Baltimore adds drama to GOP cuts for urban renewal programs Read more: http://www.p

[Crabtownboy]

More proof the GOP does not care about helping people ... except for the rich. They not only do not address the roots of the problem, they show either they do not understand them or that the simply do not care.

With Baltimore’s troubles as a backdrop, House Republicans are proposing new cuts from urban programs this week even as their budget would add tens of billions of dollars for the Pentagon to get around strict spending caps.
Caught most in the middle is a $55.3 billion housing and transportation measure that is fast becoming the new ground zero in the appropriations wars this summer and a symbol of Washington’s retreat from public investments in poor urban neighborhoods like Baltimore’s.


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