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Monday, May 4, 2015

DEMOCRAT SOLUTION FOR EVERYTHING IS TO SPEND MORE OF OTHER PEOPLE’S MONEY…


Apparently, Rep. Donna Edwards, much like her Democrat comrade from there in the People’s Republic of Maryland, seems to be of the opinion that Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake "recognized there were some issues" with the Baltimore Police Department "long before" Freddie Gray died of injuries he is alleged to have suffered while in police custody. The mayor has now asked the Justice Department to examine policing practices in Baltimore, but Edwards indicated that she already understands the problem. It was during an appearance on ‘Fox News Sunday’ that Edwards said, "I would say there's an over-policing going on."

Host Chris Wallace, who I am personally not a big fan of, noted that Baltimore has not had a Republican administration in 50 years.  He asked the esteemed Ms. Edwards, "Is it unfair to say that liberal policies have failed the city of Baltimore?"  To which Edwards replied, "Well, what it means is that, you know, if you have communities where the only face of government that they see is law enforcement, it's not investment in their schools, it's not investment in their communities and economic development. It's law enforcement. That's not the fault of police. That's the fault of policymakers who are making decisions about where our priorities (are)."

And it was in a more direct response to Wallace’s question, Edwards said, "No. I mean, I would say, for example, with our schools, just prior to the Freddie Gray incident, Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake was actually prevailing upon our Republican governor to release money for school funding."  So once again it would seem that everything that is wrong with another horrifically mismanaged, Democrat controlled, city is nothing that can’t be fixed with a just a bit more money being spent.  Hence we have the Democrat solution to everything.  I seems to matter very little to this moron that our country is already drowning in $18 Trillion worth of debt.  

Larry Hogen, who is a Republican, has been governor in heavily Democrat Maryland for just a little over three months.  His Democrat predecessor, Martin O'Malley, the same man you created something referred to as the “rain tax”, held the office for eight years and with a Democrat-majority legislature for his entire tenure.  But Marty, who is now considering a run for president, oddly enough didn’t seem to see it as being all that necessary to spend more money on schools.  Which makes me assume that if a flaming socialist like Marty never saw a necessity to increase school funding, then the schools there in Maryland are already pretty much over-funded.

This buffoon, Edwards, then on to say, "When you have schools that are operating in the 20th century, and we're trying to prepare our children for the 21st century, even those children know they are not educated in the right way."  She added, "I think that that is a baseline for how we can revitalize communities so that it's not -- we're not investing in economic development only in the areas where we get tax abatements, but we're investing in other areas in the community, our small businesses and our education system and job retraining."  Wallace noted that the City of Baltimore "was already spending plenty on public schools, and the schools were still lousy."

Edwards responded, "Well, I mean, there's uneven spending in the public schools." And then added, "And I would say to you -- I mean, even the school that let out where the riots first began, there was a student who was interviewed who said, 'I'm looking at a book that's 20 years old.' How does that prepare her for the 21st century?  She went on to say, "So, I think we have a lot of questions to ask. They're not just -- they're not questions that are only for Republicans. They're questions for Democrats and Republicans about where we're going to make investments in our communities so the only investment we make isn't on the back end on law enforcement."

And in a pre-taped interview on NBC's "Meet the Press," House Speaker John Boehner, someone else I am certainly no fan of and who is someone I rarely agree with, blamed "50 years of liberal policies that have not worked" for the problems facing poor people.  He said, "It's time to look at all these programs and determine what's working and what isn't, because until we start to find programs that actually work and we provide opportunities, more opportunities and a better education, we are going to have more of the same.  He added: "If money was going to solve the education problem, we would have solved it decades ago."  And I agree!

So guess we’re all supposed to believe that it’s over-policing, and apparently, under-funding of city schools as well, that’s really to be blame here.  But if it’s really all about over-policing then how about we maybe start doing some under-policing.  Maybe the police departments in some of these Democrat controlled cesspools referred to as being the nation’s cities, should simply close up shop.  And let’s see what would happen.  If I was a cop in a city like Baltimore I’d be telling my family that my work environment has become far too hazardous to my health and the time has come to relocate to somewhere where the population maybe isn’t so dark.

Those who defend the streets of our cities deserve, just as much as everyone, to make it home safely to their families at the end of each day.  And when the politicians decide to side with the thugs, and for purely political reasons, then the odds of that taking place become significantly reduced.  The vast majority of those who become policeman, much like those who chose to join the military, do so out of a need to help and to protect others.  And it’s quite sad really, that it’s those very folks who receive the least appreciation and often some of the harshest condemnation. And that things have deteriorated to such a degree under a black president says a lot.   

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