3rdnlng Posted February 22, 2014 Share Posted February 22, 2014 (edited) http://www.frontpage...ig-dem-poverty/ On Sunday’s ABC This Week telecast, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich squared off with former Clinton Labor secretary Robert Reich, who tried to blame the increase in poverty over the last five years on the GOP. “Here’s the baloney,” Gingrich fired back. “Every major city which is a center of poverty is run by Democrats. Every major city. Their policies have failed, they’re not willing to admit and the fact is it’s the poor who suffer from bad government.” Unfortunately for the millions of Americans, Gingrich is right on the money. Here is a breakdown of the ten cities with populations above 250,000 that have borne the brunt of Democratic ideology. St. Louis’s poverty rate is 26 percent overall, and four-in-ten children live in poverty. Like Detroit, the city has experienced a major population decline, from 850,000 in the mid-20th century to 318,000 in 2013. Last year’s Annual Performance Report gave the city’s public schools a rating of 24.6 percent on a scale of zero to 100 percent. The city, which is also reeling from $640 million in unfunded pension liabilities, is currently rated the third most dangerous large city in the nation. St. Louis’s current mayor is Francis G. Slay, who has served since 2001. There hasn’t been a Republican mayor in St. Louis since 1949. Read more at the link above. Edited February 22, 2014 by 3rdnlng Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drinkTHEkoolaid Posted February 22, 2014 Share Posted February 22, 2014 Most of these poor cities like buffalo have been under solid democrat control for long periods if time with strong public and private labor unions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
C.Biscuit97 Posted February 22, 2014 Share Posted February 22, 2014 Common denominator of the states that are the worst in education & obesity. http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/01/10/16452046-maryland-tops-school-rankings-for-fifth-straight-year-in-us-survey?lite http://www.americashealthrankings.org/all/obesity Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oxrock Posted February 22, 2014 Share Posted February 22, 2014 Que the "Taker" States retort in 3, 2, 1.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
3rdnlng Posted February 22, 2014 Author Share Posted February 22, 2014 Common denominator of the states that are the worst in education & obesity. http://usnews.nbcnew...-us-survey?lite http://www.americash...org/all/obesity Trying to hijack the thread already? If you want to change the subject why don't you start your own thread? This thread is about the failings of major cities and how and with who that came about. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KD in CA Posted February 22, 2014 Share Posted February 22, 2014 Robert Reich is a horrible little troll. The next time he is right about something it'll be the first time. Democrats and labor unions. It's not exactly a hard equation to solve. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GG Posted February 23, 2014 Share Posted February 23, 2014 Common denominator of the states that are the worst in education & obesity. http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/01/10/16452046-maryland-tops-school-rankings-for-fifth-straight-year-in-us-survey?lite http://www.americashealthrankings.org/all/obesity Chicken or the egg? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tiberius Posted February 23, 2014 Share Posted February 23, 2014 This is why Gingrich is such ding a ling, yes, poor people understand that the Democrats will try and help with poverty Republicans won't. Of course a poor city will vote Democrat. If you put Republicans in charge of Detroit the kids won't do any better in school and old ladies won't be able to pay their own heating bills in winter. Duh Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
3rdnlng Posted February 23, 2014 Author Share Posted February 23, 2014 (edited) This is why Gingrich is such ding a ling, yes, poor people understand that the Democrats will try and help with poverty Republicans won't. Of course a poor city will vote Democrat. If you put Republicans in charge of Detroit the kids won't do any better in school and old ladies won't be able to pay their own heating bills in winter. Duh I guess you are saying that the cities are just condemned to poverty and there is no way out? It is the democrat's policies that have caused such abject poverty along with the horendous budget deficits in these cities controlled by democrats. Their relationship to the public sector unions is basically incestual. They've been doing the "69" together so long that they can't see what they have done and are still doing. The picture below explains what the unions and their government brethren have done. If this place is only worth 65k, what is a 2000 sf place in a lesser neighborhood worth? It just closed a few days ago. Edited February 23, 2014 by 3rdnlng Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tiberius Posted February 23, 2014 Share Posted February 23, 2014 I guess you are saying that the cities are just condemned to poverty and there is no way out? No, I don't see anyway out. Unless! No, you'd laugh... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
3rdnlng Posted February 23, 2014 Author Share Posted February 23, 2014 No, I don't see anyway out. Unless! No, you'd laugh... Trust me, I don't laugh at such things as poverty, or 4 Americans being left to die in Benghazi by our government......................................................on purpose. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tiberius Posted February 23, 2014 Share Posted February 23, 2014 Trust me, I don't laugh at such things as poverty, or 4 Americans being left to die in Benghazi by our government......................................................on purpose. On purpose? No, that's a lie. Anyway, you'd have to provide jobs, good jobs. Absent that, there will be poverty, bad work habits and depression. Is that really a surprise? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
3rdnlng Posted February 23, 2014 Author Share Posted February 23, 2014 On purpose? No, that's a lie. Anyway, you'd have to provide jobs, good jobs. Absent that, there will be poverty, bad work habits and depression. Is that really a surprise? Why did the good jobs leave? Who is to provide the new good jobs? How wasn't the total failure to do something in Benghazi a deliberate failure on the administration's part? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chef Jim Posted February 23, 2014 Share Posted February 23, 2014 This is why Gingrich is such ding a ling, yes, poor people understand that the Democrats will try and help with poverty Republicans won't. Of course a poor city will vote Democrat. If you put Republicans in charge of Detroit the kids won't do any better in school and old ladies won't be able to pay their own heating bills in winter. Duh Detroit used to be anything but a poor city. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tiberius Posted February 23, 2014 Share Posted February 23, 2014 Detroit used to be anything but a poor city. Yup, I agree with you. Democrats made the manufacturing jobs leave. Democrats invented the new technology and invented competition with foreign car companies....oh, and the air conditioner Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IDBillzFan Posted February 23, 2014 Share Posted February 23, 2014 If you put Republicans in charge of Detroit the kids won't do any better in school and old ladies won't be able to pay their own heating bills in winter. Duh The poorest cities in Mexico look at Detroit and feel pity. Sally Struthers stopped helping kids in Africa because Detroit needs her more. You could put a mop in charge of Detroit and the city would fare better than the disaster the liberals left behind. But you keep kidding yourself, you naive little knob-gobbling statist. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
3rdnlng Posted February 23, 2014 Author Share Posted February 23, 2014 Yup, I agree with you. Democrats made the manufacturing jobs leave. Democrats invented the new technology and invented competition with foreign car companies....oh, and the air conditioner What is the dems plan for improving cities like Detroit? More welfare? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BuffaloBill Posted February 23, 2014 Share Posted February 23, 2014 Once again in modern American politics the issue is made simple on its face then bifurcated so the finger pointing can begin. Hell I am a registered Republican and have voted nearly universally so but I don't buy into this idiotic blame game. The truth of the matter is that government is neither the cause nor the solution. Can the government influence or exaggerate the trends? Probably, yes. The fact of the matter is that the idea that poverty will be eliminated from the United States is an idea about as solid as smoke. While one can point to specific exceptions, the list of cities mentioned are with fallen Industrial Age cities or are significantly influenced by the export of poverty through migration or immigration now most especially from Mexico or Latin America. Cities like our own beloved B-lo were able to mask underlying issues due to explosive but unsustainable economic growth at some point in their history. The good times were exaggerated and now so is the fallout. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chef Jim Posted February 23, 2014 Share Posted February 23, 2014 Yup, I agree with you. Democrats made the manufacturing jobs leave. Democrats invented the new technology and invented competition with foreign car companies....oh, and the air conditioner Democrats?? Not just bad government policy. The Mid-Market area of SF was a mess. Recently they offered tax incentives (wow, what a great idea) to companies such as Twitter. Now it's becoming one of the hottest areas of the city. Guess how many of these jobs were government jobs? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
3rdnlng Posted February 23, 2014 Author Share Posted February 23, 2014 Once again in modern American politics the issue is made simple on its face then bifurcated so the finger pointing can begin. Hell I am a registered Republican and have voted nearly universally so but I don't buy into this idiotic blame game. The truth of the matter is that government is neither the cause nor the solution. Can the government influence or exaggerate the trends? Probably, yes. The fact of the matter is that the idea that poverty will be eliminated from the United States is an idea about as solid as smoke. While one can point to specific exceptions, the list of cities mentioned are with fallen Industrial Age cities or are significantly influenced by the export of poverty through migration or immigration now most especially from Mexico or Latin America. Cities like our own beloved B-lo were able to mask underlying issues due to explosive but unsustainable economic growth at some point in their history. The good times were exaggerated and now so is the fallout. The truth of the matter is that universally the rust belt city (and others) politicians have colluded with the public sector unions that keep them in office. The pensions for the union members have become unsubstainable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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