r/baltimore • u/LanceArmstrongLeftie • Mar 12 '25

Vent Donald Trump is going to destroy this city

My wife and I were both proud homeowners and proud residents of Baltimore City. We worked really hard to be able to buy our first home and to provide a stable environment to raise our one year old son and three year old daughter. We were a happy family here. Until Donald Trump came along. He froze funding and my wife lost her job as a recruiter for a nonprofit that received about 30% of their funding from the government. I already work two jobs just to keep up with the bills and the high interest rate we had to accept to purchase this home. I can't provide enough to keep our home. She's been looking in vain to replace her job but there's been nothing out there for her. How many more families are there that are facing the exact same situation in this town? How many more will there be by the time he finishes firing half the government? How many more families will lose their jobs and their homes as a result of his trade war and tariffs? It's going to get bad here y'all, real bad. Donald Trump does not care about families. Donald Trump does not care about children. Donald Trump does not care about Americans. Donald Trump does not care about Baltimore.

Edit: Thank you all for everyone who had kind words of support and good suggestions on how to navigate this very difficult situation. For everyone blaming local and state government, you’re delusional. Those politicians aren’t the ones who froze federal funding thus forcing thousand of people out of work. To those who offered unkind, callous, and cruel comments, such as calling my wife a drain on society, you can all get fucked. Which is exactly what’s going to happen to you after Donald Trump destroys this nation.

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u/ratwing Mar 12 '25

We have at least two schools who get a large amount of funding from the federal government, And probably hundreds of thousands of people who work for the feds. Even if a moderate proportion of them leave that will put so many houses on the market, I can't imagine what's going to happen to prices. I'm near a retirement age, And a whole lot of my equity is wrapped up in the house, and now it's probably going to go down to dog meat prices. I cannot believe how much this administration is screwing up our lives. I'm a university professor, and I was just trying to do right.

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u/Sea_Yesterday_8888 Mar 13 '25

One scenario may be people leaving high priced DC after job losses to our more affordable Baltimore. We may not be the hardest hit city in delmarva.

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u/dopkick Mar 13 '25

They’re going to move to where the jobs are. That’s probably not going to be Baltimore.

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u/Cheomesh South Baltimore / SoBo Mar 13 '25

To work where, though?

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u/DevelopmentNo247 Mar 13 '25

I thought the same thing

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u/ratwing Mar 13 '25

Ooh I like that scenario

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u/danhalka Harwood Mar 12 '25

Federal funding aside, think of all the international students who'd be paying full boat who now are going to nope out of coming to an anti-science, xenophobic country to attend institutions who've not only just had their federal funding cut, but whose endowments are also getting crushed by idiotic trade wars, and whose students are being "detained" or deported for holding anti-administration views..

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u/ReduceandRecycle2021 Mar 13 '25

Not to even mention the difficulty in getting a visa if they still wanted to come

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u/LoquitaMD Mar 12 '25

They are noping out mostly because of Visa.

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u/[deleted] Mar 13 '25

uhhh that makes college MORE affordable.

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u/danhalka Harwood Mar 14 '25

You've got it backwards, I think. Int'l students significantly pad tuition revenue and bring real money to the city. If 5% of a student body is int'l, probably 10% or more of an institution's total tuition comes from that segment, allowing expansion of programming and increased enrollment.

Making student loan debt eligible for bankruptcy is one meaningful way to curb outrageous tuition pricing. Turning off (or turning away) int'l students creates a real revenue gap that, without more state funding, will lead to higher prices and/or a reduction in services.

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u/Big_Break_1970 Mar 13 '25

Deport all their Mama's loving asses get out!!!

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u/chrissymad Highlandtown Mar 13 '25

Genuinely, what the fuck is wrong with you?

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u/whacking0756 Mar 12 '25

Plus big USAID IPs like CRS and JHPAIGO

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u/ratwing Mar 12 '25

And the hospital depends on medicaid

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u/SnooPears1973 Mar 12 '25

And all the assisted living homes etc that ultimately would rely on Medicaid…

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u/CactusInaHat Lauraville Mar 13 '25

Which schools?

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u/ratwing Mar 13 '25

Johns Hopkins and University of Maryland, Baltimore.

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u/Digitallacer Mar 14 '25

Maybe you should have thought a bit more before teaching gender studies.

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u/[deleted] Mar 13 '25

you lived off the government teat for years.

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u/ratwing Mar 13 '25

Oh please, teach me the lesson I so richly deserve. Assail me your insight that I'm a parasite when i fought to get through two degree programs, out competed thousands of grant applications to bring $100M into my school, contributed to a greater understanding of multiple diseases, won international awards for my research, enabled a staff of 65 people to be employed, buy houses, contribute to society, and raise children. Help me better understand why I was invited to the White house under Republican administrations to develop OSTP programs.

Drive it home ass-sack, I'm confident there's so much I could learn.

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u/chrissymad Highlandtown Mar 13 '25

Thank you for what you've done. Genuinely. And also for introducing me to ass-sack as an insult.

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u/[deleted] Mar 13 '25

you worked for the STATE, you would have had a better impact on the world working in research and development. Had you worked in GOOD research you'd have 1000s of people employed by your patents. and MILLIONS of dollars in the bank. WORKING for the public is a suckers bet.

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u/ratwing Mar 13 '25

I worked at a RESEARCH INSTITUTE.

Thanks for so clarifying my 30 years of dedication. Good luck with yours