THERE’S A BIGGER ISSUE HERE …
|| By FITSNEWS || While we were busy covering the Baltimore riots (here and here) our founding editor Will Folks was off bitching and moaning about the cancellation of the Baltimore Orioles home game against the Chicago White Sox.
Apparently Folks was displeased that the riots forced the game’s cancellation just as his fantasy baseball third baseman – Manny Machado – was starting to heat up at the plate. Yeah … how’s that for priorities?
Anyway, in his desperate bid to determine when Machado would be playing again, Folks stumbled upon comments made by Orioles executive vice president John Angelos, son of majority owner Peter Angelos.
In addressing the riots, Angelos affirmed his support for non-violent protests as well as the rule of law. But he also put his finger on the pulse of the bigger issue …
“My greater source of personal concern, outrage and sympathy beyond this particular case is focused neither upon one night’s property damage nor upon the acts, but is focused rather upon the past four-decade period during which an American political elite have shipped middle class and working class jobs away from Baltimore and cities and towns around the U.S. to third-world dictatorships like China and others, plunged tens of millions of good hard-working Americans into economic devastation, and then followed that action around the nation by diminishing every American’s civil rights protections in order to control an unfairly impoverished population living under an ever-declining standard of living and suffering at the butt end of an ever-more militarized and aggressive surveillance state,” Angelos wrote on Twitter.
Wow …
“Not exactly what the US Department of Truth wanted to hear,” our friends at Zero Hedge noted.
That’s for sure …
And while nothing – and we mean nothing – excuses the sort of violence we’re witnessing in Baltimore, it’s hard to argue Angelos’ basic point.
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Yes, thanks in large part to Bill Clinton.
With a minimum wage that would buy you 10 employees anywhere in the third world, why would anyone hire low skilled Americans to do anything? Even if you could build a business case for it, why would you hire a bunch of violent layabouts with no desire to work? The market does not lie folks, it just exposes innacurate valuations.
Ditto. Business owners are motivated by PROFIT as they should be.
They’re the salt of the Earth that’s for sure!
Ain’t a greedy, crooked bastard amongst em!
Unless you are a gubment worker, your paycheck comes from a business funded by someone willing to take a risk in exchange for turning a profit. BTW, you get to decide whether you want to work for a “greedy, crooked bastard” or an ethical business.
Wow Will you may have gone off the deep end of schizophrenia with this post.
“… While we were busy covering the Baltimore riots (here and here) our founding editor Will Folks was off bitching and moaning…”
Who is this “we” who wrote the article? Normally if Mande or Liz or “Hooters” Brown writes an article they get a by-line. Who is this “we”?
Hooters Brown – another +10 for The Colonel. You’re on fire today. Or should I say – you’re all Baltimore today.
Will has been plying this “staff of writers” bullshit for quite a while, along with his alleged rep as a “playah”, dog eating the hard drive, etc etc. The list of this tool’s psychological issues could fill another post or two; maybe one of his “staff” can get on that.
Here’s in interesting factoid – or factioids –
Baltimore
Per capita money income in past 12 months (2013 dollars), $24,750
Median household income, 2009-2013 $41,385$
Persons below poverty level, percent, 2009-2013 23.8%
Man, those are almost the exact same numbers of the entire state of South Carolina?
That sounds like only the most well off parts, not the entire state of SC.
Look up cost of living in Baltimore, I’m pretty is it MUCH higher than SC.
The term “flash point” comes to mind.
Groups have bad people in them. Because of their actions within a group, they are treated as a whole… police, blacks, white, democrats or republicans. Nobody is pure good or pure evil.
It’s shallow thinking… left vs. right, good vs. evil, black vs. white, on vs. off, yes vs. no. It’s a problem. Hell, maybe Hitler had a bit of good in him; or Winston Churchill had a bit of evil in him. The only person that is pure good is Jesus, if you believe that.
Hitler might have been a bad guy, but at least he killed Hitler. He also killed the guy who killed Hitler though so maybe not.
Hitler was just misunderstood:
“Hitler had the right idea! he was just an underachiever! Kill ’em all, Adolf! All of ’em! Jew, Mexican, American, White, kill ’em all! Start over! The experiment didn’t work! Rain 40 days, please fucking rain to wash these turds off my fucking life!”-Bill Hicks (also had a bit of good in him)
If just one person (just one!) — had appreciated and complimented him on his paintings…
Right! Not all Gang members do bad things. It’s a stereotype. :-)
So how are they supposed to get home from the game with a 10:00 pm curfew.
— show the officer their ticket stubs or their $9 cup(s) of beer
Wonder if the Chinese charge $9 for their cups of beer? Not only is China hurting the middle class so is Angelo’s $9 cups of beer.
That’s the most ridiculous statement I’ve ever heard! The reason jobs are being shipped overseas is bc the workers in India or China can do a better job for cheaper pay. Greedy Union managers ruined things for the “working man” of America. When someone demands $15/hr to flip burgers, that exemplifies the American entitlement mentality.
Hey Mom! My husband said to be sure and wish you a “Merry Christmas”!
Tell him he should at least send a nice card. ;-)
You want him to include some cash in the card? You now how rich those folks are! :)
No thanks. It’s the thought that counts. ;-)
No loss for the cancellation.
Does any of that make sense?
John Angelos is an idot. The kids that did this damage aren’t old enough to have jobs. The real question is where were the parents. Just like I’ve stated on education, until we have policies that strengthen families instead of a welfare system that destroys them we will continue to have these problems.
Based on what I read, there were like 200 arrests and of that 200, 34 were juveniles.
I have a tendency, based on what I have read so far to agree, “unfairly impoverished population living under an ever-declining standard of living and suffering at the butt end of an ever-more militarized and aggressive surveillance state”