Media Blackout After Trump Launches Urban Council To Invest $100 Billion in Black Com

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Media Blackout After Trump Launches Urban Council To Invest $100 Billion in Black Communities

For instance, you basically had to actively search to find any mention of the Opportunity and Revitalization Council, a $100 billion initiative to deliver growth in urban communities.

“With the creation of today’s council, the resources of the whole federal government will be leveraged to rebuild low-income and impoverished neighborhoods that have been ignored by Washington in years past,” the president said at a Wednesday event in the Roosevelt Room of the White House, where an executive order establishing the council was signed.

“Our goal is to ensure that America’s great new prosperity is broadly shared by all of our citizens. Our country is doing better than ever, economically, and we’re able to do that.”

The council will be led by Ben Carson, head of the Department of Housing and Urban Development.

https://www.westernjournal.com/ct/m...ost&fbclid=IwAR2GoRt1L2ct1uYkWF4GMonyjBchaObj


Trump has done more for Black Americans than any President in over a hundred years.

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Take 5 billion out of that and build the wall. That will help blacks more.
 
Havana Moon said:
Jaded Lizard thinks nobody knows about this sock!!
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I'm not on night duty tonight, so I'm actually in a very good mood. In which case, I'll bite. What's your issue this time, Blog Boy? I already told you I'm enough of an asshole without reinforcements. If I created a sock, I'd be competing with myself for title of biggest asshole to Trump supporters, poor whitey, and gun conspiracy jockey's.
 
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"rebuild low-income and impoverished neighborhoods"=Government-Subsidized Gentrification Projects that will kick poor people out of their neighborhoods=Developer Payola.
 
Havana Moon said:
Jaded Lizard thinks nobody knows about this sock!!
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Trump’s infrastructure ‘plan’ is not what it appears to be
01/31/18 09:20 AM—UPDATED 02/01/18 03:39 PM
By Steve Benen

It’s become a running joke for those who cover the White House: in Trump World, every week is “Infrastructure Week.” It tends to get laughs because Donald Trump and his team have repeatedly suggested some kind of ambitious plan is in the works, but they never follow through with anything substantive.

And so it seemed notable that the president brought up the issue in his State of the Union – and included a new price tag:

“Tonight, I’m calling on Congress to produce a bill that generates at least $1.5 trillion for the new infrastructure investment that our country so desperately needs. Every federal dollar should be leveraged by partnering with state and local governments and, where appropriate, tapping into private sector investment to permanently fix the infrastructure deficit.”

The dollar figure was apparently jarring to Sen. James Lankford (R-Okla.), who told Politico last night that “$1.5 trillion, I think, kind of sucked the oxygen out of the room for a moment, as no one expected a number that big.” He added, “And the obvious thing is, where are we with debt and deficit and how are we going to be able to pull it together?”

The answer is, you won’t be able to pull it together – because Trump’s infrastructure “plan” isn’t real in any meaningful sense.


The HuffPost’s Igor Bobic summarized the issue nicely:

Trump’s latest plan will seek to leverage $200 billion in direct federal spending into an additional $800 billion in infrastructure investment from states, cities, nonprofits and the private sector. The plan puts a greater onus on state and local officials to find additional revenue to fund the projects, which will likely mean allowing more tolls or usage fees to create revenue streams that lure in private investors. The challenge is especially difficult for communities in rural areas – many of which supported Trump in 2016 – where fewer people are available to help spread the cost of new infrastructure.

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Darth Beto Omar said:
Are you saying the Wall would have saved us $100 million lol?
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easily.
Illegal immigration costs us in so many ways. we can't stop it without a wall.

IF we had a change in asylum laws..maybe..but the problem is if there are any legal loopholes to get in here
or just like now where they are flooding across - we need more then just guards who arrest once they are here
 
kudzu said:
True ... you can climb a wall or tunnel under it.

Don't you get tired of Trump's political theater?
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I find the media’s Trump-theatrics tiresome.

The Wall doesn’t need to be 100% effective in order to solve several problems at once.
 
Darth Beto Omar said:
I find the media’s Trump-theatrics tiresome.

The Wall doesn’t need to be 100% effective in order to solve several problems at once.
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You mean Trump's undermining Justice, the Press, water and environmental standards, US intelligence services and long term relationships with US allies?
 
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