Posted on 08/27/2011 11:46:30 AM PDT by mathprof
The Rats have destroyed what was once a great city. I grew up in Baltimore County, the county that surrounds Baltimore. The downtown area is loaded with potential, and there would be a huge influx of yuppies if Baltimore was not also loaded with drug addicts and gangbangers.
Most parts of B’more are not safe to walk in. I know people who seriously considered buying rehabbed properties in the city only to be scared off by the crime. I have read stories of people buying and rehabbing property only to be robbed repeatedly.
For some reason, the leadership is unwilling to stop the crime.
Thx for link
http://baltileaks.org/wsj-how-property-taxes-and-the-curley-effect-are-killing-baltimore/
Every intelligent (and some not so intelligent) person knows why Baltimore is a dump. It’s the same reason most of the major inner cities are dumps. It’s the same reason Philadelphia, New York, DC, Detroit, Newark, Cleveland, Oakland, Los Angeles and most of the other major US cities are dumps. Sure in everyone of these cities there are some decent areas, but for the most part these are dirty and dangerous places. Everyone knows it. But we all cannot say it due to political correctness.
Fascinating article about the “Culey Effect” but monstrous in it’s implications. But it makes brutal sense. Democrats by nature want to keep politics tribal and to keep their own supporters impoverished and dependent on them.
I’d go further and say that just about every black democrat mayor is a Curley-ite to one degree or another but on a national scale the idea is to keep all the races balkanized and impoverished.
The Cloward-Piven strategy can be said to be related. Of course that strategy (and I’d say Obama is a follower of it) is to cause complete, total, abject socioeconomic collapse in the Marxian faith that a beautiful socialist utopia will arise, phoenixlike from the ashes. The suffering this will bring about concerns them not at all.
In essence, a "free market", but differences and disputes are settled with guns.
Lots of illegal aliens from the Caribbean, too, contributing to the mayhem.
And the Caribbean nations don't want their citizens back after being indoctrinated in the gang lifestyle, either.
Baltimore is a horror story. One of the worst urban areas I’ve seen.
I visited Edgar Allan Poe’s house and graveyard when I was there on business. A ghetto has grown around it.
Good crabs though.
The Curley effect is also exacerbated by Maryland’s incredibly stupid laws on concealed carry.
“But we all cannot say it due to political correctness.”
What is the “it” that you’re referring to? The racial mix of the city or the leftist governance?
Soon to be the Detroit of the eastern US!
Maryland “Freak State” PING!
Baltimore take a back seat to no Detroit!!!
Much moreso by the fascist/communist rules against anyone who actually tries to support HIMSELF, rather than suck off a government teat.
Except its a lot harder to move out of his jurisdiction...
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