Why Do Democrats Run All Of The Dangerous And Rodent Infested Cities?
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Congressman Elijah Cummings may honestly believe that his district in West Baltimore doesn’t stink.
But it does.
I’ve been there, I’ve seen and smelled it.
Bernie Sanders called it “the third world" back in 2016.
Sometimes the truth hurts. Especially to those bathed, clothed, and dipped in the intoxication of corrupt power, but that’s why sunlight is so helpful.
And disinfecting!
Rep. Cummings, while being very obsessed with Russia, seems utterly bewildered with the idea that anyone could dare question why so many billions of federal dollars flow to places like West Baltimore when they are obviously doing no good.
Look at other cities in similar dilapidation and there holds a unique truth: Democrats run them all.
How long will sewage run down the streets of San Francisco? How long will St. Louis, Detroit, and Baltimore, continue to rotate as the nation’s most dangerous crime infested metros? And how long will federal dollars keep chasing bad money with new?
None of the elected officials seem to know—much less care.
Why would they?
They look and see that Elijah Cummings has been a “public servant” for most of his life yet owns not one but two homes.
Bernie Sanders owns three.
Nancy Pelosi owns at least ten properties, and has a net worth of $29 million. On a salary of $223,000.
Imagine.
But in San Francisco—or the West Coast version of West Baltimore—which is Nancy Pelosi’s home district, you literally can download an app to help navigate the streets with the least amount of fecal matter as possible.
Seattle is just as bad. Los Angeles has zoomed past them both.
And according to the FBI Uniform Crime Report and as reported in the USA Today (from Feb 19, 2019), the top 10 most dangerous cities in America are run by Democrats.
The overwhelming majority of them are also all governed by Democratic Governors. And the Congressional districts represented are also majority Democratic.
Did I mention that each of them also has higher unemployment rates than the national average?
In Baltimore, Democrats have run everything for more than four decades. Federal dollars have flowed in, and yet the stench, sight, and symbolism of it all—stinks.
In my life I’ve spent multiple seasons, time, and resources going to the actual third world. The heartbreak in places like Haiti, Guatemala, Ghana and the Congo, is that they have no opportunity to make their lives better. Those economies are largely run by corrupt governments whose only ambition is to use public office to enrich themselves. A lot like Cummings, Sanders, and Pelosi have done.
The “walk of fame,” the scenic hills of the Bay Area, the rainy skies of the northwest, these iconic images are being replaced by squatters, filth, crime, ANTIFA and rodents. (Is that redundant?)
For Baltimore it’s been this way for decades.
And the only reason that Elijah Cummings got passionate about the issue, isn’t because it’s true. It’s because he got called out on it, by someone who is working to make America better for everybody. Thus revealing—whether in knowledge or in ignorance—Congressman Cummings hasn’t been.
But Democrats who lives in these cities already know that.
They live in the land of corrupt squander every waking day.
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What we have here is just another lameass example of some unknown dumbass lying ultra conservative far rightwing crank author asking another misleading biased contrived question based entirely upon a false lying no good premis for purely misguided partisan propaganda purposes. Has the far right no shame, no decency, no sense of right and wrong?
But yet you can't disclaim anything stated can you.
Sorry but your feeling don't make anything a lie.
Baltimore is a corrupt democrat run shithole just like Flint.
Rampant Poverty and terrible schools are a feature of Democratic controlled cities, not a bug. The Whole point is to keep the perpetual system of government dependent voters operating.
What are the top six poorest states in the Union?
An excellent point.
I don't know why everything has to be partisan, but apparently to make a point it has to be.
I'm glad to see that NM is no longer challenging Mississippi for the #1 spot. However the well being of states has little to do with how well the border patrol cares for those in it's custody (Cummings point) or the status of Cummings district, specifically Baltimore (the President's point).
Isn't that what this is about?
They choose quality of life where they can hunt, fish, grow there own produce living off the land over living in the overpopulated ant farms where they can earn more. I can understand why they would choose that.
You seem to have forgotten, that the issue was the border and the President made it about Baltimore.
It depends upon one's point of view. The case could be made that those who don't take care of their own districts shouldn't be casting stones at the President's men.
Cummings is not the mayor, he is one of several congressional reps. He alone can't do what the president can do at the border.
Are "children sitting in their own feces?"
If so, why?
BTW, I don't see Cummings or any of the other congressional democrats trying to help the President fix the crisis. As I recall they once denied it was a crisis!
Nah, they're too busy manufacturing and massaging it to have ANY desire to fix it.
A bigger bunch of flaming hypocrites there is not ......
According to this, pretty much:
Judy Woodruff:
And just briefly, I want to come back to, again, the specifics of what Mr. Cummings said in that exchange with Kevin McAleenan, when he said children sitting in feces.
There's a story in The New York Times. This ran out on June the 21st, I think. It said, among other things: "Children as young as 7 and eight, many of them wearing clothes caked with snot and tears, caring for infants they have just met. Toddlers without diapers are relieving themselves in their pants."
My question is, how do we know this is true?
Ali Noorani:
So we know it's true, by and large, because of the OIG report.
How are they supposed to fix it? And in fact, Cummings was assigned to do an investigation, which he did. He was not assigned to clean up the mess and then didn't. What I find amazing is that how this whole thing has become twisted into something it isn't.
What this is about in part is class. What this is about is what we as a village teach our children. What this about is not trying to 'shine' by calling people out in public when you have deposited yourself in the role of defender of all the people.Thus, implying oneself to be defender of what is good, true, and wholesome.
Fingers can point in all directions and tongues can wag as to all the conditions which lead to where the cities, states, and nation are today.
The point is the Oversight Committee is the proper forum for Mr. Cummings, Chair of the Oversight Committee, to discuss matters/policy/problems/solutions with Border Patrol. It makes sense there. The president gaslighting Baltimore, without specifying how the problems materialized and can be changed, has nothing to do with the U.S. Mexican Border.
Those are with poverty levels factored in. The fact is that (if you read the report) that these red states are poor and the even have a lower cost of living and they are still poor. So I will tell you what I told Vic. You would think they would vote out their governors, but they don't since that is their comfort level.
I'm okay with that. Incidentally, that is the point all along. Point: Allow the cities and states to manage their face-forward to the world, and the circumstances that confront each of them with limited outside agitation.
When the unifying appointee, in this case a president, tries to marginalize one man by casting aspersion on a region, the president's role becomes that of a base agitator. — Anybody can be crude, vulgar, or impulsive-driven so as to turn and pat their fat ass in someone's face! There is absolutely nothing special about that person!
Instead, it takes discipline, reserve, courage, and 'good form' to extend a hand and help to make a perceived political foe a friend. Giving in to an impulse to air a city's or state's dirty laundry will only cause confusion as people scramble to respond swiftly!
For example, Dean, here you are speaking up for the good values of the poorest states, Baltimore deserves the same treatment from us all, too. Oh and Dean, calling people who live in densely populated cities "ant farm" dwellers is bad form. Respect all around is better.
Ah yes, the old PeeWee Herman "i know you are but what am i" gambit.
Nice debate technique ...... if you were 10 that is ......
Did Trump prove Elijah Cummings does not care for his district? How so? Please proceed. . . . Demonstrate one document in the president's possession which shows Congressman Baltimore has oversight of the city of Baltimore. Also, define the job description of, "mayor" and "governor,' please.
By not politicizing it and working towards realistic solutions.
Cummings has been in office how long? What has he done to fix the problem? Little to nothing but he does spew partisan rhetoric well.
The hypocrisy drips off him so much it's hard for me to believe anyone can defend him on this topic.
And, what do you have to 'condemn' Mr. Cummings for us to review? Did you bring along his congressional history to present here? Sorry, I don't see it linked or illustrated.
Do you think southern states like Mississippi and Arkansas are the only places one can fish, hunt, and grow gardens? I grew up in PA and we did all that stuff....and look! Not on the list!
Lol .... want to see something funny? Check out his district map:
Holy Gerrymander batman!!
Sparty,
Maybe you don't get what a congressman does, but it is not the day to day running of a city. That would be the mayor.
As to Cummings record, just look at wiki. It's long and impressive.
Again, we can do that in Red states and find the same amount of Gerrymandering. This is all deflection to the issue.
I get it just fine. Sure he's not responsible for the day to day in Baltimore but in the end he is suppose to represent the will of all his constituents to the best of his ability. Which includes the City of Baltimore.
Yes a fine record indeed with the exception of this case which he has done little but be divisive about.
Now who's making it political? I just saw it when looking up Cummings and thought it was funny.
I never said it didn't happen in red states. Gerrymandering is bad no matter who does it.
Lighten up Francis!
Yeah i hear what you are saying. He has the bearing of a person who may get "physical" at the inappropriate moment.
And yet the rat infestation in NYC is far worse - yet Trump does nothing about it.
Well, i gotta say that certainly isn't all Cummings fault but it is his district and he does bear some responsibility for its current state.
No doubt about that.
And stop calling me Francis, LOL!
Those in power in the now "Red States" haven't really changed, they're the same Southern white religious conservatives they've always been. The only thing that changed was their party affiliation as the Republican Southern strategy worked.
And virtually every solid Red State is topping the charts of most entitlement's.
Here are the top 15 MOST federally dependent States:
"when the lens shifts to political ideology, the survey finds virtually no difference in the share of conservatives (57%), liberals (53%) or political moderates (53%) who have been assisted by at least one entitlement program ."
The whole nonsense narrative Republicans try to sell of Democrats being the party of handouts is shattered by the actual facts.
Not to worry, my "inverted crane" walker defense technique is excellent.
What gives you an impression Donald is trying to fix this? He heard there are problems, Pence when down to Texas and smelled it, and came back with a pronouncement of "Atta boy"!
Nope. This is about corruption:
"An aide to President Trump said that the Baltimore region has squandered billions of dollars in federal grants given by the administration.
‘President Trump has given $16billion in 2018 alone to Elijah Cummings’ district in federal grants,’ Lynne Patton, a regional administrator with the Department of Housing and Urban Development, told Fox News on Monday.
‘We have given more money in homeless funds to Baltimore than the last administration’ as well as ‘community development grants,’ according to Patton.
She then took Cummings and the city leadership, including Mayor Bernard Young, to task, asking: ‘What are you actually doing with the money so that it benefits residents in the community for once instead of deep-pocket, crooked politicians?’
Where is the $16 Billion this President gave Baltimore in 2018?
First off, Twitter is not how you ask another branch of government for a report. Secondly, this smacks of a pretext. One that even a baby can point out. Thirdly, some people need to just grow up! I have no interest in responding to every foolish distraction that Donald Trump, a proven liar, intends to write, say, or do to cover up his low-down dirty personality.
Now then, 16 Billion dollars you say? Get the itemized list from Baltimore or the proper authorities and share it with the rest of us, please.
You seem 'fond' of talking about trashy people; well, when are you going to see clearly that Donald Trump is playing a thug-role in the White House? Donald is not presidential. He has little to no charm or finesse, and as he has 'fired' and turned his back on a plethora of officials in D.C. —he will toss you under the bus easily if you doubt his activities, programs, or announce his failures. The presidency nor being on the world's stage, or most assuredly granted a memorable place in this nation's history has tempered (balanced) this man's conduct. Now, that is "thuggish."
One more thing. If Donald Trump wants to be thought of in the present and remembered in history as a contemptible, cowardly, cruel, selfish, cowardly president—let me get on with my opinion of his activities for he is well on the way!
$16 Billion this President gave them in a single year. Imagine what they could have done with that? Ya, we need accountability from local officials.
Yes (dryly). Emphasis on "local officials".
I have provided proof @12 below that there was no need or "room" for Donald Trump to insert himself publicly in between his cabinet appointee and the Oversight Chair. Anybody can see that 'the moment of outrage' is over as quickly as it begins. The two men involved resolved to tour the border together at their earlies convenience.
However, Donald saw a pretext, an opportunity to blow this situation out of proportion, and true to form he took it. That reaction is not presidential. Once again we see a leader, "punching down." Trying to shine on somebody else circumstances. Well, "Mr. President" shine on you crazy diamond—how about those promised taxes, you double-crosser!
"Vast" is a truly big word. Okay, nevertheless.
That is exactly why you never ruin mine.
I am not sure what Donald's campaign promises have to do with Baltimore and the Oversight Committee Chair Elijah Cummings. Are you changing topics?
I don't play the dozens, child of God, period. Here is a song you can accept as a metaphor of understanding:
I hope that song blesses you some way, some how, some day!
There are a whole bunch of coal miners right now that would disagree.
Well, this is what happens when grown people play 'the dozens': Somebody's feelings get hurt. Just ask the poor republicans and democrats in Mississippi after all this time. Time spent under republican governors by the way.
Then you can take this president who is a vindictive liar, cheater, and thief - who can't be taken down because he has "henchmen" still running a branch of government shielding him (and his Twitter account) from his impeachable offenses and actions. So what does he do, Donald John Trump, is the coward who talks big fhit from between the folds of his henchmen's and women's skirts.
How is he fit to govern? He won't stand up and be counted like other men and women of his stature. He literally hides behind others who he pushes out in front of himself. Then, afterwards, after the dust settles, he comes out and figuratively plants his foot on the carcass of the 'fallen,' or perceived fallen anyway, and declares to everyone what he, himself, has wrought! Never taking notice of all the littered carcasses and early retirements to otherwise good and decency people he has mounted up!
Oh, and Kentucky is on the list of the poorest states too.
IRRELEVANT
No Vic, it is not irrelevant. If you are going to talk about why a city is failing and blame it on a party, then why a state is failing falls into the same category. If we are going to talk about city as being a partisan issue then so is a state.
The context was Cummings beating up the HS Secretary, falsely claiming that the overwhelmed border patrol was not caring for detained children, thus Trump focused on the care Cummings constituents were getting. That's the origins of this, no?
And that is deflection. The issue was the border and only the border. Bringing Baltimore into it, was what was really irrelevant.
Not when the Chairman made a false accusation. Can he prove his accusation of "children sitting in their own feces?" How about his tone? Did you see the way he verbally abused the Secretary. No, I think the President was right to call him out. Before Cummings criticizes the border he needs to look into his own back yard.
One more thing has come out of this: We now see liberals defending the conditions in Baltimore!
Vic,
There have been fact-finding groups that have reported this and much worse. The tone is the tone. And no, Cummings does not have to look into his backyard unless that is the topic, which it wasn't.
I am not defending the deficits of Baltimore. It has many. It's just not the issue.
I only recognize one fact on the border. It's protectors are overwhelmed due to counterproductive laws, the failure of congress to make immigration law while denying funding for anything Trump requests, liberal judges who want to promote illegal immigration, foreign governments sending caravans, and a very generous due process system grated to anyone who steps over the border.
I disagree. It's an appropriate comparison to make IMO. Cummings getting on his high horse and aggressively tearing into this Secretary when he has some of the same issues or worse in his own district.
It is quite hypocritical and his constituents should be pissed he appears to be more concerned with illegal aliens right now than he is for them.
Exactly...when Trump and his admin, months ago, said they needed additional funding the Democrats decided to play politics with the children claiming there was no crisis at the border.
The fake outrage and Oscar performance by Cummings is quite sickening.
No. The origin of this is oversight and the possible outrage of children left to sit in their own fecal matter alongside others left festering in their fecal matter with inappropriate wipes for the lot of them! The fact is, American 'exceptionalism' means we are better than this! And jokingly, we should have something resembling an 'app' for that!
Bottomline: In America, we have enough bathroom facilities and wipes to care for every butt that needs it. There is no good excuse not to supply it to those in need of it.
What "people who live in those areas"? Americans? Is it that you'd rather live next to Russians? They seem to embrace white nationalism and Trump more than most Americans do so I guess that would make sense for some.
I wasn't the one saying I didn't want to "live with and among" certain American citizens you have apparently deemed inferior. You might tell yourself you're not being racist if you include "white progressives", but it's still just as bigoted a comment.
" White flight is a term that originated in the United States, starting in the 1950s and 1960s, and applied to the large-scale migration of people of various European ancestries from racially mixed urban regions to more racially homogeneous suburban or exurban regions. The term has more recently been applied to other migrations by whites, from older, inner suburbs to rural areas"
"Migration of middle-class white populations was observed during the Civil Rights Movement in the 1950s and 1960s out of cities such as Cleveland, Detroit, Kansas City and Oakland, although racial segregation of public schools had ended there long before the US Supreme Court's decision Brown v. Board of Education in 1954."
DP is right - it's people moving out of areas as they become more diverse, because they don't want to live among those of other races and are intolerant of those who have different ideas.
You can use whatever different words you want, the results are the same as they have been since the 1960's. You can deny any racial component if you want, but if the results are conservative whites moving away from racially mixed neighborhoods resulting in little rural pockets of nearly all white conservatives, are you really going to keep up the act that it was all over policy?
People leave, (democrats too) because they can afford better homes with better schools in safer areas. Cities run by Democrats view school districts as cash machines for their supporters. Terrible education creates more voters dependent on handouts which give Democrats even more incentive to use the schools as ATM's for their supporters, and the cycle perpetuates.
White people have been moving into urban areas and causing home prices and rents to sky rocket in those areas.
Suppose you are going to imply that is racist too.
It's the reverse effect from when many whites fled neighborhoods where black Americans were moving in thus tanking the property values in certain areas as whites fleeing would sell their homes for below market values just to get out. A practice known as "blockbusting" used to exist.
" The real estate business practice of "blockbusting" was a for-profit catalyst for white flight, and a means to control non-white migration. By subterfuge, real estate agents would facilitate black people buying a house in a white neighborhood, either by buying the house themselves, or via a white proxy buyer, and then re-selling it to the black family. The remaining white inhabitants (alarmed by real estate agents and the local news media), fearing devalued residential property, would quickly sell, usually at a loss . The realtors profited from these en masse sales and the ability to resell to the incoming black families, through arbitrage and the sales commissions from both groups. By such tactics, the racial composition of a neighborhood population was often changed completely in a few years"
Nope, moving back into neighborhoods and increasing property values is a good thing for most who live there, so as long as you're not moving to an urban area devoid of minorities in an attempt to create another effectively "whites-only" community using financial segregation as your tool, then it's not racist.
Since they are progressive I am sure folks will call them racist also..
Thats only part of the picture.
The race riots had a lot to do with "White Flight" in the 60's. So so did cost of living and taxation. People moved out because they were getting taxed to death and were scared to raise their kids in a place with such unrest.
That all combined to help make a "death spiral" for these big cities.
Trying to attribute "white flight" to racism only is disingenuous indeed.
What you see, to be clear, is liberals calling out a dick for being 'dickish.' Baltimore has a city council with members, a mayor, county supervisors, and local state officials. A congressman does not run or manage the streets of the city. That is, it is not Congressman Cummings city.
As for you, Donald Trump is president and he has a really stupid Twitter feed that you clearly are in 'love' with. Why are you defending a president who does not take exception to anybody's child sitting in filth on our soil? Explain your position on the proper way to 'treat the least of these' in a country with churches stretched far and wide.
And, yet you can not find one wrong fact on the president. That man surpassed 10,000 recognized lies and half-truths many months ago as defined by those qualified to investigate and moderate lies, half-truths, and plain truths. This leads to an important, overlooked question: When can Vic Eldred know this president is informing us of fact based answers?
Yay! Okay! Here is the entirely useful 13 minutes video of Chairman Cummings discussing this 'matter' with Mr. McAleelan. Note: The session start out regular, has a rise of temper at its middle, and ends with both men agreeing to meet at a border station for a tour of the facilities. It did get heated (briefly), but rapidly cooled down:
As always, you can speed up the video using the Youtube "settings" wheel.
Chairman Cummings Exchange with DHS Secretary McAleenan
Plus:
O I G
Special Review - Initial Observations Regarding Family Separation Issues Under the Zero Tolerance Policy
What We Observed DHS was not fully prepared to implement the Administration’s Zero Tolerance Policy or to deal with some of its after-effects. Faced with resource limitations and other challenges, DHS regulated the number of asylum-seekers entering the country through ports of entry at the same time that it encouraged asylum-seekers to come to the ports. During Zero Tolerance, CBP also held alien children separated from their parents for extended periods in facilities intended solely for short-term detention. DHS also struggled to identify, track, and reunify families separated under Zero Tolerance due to limitations with its information technology systems, including a lack of integration between systems. Page 1
On June 23, 2018, DHS announced that DHS and HHS had “a central database” containing location information for separated parents and minors that both departments could access and update. 22 However, OIG found no evidence that such a database exists. The OIG team asked several ICE employees, including those involved with DHS’ reunification efforts at ICE Headquarters, if they knew of such a database, and they did not. Two officials suggested that the “central database” referenced in DHS’ announcement is actually a manually-compiled spreadsheet maintained by HHS, CBP, and ICE personnel. According to these officials, DHS calls this spreadsheet a “matching table.” Page 10
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