BALTIMORE RIVALS DETROIT.
Posted on 02/24/2012 6:35:42 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Ahh! The scourge of racist democrats running a city into the crapper has spread from Detroit to Baltimore. Our National Socialist Democrat Party is very adept at destroying everything in their paths.
FUBO & FAD
Welcome to America in 20 years after the economic collapse.
Some bricks just need recycling.
At least they have Dish Network in that first pic.
Why would anyone stay in Baltimore City if they could get out? The property taxes are exorbitant, yet the schools are horrible. It’s a GD crime what has happened to the city.
Lots of cities have the same.
As the number of empty souls increases, so does the number of empty houses.
The property taxes are exorbitant because so few people pay taxes.
The schools are horrible because of the students. Any school which has significant numbers of children of welfare moms will be horrible.
The only solution for Baltimore would be to abolish welfare, but that won't happen in a Dem-controlled state.
Baltimore - Randy Newman - Performed by Nina Simone
Beat-up little seagull
On a marble stair
Tryin’ to find the ocean
Lookin’ everywhere
Hard times in the city
In a hard town by the sea
Ain't nowhere to run to
There ain't nothin’ here for free
Hooker on the corner
Waitin’ for a train
Drunk lyin’ on the sidewalk
Sleepin’ in the rain
And they hide their faces
And they hide their eyes
‘Cause the city's dyin’
And they don't know why
Oh, Baltimore
Man, it's hard just to live
Oh, Baltimore
Man, it's hard just to live, just to live
Get my sister Sandy
And my little brother Ray
Buy a big old wagon
Gonna haul us all away
Livin’ in the country
Where the mountain's high
Never comin’ back here
‘Til the day I die
Oh, Baltimore
Man, it's hard just to live
Oh, Baltimore
Man, it's hard just to live, just to live
“Anybody who’s spent any time in Cleveland, Detroit, Philadelphia, Baltimore or Flint, can see what the market has done to those neighborhoods. It’s destroyed them.”
As if the "market" were a thing with a single will. Of course, if he'd said that people acting in their own best interests had destroyed them, it just wouldn't have the same big-government ring.
Excellent post.
Yepoka Yeebo
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Buffalo’s inner-city liberals always wanted to emulate Baltimore (Inner Harbor), Pittsburgh (neighborhood revitalization), and Cleveland (the Flats). When I would point out to them that those cities were losing population even faster than Buffalo despite those big projects, they feigned deafness.
Pity. They have such great crab cakes...
And I’m sure all the former residents are still “voting” and these addresses to.
Twenty years ago I walked up N. Charles St. from the Amtrak station to Johns Hopkins at about two in the afternoon, thinking that such a main street at such a time was safe. Reasonably clean and prosperous and absolutely deserted - the eeriest cityscape I ever saw - scarcely a car passed me in a mile and a half. My brother told me I was crazy. He and his wife lived in the most securely gated apartment I’ve yet seen.
My daughter is at Loyola - there is a bus just for students at the different universities so they don’t have to ride public transportation. If a student is arrested for less than a major felony (not an issue for her) the city police turn the student over to campus police so the student won’t be assaulted in the city jail. For her safety I had to tell her that one out of three young black men in Baltimore is currently under supervision of the justice system and that means there are yet more criminals: the uncaught, and those who’ve served their sentence, and the first timers. So don’t think it’s racist to be cautious of all black men, or black girls and women. Keep your long hair tied up. She didn’t want to listen to me - it took a only a couple months of local news, of older students’ warnings, to open her eyes, although none of them ever put it as baldly as I did.
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