Montgomery County is what brought us Donald Trump

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Anonymous wrote:Yeah, several of these posts sound like paid trolls.

And for the record,.I believe in Santa Clause, he brings me books every year!

LOL

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Anonymous wrote:I doubt most DT voters know or care about MoCo. However, as someone who looked at moving to MoCo for over a year, and then grew disgusted and switched to Nova, here are my issues with MoCo;

1. All of the tech and finance jobs are in NoVa. And MoCo doesn’t even care to compete.

2. At the very least, MoCo could make it attractive for people who work in NoVa to live in MD, by increasing roads and public transportation across the river. But NIMBYism reigns supreme. The recent news is too little too late.

3. There are several neighborhoods in Potomac near 495 with good schools which would be great for young parents who commute to NoVa. But they restrict tear-downs and let’s face it, a dual-income couple with little kids aren’t going to want to maintain a 50-year-old house. So those homes remain retirement communities.

Plenty of dual-income couples with little kids actually are doing this.

People tend to confuse "I don't want to do X" with "Everybody doesn't want to do X".

I prefer the neighborhoods with the older homes. Not only do I like them because I grew up in one, but I detest the huge new houses put up in their places. They look so grotesque. No young family needs a house that size. They just scream "Gluttony! Gluttony! Get your Gluttony here!"

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Sir this is a Wendy’s

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Anonymous wrote:I think Moco defenders have no idea about how truly bad the county's finances are and where they are headed. All of this rose colored outlook will evaporate once austerity measures need to be put in place and taxes need to be significantly increased. Has anyone actually looked at the demographics report for the county? The baby boomer population is expected to explode while the number of workers on their prime earning years is expected to decrease. That means the tax base is eroding because of the giant wave of retirees. The county also has a TON of pension liabilities coming up as those baby boomers retire too. The demographics report also showed that population growth in Moco is driven laregly by 'international' arrivers, which we all know is the SJW codespeak for illegal immigrants (the #1 country from where arrivers are coming from is El Salvador). The county will continue to go down the tubes as the tax base continues to erode, costs and spending continue to skyrocket, illegal immigrants strain all resources, and taxes get increased. Moco, and basically Maryland in general, is headed the way of Illinois - another blue state run into the ground by liberal Democrats who have turned that state's finances into a ghastly mess and who've imposed a crushing level of taxes to try to stop the bleeding.

This is why I won’t be moving to Maryland.

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Anonymous wrote:I doubt most DT voters know or care about MoCo. However, as someone who looked at moving to MoCo for over a year, and then grew disgusted and switched to Nova, here are my issues with MoCo;

1. All of the tech and finance jobs are in NoVa. And MoCo doesn’t even care to compete.

2. At the very least, MoCo could make it attractive for people who work in NoVa to live in MD, by increasing roads and public transportation across the river. But NIMBYism reigns supreme. The recent news is too little too late.

3. There are several neighborhoods in Potomac near 495 with good schools which would be great for young parents who commute to NoVa. But they restrict tear-downs and let’s face it, a dual-income couple with little kids aren’t going to want to maintain a 50-year-old house. So those homes remain retirement communities.

Plenty of dual-income couples with little kids actually are doing this.

People tend to confuse "I don't want to do X" with "Everybody doesn't want to do X".

No, they really are not. Hence all the de facto retirement communities in Potomac. If there were young families there you would see kids playing or biking outside, but you don’t. We actually had a friend embark on a renovation, instantly regret it bc if the work involved and the unsocial neighborhood, and sell the house halfway through.

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Anonymous wrote:OP, I-95 is ready when you are.

It's what people in the south tell others when they complain incessantly. A variation on "Delta is ready when you are."

If you dislike the south and want to move somewhere closer, West Virginia and Western Pennsylvania aren't far away.

Western Maryland is better. You would be welcome to get high with everyone else and continue your hallucinations. You wouldn’t even have to work. You can get a section 8 house for $20 a month and most grocery stores accept only SNAP and WIC

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Anonymous wrote:The Russians is why we have Trump.

NP - This just shows that you have no clue how the rest of the country feels.

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Anonymous wrote:OP, you used a lot of words to rant and vent about people.

Is there a specific issue or problem you have that you would like your local government to address?

Not the OP, but I live in MoCo. I very much would like my local government and the federal government to address the problem of illegal immigration. It is number one on my list.

I would like MoCo leadership to encourage it’s workers to cooperate with ICE, instead of standing firm against ICE and allowing criminals (who are illegal immigrants) to get away with their crimes.

Obama was the toughest on immigration and Clinton would have continued his efforts, it's Trump that f'd it up. Obama deported more people than any other president and more people voluntarily moved to Mexico from the US than the other way around.

Please, Obama counted the people turned around at the border as "deportations".

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Anonymous wrote:100% true. Moco is in steep decline. We haven't reach free fall yet, but it is coming. Schools continue to get worse and worse. Rather than improving schools, the entire focus is on diversity (whatever that means). The county is racking up massive budget deficits during good economic times. What happens when the economy sours? No new jobs and businesses. The county continues to roll out the carpet for illegal immigrants whose kids are crushing the capacities of schools and are requiring millions of dollars to be spent on ESL teachers and remedial course work. At some point, the US govt will have to downsize to control the national deficit. When that time comes or the US govt decides to relocate more agencies to save on costs, Moco is screwed because there is very little job diversity. Home prices are already starting to stagnate in Moco. Wait until they plummet as school performances continue to decline. Taxes across the board are likely to increase soon too I'd expect within the next few years because of the budget deficits and tsunami of retiring baby boomers. Moco is in bad bad shape. Entirely run by democrats. Elrich especially is a horrible politician who needs to go.

This.

I think some of the posters above are posting about the services they enjoy, but don’t realize that the changes in the County are going to lead to less money for those services. MoCo simply won’t be able to support the services over the next decade (well-stocked library, free Ride-On, etc) as the budget needs to make room for changing demographics. We see it in the school system already. It will spill-over to other areas as well.

And those services (like libraries, pools, etc.) are already shadows of their former selves. Compared to 25 years ago, the percentage of the budget going to social services and schools has really grown.

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Anonymous wrote:Question. Does anybody actually like Marc Elrich?

I'm a democrat and I hate him and I did not vote for him. But white males over anybody female... clearly is the people's choice.

I'm a liberal white male, and I think he's a disaister. Elected by the activist ultra liberal branch of MoCo.

He won by 77 votes in the primary, in a 6-way race where the moderate vote got spread across a few good candidates. Elrich had a good strategy -- pander to two fringe groups (unions and ultra-progressives) and that was enough to win in a 6-way race.

That's at the primary level, since in MoCo local politics, anyone with a (D) next to their name wins in the general.

Maybe the GOP needs to stop acting like a dumpster fire and go back to centrist policies? Their brand is tarnished in any jurisdiction with a well educated populace and high incomes.

Our last moderate Republican lost in 2003...

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Anonymous wrote:Whether or not Montgomery County has politics that OP believes in, Trump was not elected "because" of Montgomery County.

Trump was elected because white people in this country have become increasingly radicalized by a white supremacist ideology that the GOP has low-key embraced for years. Trump didn't create the modern GOP, but he rode that wave of Caucasian resentment to the White House.

When it comes to MoCo, PP is absolutely right. I can disagree with some things that Erlich and the council are doing, but if my choice is "farther left that I really care for" or "the party of the Confederate Flag and babies in cages," them I'm voting for the Democrats every single time.

Three million more people voted against him than voted for him. That's not riding a wave into the white house. Those who voted against him -- the majority of Americans -- are disgusted and appalled by him.

You are counting the illegals who voted right? Just get it correct when you speak of the majority of "Americans."

Try again Illegals didn't vote. Voter fraud basically non existent. Keep touting your non facts!

This is such a huge joke. We have "no" voter fraud because we make it impossible for anyone to investigate without being called racists. The states where they try to purge voter rolls of people who have moved, died or registered in "error" then get attacked as Jim Crow states. Anyone with a brain who has been to a DMV knows that illegals register to vote and I'm sure plenty of them vote.

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Anonymous wrote:Well OK then. And your point? You need to go live in MAGA land. Try that on for change.

+1 go live in WV, OP. You'll love it. It's got your kind of people.

WV is actually a really nice place to live. Lots of fed employees live in JeffCo and commute on the MARC Brunswick line. Thousands of them.

Then OP should definitely go there, no?

This 'love it or leave attitude' isn't useful when a county needs to retain as many tax paying residents as possible in order to maintain the level of services some people have come to expect? This boundary study is sure to leave taxpayers upside down on their mortgages. Such a short-sighted move will require taxes to be raised elsewhere. Growth in MoCo is stagnant. We need to hold proper discussion.

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Anonymous wrote:Well OK then. And your point? You need to go live in MAGA land. Try that on for change.

+1 go live in WV, OP. You'll love it. It's got your kind of people.

WV is actually a really nice place to live. Lots of fed employees live in JeffCo and commute on the MARC Brunswick line. Thousands of them.

Then OP should definitely go there, no?

This 'love it or leave attitude' isn't useful when a county needs to retain as many tax paying residents as possible in order to maintain the level of services some people have come to expect? This boundary study is sure to leave taxpayers upside down on their mortgages. Such a short-sighted move will require taxes to be raised elsewhere. Growth in MoCo is stagnant. We need to hold proper discussion.

The folks who are complaining about the boundary study are not going to move to WV, I guarantee it. Most of the folks complaining about it want to stay in highly educated areas where the local government values education and healthy living. WV ranks towards the bottom in both.

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Anonymous wrote:Whether or not Montgomery County has politics that OP believes in, Trump was not elected "because" of Montgomery County.

Trump was elected because white people in this country have become increasingly radicalized by a white supremacist ideology that the GOP has low-key embraced for years. Trump didn't create the modern GOP, but he rode that wave of Caucasian resentment to the White House.

When it comes to MoCo, PP is absolutely right. I can disagree with some things that Erlich and the council are doing, but if my choice is "farther left that I really care for" or "the party of the Confederate Flag and babies in cages," them I'm voting for the Democrats every single time.

Three million more people voted against him than voted for him. That's not riding a wave into the white house. Those who voted against him -- the majority of Americans -- are disgusted and appalled by him.

You are counting the illegals who voted right? Just get it correct when you speak of the majority of "Americans."

Try again Illegals didn't vote. Voter fraud basically non existent. Keep touting your non facts!

This is such a huge joke. We have "no" voter fraud because we make it impossible for anyone to investigate without being called racists. The states where they try to purge voter rolls of people who have moved, died or registered in "error" then get attacked as Jim Crow states. Anyone with a brain who has been to a DMV knows that illegals register to vote and I'm sure plenty of them vote.

Uh, didn't Trump investigate voter fraud already? Then let the 'report' die quietly because there was one? Wasn't that one of the very first things Donald Trump wasted tax dollars on -- investigating voter fraud? Yes, I think it was. No, sorry, it was second. The first thing was verifying the number of people at the inaugural parade. I forgot....

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Anonymous wrote:Whether or not Montgomery County has politics that OP believes in, Trump was not elected "because" of Montgomery County.

Trump was elected because white people in this country have become increasingly radicalized by a white supremacist ideology that the GOP has low-key embraced for years. Trump didn't create the modern GOP, but he rode that wave of Caucasian resentment to the White House.

When it comes to MoCo, PP is absolutely right. I can disagree with some things that Erlich and the council are doing, but if my choice is "farther left that I really care for" or "the party of the Confederate Flag and babies in cages," them I'm voting for the Democrats every single time.

Three million more people voted against him than voted for him. That's not riding a wave into the white house. Those who voted against him -- the majority of Americans -- are disgusted and appalled by him.

You are counting the illegals who voted right? Just get it correct when you speak of the majority of "Americans."

Try again Illegals didn't vote. Voter fraud basically non existent. Keep touting your non facts!

DP

Plenty of voter fraud. In some states, it’s actually quite easy to commit voter fraud and it definitely goes on. Montgomery County chooses to not ask for ID and it is easy to vote in someone else’s place if you know that person will not be voting. As long as you know their address.

Dp. A Democratic Party official for my LD called me to ask me if an in-law family member was living at their former address in the same LD, where they were registered as a Republican. I was taken aback they felt it was okay to comb through the Republican voter rolls of our heavily Democratic enrolled LD, and call me while the party was nationally forwarding the point of view purging voter rolls is a means to disenfranchise voters. Interesting.

Too bad we can't agree on such a basic thing such as purging voters who are not eligible to vote, alive, or have moved permanently.