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Issues and Insights
is the editorial blog for Investor’s
Business Daily. Here’s part of John Merline’s column (h/t Instapundit):
On Friday, Trump attacked
Democratic Rep. Elijah Cummings, who had been complaining about conditions at
the border, by saying “his Baltimore district is FAR WORSE and more dangerous.”
Trump called it “a disgusting, rat and rodent infested mess.”
He’s right about the rats. Last
year, the pest-control service Orkin rated Baltimore as one of the “rattiest
cities,“ behind Chicago, Los Angeles, New York, Washington, D.C., San
Francisco, Detroit, Philadelphia, and Cleveland.
. . .
Indeed, if you want to see what
liberal Democratic policies tend to produce, go to any one of those cities, or
other Democratic strongholds. Democrats promise to help the poor and
downtrodden, grow the middle class, make life more fair. But their
policies consistently produce the opposite.
. . .
Washington, San Francisco, New
York, Detroit, and Cleveland are also among the 10 worst-run cities, according to WalletHub.
Three other Democratic strongholds — Oakland, Flint, Hartford — make
WalletHub’s worst-run list.
Yet, whenever the desperate
conditions of these cities get discussed, they’re treated either as if these
problems simply fell out of the sky, that somehow Republicans are to blame, or
that more taxpayer money will solve everything. The connection to liberal
policies never gets made.
. . .
Read the rest here.
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