The lousy way of life in a third world city has many, many causes. Having been to a lot of them and having spent many days working in Baltimore and it’s surroundings, the same conditions exist in Baltimore as in some third world cities.
President Trump was correct to say Cumming’s “district is a disgusting, rat and rodent infested mess.” Cummings represents Maryland’s 7th congressional district. The district includes just over half of Baltimore City, most of the majority-black precincts of Baltimore County, as well as most of Howard County.
In 2018, Baltimore was rated one of the “Rattiest Cities” in the nation by pest control company Orkin. According to Patch Media, although there has been progress in the last few years, Baltimore ranks ninth in rat infestation, down from its sixth position two years ago on Orkin’s list. Trump was correct to call Cummings district “rat and rodent infested”.
Baltimore has America’s second highest murder rate city. Baltimore has 55.8 murders per 100,000 people.
The unpleasant and true fact is that predominantly black and Democratic-run cities are poorly run although they are very successful getting local, State and Federal money to spend but it doesn’t help because the problems are the people in the districts and the politicians who get and spend the money so the black cities const other Americans a lot of money but the money doesn’t help because the problem is not a lack of government money, rather it’s the lack of government ability to solve the problems in the black cities.
Further: Black and Democrat run cities have the worst records of public safety. The Trace, an independent nonprofit news organization, using 2017 data from the FBI’s Uniform Crime Reporting program, listed the 20 major U.S. cities with the highest homicide rates. After St. Louis and Baltimore, Detroit was third, with 39.8 murders per 100,000 people. Other cities with high murder rates included New Orleans; Kansas City, Missouri; Cleveland; Memphis, Tennessee; and Newark, New Jersey. With 24.1 murders per 100,000 residents, Chicago ranked ninth in the nation, followed by Cincinnati and Philadelphia. Washington, D.C., was 17th.
What about education in Baltimore? In 2016, in 13 of Baltimore’s 39 high schools, not a single student, not one student scored proficient on the state’s mathematics exam. In six other high schools, only 1% tested proficient in math. In raw numbers, 3,804 Baltimore students took the state’s math test and 14 out of 3,804 tested proficient.
Citywide, only 15% of Baltimore students passed the state’s English test. Money is not the problem. Of the nation’s 100 largest school systems, Baltimore schools rank third in spending per pupil.
Walter Williams wrote: “The problems black people confront are immune to who is the president of the U.S. Those problems were not ameliorated when Barack Obama was president. Those problems are not going to be ameliorated by Trump’s presidency, though the black unemployment rate is considerably lower (under Trump). The lesson for black people is that politicians and government handouts are not solutions. If they were, at a public expenditure that tops $22 trillion over the past half-century, black people would not be confronted with today’s problems.
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