Lamont Hill: Just Because Poor Cities Are Run by Democrats, Doesn't Mean Democrats Are to Blame

NewsBusters ^ | 17 Aug 2016 | Kristine Marsh

[SkyDancer]

Acerbated it for sure. Then when recovery was happening in 1936 FDR came out with his huge tax increase on the upper wage earners and drove the economy into a double Depression. Something like sixty-three percent of income.

[central_va]

Trade accounted for only 4% of GDP in 1930 so any trade bill could only have a marginal impact.

[hal ogen]

PhD = Piled Higher and Deeper

[TalBlack]

It isn’t just poor cities, rather it is declining cities. Degradation. A downward arc. Crappola.

[DennisR]

He gives idiots a bad name! Just another delusional, mentality ill lib... nothing out of the ordinary.

[dfwgator]

[Dawgreg]

AMEN!

[Old Yeller]

If Lamont Hill was white, he would have never been handed a PhD.

I think his PhD is in Nappy-Headed Studies.

[ully2]

No he is just over educated.

[HiTech RedNeck]

It would not be possible to assess the impact on “percentage of GDP” alone but in the importance to the overall activity of the economy.

We might not be spending all that much of our GDP on imported oil but make that stop by fiat edict and see what happens. Too much of the rest of the economy has leaned upon this convenience to expect anything but a major dislocation.

[HiTech RedNeck]

I would aver that a wiser policy is “balanced trade.” If the US exports enough widgets to Slobbovia to pay for the gimcracks it imports from Slobbovia, a zero tariff deal makes sense. Higher rates can be used as the stick, but balanced should be the carrot.

The problem with us is that we do NOT have balanced trade. We’re putting cheap junk on the national credit card which is already in a ridiculous state.

[Dr. Bogus Pachysandra]

“Every day, Lamont looks at the sky and wonders what that bright thing is.”

Why don’t we turn it out during the daytime?

[The_Media_never_lie]

It is all the tooth fairies fault.

[Jack Hammer]

Another democrat busily dodging responsibility.

[sargon]

Wrongfully incarcerated since 1981 for the murder of Officer Daniel Faulkner

So Mumia Abu-Jamal is a "wrongfully incarcerated" convicted cop killer?

How is it that he's "wrongfully incarcerated"?

I missed that evidence...

Vote Trump!

[Jane Long]

Yep...he’s on a dole/payroll so he could care less if the rest are kept down and out.

[JediJones]

Only because the left has been pushing the far left further and further left.