This policy of inflating the labor
supply boosts economic growth for investors because
it transfers wages to investors and ensures that employers do not have to
compete for American workers by offering higher wages and better working
conditions.
This policy of flooding the market with cheap,
foreign, white-collar graduates and blue-collar labor also shifts enormous wealth from young employees
towards older investors, even as it also widens wealth gaps, reduces high-tech investment, increases state and local tax burdens,
and hurts children’s schools and college educations.
The cheap-labor economic strategy
also pushes Americans away from high-tech
careers and sidelines millions of marginalized Americans, including many
who are now struggling with fentanyl addictions. The
labor policy also moves business investment and wealth from the heartland to
the coastal cities, explodes rents
and housing costs, shrivels real
estate values in the Midwest, and rewards investors for creating low-tech, labor-intensive workplaces.
JOHN BINDER
Baltimore Is Worse than Trump Thinks
Joe Biden's, Bernard Sanders's, Elizabeth Warren's, and Kamala Harris's Democratic Party is the main culprit of Baltimore's ills.
Thanks to President Trump's remark this past weekend about West Baltimore and its U.S. representative, Elijah Cummings, social media nation was embroiled in God only knows how many mindless online conversations. Trump said: "If he spent more time in Baltimore, maybe he could help clean up this very dangerous & filthy place."
Though rare, sometimes a Twitter discussion can be somewhat worthwhile, even if for just one of the parties conversing. On Saturday night, David Simon, creator of the now defunct critically acclaimed television show The Wire, tweeted thefollowing:
If this empty-suit, race-hating fraud had to actually visit West Baltimore for five minutes and meet any of the American citizens who endure there, he’d wet himself. twitter.com/realdonaldtrum…
I replied:
If this empty-suit, race-hating fraud had to actually visit West Baltimore for five minutes and meet any of the American citizens who endure there, he’d wet himself. twitter.com/realdonaldtrum…
David Simon is an accomplished writer, who undoubtedly understands irony very well.
Irony of his tweet here is, he confirms that @realDonaldTrump is correct. @DonaldJTrumpJr @parscale @DanScavino @Conserv58642587 @DanWantsFreedom
Much to my surprise, Simon replied to me:
You are perhaps less accomplished, and take seriously the notion that rather than address ourselves to a half century of U.S. urban policy, deindustrialization, drug war, mass incarceration, white flight after Brown v. we should blame it on who now has a congressional seat. twitter.com/RichLogis/stat…
Before The Wire, Simon was a police reporter for The Baltimore Sun, from 1982 to 1995. After he responded to me, I tweeted him the following information about Baltimore:
- Only Democrat mayors and only Democrat councilmen for the last 19,000 consecutive days. That's longer than for how long Stalin ruled the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.
- Cummings shares some blame, and it's not accurate to say Democrats are solely responsible for all the city's ills. But the Democrats who have run Baltimore share the vast majority of blame. PS: Cummings's district has elected only Dems for the last 24,000 consecutive days.
- The Wire told stories about Baltimore communities and the police. What kind of a relationship does one expect to see in a city where the police know many of the career criminals on a first-name basis? A happy and harmonious one?
- From 2010 to 2015, Baltimore, among American cities with highest homicide rates, per capita, was number 4. From 2016 to 2017, number 2. From 2010 to 2015, number 8 in non-fatal shootings. In 2017 and 2018, Baltimore was in top 25 each year for deadliest cities in the world(excluding the Middle East).
- The only reason Baltimore hasn't been run solely by Democrat mayors and Democrat councilmen for the last 26,000 uninterrupted days is because a miracle occurred from 1963 to 1967: residents elected a Republican.
- Look at many of the responses to my messages. They insult my character. I don't care, but note that the people siding with Simon offer zero factual refutations to what I've tweeted to you. I suspect that if they were sources for stories, he'd laugh at their lack of credibility.
Disappointingly, Simon went silent, although he's an active tweeter.
The Wire was praised for its gritty, realistic portrayals of life on the streets and corruption within local government and the city's police department. Simon's show, though, never addressed the monopoly of Democrat rule over the city. His entire career — as journalist, author, and TV showrunner — has been based on his knowledge of and supposed expertise on Baltimore blight. In my online research, I found no past statement from Simon specifically holding the Democrats culpable for the destruction they've wrought in Baltimore. I did find aplenty, however, the usual anti-Trump opprobrium and talking points of Democrats and the DMIC (Democrat Media Industrial Complex).
I suspect he read what I sent him, and I wonder: what would his counter-argument be? That 19,000 days isn't enough time to know if Democrat policies work? The "red state" fallacy argument won't work, because Maryland is a blue state.
Imagine crafting an entire brand based on debunked conspiracy theories and lies, and a nobody drops an atom bomb on it. Saturday night, indeed, is all right for fighting.
Trump Exposes Uncomfortable Truths
With his Baltimore comments, Trump, to his great credit, is doing the work past influential Republicans should have done. The primary reason I dive deep into Baltimore and other longtime Democrat municipal empires in both my podcastand my upcoming first book, 10 Warning Signs Your Child is Becoming a Democrat, is because the youth are the true victims of the guaranteed-to-fail Democrat "leadership" in our inner cities. Democrats have gotten away with too much for too long in the cities they've super-majority controlled: Baltimore, St. Louis, Philadelphia; Detroit; Chicago; New Orleans; Newark; Oakland, on and on. Children become permanently entangled in inter-generational familial poverty, squalor, drugs, guns, failing schools, juvenile violent crime, and lack of economic mobility.
The end results of Democrat dominance are more shocking and horrifying than most realize. It's high time for reasonable Americans to accept an uncomfortable and deadly truth: Democrats destroy everything and everywhere they attach their tentacles to. The utter, abject failures of Democrat-run cities are the most egregious cover-up by the DMIC in American history. The first step to problem-solving is acknowledging that a problem exists.
We finally have a Republican in Trump who is willing to take the fight to the rodent-infested streets and knows how to effectively use his bully pulpit. Lessening the political and cultural toxicity of the Democrats in our beautiful, historic cities is a Herculean task — some, perhaps, may say Sisyphean — but we must try, and try with good-faith efforts. If we can somehow start getting wins in America's big cities, we will put the Democrats on defense. Republicans and conservatives have always played defense in the cities — if they've played at all — and it's time to rip up the old playbook. Our best defense must be a blitzing, prolific offense. America First nationalism and thriving communities are complementary.
Victories in our cities will translate into better relations between police and the residents they serve and protect. More achievement in our schools. Reduced crime — especially of the violent kind. Abundant economic opportunity, and less dependency on government.
Admittedly, I'm uncertain as to how to defeat the Democrats in cities; Democrat ideology is in the DNA of these places. I have some ideas, and I will communicate them to Trump's re-election campaign and the Republican National Committee. If we do nothing, we see zero gains. What I am sure of is this: if we succeed where we've traditionally failed, and failed badly, we will put the Democratic Party out of business.
Rich Logis is host of The Rich Logis Show, at TheRichLogisShow.com, and author of the upcoming book 10 Warning Signs Your Child Is Becoming a Democrat. He can be found on Twitter at @RichLogis.
July 31, 2019
Baltimore and the Left’s slander of President Trump
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2019/07/baltimore_and_the_lefts_slander_of_president_trump.html
The major media focus lately has been on President Trump’s criticism of the sorry state of Congressman Elijah Cummings’ congressional district (MD-7) that includes most of Baltimore. The left’s goal is to wrongly paint President Trump as racist. This flies in the face of reality. It is President Trump’s policies that are succeeding in an American economic turnaround that has benefited all races.
President Trump often responds when attacked, and this disagreement with Congressman Cummings is no exception. On July 18, Congressman Cummingsangrily criticized the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the acting Secretary Kevin McAleenan, claiming terrible conditions for children at the border, while, as Congressman Jim Jordan noted, it is the Democrat controlled House that routinely prevents needed funding for border facilities to be able to resolve any problems.
On July 27, in response to Cummings, President Trump tweeted, “Rep. Elijah Cummings has been a brutal bully, shouting and screaming at the great men & women of Border Patrol about conditions at the Southern Border, when actually his Baltimore district is FAR WORSE and more dangerous. His district is considered the Worst in the USA,” adding that while “the Border is clean, efficient & well run, just very crowded,” Cummings’ district “is a disgusting, rat and rodent infested mess… maybe he could help clean up this very dangerous & filthy place.”
While President Trump’s focus is on the sorry state of Baltimore and Maryland’s 7th congressional district, the left’s focus seems to be on trying to slander President Trump as a racist for partisan political purposes. Democrat candidates Elizabeth Warren, Beto O’Rourke, and Bill DeBlasio all called President Trump a “racist,” and Cory Booker, who on July 21, 2019 said President Trump is “worse than a racist,” continued to paint President Trump as a racist.
Partially collapsed vacant rowhouse, 1210 N. Eden Street, Baltimore, MD 21213
Photo credit: Eli Pousson
Part of the supposed “basis” for President Trump’s comment being racist was that he said the district was “rat and rodent infested,” the key word being “infested,” ostensibly a word used by President Trump exclusively in reference to black Americans and blacks elsewhere. This claim was made by CNN’s Victor Blackwell. The only problem with that is that it’s not true. In 2017, in a leaked conversation with the president of Mexico, President Trump referred to the state of New Hampshire as being “a drug-infested den.” According to the US Census, 93.2% of New Hampshire is white and only 1.7% is black.
In light of the media hysterics against President Trump, it is important to recall that Senator Bernie Sanders (who on CNN joined the chorus of those calling President Trump “a racist president”) in 2015 made a very similar observation about Baltimore as President Trump did, stating:
But anyone who took the walk that we took around this neighborhood would not think you're in a wealthy nation; you would think that you were in a Third World country. But today, what we're talking about is a community in which half of the people don't have jobs. We're talking about a community in which there are hundreds of buildings that are uninhabitable. We’re talking about a community where kids are unable to go to schools that are decent.
President Trump is spot on about Baltimore’s rat infestation problem. The decades-long rat infestation in Baltimore city is so bad that in 2018 PBS released a documentary titled “Rat Film” detailing this problem. According to pest control company Orkin, in 2018 Baltimore ranked as the ninth most rat-infested city in the US. Former Mayor Catherine Pugh, on a tour of a Baltimore neighborhood said she could smell the rats. In November 2013, ABC news in Baltimore reported about the rat infestation, and in November 2014, they reported on the Baltimore mayor announcing a plan to address the rat problem. Clearly, there is a rat problem, which is a symptom of Baltimore’s Democrat political class consistently failing their constituents.
Aside from the rat infestation, Baltimore suffers from a high poverty rate, thesecond highest murder rate (after only St. Louis), a high rate of violent crime, and an education system that is highly funded but is nevertheless failing. In addition, life expectancy in poor neighborhoods in Baltimore is much lower than in wealthier neighborhoods.
While political leaders in both parties may share the blame for Baltimore’s nightmarish situation, it is the Democrat party that bears the lion’s share of the blame. Since January 1, 1967, Baltimore has had only Democrat mayors. Similarly, MD-7, currently represented by Congressman Cummings, has only had Democrat congressmen since 1953, after the seat was reinstated. Furthermore, all fourteen members of the current Baltimore City Council are Democrats. In fact all presidents of the Baltimore City Council since 1923 have been Democrats.
Represented by Congressman Cummings since 1996, the 7th congressional district, which is mostly black, includes most of Baltimore city. While impoverished communities have the representation of both parties, inner cities throughout the country tend to be represented by Democrats and it is the obligation of these congressmen, congresswomen, and city leaders to put aside partisan bickering to combat a real problem for the benefit of their constituents.
Using this claim of racism to drown out discussion of legitimate problems in Baltimore and other blighted cities leads to continued indifference to these problems and prevents real solutions. As a result, residents who live there will likely have to continue dealing with rampant crime and squalor on a daily basis. This is unacceptable.
Democrats in Congress and those running for president should choose to reach out to President Trump to reach solutions rather than to continue to sow discord and score political points. Helping disadvantaged communities break free of the shackles of crime and poverty, and all that is associated with it, is in the best interest of all America and of those on both sides of the political spectrum, particularly those constituents living on the front lines in high crime and high poverty areas. It is time to tone down the rhetoric and reach solutions.
For all it is worth, this fight is not really about President Trump or Congressman Cummings, rather it is about those people suffering in rundown inner city communities throughout America, who have effectively been ignored for all too long. The charges of “racism” against President Trump ring hollow, just like the failed promises of generations of Democrat leaders in Baltimore.
Why Do Democrats Run All Of The Dangerous And Rodent Infested Cities?
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Source: AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais
Congressman Elijah Cummings may honestly believe that his district in West Baltimore doesn’t stink.
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