Overall, they lean towards the left, as far as the population once went, but the locals have become the minority since 1996.
They haven't run out of other people's money yet.
I visited downtown Seattle this last year and remember it had a large number of young brain dead street people begging and sleeping on the sidewalks. By my hotel I say a young drug OD laying on a bench in a shopping mall as ambulance paramedics tended to him. Wasted young lives everywhere druged out in downtown Seattle.
"..it had a large number of young brain dead street people begging and sleeping on the sidewalks."
Had you bothered your tiny little brain to be curious enough to have ascertained their origins, you would have found they by and large come from elsewhere.
There's quite a few republicons who skedaddled to Seattle after they became homeless elsewhere, having voted down the safety nets locally and having nowhere else to run to!
Here, we call them Section 8 Republicons --- they skedaddle to Seattle, almost immediately qualify for Section 8 housing due to their criminal, druggie, boozy, mentally challenged conditions, and spend their time panhandling (mostly real homeless people, BTW.).
sooo you took a peek at seattle and you decided seattle has peaked.
First, the word is spelled "peek" you illiterate!
Secondly, Real Change was the hapless neolib Joel Horn's impotent and idiotic idea to help the homeless.
Finally, most of those articles are written by UW students who just happen to be the spawn of financial services' parasites.
And Mayor Murray did everything possible to kill an intelligent futuristic transportation, a city-wide monorail system, when he was in the state government (House), while claiming to be for it!
Murray has appointed the business community stooges, who answer --- as usual --- to the Community Development Roundtable.
Please tell me you have just relocated to Seattle from Butthead, Idaho?
Yes, peak = peek, my error.
I have a big heart and spend a lot of time at UGM with the recovering addicts, so I get some of the downtown scene. I moved to Seattle in the early 1990s and love it here, not so much for the city, as the local outdoors opportunities like hiking and camping.
We have a robust local economy driven by Boeing, Microsoft, Starbucks, etc. When things are booming, like now, our politicians like to increase taxes to pay for their boondoggles. When things are not so good, a public sector financial crisis is sure to appear.
To answer someone above, Seattle is not Detroit not because of the political views, which are not dissimilar, but because of our diverse population. Here is the breakdown:
White - 69.5%
Black or African American - 7.9%
Amer. Indian & Alaska Native - 0.8%
Asian - 13.8%
Native Hawaiian & Other Pac. Islander - 0.4%
Other race - 2.4%
Two or more races - 5.1%
Hispanic or Latino ethnicity (of any race): 6.6%
Persons of color: 33.7%
Atlanta is over 60% African American, Baltimore over 60% and Detroit is over 80%. There is just simply too much political power to be gained from pandering to a single racial group in these other cities. Corruption is then rampant. The issue is as much corruption as race if you ask me. How can they spend $15K+ per student in Baltimore? Where does the money go?
sschu
more of the same, as long as the sheeple keep voting for demicans and republicrats none of this will ever be fixed. just one more item for the ever expanding bohica file.
Symptoms of a big gov which happens to be Dems. Dem is an attribute but BIG is the issue. Fact is the rioters and faux news will focus on white cop on black person crimes. They wont cover black on black, black on white, or the actual issues of War on Drugs, education system, monetary and economic policies.
Yeah, let's continue 40 years of failed GOP policies! Forward The War On Drugs™!