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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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Doesn't matter what the size of the gov't is when it is controlled by Wall Street, fuckwit!
And since there are only five corporations which control the vast majority of the so-called news outlets, and since those five corps are financially beholden to two major banks --- surely you will explain to us who owns those two banks?
So true.
Baltimore is England's future unless people stop shrinking from accusations of being "anti-immigrant" by the usual suspects when they proclaim that the native people of Europe have the right not to be out-bred in their own homeland by immigrants.
It is racist and stupid to think otherwise
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/02/world/europe/ukip-has-changed-britains...
Whats that they say about correlation and causation? What about these cities, some of the wealthiest (and liberal) in the US? What could be the reason they don't have the same problems that Baltimore does?
San Francisco, democrtic mayor since 1964
Washington DC, democratic mayor since (at least) 1967
Seattle, democratic mayor since 1969
Boston, democratic mayor since 1930
Denver, democratic mayor since, (at least) 1960s
Austin, democratic mayor since 1991
Get outside of the Federal sector in DC and you are in the hood. It ranks right up there with the killing zones of New Orleans, Philly, and Chicago. What's different about the other cities? Time. Demographics is destiny....
You mean the federal sector that boomed after W and Cheney outsourced The War On Terror™ to the private sector?
To what degree did a particular city suffer from the overall trends mentioned here: The Baltimore Riots: The Stunning Comments By Orioles Owner's Son
Obviously, as America becomes the more socially polarized place on the planet, the differences between different regions get bigger and BIGGER ... The fundamental causes have little to do with the superficial labels of Democrat versus Republican, etc. ...
Inner city blacks have it tough. Let down the federal government nanny, big talkers at the state level, corruption at the local level, and a culture in denial of its own problems.
Yes, absent these impediments they'd all be doctors, scientists and mathematicians. Just like we see on TV.
which doctor? witch doctor?
Yes, absent these impediments they'd all be doctors, scientists and mathematicians. Just like we see on TV.
Fair point. What Jim Quinn tiptoes away from is the fact that the hell-hole cities are inhabited and run by blacks. They are also 'liberal' and vote Democrat but these are secondary factors.
hmmmm, what could be the reason? Democrats V.S. Black populations.
Well you already made the point that the cities have democratic mayors for a long time. How about the black populations? We know in the cities that are bankrupt, falling apart and rioting they have been under democratic rule for decades AND they have large percentages of blacks, like in the 70% ranges, give or take 10%.
How about the cities on your list?????
The population of Austin, TX is 743,074 people. Of those people, 31.9% of them are black
San Francisco County California; Population, 2014 estimate : 852,469: 38,802,500: Population, 2013 estimate : ... Black or African American alone, percent, 2013 (a) 6.0%:
Well, folks, I just heard another disturbing percentage as it pertains to Black people in the city of San Francisco the other day. Preliminary numbers are in from the 2010 Census.
Estimates put the remaining African American population for the city of San Francisco at around 3.9 percent
http://sfbayview.com/2011/02/black-population-drops-to-3-9-in-san-francisco/
Frequently requested statistics for Seattle (city). . Black or African American alone, percent, 2010 (a) 7.9%: Washington (the state) 3.6%:
Frequently requested statistics for Boston (city). Black or African American alone, percent, 2010 (a) 24.4%: Massachusetts 6.6%:
Denver Colorado; Population, 2013 estimate: 649,495: 5,272,086: Population, 2010 (April 1) estimates base : ... Black or African American alone, percent, 2010 (a) 10.2%:
The Washington Post. Number of black D.C. residents plummets as majority status slips away. With the city ‘s black population dropping by about 1 percent a year, African Americans might already be below the 50 percent mark in the city.
See, even the federal .gov is employing the same approach in D.C.; if you want to balance your budget, control crime, have good schools, etc. Move the Blacks out.
All the above stats can be found here:
http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/53/5363000.html
Democrat V.S. Black populations, looks like Democrat wins. Apparently you're better off without the Blacks; or to be PC (or polite) looks like the best place for tribal descendents is back in the jungle.
Just the facts ma'am, just the facts.
Yup, all those liberal policies of shipping American jobs to China and other thrid-world countries.
Wait, sorry, my bad, those are conserative policies!
Noboy knows how many people are killed by police in the United States. This number, unlike YouTube downloads, is not considered important enough to track. We can't be bothered. We didn't count the people we killed in Iraq either. They weren't important.
Welcome to the Baltimore Matrix... Please be patient... Our system is going through menopause...you might experience these signs and symptoms:• Hot flashes from local businesses exploding • Night sweats as cops take chase after you • Sleep problems as marchers shout all night long and never sleep • Mood changes as cars are set on fire • Weight gain from eating junk food, slowed metabolism and thinning hair( pulled out) from watching the non-stop TV riot coverage.
That title of this post is a travesty of the last 40 years of US government policy.
The PRIME governing trait of US policy, aka Pax Americana hegemony, has been : MIC spending, Oil scavenging worldwide under petrodollar umbrella and debt forever recycling of creditor nations via forced buying US/First world FIRE economy assets and/or holding US T-bonds; aka feeding outsourced prodution on buyback of Chinese products with T notes belonging to others being PARKED in the US via the TBTF banks; who helped the oligarchy of the world based on cheap money and Casino "can't lose" skimming to profit the Oligarchs. The circular economy of the new Oligarchy world based on Petrodollar world order.
In order to ensure election of those crony politicians who had PUT this MAJOR plank of world economy in place they had to placate the voters at home by similar "assistance and welfare deals" all based ALSO on government spend and debt spigot feeding consumption to the extent of indebting the poorest via subprime type scams.Why waste a good occasion to skin the hides off the poorest!
But this second was TRICKLE down economy to placate the government sector whose votes the Oligarchy needs. The real DEAL of the last 40+ years has been the rip off of FIRE economy bubble all based on Casino derivative financial products and huge profits for the "skimmers"; "can't lose ever" type deals for the rich until it all blew up in 2008; think MF global and all the other HFT scams.
The new model of world economy of which the US is the NEXUS is thus : Neo-liberal financial skimming based on FIRE economy fed on debt and steroid pumped monetary plays, ACCOMPANIED by AUTHORitarian government spend --MIIC, social programs etc.-- that allow the political shills to control the sheeple and feed them on hand outs.
We are thus getting the worst of BOTH worlds : neo-feudalism and statism gone viral hand in hand.
And, welfare state is just the small brother of that bigger Oligarchy scam.
Don't turn the PYRAMID of POWER on its apex or you won't be able to tell "sheeet from shine hole".
WHats burning in Baltimore is the class divide that is also based on ethnic divides which the rich and powerful exploit to make the people even more dumbed down in neighbourhood mafia gangs of New York type games.
you miseed the part about bill clinton and nafta and how democrats and republicans SHIP out jobs to china that were once in baltimore.
98% of american clothing is now made abroad . that's a 'bipartisan' policy.
YOU GET 200 POINTS ON THE SAT FOR SIMPLY SHOWING UP AND WRITING IN YOUR NAME....
Out of every $100 the US spends on education, 2-1/2 cents is spent on educating gifted children.....
With an average IQ in the 80's that's the best that can be expected.
Nailed it. If that simple fact were accepted the trillions wasted on black education could be saved and the money used some other way to help them.
But the truth about black IQ is a Hate Fact.
It would be cheaper if we bought a country in Africa and sent all the welfare blacks there. Build a city like the chinese did, quick and cheap. Promise them free shit. Once they are over there refuse then entry to the US for life.
why nothing is burning in washington dc?