The city of Baltimore received over $1.8 billion from President Barack Obama’s stimulus law, including $467.1 million to invest in education and $26.5 million for crime prevention.
President Obama claimed last Tuesday that if the Republican-controlled Congress would implement his policies to make “massive investments in urban communities,” they could “make a difference right now” in the city, currently in upheaval following the death of Freddie Gray.
However, a Washington Free Beacon analysis found that the Obama administration and Democratically-controlled Congress did make a “massive” investment into Baltimore, appropriating $1,831,768,487 though the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA), commonly known as the stimulus.
According to Recovery.gov, one of Baltimore’s central ZIP codes, 21201, received the most stimulus funding in the city, a total of $837,955,866. The amount included funding for 276 awards, and the website reports that the spending had created 290 jobs in the fourth quarter in 2013.
Of this amount, $467.1 million went to education; $206.1 million to the environment; $24 million to “family”; $16.1 million to infrastructure; $15.2 million to transportation; $11.9 million to housing; and $3.1 million to job training.
$467.1 million to education? And what did that get Baltimore?
According to CBS local, absolutely nothing.
The stats are out, and at the bottom of the rankings- Baltimore City Schools.
Where’s the $1.8 BILLION Baltimore Received from Obama
Just throwing money at a problem does not fix the problem. The money must be spent prudently and wisely. It must not go into the hands of corrupt politicians or their friends. Every year rolls around and I have to pay taxes. I don't like doing this. But if there is one thing I hate even more is if that money is wasted. That is because in my eyes that is my money, the money that I was forced to pay toward the government.
So if the Democratic mayor cannot fix this never-ending problem in Baltimore nor its congressional representative Elijah Cummings, then perhaps Trump should get involved and fix the problem.
There is a threat to the U.S. and it is beginning to appear. It is the threat of the Black Death, the bubonic plague. There is a major homeless problem in California. And due to lack of sanitation in homeless encampment, those regions are being invested with rats. During the Black Plague, the flees on rats helped to transmit this deadly plague. The latest news is that several of the rats in Los Angeles are carrying the bubonic plague.
Almost 700 years ago, the Black Death, the Bubonic Plague killed about a third of the entire population of Europe. The disease behind that again, the Bubonic Plague and it came we think from rats. [In Los Angeles] the city is at a tipping point, 1.5 percent of the rats in Los Angeles are now believed to be carrying the plague. If that figure hits two percent, it will start jumping to humans.
Source: Los Angeles reaches a tipping point for the spread of bubonic plague
And rats are not only a problem in Los Angeles but they are endemic in other major cities like Baltimore. So when it appears in Los Angeles, it will also become a problem across the country. So when I look at this problem, I see two things. Firstly there are 3 forms of the Black Death -
Bubonic plague
The most common form of plague is bubonic plague. It’s usually contracted when an infected rodent or flea bites you. In very rare cases, you can get the bacteria from material that has come into contact with an infected person. Bubonic plague infects your lymphatic system (a part of the immune system), causing inflammation in your lymph nodes. Untreated, it can move into the blood (causing septicemic plague) or to the lungs (causing pneumonic plague).
Septicemic plague
When the bacteria enter the bloodstream directly and multiply there, it’s known as septicemic plague. When they’re left untreated, both bubonic and pneumonic plague can lead to septicemic plague.
Pneumonic plague
When the bacteria spread to or first infect the lungs, it’s known as pneumonic plague — the most lethal form of the disease. When someone with pneumonic plague coughs, the bacteria from their lungs are expelled into the air. Other people who breathe that air can also develop this highly contagious form of plague, which can lead to an epidemic.
Pneumonic plague is the only form of the plague that can be transmitted from person to person.
The pneumonic form is invariably fatal unless treated early. It is especially contagious and can trigger severe epidemics through person-to-person contact via droplets in the air. So that unless the bubonic plague is caught early it will transition to the pneumonic plague and spread across the city and the nation. The second point is that Antibiotics can treat the condition but and this is a big but; many forms of diseases are and have become antibiotic resistant. In 1996, two drug-resistant strains of plague were isolated from Madagascar. One of these, was completely resistant to all the drugs that are used to control outbreaks.
So from my perspective the threat is a major outbreak of the bubonic plague that has evolved to resist all forms of antibiotics that infects individuals who develop pneumonic plague that spread it across the nation and the world causing a major pandemic.
Should Trump take on the rat infestations in Baltimore? The problems are not localized to just Baltimore but many major cities. It threatens the entire nation. The cause of the rat infestation goes beyond one location and has it root into the homeless problems, the mental health problems and the illegal drug problems within the U.S.
01 Aug 2019, 3:55 am
