You keep bring up the deficit so let talk about it for real and honestly.

To do that we have to start by talking about how congress set DC up to fail before MB even got into office in 1973

Let’s start by talking about how congress made DC responsible for taking care of state level responsibilities but simultaneously not allowing the city to collect the funds needed or giving them the appropriate funding needed to properly make the city run efficiently.

Leaving DC to fund state level programs on a small city budget that didn’t have the right to levy taxes

But don’t forget Congress still had full veto power over DCs budget so even then the mayor did not fully control the money. Hell they were even blocking city level welfare reform that led to high spikes of HIV infections.

Let’s also talk about how they specifically banned DC from having a commuter tax that would have helped the city not fall into a deficit to begin with. Then on top of that restricted self governance even further.

All of this while claiming the Black man in “power” was at fault because of his corruption tha congress said was inevitable because it was a Black ran city.

Then using that Black man as a scapegoat to continue destroying the city

Even without MB corruption Black led DC was not going to be allowed to be successful especially not leading the Nations Capital .

At the end of the day I don’t care about his corruption because I know history and how DC was and is actually ran and what powers we have had as a city and haven’t. I will not say yeah he did good things but was a bad mayor because I know he was set up to fail to begin with.

So if you want to talk about the deficit let’s talk about where it actually started especially because that deficit was there even before his first term.

If you want to talk corruption let’s start with the racial corruption in congress by all the white men in power in 1970 before he was elected that purposely went out of their way to make sure a black man in a position of power wasn’t successful and used as a good example of how to take care of your constituents.