THE SEAN HANNITY SHOW

Outrageous: Michael Moore Michael Moore demanded via Twitter that America “disarm the police” and called our prisons a “modern day slave system.” In the wake of the riots in Baltimore, Michael Moore has come up with his own solutions, which include disarming police officers. His series of Tweets included the following demands: “Here's my demand: I want every African-American currently incarcerated for drug "crimes" or nonviolent offenses released from prison today.” “And the rest who r imprisoned- I dont believe 50% of them did what they're accused of. Lies. Greed. A modern day slave system. Poor whites 2” “Next demand: Disarm the police. We have a 1/4 billion 2nd amendment guns in our homes 4 protection. We'll survive til the right cops r hired” There's already a system to hold police accountable, as we've seen today with charges being brought against the six officers in Baltimore. But while police are serving their communities, making them unarmed sitting ducks is hardly a reasonable solution. In fact, as the protests turned to violence, Maryland State Police who traveled to Baltimore to help fellow officers were told to stand down! The subsequent violence, looting, burning and destruction of property is what followed as a result of that order. Maryland sheriff Michael Lewis told a local radio show, “I was sick to my stomach like everybody else. … This was urban warfare, no question about it. They were coming in absolutely beaten down. The [city officers] got out of their vehicles, thanked us profusely for being there, apologized to us for having to be there. They said we could have handled this, we were very capable of handling this, but we were told to stand down, repeatedly told to stand down.” Meanwhile, gangs were uniting in Baltimore at the time in order to allegedly target officers. Officers were targeted in the wake of Eric Garner's death in NYC and two were gunned down in Brooklyn by someone wanting to put “wings on pigs.” Baltimore: Beacon of Liberalism Liberals, including Barack Obama, believe that cities like Baltimore could be saved if only we spent more taxpayer dollars. That's been tried for decades, and it has failed. How about giving conservative policies a chance? During his remarks earlier this week, President Obama criticized Republicans for failing to invest in his agenda: “There’s a bunch of my agenda that would make a difference right now in that. Now, I’m under no illusion that out of this Congress we’re going to get massive investments in urban communities, and so we’ll try to find areas where we can make a difference around school reform and around job training, and around some investments in infrastructure in these communities trying to attract new businesses in.” Whenever a politician says “investments,” they mean spending money. But the truth is that money – a lot of money – is already being spent, but that hasn't managed to create job opportunities, improve education, reduce crime rates, or decrease poverty. Obama has given us his stimulus program, the son of stimulus, and $18 trillion in debt. Yet we aren't spending enough money? Baltimore continues to be run by liberals and has been for 40 years. If there is any indictment to be made, it is that liberals has failed people in cities like Baltimore. Michael Tanner has an excellent piece in National Review that lays out the facts about Baltimore. Big government and liberal policies have only perpetuated a climate of poverty and despair. Here are some of Tanner's findings. Welfare: “Maryland has one of the most generous welfare systems in the nation. A mother with two children participating in seven common welfare programs — Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF), food stamps (SNAP), Medicaid, housing assistance, Supplemental Nutrition for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC), energy assistance (LIHEAP), and free commodities — could receive benefits worth more than $35,000. Yet, nearly a quarter of the people in Baltimore still live in poverty. In 1960, Baltimore’s poverty rate was just 10 percent.” Welfare benefits haven't reduced poverty; in fact, poverty has increased. Yet people continue to vote for Democrats who keep these policies in place that trap people in poverty over generations. Family: “Some studies have long shown that high welfare benefits correlate with high out-of-wedlock birth rates. It should not come as a surprise, then, that two-thirds of births in the city are to unmarried mothers, and almost 60 percent of Baltimore households are headed by single parents.” Continue reading...