Baltimore is No longer Charm City

In my opinion, Baltimore is no longer the "Charm City" as some Democrats would have you believe. Just ride through the city and you will soon see Baltimore is, as President Trump said “a very dangerous & filthy place.” Among the largest 30 American cities, Baltimore has the highest crime rate and is a close second to Detroit for the highest rate of violent crime. But for murders, Baltimore is second to no other city, with more than 50 homicides per 100,000 people. That puts Charm City in the ranks of Jamaica, Venezuela, and El Salvador in terms of lethality.


“You would think that you were in a Third World country,” said Bernie Sanders when on a tour of Representative Cummings’s district in 2015. “There are hundreds of buildings that are uninhabitable.” They are not lived in or used. Was it Ted Cruz or Jeff Sessions who sneered, “residents of Baltimore’s poorest boroughs have life spans shorter than people living under a dictatorship in North Korea. That is a disgrace”? No, it was no Republician who said that but a Democratic candidate for president Bernie Sanders, whose comments about Baltimore were not condemned as sickeningly racist, but contemplated as brave reflections on the failure of America to help its struggling communities. So there is the other side of the picture. The one you never hear about because the one who said it was a Democrat.


David Simon, who has grown really really rich from depicting the misery of Baltimore through TV shows like “Homicide” and “The Wire,” condemned Trump’s comments, saying, “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.” But doesn’t that mean Trump was right? Sure it does. How do you deal with people like this guy? I sure he fell off a turnip truck.The Democrats and the liberal news have said that it’s unfair for President Trump to blame Elijah Cummings for his district’s miseries, since congressmen don’t control local issues


like trash pickup or law enforcement. But when you look into Cummings' career you will soon see as I did that he is a Democratic power broker in Baltimore, which,by the way, has been run by a succession of failed Democrat mayors—one of whom stole gift cards meant for poor children and another who “sold” thousands of copies of her unreadable book to the public hospital system. Local state’s attorney Marilyn Mosby is credited with bungling the investigation into the death of Freddie Gray. You never hear the real stories behind those things. Cummings is an integral part of a corrupt, dysfunctional political machine that is directly responsible for Baltimore’s misery. Sad to say, but it is the truth. Even though there is an outcry by the Democrats against Trump he is right in what he is saying. Thank God there is a man that will stand in the gap and speak the truth.


It doesn’t have to be the way it is. Cummings’s district has, for the most part, high rates of college education and home values, and many solid employers, like Johns Hopkins. The failure to develop and upgrade the failed parts of the district lies with people like Elijah Cummings, whose four decades in elected office have been a long story of wasted opportunities and neglect. After forty years of Cummings leadership, things are worse and not better for sure, but you will never hear that from the liberal news media.